Show mm INDIANS LOOK OUT eight companas Com of fort dongas douglas broo troops ps ordered to he lie front frodl the gallant con toll ia ill ciui blue tw through aziles idill do the lh ip lit after ff eadred and 1104 hen lea and ars ag As mentioned in thursday morn inglis issue of THE STANDARD eight companies companie of fort dooglas douglas vero mero ordered to the front to be made targets of for the unruly ep although the mer met bad been long expecting marching marchi uR orders the dispatch telling them they would be under the feces eity of spending epen dinc some time on the blizza blizzard td swept prairies of dakota and ne nebraska and serve as marlis for the hostie hostle reds kinal ballets bullets created a s kidir at the fort knapsacks were pa packed c ked with bard tack muskets oiled and loaded and all preparations made for a hard campaign 1 the troops left salt sa it lake Lak aatlO at 10 blelock new years morning ft A union pacific thecial tp ecial double heatter there were men med with four git GO ling cannon all under c of major andrews ot of tin thi twenty first infantry the train consisted of eight one sleeper two baggage cars and two coal cars care for the artillery on one freight car for the horses two freight cars for grain and general equipment two ambulances were aan taken along the officers arid men were all bundled up evidently in the heaviest clothing they could lay hands on until some of them looked more like Esqui maux indians indiana than united states soldiers everybody see seemed M ed to have something to d do and the qui r er master and his mao birly flew flow arund the troops so go via the cheyenne nii A northern to fisher where they take the fremont elkhorn missouri valley railroad to rushville and av on n to fo fort r t robinson nebraska Nebra eka th the a scene a at t the d depot J jast ast te before fae the sword word for ecart starting ng w was as given giver ta 0 o the engineers was a reminder der to old Y vet et I 1 araps erans of their fighting days when the various commands left for the fiorit the usual goodbyes good byes and kis biases set for wives wives and sweethearts were given and tears often forced themselves into the eyes of the gallant troops tho the women bid their husbands and lowers lovert farewell asif as if for the last time tim not knowing whether they would at some future time return to them or prove victims of the indiana deadly bult bullets etS upon arrivi arriving tig in the ogden yards yard P the ennines were changed andt and bt the train departed in two sections bno immediately behind the other kone none of the men were allowed to leavo leave ebli he cars except to replenish canteens the boys were all feeling well and one ventured to say bay that he would wager his head t that at more than one of the castiles ho ha atiles stiles would be givel a free pass to the happy hunting grounds before they returned in yesterday mornings issue of th the e silt salt lake like tribune is found the follow ing auder the head f A story was started yesterday more ing to the effect bat that five troops of the tile ninth cavalry bad been cornered in 16 the bad lands and massacred by y the rede kius also that major gu goy N V henry their commander shot himself m rather than submit to capture and possible torture what lent more credence to the tory was abi statement of major majr A henrys cousin that the last time me major majors Va jors henry lenry was in salt lake like he bb said thatis that if the time over overcame came irben n the indians got the best of him he wo would 1 3 id moot himself after using all but one ne bullet of hia his revolver upon the indians by afternoon Iter noon the town bad become pretty well ell worked up over the reports and as nothing was known at the telegraph telf graph office a trib 7 une reporter hunted the stories down he ile found a responsible party who said he be was at camp douglas in the morning where be he is well acquainted and heard the adjutant tell one of ibo the officers that five troops of cavalry bad had been wiped out in the bad lands and that major henry had hilled killed himself when on the point of t eing captured the course of the government with the tile redskins red skins was severely criticised criticized on all hands one man remarking that if tae Us report of the slaughter was correct why the tile government would of course withdraw all the troops make new now treaties with the indians indiana and issue double rations of rum and nd beef to the poor indian the interior department would also protest blood lood against shedding more indian the following bli special ecIal was received last night dated nue wy wyoming wyo jin jan 2 elgha companies of troops from fort douglas dougas as utah reached here this everill evening from the west and went nonh north on th the 0 cheyenne northern reach pine ridge tomorrow to morrow 19 |