Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1852-01-15

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| DALLEs or THE CoLUaBIA,
- October %, 1851.
DEAR SIR:--There is party Of men
here from Chas,a City, of twenty, after
| horse thieves. | presume you know hn-
tome, the Indian that Rogers took through
with him to California when we went
through. lie and a another by the
name OF Joe. Tacoma Indian. were
concerned with the thieves. The thieves
arc Charley Smith, Reason Haynes and
erwillegar, son Of rerwillcgar a, Port
land. They had got near Barlow's
Gate, with their stolen horses. amount.
| ing TO about 300, when these two lndi-
ans took tin their heads that they might
as well own the property as the white
men, and murdered these three men,
/ The party that was in pursui, Of them
found The bodies and recognized each oil
the murdered men. Ii is supposed that
there is party of twenty men at
the Grande Ronde with about 800 hos.
ses from the Chasta Mines, who intend
10 spend the winter there; these are
club that was formed at Chas,a city ,Eis
fall, Of horse thieves, who are on their
way TO the States, butas yet we have no,
heard of them here. ....
| p. s. By-the-bye they have got An
tome the Indian in irons at the garrison,
Just this moment. They have just GO, a
| k,tn h., h. r
| lad Of Is years of age; he has been sel
ing horses for mere song, stolen prop
erIy by the way of Willamette valley.
There is file OF soldiers consisting of
10 men going with this party over TO
Tacoma after this co,npani0n of An
tonnes. concerning the murder of these
three men; they are going 20 Start to-
morrow morning. Antoine reports sha,
this young man has $4,000 in gold dust
with him, tina! he took from Charley
Smith and party after they had murder
ed them. There is great excitement
here about this affair. should not
wonder if we would have a second Cay
use war. The Indians do no. know
wha. to make OF ii. WM. MCKAY.
"We learn from a private letter, recei-
we'd here few days since, tha, about a
dozen teams arrived a, the DaIles some
8 or 10 days ago. Their arrival was
unexpected. as no news Of their ap-
proach had been previously received. -
They came by the Sal; Lake: some arc
said to be from Peoria, Ill., Ii was gen
orally believed here that the immigrants
had all goi into The Dalles more than
fortnight ago. The Immigrants have
scattered so much over different parts of
the territory, that il would be difficult, to
estimate the number who arrived this
year. We think, however. the number
by land. might be safely set down at 7
or 5000.
MIR Waldo informed us few days
since. tina; ripe strawberries were pluck
ed in his neigboThood last week. This
is the second bearing Of the vines this
season. There are cucumber vines in
this vicinity still green and bearing album
dandy. Wha, will our Atlantic friends.
being 10 degrees south Of this. think
when we tell them about straw berries
and cucumbers growing and maturing
on the 3D. Of November.
A correspondent of The Spectator
says:
The citizens of Oregon City are feast
ing on The second crop of almost every
sort OF vegetables that are raised in gar
dens: salads, green peas. radishes, ana
all that sos, of thing in abundance, in
November. Wonder what the poor fro
zen boosters on the east side of the
/ Rocky Mountains would think of this?
/ If they could be led TO believe this truth,
our country by the next immigration
would be overrun with Grahami.es.
Winter is down upon us-ihe rains
have set in, in earnes,-the river is quite
full and still rising--.here has been a
rise OF some 4 feet navigation has been
resumed above to Mary svjlle---.he boats
are quite acti.e--and steamboat. stock
has ris considerably.
j Kentucky u. 9. Senator.
i On The Goth ult. after seven balloiings
by the kentucky Legislature for u. s..
Senator to fill the place of the Hon.
Henry Clay, Hon. Archibald Dixon was
elected. The seventh ballot slond as
| follows:
Guthrie So; Dixon II; Garret Davis