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fcrnor ofinto thea candi-y to thelollars toSEWS FROM VP THERIIERnativesheat cron!y mixed,ing new rgo.e first offiliation.led, now,i re-elec-it tiven-bably byn in Cen-i in theiahabi-order toe yellow cannington cor-aa pur-sition of Pacific;o West ice hasADVANCE OF THE “ TO IN a MAN(GEN. MILES,) TO THE FRONT.A Skirmish which Causes Fifteen Indians to Bite the Dust—The Masacre of the LambertFamily--Sub-Dance.TROUBLE AHEAD.The steamer Eclipse arrived Wedne:day evening in a thunder-storm, and brought Indian news Of a serious character. It is here given as it came to the Eclipse on her way down the Upper Missouri. When within thirty-five mijles ofthe mouth of the Musselshell, where Camp Loder is located, the steamer washailed and asked to stop. She landed and took on board Lieut. George H. Wright, of the Seventh Infantry, who had been out on a successful sCout. W right had a brush with a small hand and killed one of them. At Camp Loder the Eclipse learned of another scout up the Mussell-shell with unknown results. At Ft. Peck a courier from Gen. Miles’ camp came on hoard with dispatches for headquarters in St. Paul. Frank Moote brought them t Buford, where they were put on the w iret The courier stated that Miles had hadA FIGHTwith a party of Sioux and whipped thendeadldi'ersrtwo perEsnce be-gates to by theer were quartertchelPsorthernnorbhip□or and ir.railroadortlength. w ap-10 man iguage.mi, last a fight te sher-J(1 box-sailing ut thete been ion of ir Sim-peg onade its lighterquoted *os pec the an-lI1ert thetabiishaspiauThe cnsulties were limited to fifte en Indians and three wpuuded so Within twenty miles of the troops there were reported sixteen hundred lodges of hostjles, and an engagement with them was daily expected. Upon reachjmgj the wood-yard of Joseph Lambert, six miles above Wolf Point, Lambert’s partner re ported that Joe and hisWHOLE FAMILY WEBE WIFED OUT,except one little child, who was carriedinto oaptivity. Lambert was two milesand a half back on the prairie with; hisfamily hunting, when the Indians came upon them and commenced firing. | He only had three cartridges left in his belt, and with these he stood the party off| for a few minutes. There are few details of the massacre, as the only survivors were two boys, \vho were more dead than alive. Lambfert, his wife and four children were killed and scalppd. One of the little hoys was shot in the side, the hall making a hole in his body large enough to adnjit a man’s arm. The other was shot iu back and beaten in the head with hatchet of a squaw. Both were undoubtedly left for dead. They were ferried over to Wolf point on a log raft, and werestill living when the Ecli se passed down Monday. Lambert was a half-breed, noted for his friendliness to the whites andthrift as a “wood-iiawk.” He was liorn in the country, and was considered one of the reliable men of the Upper Missouri.THE MOTIVEfor murdering him is unknown, unlesjs it was on account of his civilized procl ties and the pure cussedness of the 1 derers. A party of fifty Assinnaboiies, leturing from a hunt after the massacre, surrounded a visiting party of Yanktoriaisand-threatened their lives in the plainest language their tongues could command. They thought the Yanktonais were the guilty parties, and their humanity prompted revenge. The supposed offe ers slid away as quietly and quickly possible. The wood choppers are all Cited, end talk about war as freely as ___ average citizen talks about the weather here. Indian war parties are upon evtry butte, and the smoae of their camp fires cloud the horizon in eveiy direction.a a the the
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Bismarck Tribune
Bismarck, North Dakota, US
Sat, Jul 26, 1879
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