Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1862-11-05

/ that there must be some of them alive
enger to Fort Walla Walla, about seventy
+ FIVE miles distant, who returned with 100
/ soldiers These soldiers arrived at Burnt
river where Manson and the soldier were
+ forty four days after the fuss with the In.
dams commenced They all went back
+ to the Owyhee Every little while thew
/ would ''llullo' but could get nc answer
They finally espied a little girl some dis
/ lance from the road, who ran when she
saw them, but they caught her and she
piloted them to the hi ing place of the
rest, where they found Mr. Myers and his
family Mrs. Chase and daughter, and ono
/ Of Mr. Utter's daughters Mr. Utter's lit
tie 10y had followed the Indians and they
/ had killed him -Ar. Chase and his two
sons, and two Of Mr.. Utters daughters
had starved to death The refugees sta
ted that the Indians had come to them and
commanded them 20 stay there, or they
would Kill them, that after two or three
weeks had expired, Van Ornan had cot
tired of waiting, and had concluded to 20
on, taking his family ,;G!eason, and two OF
Utter sons, and that was the last thew
had seen OF them The party returned,
and about one mile before they came to-
Hurut river, they found the dead lodes
of Mr.. and Mrs. Van 0rman, Mark Van
Ornan, sam. Gleason and the two Utters
They had apparently been dead bat two
or three days. None e the bodies had
been mutiated, except Mrs Van Orman;
she had been sea ped. They buried them,
and then returned To the settlements Van
Urman other children had been cap,ur.
Ell by tie Indians, aud all but one are
now captiyes. The Youngest girl has been
rescu d, and is at Salt Lake Jack. Van
Orman, brother to the one Killed, passed
here three or four DAYS ago EN- route
for Salt Lake, where he expects to find
the little girl rescued, and then intends to
raise a company, If possible, and try and
get the others. it is supposed that the
second girl and the little boy were seen
among the Indians on the other Side OF the
Snake river hy the emigrants who crossed
above TT HaIl-about SEQ teams, coming
down that side and crossing back at Fort
/ Boise They report seeing a great many
Indians 600 or coo at one time)
! Mr.. Munson says he has written the
account home two or three times but be
does not know whether it was ever recei-
! we'd as he never got 4 word from there
until about two weeks ago, when he rccei-
yed letter, but it did not state whether
they had ever heard from him or not lie
( desired me to write it to YOU.
Among the teams that came down the
opposite side of Snake river, were Bill
Rowe's Sar4eant's Billy Tregeas Charley
MappeS's aud johnny Ro We AMI Cos. OF
Barrel Town. They are all here now. ar
vivin@ nearly week alter we did They
were all ahead of us at Fort Hall They
say that great many IN n in their train
800 wa@ons-soid reviewers, guns, am
muuition DC, to the red cut-throats. 1t
would no have been healthy for any one
in our train to have disposed Of GRythiag
pertaining to war to the Indians judge
Lynch would have been called upon, and
i we could have foana tree stout enough
TO bear the wei4 hi Of his ayaricious BODY,
he would have swung They also found
the Indians who had Campbells property
(the one who was killed just back of our
train in Landers cut-oT) and got Il great
deal OF the money, and q fine gold watch
worth $3.50, which they took from Camp
bell, for which they gave the Indians lit
tie or nothinr-a half dollar buying
$50 gold piece, and so on.
BiIl Rowe wentup to Fort Delhi on the
Salmon river, $50 miles from the ferry on
snake river, where he left 10 Jones 4 Co. ,
10 Gribbie Il Co. and Willie :'riIeaux &
Co, and several other Mineral Point teams
aud several Dolgev,lle teams These bows
all lett their wagons and SAID thev were
going TO pack thro' the mountains They
were sure they could fiud D tr;,il Rove
wouldn't risk it.
Some of the boys have hired out by the /
month, and some are prospecting Hol-
brook has hired ont for one month at $50
and board Frank and Billy have hired
ont for 50 ana board for one month
Murrish has hired ont for see per month
and hoard. Some of the boys have taken
uptown lots, and are putting up cabins
for the winters nearly ali intend to
stay here this winter It is difficult to