, 1860-07-07
IMPORTANT OVERLAND NEWS,
Ca1 ture Of q Band Of Desperate Outlaws.
Excitement over tho Gold Discoveries,



Mr. ", l.. Wallace. one Of the editors of the
Aita California, arrived in our city lass evening
from San Francisco, having co1ne By the But.
teTfeld o Overlaud Mail route. In consequence
Of si.tuess be was obliged to. quit the stages
ut F. IT Smith, and is consequently four dss 8
the following highly important and interesting
war news, which has not before been colnmu.
Tbe agents OF the 0. II. Co. hare succeeded
in breaking up formidable band Of frobters and
thieves on the Colorado and Gila rivers. THIS
section has been place Of refuge for fugitive
villains for q long time, and their numbers hRse
heretofore g,ven them impunity from arrest
Many robbefies hare been perpetratcd upon in~
dividuslt, 4nd also upon 1hs company On q
recent occasion 100 racks Of barley, worth ut
that point 12c per pound, rere carried eff; AMI
mails also we're stolen. The intentions of the
band, however, were growing too sangulne for
all OF them. plan was laad to rob tue mail
and passengers. and also the agent Of The road.
Before it was accomplished ons Of the band re-,
vea'ed the pot to Mr. Stevens, agent Ut the Co.
| dorado, and be, with Messrs. jacobs aud InegI,
took immediate steps 10 break up The gang.
On the 18Th uIt. three men rearresttd and
choked BY hangman's moose from ths ir~es
branch of q mesquit until they comics ed crimes.
names and numbers, with necks black from the
compression Of tho ripe. IheT were ironed,
and sent under escort t. San Diego for trial.
They were men for whom rewards were still
advertised, asescaped fugltiyes from the courts
Of that county.
The next day two others, having lurking
confessian we're ordered to leaTe the country
1t an hours notice, Which they were only too
glad to do.
all along the road as far rs TueTon, where the
leader, a bold, bad man. escsped from Justice.
IN I.cs Angeles, renamed Messra S earns and
Jacobs came up to Tueron. nrrt sted JENKINS
| aud Phelps, and took then, back to The Co!o1a,
| do. At the Pimo vi!'eges jenkins managed 10
| escape into the thicket thst borders The river,
! but the Indians, sou in number, turned ant with
| sticks, surrounded the thickee, end drawing q
circle, soon e.ught him, and be was eent On for
trial.
Two other bad men we're arrested at the Ferry
| -Reub. Leroy and Charley Ratahurn- making
ten in all, tight Of whom were seEtto San Diego
for trial. There was great excitement umoue
| all The bad characters there, bu, the rronpsnesr
OF Stearns and Jacabs - nstonlshed tht III that
thev made no attempt to rescue their associa'es.
The recent diseoys,y Of gold il tbe ,nonn.
creating immense excitement through all tic
country. Hundreds Of men and many women
| were passed on tie road in Ill snrts oi Convey,
acces. Somc OF the towns on the Rio Graude
were nearly depopulated. I: was soid thai
when the last stage came thraueh, 10,
! more than forty men were remaining in E.
Paso. The employees Of the Ove1land M~i
| Company at many Of the stations have give,
notice Of their intention Ia q1it the service III {
follow the crowd. The country il undoubtedly
rich in geld We conrersed with aentlemtr
who had visited the mines and who intend re.
turning. Extraordinary good iuck nas a,tend.c
the labors of many. The location Of the miues
is between sthe foot Of the Gila ard Min.bu.
rivers. about SIX miles from either stream, anG
about thirty miles north Of The stage road. Tls
Mimbus is a small eflueut Of the Gila, hun
dred miles west Of the toTn Of Mespilsa, ant
one hundred and forty miles frnm Ell Paso.
0n the 18th xlt, a band Of Is Cainanches a.
tackled the station ut the Head OF C..ncho," 10{
miles east Of the Pecos crosslng," killed TIT
keeper, Mr. J. ". Sheppard, scalped him, enc
run or all the stock. eleven mufts. Thu stage
was delayed sevea hours for other animals i.
be brought in. Mt. Sheppard killed one Indian
The chief Of the party, before be tell. lie Yas
native 1t New Hampshire, but IVES raeept]y
from Kansas, where he has a wife aud tire,
children now residing near l.ecompton.
At the Clear Fork Of the Brazas river, abou
the Goth ult.. Capt- baylor, a Texan rars,r
Ca,nauche hunt, bringing nise scslps aud tort,
horses. He asserted that he killed fifteen .
the enemy, but was only ab., 10 SECURE min
eca'ps. His party consisted Of six men,
o. Tuesday morning. Sd iuatant, at da5 light
the Overland Mail slAtion, twenty txo Lille,
east Of Syracuse, was burnt. Four horre., Gu
Of The finest teams on the road, persisted ii til
fiau,et. The cause OF the fire YVES unknown
but rupposed 10 have arisen from match hav
ing been dropped upon the ground, end ign,1e'
BY being trodden upon BY The horses. W.