, 1866-11-30
Indian OutraEes.

The owyhee AvdlaneAe continues to sustain
its reputation as faithful chronleier Of IndiAr
dspredadOns. 10 its issue Of the l7th, we fnd
the following, which may be regarded as the
latest from the seat of war
Ga the 9Th inst, about 10 o'clock, A. ~, thc
Humboldt stage, on its way to Virginia, when
within four miles OF the Owyhee Ferry was at
tackel by Indians. There were six persons ou
boari-Wash. Waltermire, driver; J,s. M,R,p
guard, AMI four passengers, nsmel J. VI. H,I
land, Z. Casey, ID. Htrrn gt0a and W. Wilcox
! THey did not suspect danger near, swhen they
/ were hired into by party Of lllIins, who lay
conceded among the rJcXs aud behind IortiG.
tIJn which they had erected, 50 AS To completely
screen Themselves from sight of those on the
stage. Wash put his f,itlful mustangs dowa TO
their greatest speed, uui would have sa.eceieI
] IN reaching the Ferry with lut more iIIurv than
what was caused by the f.st vOlley. hIt there
was nJIher party Of Indians On hnr.,b ck far.
ther along, wac kept shooting at them and ,tri-
vtuS t. head them of Ini sarrauni them, waile
the ptrty that frel drst at them were coming
up behind. With steady nerve Wa.h ran his
] horses while McR'e fought the red devils and
keeping them at bay for distance of two miles,
until one Of the wheel horses WAS shot dead and
Two Others badly wnunded. This, Of course
stopped the stage.
When the first volley was fred Wilcox, who
was sitting on the front seat inside the coach.
received his death wound by a bullet which en-.
tered his breast near the ri ght nipple and passed
out at his back, also, striking Wash in the side.
iulcting slight, though rather painful wound
Wilcox exclaimed, "Oh. my G1l, I'm killed, -
and bus bead sank over aud rested on Htrrinl-
tons knee, where he breathed hls last. Hlr.
rington was SHOT in the left hip, the bullet rang
ing up and passing out at his side, going through
some SIX inches of muscle, producing bad
hesh wound, bat is not considered dangerous.
When the horse fell dead the boys unhitched
the other three, one of them getting away from
them They then started for the Ferry about
two miles distant, leaving Wilcox dead in the
stage, together with the mail, baggage, &c
The Indians seemed determined 10 prevent their
escape and continued shooting at them but
Harrington, with great difficulty hobbled along,
and they reached the Ferry atOut IL o'clock,
completely tired out. Four of us from the sta>
tion, with Sergeant Brown and clever men, i'm
medately hastened to :h4 scene OF action, but
the red devils had already completed their work
and escaped. They dragged Wilcox from the
stage, stripped him, scalped hun and cut his
heart out also, taking with them tae blankets,
&C., belonging to the passengers, and cutting
the mail sack and scattering the letters &C.,
among the sage brush. We took the body of
Wilcox down to the Ferry where it was decently
inferred by the river side. Harrington is here
aud his wound is doing we'll His fellow pas
senger, Holland, is here also taking care OF him
Ga Monday night we learn that the Indians
paid flying visit to the Snake River Ferry, be-
low Fruits, between this place and Boise City,
driving off twelve head of horses. Three of the
horses belonged to c. D. Bachelor, formerly Of
the Owyhee Ferry. Bachelor is peculiarly un-
lucky in his relations with our RED neghbors F.; |
they have "cleaned him out" on several occa>
sious, and wounded him once or twice. Our |
readers will remember his having been shot in |
the arm, on Cow Creek, last Spring, at the time
Young Blair in order to tighten up, threw away
his soldier coat and had the modification of /
seeing it on an Indians back before getting out |
of sight.
The Indians made n break on Reynolds Greek |
a few nights since, but met with poor success
they failed to kill anybody, and only got eight |
horses for a whole nights trouble. They sub
sequently tried to surprise Ish's ox-trdin but
with the aid of a herder and a few soldiers that
were on their trail, they were frightened away T;
and some of them would have been killed had |
not the soldiers mistaken the herder-Mr. Tom |
Glenu-for an lndan in the gray of the morn |
ing, AMI chssed him into camp, thereby afOrd> |
ing the culprits a chance to escape while the |
soldiers were on the wrong track.