Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1868-12-15

November 9th, 1865. }
Dear Brother
am still westward moving. | am
now putting up the machinery in the shops
at Laramie and Rollins Springs. The
shops are constructed of stone, and are
very fine ones, indeed. The machinery,
most of it, comes from Fitchburg, Mass,
and is all of the latest improved style and
Of the finest quality. You have no con-
ception of the amount of rolling stock,
machinery, &C., that is required to run
this road There is not more than two
thirds the number of cars that there ought
to be to do the work that is required to be
done, there is such an immense amount of
material to transport to the front for the
construction of the road, that there are
but few left to do the local business, and
like all new roads, the business is not yet
systematized as it should be, consequently
the business on the west end of the road
is considerably snss1ed up. When the
road is completed through, matters will be
changed, different organizations doubt
less will be made, which will obviate this
difficulty to great extent.
The road is progressing as usual, and
should we have favorable winter the
road will be finished to Salt Lake by April.
The ties are now being distributed in adj
vance of the track layers, fifty miles; so
when it freezes up, the track-laying can
be e2ntinued as heretofore, which ensures
the completion of the road at a very early
day, and bring the atlantic and Pacific
shores near to each other.
The citizens of the territory, getting
tired Of the way the civil authorities adj
ministered justice, they have taken the
law into their own hands, and mean to so
manage matters that man may be safe
after dark if he steps outside of his domi-
cilc. On the oath of October the citizens
Of Laramie organized themselves into a
Vigilance Committee and proceeded to
dance-house, called the Diana Dance Hall,
and took the proprietor, the bartender
and floor-manager, after severe fight,
and hung the three despcradoes upon one
pole. This occurred about ten o'clock p.
NJ. One other man they gave trial and
he was ordered to leave the town by 7 o.
clock and forty minutes in the morning,
instead of his leaving he commenced to
defy the committee in the most vile Ian
guage. About 9 o'clock A. NJ, the COM
mite took him down in front of the depot
got a ladder and put it to the top of
telegraph pole, then put another short lad
der against the pole, put rope around the
..lt pie, novk ana made hin, climb tho lad
der while one man went up the long ladder
with the end of the rope and adjusted it
around the top of the pole, then the lad
der on which the victim stood was pulled
from under him, and the wretch was dang
ling between heaven and earth! There
must have been, a thousand people to wit
ness the affair, and every one seemed to
rejoice at the prospect of the radiance of
the desperadoes. They were all left hang
ing there until after noon, when the COM
mittee took team and cut them down
and dumped them into the wagon and took
them to grave that had been dug and
dumped all four of them into it, and bur-
led them like so many dogs. That dose
has had beneficial effect, and there are
more that will meet the same fate, should
they dare to show themselves in the place.
This mode of administering justice may
seem rather rough to people in the states,
but here in the territories it has to be re-
sorted to. The civil authorities here. are
a perfect farce.
The Indians are again on the war-path.
They have torn up the track and dltched
a freight train near Alkali Station, killing
the fireman; then they burnt bridge
near Lodgepole Station. What their next
move will be is a conjecture. There is
great excitement about the matter. Here
tofore great stress has been put upon the
noble Red-man their massacres and
butcheries have been justified by peple in
The states, who were led to believe that
The poor Indians were badly treated by
he whites, but that is not the case, it is
heir nature and | do not think they will
ever stop committing depredations until
hey arc exterminated from the earth.-
Government has'provided abundantly for
hem, in provisions, blankets, arms and
but that does not satisfy them.
They must take the war-path.
Yours truly,
A. II. SELEY.
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