The Shasta courier., 1855-08-04
Indian Outbreak in the North.
From Fifteen TO Twenty White Men
Killed.
Several Indians Hung.

From slip from the Yreka Union Office, dated
the 28th ult., aud furnished by Rhodes & Whit
ney's Express on Tuesday evening last, we are
in receipt Of the painful Intelligence that the In
dians of Northern California and Southern Ore
gon have again taken the war path. Indeed we
are ia possession of the reliable information that
they have already brutally murdered upwards
of t,ccnty rchRe men, besides having burned and
otherwise destroyed large amount of property
in houses, grain, stock &C., &c.
According to the Extra Union the first act of
hostility occurred on Humbug Creek when
three Indians and one white man got into diff
Guilty. occasionel by the Indians abusing The
white man. Peters. In this affair Peters was
killed. although he fired at of the Indians
first party of men from Humbug started in
immediate pursuit Of the murderers, and cap
tured them on Barkhouse Greek. They effected
there escape afterwards, however.
A few nights subsequent 10 the first affair, a
band of Indians. supposed to be of the Appiegate
tribe, made descent on Buckeye Bar, on KIa
ma,h river, and killed nine men. MIR. Edward
Flanagan, arrived at Yreka on Monday, and in-
formed the Union that he saw the bodies of ten
men, four of whom he recognised as those of Ed
ward Parrish, Wm. Henncssy, Thomas Gray and
Peter Hgnight.
Horsley &, Brasiow's Express has furnished
us with the following extract from letter writ
ten from their Office in Yreka on Monday last.
g Since Jack left, two Indians have been hung
in this place. They came in town as spies
Two white men were killed on Hamberg Bar
Scott Bar, yesterday, and two packers on
Applegate Greek.
We annex the following letter, from the Rev.
H. B. Stratton, written on the 30th ult.. Monday
last:-
YREKA, July 30th, 1855
MEssRs. EDIToRs Though stranger take
the liberty Of saying to you that the Indian diff
culties announced in the " Extra Union of Sat-
urday, are growing more serious every moment.
write you, thinking will thus be more certain
TO apprise some friends, whom expect 10 be at
Shasta i'll few days, route for this place.
To-day two Indians were hung here they
were caught last evening near Yreka, with arms
and ammunition and identified as being connec-
ted with the hostile tribe. One of them was an
elderly man, obviously of stern experience, as
he was thoroughly SCARED. Four more are to
be hung this evening on Humbug. No further
reports from Klamath, (the place where the
first depredations were made,) except that In-
dians are still prowling about in that region
Posters have been sent to all parts of Scott and
Shasta Valleys, that isolated families may gather
TO some defensble position The excitement is
intense. and likely to continue. The younger of
the two Indians hung to-day, asserted just be-
fore he swung, that the Rogue River Indians
and many others, had combined to pursue war
OF determination upon the whites; and that they
had vowed never to enter into a treaty again.
Whatever credit may be given to his words.
they will not tend to anyabatement of the pres
ent excitement He further stated that they had
determined The utter destruction of this town.
Stealing squaws, and selling the Indians rum
and arms, will yet prove dear traffic to the nro-
cent ~ whites
Yours &c. R. B. STRArToS.