Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1860-06-07
From the PInius---Indian Hos
tiIitics.

Tho Central Overland Pixies Peak Express ar.
rived this evening with adyices 10 the 2ith aud
Denver City dates TO the 26th.
A meeting of citizens was held last evening for
the purpose Of taking precautionary measures Tor
defense in case they we're attacked by Indians
The city was divided into four wards and places OF
rendezvous appointed in each in case OF surprise.
1t was reported by French traders that an at
tack on whites was threatened.
There are now large numbers Of kiswas, Apoch-
ecs Camanchces, Sioux, Cheyennes and Arapo-
haes cncamped within II few miles OF the city, and
some depredatons have been committed on ranch
ca in the vicinity, but nothing serious; no fears
are entertained of serious trouble by old settlers.
The meeting passed resolutions to inhict 50 lashes
in public and compel TO leave the country any
person found guilty of selling giving intoxicat
ing liquors, arms, or ammunition to Indians.
Reports from mines favorable. Weather
warm.
The Pony Express with the dispatches and mail
missing from the Pony Express, which arrived
Tuesday evening last, arrived here at 2,20p. IN.
to-day. No explanation is given as TO the cause
of its detention. Mail all safe. The last Pony
Express took intelligence that several Americans
had been murdered by Indians while asleep, ut
Miler's Station, on Carson river, some thirty
miles from the settlements of Carson Valley, and
also that various companies had organized at Nr-
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under the command of Major Ormsby, on the 18th
inst, came upon the Indians about G5 miles north
ward from Va City. The Indians were in ambush
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