The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-01-15

deep and fifty miles in extent, for the pur.
of carving water from the Platte to the dry
diggings.
We learn from him that the region there
is admirably adapted to grazing purposes,
that the climate is very healthy, and that
they had scarcely any winds during all the
time he was there. There is plenty Of
timber. There is Il tract of pine timber
twenty-fOur miles this side Of the mining
region, which is forty miles in extent and
about fifteen miles wide.
From the Nebraskian Extra, Jan 10Th. 1859
Shockin: HIurder-Two Men Taken from Jail
and Hung by Mob!
When, year or two since, it became our
duty to chronicle the murder of four III n, ,
in another part of our Territory, we hoped
to be spared the ungracIous task Of again
recording 4 crime Of like enormity. That
assassination was committed in the heat Of
intense excitement, and persons for whose
ottense the law prescribed no penalty, were
the victims. But row another and darker
deed of violence rests upon our proud cs-
our pen is inadequate to describe. n murder,
which for coldLioodcd, pit less, Implying
and relentless cruelty, finds no parallel in
the annals Of Nebraska. The facts arc briefly
given below.
About eight o'clock last Saturday even
ing, the jnil in this city was entered by II
party Of fifteen or twenty mcn--the precise
number not ascertaincl- two prisoners,
named Braden and DaIv-whose arrest and
Imprisonment for horse stealing we noticed
last week--wert forcbly taken the: eff
The keys to the cell VII re the prisoners Were
confined, were first Of timed by s,mc person
walking boldly into n room. occupied by Mr..
Reeves, the Iailor-in his ab>cnce-aB tax
ing thrm from the nail on which thrv were
hanging, and retreating before his exit
could be prevented by the fetnalcs who
were present. There were three ladies
in the room-which is immediately over the
lail-at the time, and on going to the door.
they bchcld a number of men descending to
the basement whore the prisoners wcr" con-
fined. None Of the persons were disguised,
and all were unknown to the women. On
being asked what they wanted. one Of the
persons advised the ladies to keep quiet and
they should not lie hurt and in few min
utcs the whole number re-appcared with III"
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dispatched to another part of the city, for
Mr.. Reeves, and an alarm given, but too
late to avert the evil already accomplished.
Nothing further was heard or known Of
the affair until near ten O'Clock Yesterday,
(Sunlay.) when our people We're startled by
q rumOr that tho prisoners were seen hang
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