The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1859-10-08

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peril Of our lives. TO station Immediately
In this city : military force adequate 70
our protection. .s
Very respectfully. sir, your obedients
Great Salt Lake City, Aug. III, 1862.
The troops belonging to Fort Crook
had had q brush with the Indians in.
Shasta %. Thirteen Indians said to
be killed. VI
TRIBUNE GENTLEMENIN CALIFORNIA;.
Messrs. Greedy, Dana and Taylor
have been paying compliments in per
son to the Golden State. The Sacra-
mento Union anticipates some inter-
esting literature as the result.
We are indebted to the Sacramento
Union for the following interesting
piece Of information
MORMON ATRocITY.--A letter in the
Fort Smith Times states that In the
midst Of the Mountain Meadow massa.
ere, a girl thirteen or fourteen years
old threw herself upon John d. Lee
(the captain of the band Of murderers
and a DANTE Saint), and plead for her
life, after seeing her father, mother
and brothers murdered; Lee took her
into the bushes, robbed her Of that
jewel which to a yirtuous girl is dearer
than life, and after satisfying his
beastly desires, deliberately cut her
throat, and left her weltering in her
life's blood. III .....-> .....s
Company E., Sixth Infantry, we're
under orders to move from San Ber-
nardino to Fort Mojave, ON the Color
ado. -. ,... - =t...... ,<
INDIAN AFFAIRS NoRTH.---The Red
Bluff Beacon" speaking Of the late
achievements Of Captain Brecken-
ridges company in Tulare county, says:
"Fhe company only consisted Of about
nine, but during their short campaign
they killed twenty-nine Indians and
wounded about twenty more, great
many Of them severity. Among the
killed and wounded there were only
three or four women and children, and
they would have been spared could the
men have killed the bucks without
hurting them. They also took thirteen
women and children to the reservation.
John Breckenridge, in a card in the
Red Bluff "Beacon, under date OF
September Sd, makes the following
statement: j. -. =. .,... ~ !:
ssHhile myself and three other men
where in charge of ten Indian prisoners
ION Butte creek, that had been cap
tured by General Kibbe's command -
one Cain, miner, came to. them and
claimed q sqiaw, one OF the prisoners
land undertook to take her away,
when he was prevented from doing so
BY my men and myself, Said Cain
then went down the creek, and in about
two hours returned with 4 mob of forty
Eve men and Deputy Sheriff Cheese
man, and took III. s.. Sadorus, G.. NJ.
i Stratton and M. Amesby and myself
prisoners and released all the Indians.
Said Cain took the csquaW he claimed,
on the 9th of August, to DogtoWn,
and was there married to her while her
EEsbuekh was still alive, although shot.
am of the opinion that the only mo-
tive the mob had was to secure the
squaws and keep them on the creek. j" 7:
THE LATE MAssAoRE.-A CORES
pondent of the Marysville express, !"
who writes from Gravelly Ford, under
date Of August 9th, says of the Indi-
ans, who recently murdered an overland
party: ~ ILL.,. ..... ... '.
"The Indians are portion of a
band known as the Box Elder Indians.
They live in and round the Mormon
settlements, and it is surmised, and, /
think, correctly, that the Mormons are
at the bottom of it, and that it. is a
sequel to the Mountain Meadow mas.
sacre.9 +. i. taS :. 7.r -, =.
Go on, gentlemen, continue lying.
Suppose you say that the Mormons
were guilty of all the murders, rapes,
robberies, burnings, and villainies of
you own Pacific State We shall have
then just as good an opinion of your