Muscatine weekly journal. [volume] (Muscatine, Iowa) 185?-1890, 1860-11-30
Later and Important from CaIifOr-
mia, Oregon and Washington.
LINCOLN CARRIES OREGON SURE.
AND CALIFORNIA PROBABLY!

Horrors Of the Oregon Massacre-Survivors
Subsisting on the Bodies Of the Slain
Fort KEARNEY, Nov. %.
The Pony Express, from San Francisco.
with advices to $40 P. NJ. the 18th, passed
here about 4 this P. NJ. #
| San francisco, NoU. 14h. - The Presi-
dental election returns still lack 1900 or
5000 votes OF being complete. The total vote
Returned is Ill, 1913, Of which Lincoln gets
$685., Douglas $1,000, Breckenridge 81 ZIG.
Bell 5,O26. Lincoln's majority over Douglas
597. This Is the most favorable account for
Douglas yet published, other authorities
placing hun nearly 1000 behind Lincoln.
The balance OF the returns will probably
reduce Llncoln's majority, but the State is
generally conceded to have gone Republican
though the official count is required 10 settle
all doubts.
A dispatch from Yreka, near Oregon, of the
18th, says: --latest advices from Oregon give
250 majority for Lincoln over Breckenridge.
Douglas was 600 behind Breckenridge, with
three small counties to hear from, which
cannot vary the result"
Returns from few of the principal counties
show donations on election day to the Wash,
ingtcn Monument Fund to the amount of
1920, which must largely increase when full
returns are received.
1t Is believed that majority of the people
of California voted against calling Constitu-
! tional Convention.
At o'clock, to-day, the Express arrived at
Fort Churchill, whence the news of the result
Of the Presidential election was sent to San
Francisco and published in the Extra Bulletin
and ALta California before o'clock. The
news was expressed from St. Joseph to the
telegraph station in the unprecedented time
of SIX days. 1t produced sensation. The
Republican State Committee issued an address
urging general illumination of San Francisco
tomorrow evening
A School Census of San Francisco gives
Is, 400 children under Is years.
Esparanza, one of the ring leaders of the
Fillbasters who went into Lower California
from Los Angeles county, recently, has been
killed in fight. The band is committing
murders and robberies by the wholesale on
the Peninsula. The citizens of San Diego
have sent relief to the Governor of Lower
California.
A letter from Walla- WaIla, Washington
Territory, to the Portland (Oregon) Nevs,
dated Nov. Sd, says that an Express had lust
arrived in the Valley from the command of
Capt. Dent, who was ordered out upon the
Emigrant Road in the vicinity of Fl Boyd, to
investigate the report of the massacre OF the
emigrants. Capt. Dent found some 10 or IL
emigrants still alive, and subsisting upon the
dead bodies of their associates. The messen-
ger reports that some II dead bodies had been
found, and that 10 more were still alive,
secreted in parties of or 4, for a distance of
twelve miles in the vicinity of the attack.
Some had died from actual starvation. Mr..
Meyers, his brothers wife, Mrs. Meyers, with
5 children, and Miss Trimball, were among
the living. The party were subssting upon
the dead body of Meyers, the father and
husband Of the family. Capt Dent will
return in few days, when full report wi
be forwarded to the Portland Press. The
most horrible slau2 liter of so many innocent
emigrants calls for a searching investigation
by the authorities,