, 1859-05-21
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teo' D. aW"' 81 oooae ooant5, writes 70 tne
Relviders STANDARD, under date Of april Eth,
some Of his axneriencea an the road IN pike's
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rea>' Aoees o'nef eoan2s LIE te'Aees Nv"
company from Michigan were cheated by an
Express CompanY at St. Joseph which had un-
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dF Afnes says:
Well. these passengers on Express No. 6
were truna Michigan all good men, mostly mid
.lls-a:e,i E:,n-men Of principle. Fullerton
;s=s: I'd as u>,';! to take them to the Peak for
| iii, ,,.!1IAis. they board themselves. lie re-
| twenty-five ut Murysviile They started of St.
| Joe all right, contract and everything stated
| over before the driver rs usual He came to
| Mnrysyillc in rood time. and we arrived same
| night, when be drove up to Marysyille. The
driver ordered them tu tuke out their baggage,
| they Of course, asking vhy. He said be was not
going INV further, that the mules were his, and
that tc was hired to carry them only to Murys-
| vile. Fullerton had told them that they could
have but four mules from Marysyillc, they had
] six to there. They refused to unload their bay
| gage. lie took his mules off the wagon and
| correl1cd them for the night, calculating to
turn in the morning if liz could bluff lis pas-
| sengcrs He told them that lie would have F.
| l. e. send another team, to take him through,
| etc. They rendered them ttr other twenty-five
| dollars apiece, but he would nut then takc it,
| We heard Of the news as VT were camped but a
few rods from them After our supper, Craw-
furd and myself went up aud saw the passen-
gers, and told them that il they would stick up
for their rights, that our TO. would see they lad
| fair play, and recommended them to hitch ZIP
| aud 10 IN in the morning without the driver,
withunt he would come to terms. Ono Of them
cunle down to our camp early in the morning,
and told lis if they could get our assistance they
would hitch up and 20 on SO We ull went up
except two or three who were ufraid to 20.
There were other Pixies Peak men there. We
told the passengers we would protect them, I'VE
were all armed to the tceth} to hitch up rs soon
| as possible. Accordingly they h1tched up the
four mules and started on Keen scoot. They
had to 70 by the house where the driver Was !;
out came Mir. driver aud i Salt Lade lnule-dri-
yer. The mNie.drlver cuught one OF the leaders
by the BIT, and drawed MS cooked revolver on
the dr'ver, and told HIM II ne attempted to move
one inch he would bore him through. There
were several rcrol'ers and guns cooked about
that tlnlc +: Co. : dFlycr told Tue salt Lake
1nnn TO hold the mules and pc would go for help.
lie was Immediately tnld that he could have
just ten minutes to let 20 OF those mules or die
Hls ten MINUTES was up ana r. 20. $ driver
ca,ie hot back. He was told that his ten min
utcs was nP, and he chose to hose his hold rath
er tslun be shut. The way those passengers
went out ol That Town win m4!es ana wagon
was caution. They went to Rock Creek, III
Nebraska, that duy- About 3 o'clock We were
passed by the two mule drivers sheriff and JUS
tce Of AarSs'l'le. aii running tc'r mules to tlG
utmost speed, tnen M drunk. 1hey oieFti:1u!ed
them that night at Kock Creek and had fracas
with them there. One Of the passengers WIS
shot at: but as luck would have it, he had re-
yulyer by lis side, and the rife ball struck the