Scout William Comstock

Just a couple of newspaper articles that I have located relating to Comstock:

Winona Daily Republican, Winona, Minnesota, February 6, 1867
From the Plains
Frightful Massacre by Indians
Fifty-Nine Men Killed Out of a Party of Sixty-Three
A dispatch from Junction City, Kansas, Feb. 2, says:
A man came into Salina, about fifty miles west of here, yesterday, and reported a frightful massacre of white men by Cheyenne Indians, near the head of Smoky Hill River, a few days since, under the following circumstances:
Wallace’s train, with sixty-three men, were in camp. A party of fourteen Indians came begging. The teamsters refused to give them anything, whereupon the Indians fired upon them, but without affect. The teamsters returned the fire, and killed eight Indians. About 8 o’clock, that night the camp was surrounded by two hundred Indians, who massacred fifty-nine out of sixty-three men.
The man that brought the news had an arrow-hole through his shoulder, and another wound in the hip. He claims to be one of four men that escaped.
A party of Omahas and Kaws made a thieving raid on the Cheyennes, a few days since, on the Salina. Several head of Cheyenne stock were captured. One Kaw was killed.
Wm. Comstock, the famous interpreter, Government scout, and guide, says the Cheyennes and Arrapahoes[sic] of the Arkansas and Smoky Hill appear friendly, but part of the northern Indians are now moving southward, and have already committed many murders and other outrages. Comstock believes they mean war.

Liberty Weekly Tribune, September 4, 1868, pg. 2
A Colorado paper says that the death of Comstock is more than a passing event in the history of the far west. Every year the Indians take the life of someone whose life has been spent with and among them, and whose services to the whites of the plains cannot be estimated in money. Bill Comstock was one of the few worthy the name of “scout,” and his compeers may be summed up in half a dozen names. The Indians glory in the death of one of his stamp. They fear him and count his death a hostly gain to themselves.