Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1854-10-28
Prom Tho AgraIan.
areat salt Lake.

The mail arrived on tile evening Of the lsl
bringing full files Of the DeseEet News from which
such extracts have been taken as were deemed
likely 10 interest our readers What follows u
| from information furnished by Mr.. MugTaw, one
OF The contractors, who came through with The
in the u. S. Court, Chief Justice Kinney pre-,
siding, assisted, by assooiate Judge Sc@lIer, Long'
hair and Antelone, two Utah Indians, were triad
Cor murder committed In Utah county on the 8ll
of August, 1885,, on the bodies Of Two Mormon
lads, we're found guilty and sentenced to be hung
on the 10Th ult The prosecution was ably con-
Quoted by Joseph HOLMAN, district Attorney FOL
the Territory Of Utah, tlalvOf Washington county,
MIDI aud the defence by Col. J. U. Little and
Hosea Stout, Of @. S. l.. City, with talent and
ability (oT which the gentlemen ute distinguished,
fans In Utah ere prospectus.
Mr.. Msgraw heard that gold had been discovered
on the Sweet Water, Ond that quite number OIL
rsons were prospecting an that TveT and It's iii
butaIies Reports represented that success was
good and prospects AatleEIng,
There are now on the way across The plains about
forty Mormon Missionaries, under charge oil Bldel
Taylor, destined fot all quarters Of the woTld,-
They travel in company with Gboul an equal num-
beTof returning Culilofnians; and I.gelheT with
about twenty tIad,Ts and explores, they make a
party Of about hundred, probably the last con-
siderable party that we'll come Eastward this sea-
son.
The trading house on Deer Creek, about eighty
miles West VI Laramie, when passed was almost
entirely consumed, and the caTal, aud other Out
buildings were in flames, and everything indicated
that il was the MCTk Of hostile indians. Tue in.
mates were understood to have left in cOnse'
Quence Of previous difficulties at Laramie. Saw
10 indians that day except four AIsPnhoes.
Seyenly.iive miles west OF Salt CFesk, passed .
party OF fourteen Pawnegs, supposed TO Oe the
nknln nf tlnii
wOunding one few nights previous, on thai
stream. Ftom signs Of blUud on the ground of The
attack, the supposlliOn was that at least one lndi
an had been killed, aud The party woTsled in The
fight.
The company has been compelled to ahnndunit
station, built vt considerable expense, OF Ash HOl'
low, on The North Platte, IN consequence Of no
tihcaliUn from lie heal chGl Of tile Sioux nation,
that IL not abandoned, he would out Tie threats
Of oil found ilrlc after gwen day. The EN-
pIOysrs vi The company chose The alternative Of
gong IL SOOlrS Bluffs eighty miles laElheT west
Met, ihiS side Of Keauey, half dozen different
lIainS, belonging to resident traders being nroba
bly, all that uTe Oh the route. they are going On
well.
Grass remarkably scarce west Of Laramie, partly
in consequence Of the immense number Of stock
driven hcIos, the Plains, aud parity owing 10 The
work Of The gtasshOppeTs.
Upon hearing, some distance west OF Laramie
Of the affair OF that post the conductor yielded Il
the solicitations Of passengers, and delayed FIVE
days at Devils Gate, awaiting other travellers lrvn
the west 10 strengthen the party. The travel from
Lnlumie 10 tins place was performed IN nine aud d
half days; probably the shortest time on record
across the Plans.
The outward bound mail was met on the Noflt
Fork Of the Platte. All was quiet ut Laramie, Tie
Sioux having disappeared after The massacre, and
supposed to have gone 10 White River or Old WO
mans Fork from seventy to one hundred miles dis
tAnt from the Fort.
Two days before arriving OF Kearney, Indians
supposed TO be The Sioux, stnmpeded twenty-five
head OF government horses and mules, about OH
hour by sun in the morning. and within half 4
mile Of the Fort They were pursued by the sol
deTs, but with what success is not known. Pass
ell Capt. Kelchum, with his command Of two CON-
pauieS eighty miles this side Of Keatneyi and CO..
iIoGman,wiih small escort, at Pensoneau Grove
oil we'll.
Col Steptoe's command arrived in Salt Lake city
the last day Of July, officers ant men oil well,nn
stock IN remarkably fme condition, only eight ami
mails having been lost on tie route. Met last o
The, MOunUn emigration Un Tue Sweet Water, doing
we'll.