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others more serious in June farther north, in Indian Territory and the 

 adjoining partof Kansas, the Indians concerned being probably chiefly 

 Cheyenne. 



BATTLE (IF ADOBE WALLS 



In the latter part of June, 1874, the confederated Comanche, Chey- 

 enne, and Kiowa made a combined attack upon the bufi'alo hunters 

 intrenched in the fort of the Adobe Walls, on South Canadian river, in 

 the Texas i>anhandle. The engagement began about the 27th, and. 

 continued several days, the Indians attacking with desperate courage, 

 urged on by their medicine-man, who had assured them that the bullets 

 of the whites could not hurt them. The hunters, however, had a small 

 field cannon, and with this, protected as they were by the solid walls 

 of adobe, they finally compelled the Indians to withdraw with consid- 

 erable loss. The medicine-man excused the result on the ground that 

 his medicine was for guns and not for cannon. The combined force was 

 led by Quanah, the present noted head chief of the Comanche, who 

 informed the author that he had seven hundred warriors in the fight, 

 but added sententiously, "No use Indians fight adobe." The result 

 convinced him of the falsity of the claims of medicine-men, against 

 whom he has ever since used his powerful influence in his tribe. Find- 

 ing their position untenable without military protection, which was 

 refused by the general commanding the department, the buftalo hunt- 

 ers soon afterward abandoned the fort. The location is known among 

 the Kiowa as "The place where Quanah led his confederates" (see 

 Report, 39; War, 2; Record, 2). 



On July 3 a small wagon train in charge of Patrick Hennessey and 

 three other men, loaded with supplies from Wichita, Kansas, for the 

 Wichita agency at Anadarko, was attacked by Cheyenne on the trail 

 where now stands the town of Hennessey, Oklahoma. The four white 

 men were killed and scalped, the stores and mules taken, and the 

 wagons burned. Hennessey was tortured by being tied to a wagon 

 wheel and burned upon a pile of grain taken from his own wagon. 

 This last deed was the work of some Osage who came up while the 

 Cheyenne were still there, and who secured the larger share of the 

 plunder. These same Osage were ostensibly friends of the whites, and 

 had completely deceived their agent and missionary into the belief that 

 they were doing all in their power to quiet the hostile tribes. The 

 bodies of three of the men killed were buried by a neighboring ranch- 

 man, who had warned them of their danger only a few hours before, 

 and unsuccessfully endeavored to persuade them to turn back. Hen- 

 nessey's remains were buried two days later by a party under agent 

 Miles (Battey, 8; Report, 40). 



FEIENDLIES COLLECTED AT FORT SILL 



By this time the Cheyenne agency at Darlington was closely sur- 

 rounded by bands of hostiles. Arming a small force of employes, the 

 agent proceeded north to Wichita, Kansas, for assistance, after send- 



