Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-04-16
90 Hon. j. BIGLER,
= Governor Of he STATE Of California


the above communication and thus left in doubt whe
Their the Governor deems the subject Of sufficient
Importance to claim his attention.
81 returned to San Francisco with view Of having
warrants issued for the accused parties and thus bring
them trial before the Federal Court but sorry to
say that have been disappointed
The United States District Attorney after giving the
subject that attention which its importance demanded
informs that he aware Of the existence Of
any law that would apply in the CASE the Federal Court
having no jurisdiction in where life was taken
The gentleman who commanded the party in this un-
fortunate affair was soon after elected county judge
consequently did think il worth while prosecute
him in his own county"
The aforementioned massacre has many cruel aggra-
yations. 1t upon recreation secured to the In
dams upon the faith of the United States 1t plot
ted for weeks and well known to the whites that
Of it went three hundred miles to agent Wozencra at
San Francisco and he had time get nearly to the place
before it perpetated and kept secret from the
Indians that they had suspicion until the attack
upon them. 1t Of defenceless women and
children. The absent at work the head man,
Pdsgua Christian Indian and good man, to well
known for years. being actually work the house in
which passed part of last winter, at another
walton, and when he went home from work found all his
family destroyed IL is reality of the history of Lo-
gans family and for all this there redress in the
country The Governor of the State did the
letter officially addressed to him. The United States Dis
trct Attorney could find law apply to the case
eauer OF tne massacre county
There from IS 900 to 100 900 Indians in that
try, and probably not week passes in which
not killed worked and starved to DEATH Accounts
the killings usually appear in the newspapers and as
such mostly derived from the actors they
appear exploits and expeditions for which the Uni
ted States called upon pay The total demand for
Indian in California it is believed is near a million
| Of dollars
will only mention other instances Of these massa-
cres the famous Of the Trinity river This river
falling into the Pacific from the high rugged country
distance north Of San Francisco is noted as the
best in the country for salmon fish, which constitutes al
most the whole subsistence of the Indians upon it. The
whites took the whole river and crowded the Indians into
the sterile mountains and when they came back for fish
they usually shot and if they took CATTLE or we're
suspected Of taking CATTLE they pursued and pun
ished and their villages sometimes attacked In the
spring Of the last year Indians were charged with
taking cattle party went against a village surround
ed ii in the night attacked at daybreak killed the whole
Chiefly consisting Of women and children the men being
absent) except woman and child taken prisoners"
carried home bag full Of scaps-repored in the news
papers at 150 but believed to be about 30-and all
without loss to themselves which proves the character
i the operation
The second instance win mention is this:
In conversation the subject Of Indian affairs with
General Hitchcock just previous to leaving California
mentioned the fact that had seen in the papers long