October 8, 1879
General E.D. TOWNSEND,U.S.A.
WASHINGTON,D.C.:
The following dispatch from General Crook just received. It looks reliable.
P.H. SHERIDAN, Lieutenant- General.
Fort Steele Wyo.
General P.H. Sheridan,
Chicago, Ill, :
The following just received at Rawlins and given you for what it is worth:
The mail-carrier says, in response to why General Merritt has not sent a courier, that he thought probably he has sent one and he was picked up by the Indians.
Rawlins,…