Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1860-07-13
Important Overland News.

passenger by one of The late overland
mails, communicated the following inter-
esting intelligence to the St. Louis
Democrat:
The agent of the Overland Mail
Company have succeeded in breaking
up formidable band of robbers and
thieves on the Colorado and ella rivers
This section has been place of refuge
for fugitive villains for long time, and
their number have heretofore given them
impunity from arrest. Many robberies
have been perpetrated upon private
individuals, and also upon the company.
On a recent occasion one hundred sacks
of barley, worth at that point II cents
per pound, were carried off; animals
also were stolen. The Intentions of the
band, however, were growing too sangu-
inc for all of them A plan was laid to
rob the mail and passengers, and also
the agent of the road. Before it was
accomplished one of the band revealed
the plot to Mr.. Stevens, agent at the
Colorado, and he, with Messrs. Jacobs
Jaeger, took immediate steps to break up
the gang,
On the 18th uh., three men were
arrested and choked by a hangman's
moose from the lower branch of mesquit
until they confessed crimes, names and
numbers, with uecks bfack from the COM
preston of the rope. They were ironed,
and sent under escort to San Diego for
trial. They were men for whom re-
wards were still advertised, as escaped
fugitives from the courts of that county.
The next day two others, having
lurking place down the river, were ar
rested, and after confession were ordered
TO leave the country at an hours notice,
which they were only too glad to do.
The revelations located members of the
band all along the road as far as Tueron,
where the leader, a bold, bad man, es-
capped from justice in Los Angeles,
remained. Messrs, Stearns and Jacobs
came up to Tueron, arrested jenkins and
Phelps, and took them back in irons to
the Colorado. At the Pimo village
Jenkins managed to escape into the
thicket that borders the river, but the
Indians, 800 in number turned out with
sticks, surrounded the thicket, and draw
ing circle, soon caught him, and he
was sent on for trial.
Two ether bad men were arrested at
the Fegry-Reub. Leroy and Charley
Rathburn-making ten in all, eight of
whom were sent to San Diego for trial.
There was great excitement among all
the bad characters there, but the prompt
ness of Stearns and Jacobs so astonished
them that they made no attempt to
rescue their associates.
The recent discovery of gold in the
mountains, between the ella and MINI
bus rivers, is creating immense excite
ment through all the country. Hundreds
OF men and many woman were passed
on the road in all sorts of conveyances.
Some of the towns on the Rio Grande
were nearly depopulated. 1t was said
that when the last stage came through,
not more than forty men were remaining
in Ell Paso. The employees of the
Overland Mail Company at many of the
stations have given notice of their inten-
ton to quit the service and follow the
crowd.
The country is undoubtedly rich in
gold. We conversed with gentleman
who had visited the mines and who
intend returning. Extraordinary good
luck has attended the labors of many.
The location of the mines is between
the foot of the ella and Mimbus rivers
about six miles from either stream and
about thirty miles north of the stage
road. The Mimbus is a small affiuent
of the ella, a hundred miles west of the
town of Mespilla and one hundred and
forty miles from FL Paso.
On the 18th ult., band of twenty
five Comanches attacked the station at
the Head of Concho,' 100 miles cast
OF " Pecos crossing" killed the keeper
Mr.. j. w. Sheppard, scaIped him, and
run off all the stock, eleven mules.
The stage was delayed seven hours for
other animals to be brought in. Mr..
Sheppard killed one Indian, the chief of
the party, before ne fell. He was a
native of New Hampshire, but was
recently from Kansas, where he has a
wife and three children now residing
near Leconpton.
At the Clear Fork of the Brazos
river, about the 10Th nit. Cant BAYLOR.