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Daily State Register, June 2, 1869
MIDNIGHT REPORT FROM KANSAS
More Indian Diabollsm
Leavenworth, June 1.
About twenty persons have been killed by the Indians in
Western Kansas during the past week. Murders have been committed by
roving bands of Indians. No large bodies having been heard of and the
massacres have been the result of guerilla fighting rather than a
general Indian war. The scene of operations has extended from the
Republican and Salmon rivers to the end of the Kasnas Pacific R. R. The
steelements in that part of the State are scattered and very much
exposed. Gen. Scholfield has only a small number of troops at his
disposal, but is making the best use he can of them. Gov. Harvey has
organized two companies of scounts for which Gen. Schofield will
furnish arms. There are now in the field tour United States Surveying
parties all without military protection. Two of these parties are north
of Fort Hays or between Hays and Larned, and one sixty miles west of
Hays. This is the most exposed part of the State and fears are felt for
the safety of the Surveyors.
St Louis, June 1.
A dispatch from Topeka, Kansas, says: The Sheriff of Saline
County reports thirteen persons, women and children, killed by the
Indians and as many more supposed to be carried off. The settlers of
Saline County are coming eastward for protection.
A correspondent says if the Quaker agents do not hurry up the
poor innocent savages will destroy all the frontier settlements of
Kansas and Colorado.
Trancribed by Peggy Thompson
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