The daily union., 1854-10-25
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LATER IRON TIE PLAINS.

uur informant lc Sa lake City on the 10th of August
Tbs d,y crowded with California emigrants Crops
a extremely heavy, and wheat and oats were har-
vested Flour selling AZ s. per hundred number
~ ucfcani trains had arrived and most kinds OF mer-
chaedit were plent aad rapidly being exchanged for
gold Molet tseInei plenty An abundance Of rain had
iAllcu. 10 that Irrigation had been unnecessary.
great number of msn we're employed upon the Tenn
pie which l. 10 De built Oh beautiful Kind OF red eesone,
hevel and polished The city wall side was being
reconstructed having hen carried away by water from
cloud thai broke She mountains improvements in
being yreged The manufacture Of iron is going to
considerable extent Ponghs got up short notice
large amount o sugar bees have been raised and the
refinery being pat in operation, and Is expected to pro-
erected and was n successful operation Common laborers
found ready employment at nom s. to ~ per day.
great number " teams had heeu out to meet the
coming emigration with good experienced plots TO CON
duct ht several companies n Secretary Babbit was again
about TO prosecute she erection o. tho state prs'
company Of Chinese their way from San Fran
cisco 10 Utah having been converted 10 MOrmonsm. Mr.
Rabbit started with theB returning 70 meet bis family
but taken sick aud returned 10 the city met his fam
y aud train hundred miles from the city and Hons
John Kinney and STILES at Bridgcr
Further along they net three large trains OF Engsh
Danish and other foreign emgran's on their way TO Utah.
comprising, in the whole two hundred wagons be-
sides many smaller companies.
An the stock on the road looked wc and all the
pauos free from sickness aud in fine spirits Grass
and water plenty upon the whole route, Met the
troops sent Utah on of the Indian difficulties
back Green river arrived at Fort Laramie few days
after the fatal massacre found about six hundred lodges
of the Mcnwceosa band Of Sioux who had perperated the
mrder about twelve miles below the fort at the American
Fur Company station, and also large number OF Ihcy
ennes awaiting the arrival OF Major Whitfield tsuecessor
Major Fitzpatrick Indian agent deceased TO arrive
with and distribute their presents and ammunition.
The Sioux bad Immediately after the Preparation of the
murders seized upon the presents intended FOR them which
were lying the station but did no further mischief
They ailege that the murder not committed on ac-
count Of the attempted arrest of the who shot the
but in revenge for the death OF number Of Indians by the
If Inv he
dans.
The Indian version Of the fatal is ha, the
pieces of ordnance brought within the encampmen
Lieut. Grattan commenced parley regarding the killing
of the COW when Big Bear the chief NJ with sort
OF lance and struck at and wounded him, calling him a
squaw aud coward, and charged him with being afraid
To fight Gratan drew his revolver fired number Gi
times woundng the chief and then elevated his cannon
and fred intending to ntmdate the Indians from further
violence without taking their lives The whole band OF
Indians then made rush at and killed upon the spot all
but one who finally escaped and lived 10 reach the fort,
but could make explanation of the occurrence He
stated that he had been repued by Of the French tr
ders aud driven away although he had several holes shot
through him, hc lived to crawl twelve miles 10 the fort
Lieut. Gratan found under The cannon, pierced with
twenty and number Of balls lie had fallen
the cannon where his s blood still adhered They then
filled the with manure and pulled on and thrpstip
the euenants boots Major Whitfield arrived af-
ter with the goods for the Cheycnnc by way OF ArkRn
sas, and commenced the distribution
Two bands refused to receive their portion upou the
quired condition that they should committing thets
and depredations upon egfants 10 New Mexico ana ter
portions of goods returned TO the States The other chiefs
informed the major that next year they wanted few
shirts thousand white squaws, and the remainder OF
their aunues in cash. and nothing else would be received
The major took from this tribe young man. captive,
formerly from Iowa. who made prisoner last spring whilst
out hunting also two Mexican boys OF The ages o about
eight ten years respectively Tue Indians were very
10th to give them up aud only did by the payment oi
presents and positive threats and ecTW@ras eA 10 res
them ut South Fork aensrai Winshlp military n-
spector with small force accompanied Major Whit
turned with the major, with whom our informans also
through.