The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1864-03-12

| seph lat week, from Idaho, furnishes tht
| Meas OF that city with some interesting
| intelligence from the mines. 3t$%
? Colonel +. left Virginia City on ths
| Ith, and Bannock on the I'D ult. us
in company with others, packed through
on mules distance OF about four hun
dted miles, until they struck the Mofnnou
settlement, About sixty miles from Sail
Lake gity. From there they came te
Salt Lake in sleighs, and thence through
ON the overland stage. =, s.>... 1F''ss y.
Between Bannock and Salt Lake the
snow was from four inches 10 fourteen
feet deep, and the weath hee ialaensely cold
The party Lay over q few days at SaIt
Lake to recuperaie. They come through
from Salt Lake i'm twelve days.
CAlonel Forrest saysR few days before
he lett, the miners caught a highE aynan
with whom the country has so long been
infested and cursed, at Nevada, m the
vicinity OF Virginia City, and hung him.
Two more were canght and hung at
French rancho. In their confession
they gave the names of elghty-three :oi
their gang, and acknowledged that they
haa killed and robbed over oAezhunured
t1AGAtsE5 AEClEAOlAs AA1k1AAREk ~ Nv
bodies were concealed =. j
Virginia City was next surrounded and
guarded by the exasperated men, early
one morning. No one WAS permitted TO
GO out, any could come in who desired.
Five men were arrested and guard put
around them. They wanted 70 Row
what they were arrested tor, and were
promptly told, and that they had,alFeady
been tried by the Vigilance Committee
and condemned, and that if they had any
confessions to make it was time they
were making them. .".S., s"~ -
They were exam ned one at q time out OF
hearing of the rest. and they all implicAt.
ed the same men, gave the same names.
and told the same stories. They were
then taken out and coelly and deliher-
ately hung. .....'. ........, +
Five men of the same gang were also
arrested and executed at Bannock, max.
ing thirteen in all. "<F q ..
+ Among those hung at BlnnoclS was
Henry Pfummer. high sheriff, and Geo
hane, alias Cub Foot George, and. Jack
Gallagher. two Of his deputies. In arrest
ing the last batch, one of them, a Mexi
can. fred upon tha arrestiEsg party from
his domicile, and killed one of the best
citizen in Bannock and wounded smother.
A mounted 'howitzer was then ranged and
a raking fire opened on the cabin, COM
pletely riddling it. and severely wound
ing the desperate concealed within. He
was taken out and hung, the cabin then
torn down and piled up and his remains
placed on il and burned. ..,.
b Among the desperadoes who we're thus
made to expiata their crimes and suffer
the severest penalties Of an outraged law
at the end OF the halter. were, in addition
to those already named, the following
we'll know highwaymen y. Hays Lyon,
Boone Helmn, Red, - Brown
-- Parish, George Ives. Dutch Jolrtl.
and Bueh Stinson. The latter was for.
merIy from Andrew county this State.
About hundred men had gone over
TO Deer Lodge diggings, when Colonel F,
left, 10 execute some more of tile same
gang The miners have sworn vengearce
against the highwayEnen. and say they i'm
tend TO make q clean sweep of them, h Il
This desirable hanging and summary
proceeding has already had avery desir-
able effect. While before a merchant
could net hang out . coa*1er o landlord n
Ismp, without them being stolen, our in.
forniant-says When he lefE he verify be-
lieyes abag Of gold might have been left
out in the streets Ill might without baing
interrupted. HeahiHks under the present
state of affairs that idaho Is the least in
viting place of all others for hfghwsytnen
and thieves to coHgregate in the coming
spring. s,5s. 20 gr5 sgss ~ s9sz4E -;
Greenhacks in Virginia City ara worth
eeventy-five cents on the dollar In gold
duet or an ounce at gold can be pur.
chaael for twenty-foarsd sdellafs ofafhem.
In Salt Lake an ounce Of gold could be
purchased for twenty three. dollars in
Treenbacls. At st. Louis IL is worth
thirty dollars. which. when coined is
equal to thirty three dollars. aEsEe~4- .
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