Omaha, Neb., Feb. 9. — Official letters from the commanding officer of Sidney Barracks reports that Pawnee Killer and Two Lances, accompanied by ninety-three lodges of Whistler’s band of Sioux and two of the Brule band, have left the reservation, and are moving to the hunting grounds south of the Platte, by way of Lewis Canon. They claimed that they bad the verbal permission of the Agent to do so. Two Lances reported two other bands near Lewis Canon, one of twenty-five lodges of Arrapahoes, and another of some fifteen warriors, after the Utes, who had a few days previous stolen a largo number of horses from there. There is no question but that the Indians are highly incensed at the treatment.
On the night of the 4th a party of about 200 Cheyennes, under Little Arrow, attempted to break into tho houses at Antelope Station, but were drivou off by the employes ; hence those Indians are on the war-path against the Utes.
John S. King, a trapper, while cooking supper in camp, on Pumpkin Creek, on the night of the 6th, was attacked by a band of about thirty Sioux, and shot in the knee and ankle. He killed one Indian, and escaped with the loss of horses, wagon, and $800 worth of furs. This was a war party, finely mounted. King dragged himself to a rancho twelve miles from the fight, and is now at Sidney.
On the 7th a band of Indians ran off seven horses from Reddington Ranch. Gen. Ord has sent a party in pursuit.
Evidence is daily accumulating that the Indians, being ill-treated on the reservations, contemplate an uprising in the spring, and are even now swarming the prairies prepared for war.
The Chicago Daily Tribune, Chicago, IL, February 10, 1874