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Fighting Among the Indians.
--The Brownsville (N. T.) Advertiser publishes a letter from Major Baker, agent of the Otoes and Missouri Indians, dated August 10th, which gives an account of a terrible fight among the Indians on the plains:
The Otoes and Pawnees were hunting buffalo on the Saline Fork, with every prospect of killing all they wanted, when the combined tribes of Sioux, Kiowas, Cheyennes, Arrapahoes and Camanches attacked the Pawnees with a superior force.
The Pawnees immediately called on the Otoes, who were encamped near by and in full view, for assistance.
Not with standing the Otoes had formed an alliance with the Pawnees for their mutual protection, the Otoes refused to help them.
The Otoes witnessed the fight for about six hours, during which time the Pawnees sent four or five messengers to them, begging their assistance, that they were being cut to pieces by vastly superior numbers, that their head chief and leading brave were killed.
One of the Otoes