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Two minutes more, what Indians were left alive were prisoners and that costly experiment at an end. That evening, after the repulse of the grand attack of "ROMAN NOS" and "STABBER'S" warriors, and 'twas said, hundreds of "CRAZY HORSE'S" band, we buried poor "CHIPS," with our other dead, in a deep ravine. "WILD BILL," "CALIFORNIA JOE," "COSGROVE," and "TEXAS JACK" have long since gone to their last account, but among those who knew them, no scout was more universally mourned than "BUFFALO BILL'S" devoted friend, JOE WHITE.

AS "BUFFALO BILL" SEES IT- HE THINKS IT LOOKS LIKE PEACE IN THE INDIAN

"Buffalo Bill" telegraphs to the "New York Herald" from Pine Ridge Agency;

"IN THE FIELD, Bia Courier to Telegraph, PINE RIDGE AGENCY, DAKOTA.

"NEW YORK HERALD"

"Your request for my opinion of the Indian situation is, by reason of the complications and the changeable nature of the red man's mind and action, a puzzler. Every hour brings out a new opinion. Indian history furnishes no similar situation.

"You must imagine about 5,000 Indians, an unusual proportion warrior, better armed than ever known before, hemmed in a cordon about sixteen miles in diameter, composed of over 3,000 troops, acting like a slowly closing dragnet. This mass of Indians is now influenced by a percentage as desparingly desperate and fanatical as the late Big Foot pray, under Short Bull and Kicking Bear. It contains also restrained neutrals, frightened and disaffected Ogallellas, hampered by the powerful Brueles, backed by renegades and desperadoes from all other agencies. There are about twenty-five hundred acting and believed to be friendly Indians in and around the Agency.

"Such is the situation Gen. Miles and the military confront. Anyone of this undisciplined mass is able to precipitate a terrible conflict from the most unexpected quarter. Each of the component quantities is to be watched, to be measured, to be just to. In fact, it is a war with a most wily and savage people, yet the whites are restrained by a humane and peaceful desire to prevent bloodshed, and save a people from themselves. It is like cooling and falling a volcano. Ordinary warfare shows no parallel. Gen. Miles seems to hold a firm grip on the situation. The Indians know him, express confidence in his honor, truth, and justice to them, and they fear his power and valor as well.

"As the matter now stands, he and they should be allowed, untrammeled even by a suggestion, to settle the affair, as no one not on the spot can appreciate the fearfully delicate position. The chaff must be sifted from the wheat, and in this instance, the chaff must be threshed.

"At the moment, or far as words go I would say it will be peace, but the smoldering spark is visible that may precipitate a terrible conflict any time in the next few days. However it ends, more and prompt attention should be paid in the future to the Sioux Indian; his rights, his complaints, and even his necessities. Respect and consideration should be shown fro the gallant little army, for it is the Indian and soldier who pay the most costly price the greater the victory.

"W. F. CODY, 'BUFFALO BILL."

[IMAGE] "LITTLE EMMA." INDIAN GIRL, DAUGHTER OF THE OGALLALLA CHIEF, "LONE WOLF"