Red Wing sentinel. [volume] (Red Wing, M.T. [i.e. Minn.]) 1855-1861, 1859-06-11
THE RETURNING PIXIES PEAK
GOLD HUNTERS.

THE RETURNING PIXIES PEAK
GOLD HUNTERS.
A letter is published in the Musca.
tine Journal of the 25th, from which
we take the following extracts, show
ing the condition of the Pixies Peak
victims, as known on the western from
tier Of Iowa:
GIzswooD, Mills county,l
May l6, 1889.
- = Reports of fights, murders,
starvation and beggary, which, if they
were not so conflicting, might be
alarming, reach us hourly. There is
a grave dug for Oaks, with an ox's
shin bone for a tablet at the mines,
|yawning for its victim, but nary Oaks
to be found. Basel is buried. By
|ers' printing press is knocked into
''pi," and now sleeps in the waters of
the Platte. Curtis is doomed, and
many others with him, and divers
other things are done or about to. be
done, which will make the spring of
80 long remembered among the leg
ends Of the West. Such are the re-
ports facts are bad enough
The trains which have been passing
through here are most of them return
ing, satisfied that there is no gold at
Pixies Peak. Most of them have in
vested much, and many Of them their
all, in this expedition, and now, salts
fed that they have been victi,nized,
they are returning with light purses
and heavy hearts, to begin life anew.
Some OF them are infuriated at the
people on the slope, and swear dire
vengeance on every one. The Platts-
mouth people are wofully frightened,
and the Bluffs people have cut the
ropes Of all the ferries on the Platte
and other points West to prevent
them from coming there. There are
now about five hundred teams back o1
Plattsmouth, and their number is daily
increasing. l have little fear, though
| may have use for revolver before l
imagine. @f@ : a..aa.
ltis generally reported that D. D.
Oaks is murdered. Graham is in
great demand; also Sam Curtis. II. c..
Carpenter, brother Of the Postmaster
in Tabor, is reported dead. The ru-
NOR is that he killed a man ir the
mines, and that body supposed to be
his, perforated with balls and badly
cut in the head and left hand, was
found in slough near Salt Creek
His mule was dead--shot-near him,
and all his personal property scattered
around him ON the ground. Oaks had
the satisfaction of seeing his grave
and tomb stone before he died-a hole
in the ground, with shin-bone Of a
buffalo for a head-stone, and frying
|pan at the loot. regard his death
as by no means certain, although I
would be laughed at for such an ex-
preston here.
The Omaha people are badly fright
ened, and the Plattsmouth people have
been, though they think the danger
now mostly over. The emigrants pass
free over the ferry as they return
There are many still who are conf
dent that they will continue their jour
ney as soon as this stampede eastward
subsidies little. Graham, Tubbs,
the editor of the Pacific City Herald,
aud some of the Plattsmouth people,
6 at the earnest solicitation of tue
people, not because they have any
fear themselves, but because their
friends think it will be better for the
town." have thought it polite
seTo strike their tents like the Arabs.
And quietly steal away"
Take this whole thing from its COM
mcncement, and, if humbu :, it has
been the most successfully engendered,
and most signal failure, of any Of the
nineteenth century. You are proba-
lily aware that all the favorable let
ters from the mines are alleged for
|geries, and that Col. Bassett, Of St.
Louis, has been shot as one of the
principal operators. He was an ex-
pressman from the mines to Fort Lar
annie. Fifty thousand men have been
ruined by, and from twenty to 6fty
millions Of dollars expended in this
affair, and no one has been, benefited
by it. 80.
It is impossible to give you an idea
|of the state of affairs here, or Of the
condition of the emigrants. You have
to see men sitting along the sides Of
the road, between here and the river,
oblivious Of passers-by, brooding over
their misfortunes; others walking
barefooted through the rain and mud,
with their pautaloons worn of above
their knana 0fhara narninne into fhn