Liberal Republican. [volume] (Dallas, Or.) 1872-1???, 1872-12-21
ALIAS, SATURDAY, DEC. 81.
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FiENTs
DEAD MANS GULCH
THE AVENGING ANGEL.

We publish the following communi-
cation which came to us through the
mails. OF the writer or his where's
abouts we are entirely ignorant.
1t was in the spring of 1S49, that .
company of hardy pioneers settled on
Wild Oat Creek on the spurs of the
Sieras At first the intention of the
meu was to locate Rachos. designing TO
make the pursuit of agriculture the
mode of gaiuing livelihood But the
news soon reached the little colony
that gold was being found in vast
quantities, few miles below on the
creek, when some Of the men "pros
pected bread pan of dirt that had
been dug up to make rude fire. place,
and found at least twenty dollars to the
pan The settlement was soon wild
with excitement Claims were located
lumber packed a distance of one
hundred miles on mnles--to make
sluces-and in few weeks the creek
ran torrent of mud and water, and
the whole plan of life of dozen men
was changed. The yield of the claims
was simply immense. Everything
seemed to be prosperous, and the
miners as they congregated at one and
another of the rude huts of an evening,
were talking over the prospect Of soon
returning home to their families in the
States, instead Of bringing them out rs
originally intended.
1t was on an evening of this
description, when all hand were congre-
gated at Nose Strimun's cabin at the
head of the gulch-some were playing
at cards, some smoking, others resting
in that calm way that the wearicl
frame SO enjoys after day of honest
toll. The sun was just setting, the
pine bCughs that waited in the gentle
and healthful breezes of the evening,
looked like fringes Of gold as the
slanting sunbeams cast their wreath Of
glory around them. The day birds
were futtering up to their perches for
the night, the night bird had venturcl
from his covert, and commenced his
low and plaintive chant. Nature was
in all its glory, and the scene was such
that added to instead Of detracting
from natures beauties. Suddenly the
report of a pisol was heard, and Nose,
the owner of the cabin, who was sitting
at the table playing cards with a cham
reeled and fell to the floor q corpse
hi
moment, search Tas made fer tie
assassin but no trace co1lL be fem.
Once the track Of lot aas s1e- =
some loose dirt, :, here the oT'aoc -
sprsng over preoipice, bat il ooul 20
traced no further. The seq l 50
finally abandoned. Rut in : fov day5
another OF the men. Bill Clark, IS
murdered in precisely The sane -2a-,--s-.
Just at dark after days wok, a.
while at the spring after water. r..
bullet hole Tas exam.-ed, nd il Pre- -
to be the work of a large zorse piso,
There was one CT these pistols in CAM,
the bulle. filed il, eactly a. The bl!,-
of tho last yictim fas fca21. B. t.:
owner of this pistol as y:e-o 5oy a ]
cf course he could MT 8a7e do1e -,
bloody deeds. Tine relied On. IN
few days anothec fell victim to ths
hidden hand, another and ..nother an
fiji X y Z
Let the survivor tell his on tale, is
who is none other than the boy above
alluded to.
"They are all dead. : haze thoir
money, now I'll write to tleir antilles
and tell them to come out to Salt LAKE.
Let's see, | have two hundred
thousand more thanI can carry,
I'll pack it on m.l3, and
journey hence to the land Of the Saints.
BY the time get to Salt Lake, the
families of all these men will be there.
Quite al acquisition to the cainted
Kingdom. Then I'll haze my tbous-
ands and my reward f. en- Brigham" !"
The plan succeeded. The families
were enticed away fro-a hsir homes,
and were soon in Salt La,:e. Brigham
told them that their husbands had
died with an epidemic Fiat had swept
over the land, and soon had them in.
corporated into bis Kingdom. The
young man that had acted the sart of
tic "avenging angel" had duly
arrived in the City. ycara-te ten of
them had elapsed-the boys belonging
to the duped families had bound them.
eelves together by the advice and
direction of their mothers, and now, ten
Years after the events above narrated
the little company is preparing to
escape They start, but spy is after
them, he ventures up pretty close, one
can distinguish the face of the murderer
thr mines. He bids them halt, rope
ia thrown over his head--the moose
tightens about Lis neck. The horse
pluuges from under his rider, the rope
is fast to the saddle horn--the horse i,
gone. A few days after skeleton
was found, with rope about the dis
lno.kol oonl> tbo xuolyos had Min ol, n 4