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NOTES AMONG THE INDIANS. II. THE WITCHITA VILLAGE.

MEDICINE BLUFF, WITCHITA MOUNTAINS, April 4, via KANSAS CITY, April 20.

MOKE-TAY-A-TO, OR BLACK KETTLE—WHAT CAUSED HIS DEATH? Extract from Memorandum Record of Indian Affairs at Old Fort Cobb, Indian Territory, November 1868.

November 15, 1868.

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THE ORDERS UNDER WHICH GENERAL HAZEN REFUSED BLACK KETTLE'S OFFERS OF PEACE. HEADQUARTERS, MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSOURI, ST. LOUIS, MO., September 26, 1868. General W. B. HAZEN, Fork Harker, Kansas.

BY TELEGRAPH. October 9, 1868. Major-General P. H. SHERIDAN, Fort Hays, Kansas. The following telegram is just received from General Sherman: CHICAGO, ILL., October

HEADQUARTERS MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSOURI, ST. LOUIS, MO., October 13, 1868. Brevet-Major General W. B. HAZEN, Fort Cobb, (via Fort Arbuckle), Indian Territory.

HEADQUARTERS, SOUTHERN INDIAN TERRITORY, FORT COBB, November 10, 1868. Lieut.-Gen. SHERMAN, U. S. A.

HEADQUARTERS, SOUTHERN INDIAN TERRITORY, FORT COBB, Indian Territory, Nov. 21, 1868.

HEADQUARTERS, MILITARY DIVISION OF THE MISSOURI, ST. LOUIS, MO., November 23, 1868. General W. B. HAZEN, Southern Indian Reservation, Fort Cobb, Indian Territory.

HOW A COMANCHE CHIEF IMITATED HIS GREAT FATHER.

AN INDIAN MAGNANIMOUS.

AN INDIAN VILLAGE.

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BY TELEGRAPH. October 9, 1868. Major-General P. H. SHERIDAN, Fort Hays, Kansas. The following telegram is just received from General Sherman: CHICAGO, ILL., October

To General W. A. NICHOLS:

Telegraph to General Sheridan that he may proceed on the fact of hostility against all Indians outside of Hazen's Reservation. * * * Hazen must be ready to proceed to Fort Cobb, where, in connection with the Indian agents, Boone and Wynkoop, he may invite hostile Indians to come and locate on Reservation. After notice is sent to all Indians acceptable to him, Hazen should go to Fort Cobb, establish himself there, and if the Indians do not come, it is not his or our fault.

(Signed) W. T. SHERMAN.