St. Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (St. Charles City [Charles City], Iowa) 1857-1861, 1859-02-03
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4 Voice from Shirt Lake!


we nave received VIII request
Tor ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS documents
IRON the p'ohccrS oi our Noi''''"
frohticr' ih'Sc uoc"ihe'l'7 "'e 'uN
elusive III rcg"'u |" 'lc ''t''ei' '''-
coSSe"' any "n''o '
icccSS"'! u s'o" '"'' ,"''o "'"
S'' oh ~ '
seihpi'hS Oh INC "uaroS ) 'l'' INC i'o-
pie 'nere o'u' WIN great "'a"'"'''s'
demand OF inc ''a' pi"'r'-
'loh Whlch he mas gwen anu "''' III
'e'e' "'Se'! anu ""P'i '' 'n
Sehcy presented 'iiaV testimony Will
be found i'll the proceedings OF the
meeting held at Spirit Lake, and the
letter stoned Nv nearly all the settlers
g n;.,;2a.. c,,,.,. Troso ,door-
Vi D''N'"so" county, "'S0 va
ments we nave MADE room Tor. we
have also a letter from Capt. Martin,
of the Frontier Guard but its length
rroc,rdos it, r~,h,icat;on We Loro
', r~
aifeauy gwen So ''u'li space 10 '1e
matter, n introduced 50 much testl-
mony, it cannot be necessary to say
another word to convince tho nconlc
e. I..a ,,o. ,,o ca,orno. Las d,o
:! 'o"" 'h"' 'o ''''"'' }" ''"'
his duty.
We cannot, however, refrain from
quoting one or two passages from the
Icncfhy and unanswcraLlo Icttcr ot
c.S. ,r a,;..a. .a,,..
."P' Ni''
'lcleS 'l'a' appeared III 'ne 0'ate Jonfll-
al, OF tins city. Says Capt. NJ:
"This unscrupulous scrihblcr intro.
duccs his flaming editorial bv assert.
inc that "with the execution Of fine
massacre two vcars a~n ot cn;rit
Lake NOT a solitary Indian ontra~e
has bccn ncrnctrofcl in Iowa for =
nnmlor Of wears" This is an unmiti.
Gated folschood II is VOL know
that in the month of January 1873
a marty Of Indians sunnoscd to Lc
Tnknadntah's hand visited tho scttIc.
mcnts on the Little Siouy River in
CIov and Rucna Vista conntios and
hnrncJ NJ Willows horsn and jn.
stroved Ills Grain entered tha Iwrll.
mos Of MessTs, Bell. Barnes, Weaver
and GiIlctt and robbed them Of thcir
contents d~rstrovinr all thcv were NOT
allie 70 carry oway, And had not fine
n~;onccrs who suffered bv This outrorr
anrrchcndinr dancer n~rcvionsIv led
from their homes, they, 10 doubt,
would have shared the terrible fate
matnd ont to tboir c~ountrvmcp twclvo
months hcroro If Shirt Lake II is
also well known that n COMPANY ot
whites who followed these SAVAGE
maraudors wore f,,J mon and com.
nclIcd 70 ~rrtrcat Those wishino
stronger confirmation TO the above
statements arc referred 70 thc norsons
whose names I have mentioned yL,
VET reside in CLAW and Bncna VISTA
counties An Ills WINS moJr nuLIiC
If tLo timo Inv tho nrcss Of tLc Gtotn
vct tLc Irnnipj and reliable g .Jonrnol
10 tLo oT;tnr 81 tLo c.n.o LDnrmai
,ars ,boro has Loon no antnomo n;aa,
,l..t - cnir;t 7 40 = = = =
"IVbop tho Guard was ordorod an,
,os+ March tLoro wasa had ~ Id;
ans at~ tLisniaca Srsnicinn
amJ monnninmm $500 TLooa InJ;o"s
SmJJnniy jiSannnorcI . fow aars ho
f,ro tha arrival Of flo tronns h,,t WOW
c,iS,m.od anL d,;rom c.n,o o IT, Cto." l.,
tho soldiers whom thn ,Ianrnol asScrt -
did not 600 nm InJ;on dnrimm H." ~LoI(
aamnoimn + y ? = !
+ Emo stoto Of tho coso i ohor,
his . Thcro is y vast ny.o"t IF co"YtrT
- .La Enr,Lm,H.au~ nant - nnn &c..
-nossrss;nm nccnI;aritins Which ronJo,
+ ~ once = nsroIiSo nf hrrtinn
amslst 49, 7. saI :n.rir