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Wichita Agency, directing these Kiowas to return immediately, this they positively refused to do and failed to do. The following issue day Satanta was still absent. On Friday, August 21., Gen'l. Davidson went to Wichita Agency, to arrest Big Red Foot and his band, who were hostiles and had come into that Agency, while engaged in attempting this arrest, the Kiowas under Woman's Heart, Poor buffalo, and Double Vision, they party to which Satanta had allied himself, began firing on the rear of the troops, this party was headed by Lone Wolf - who had been secreted in their camps - and who influenced the whole party of Woman's Heart, Satanta and other before mentioned.

         After the Wichita Agency affair, Satanta and his people, instead of returning or remaining by himself with family as the Com'r of Indian Affairs states he has been informed, went up Pond Creek and joined the following hostile Chiefs:

Kiowas: [underline] Lone Wolf / Big Bow / Swan / all hostile from the beginning Qushada Tanhousen / Red Otter /

Poor Buffalo / Woman's Heart / all had been enrolled, left Camp Double Vision / and joined Lone Wolf, before Satanta / Wichita Agency affair.

Comanches: [underline] Mohway / Tabernanilka / Black Duck / all hostile from the beginning Little Crow / White Wolf / Big Red Foot /

  They remained camped together through the remainder of August and early in September in the driection of Antelope Hills.  On Sept. 9. 10, 11. and 12, Capt Lyman's train was attacked by Kiowas and others, and not until Oct. 3rd. did Satanta come in to the Cheyenne Agency, with a number of hostiles who has never been enrolled.  Whilst it is difficult to procure positive evidence that Satanta was in that fight, he was unquestionably with the same party for five weeks and it would be more difficult ot prove that he was not engaged in it.
            It must also be stated that when Satanta and other