The Troy herald., 1873-06-18

kept up the firing until every warrior was
killed.
Gen. schofleld has been instructed by
telegraph, to convene military commits.
sion for the trial Of Captain Jack and his
fellow-murderers.
A dispatch from Lincoln, Nebraska,
says that malls from the west report q
waterspout in the Republican Valley, q
few days ago, 500 feet high. Il came
down on camp Of soldiers, submerging
the camp. and drowning six men and
twenty.eight horses. Fields were flooded;
several settlers were drowned and their
houses washed away. The majority Of
the soldiers saved their lives by climbing
trees, where they were forced to remain
forty.eight hours.
Reports from Rawlins, Wyoming, state
that gold In large quantities has been dis.
covered there.
A can Of powder, weighing l25 pounds,
exploded, on June II, at the house Of
George Edmonds, coal miner, at Steu.
benville, o., killing three of his children,
and fatally wounding another. The can
had been placed in the cupboard by the
father, and In the absence of the parents
the children set fire to 1t.
The latest intelligence from the Mo-
docs Is Of date, June 8. On that day Capt.
Jack was interviewed by General Davis
and spoke substantially as follows:
~ was not present when Gen. Candy was
Killed: ! received message, last winter, in the
Lavs Beds, from Allen David, the klamath Chief,
ola sns Telling ne not
must fight iiLe. . man: At nrst thought their
message wss !ie, but II came 90 often believed
the dSwn Ssvd ~
going tonght him, and be would soon let JACK
snow wn1t = he was going to d. ALLEN
property g buy po pSwer e Alien ssld % %oSs Sfn scs
S eSp. ss wsc x u s" iSs. ySS s
dom believe what they say. They are trying 70
when | got the message. expected when
killed the commissioners that Allen David would
be with me next day. or very soon, and had sl-
government, and did not want to do any lighting
after eating their food. When got this message
It made me act Us though acted for Allen David
caused me to leave the reservation. l had bad
feelings toward the Klamaths, SO many such
messages came ! believed they thought he
| meant 1t, SO acted. He and were mere good
friends, but he urged me to do this thing last win.
ter. was going wherever they wanted me, and
wanted some quiet place not on the rocksj Allen
David was always pushing me up. The klamath
chiefs said the same. They talked a. though
Allen David was big chief. He said we must
not think the klamaths were women. They were
not going to lay down their arms to the whites
! hal all the trouble and did all the fighting, and
he did the looks, and though they tried to set me
into . scrnpe, crap want youto know why com.
menced this war Last winter on Lost River,
was coming 70 talk and we must 20 to the reser.
| the day, and held no counsel did not expect
| that. 1 was asleep. I told them not shoot, when
| my boys got their guns. The soldiers fired the
| fret gun. / did not think they wanted to talk
after the soldiers began on my people. Some boys
fired back. ! did not. took my things snd~dn
Old SchOnchin said he had nothing to say him.
self. He only brought the message from Allen
David: AZ to General Canby's things he had on
he said: ~ can't say anything about It. Invent
| away and the boys who killed Candy got the
things; vas there, hut went on aS soon ~ I
found could not stop them.' Jack being ques.
toned, said: "IBosGe Charley and setback :nasty
Jim killed Gen, Candy: Allen David advised
thsin ~ all Canby, 80 they did It. Am telling
the truth. did not kill him had It done, but
did not do It," lie added: ~ don't lie; bring
them In that saw. want to face them. If had
my chains OF would tell all the men who did
South.