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(60) followers (men) to the Wichita Agency all of them being under the lead and influence of Lone Wolf & Swan, two of the worst hostiles who had sneaked in and secreted in the camps of those very Kiowas. A letter was sent Aug. 17 to Agent Richards at Wichita Agency directing those Kiowas to return immediately, this they positively refused to do, and failed to do. The following issue day Satanta was still absent. On Friday Aug 21 Gen'l Davidson went Wichita Agency to arrest Big Red Food and his band who were hostiles and who had come in to that Agency. While engaged in attempting this arrest, Kiowas under Womans Heart. Poor Buffalo and Double Bison, the party to which Satanta had affixed himself began firing on the rear of the troops, the party was headed by Lone Wolf who had been secreted in these Camps, and who influenced the whole party of Womans Heart, Satanta & others before mentioned. After Wichita Agency affair, Satanta and his people instead of returning or remaining by him with his family, as the Commissioner of Indian affairs stated he has been informed went up Pond Creek and joined the following hostile Chiefs - Kiowas.

Lone Wolf, Big Bear, [?Ourhado Tanhansen?] : All hostiles from the beginning Red Otter, Poor Buffalo, Womans Heart, Double Bison, Satanta: All had been enrolled, left Camp & joined Lone Wolf before Wichita Agency office Comanches, Mohway, Tabernaneha, Black Duck, Little Crow, White Wolf, Big Red Food: All hostile from the beginning

They remained camped together through the remainder of August, early in Sept. in the direction of Antelope Hills, on Sept 9, 10 & 12 Capt Lyman's train was attacked by Kiowas and others, and not until Oct. 3d did Satanta come in to Cheyenne Agency with a number of hostiles who had never been enrolled. Whilst it is difficult to procure positive evidence that Satanta was in that fight, he was unquestionably with the party for five weeks, and it would be more difficult to prove that he was engaged in it. It must also be stated that when Satanta and other Chiefs went away, two men were killed near their camps ( [?southern?] three miles) & have since been proven (and can be established) that some members of this party, led by a young brave named [?Kohtinsen?] killed those two men, two other (over)