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furnish them with provisions. Copies of this proclamation were sent by Governor Evans to S.G. Colby, Indian Agent for the Arapahoes and Cheyennes, and he found means to distribute them among the Chiefs of those tribes. On the 4th September 1864, a small party of soldiers, approaching Fort Lyon, Colorado Territory, fell in with, (man that?) fort, and carried in as prisoners, "One Eye" and "Min-im-ie," Cheifs of the former. On being carried before Major E.W. Wynkoop, commanding the post, they were found to be messengers from the principal chiefs of the Cheyennes and Arapahoes, bearing a letter from them prepared by a half breed Indian, addressed to S.G. Colby, Indian Agent, expressing a strong desire for peace, and proposing in proof of their sincerity - to give up certain white captives, which they said were in their possession. Major Wynkoop appears to have made immediate preparation to rescue the captains mentioned, and on the 6th November, with 127 mounted men, commenced a march to Smokey Hill, where the Indians