The Shasta courier., 1864-07-02
From the Lewiston Golden Age of june llth
Return of Hill Beachey.

Below we present our readers with an in
teresting account of the trip made by Hill
Beachey, and company, in quest of the re-
mains of Lloyd Magruder and party. Por-
tions Of the skull. under jaws, clothing. guns.
md in fact everything necessary to establish
he truth of the evidence given by Page,
we're found, and brought to this place. where
they can be seen By all. Mr.. Beachey fur
liShes US the following diary
EDITOR AGE- Sir For the satisfaction
| # the reading public, we thought it proper to
| rive little history of facts, in regard to
| Journey made in search of Magruder and
! party. or Of what little remained of those who
were once our dear friends. We left Elk
City May 29th, made Red river meadows,
and spent the evening with our friend,
ieorge Zeigel.
May 50th.-Made what is known as the
NJ untaIn Meadows, where we camped. The
~no had nearly disappeared. but we were
obliged to tie our horses. MS there scarce
| ly vestige of anything green to be seen.
May 3lst.-Made start at clock in
the morning; we made Little Salmon about
| IL A. NJ, where we camped, and prospected
for grass In the afternoon we moved camp
three miles Up the Little Salmon. where we
camped f the night. Page expressed some
uneasiness. for he hardly knew Yhere he
WAS. but he left camp. and was abAnt some
three hours. While gone, he discovered the
little prairie where they camped the first
night after the murder of Magruder and
party there he found the leggins they left,
AMI knew where he was.
June lst.-We made start at half past
four A. NJ. After some eight or ten miles
travel, we met a Mr.. Adams on his way from
Bitter Root. and as he had the misfortune to
lose his provisions in crossing the Bitter Root
river. he was as much pleased to meet us as
we ere him He returned with us to the
fatal spot, where Magruder and party fell
victims to the demons in human shape We
arrived at the spot after long and tedious
ride About o'clock, p NJ. we unsaddled
our animals. ana proceeded to search far the
remains. The first thing discovered was the
gunny sack of tin cups, coffee pots, ETC.,
which all who heard the evidence of Page at
the trial of Renton, Lower and Romain, will
remember as being, described by him the
next discovery was the hldr kets. which were
wound around the bodies Of the two brothers;
the next discovery was the ten. and blankets
which Allen and Phillips were lashed up in;
these we searched with care; we found in
the pockets Of Allen a portmonie. in which
we found two twenty FIVE cent ieces Amer
lean coin, gold ring. q thimble. and some
needles : we also found Alien's watch we
found Phillips hat: Holt knew the hat to be
Phillips Page knew the pants to he Al
len $ in which was found the portmonie; we
also found pieces of skull bones in this par
ticular spot, and some hair said to be, by
those who knew. Aliens; also the under jaw
of Allen or Phillips we also found the under
| Jaw o. one of the brothers. supposed to be,
as it was near the blankets which had once
encased their bodies; we also found two blue
lean coats, in one of which was found the
memorandum book. which shows that the
two brothers had 81 .05S IS on their persons
when they started for Oregon in company
with Magruaer and party: we found IN camp,
near the spot where Page saw Alien shot, a
! p zee of his skull, supposed TO have been
blown off with the shot gun we found the
quartz 81 ecimers. which we're taken from
| Magruder's canteenas. but thrown away by
one of the villains: we found the rings.
buckles. etc. rs described by Page, buried in
the ashes we then repaired to the spot
where Magrudar received the fatal blow, or,
we may say. blows; for We found several
pieces of his skull. which was literally hack
ed IL pieces Oa. WHAT an aWIul slEht lie
was murdered nearly half mile from the
others his coat and vest were somewhat torn
by the wolves, but enough was left so that
they looked quite natural we then went
with Page to the spot where he had thrown
the guns We there found NJ, Beachey's gun
the one he had loaned Magruder. ana found
it to be loaded, but the caps had been remov
ed we also found the gun which Page said
belonged to one Of the hrot, ers : also one
rifle ana the shot gun which Page said was
one of Roman's we found other relics and
things much the same rs Page had described
them. 1t makes the heart sick to think OF
this horrible tragedy On our return we
went to the spot which had been described by
Page. and found the remains of the slaugh
tered animals. We hope never 10 witness
such sight again.
A. J. CoFFIN, HILL BEACnEY,
DAVID REESE l.. @. Hour,
MATTHEW ADAMS, JAMES SMITH,
JnEI d. MARTIN.