Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1875-09-14
AN UNDEsERvED CENsURE.

The following telegram was received
by Governor Bradley, at Elko, last
Saturday:
PIoCHE, New, Sept. II, 1875.
Toll. n. bradley, Governor of Nevada:
To whom 1t may concern;
We, the undersigned, have, in ac-
cordance with the request OF A. G.
Cleavland, Daniel Murphy and others,
of White Pine county, made a forced
march from Phoebe to the scene OF the
reported Indian war. We reached the
vicinity of where the dispatches stated
that Indian depredations had been
committed, but there were no hostile
Indians there. There were none in
the county, and has not been a single
Indian on the war-path in Eastern Ne
vada dnring any of the time of this ex-
element. The entire matter was a fab
rication, manufactured by Cleavland
and other persons, sending and causing
dispatches to be forwarded to us. We
denounce the entire transaction as
false, soulless, wicked, contemplate,
mercenary truck, concocted by men
who have so disgraced themselves as
to he beneath our contempt. . The
country is in as peaceable a condition as
it aver was, and all reports of Indian
hostilities are false in substance and in
fact. There is not and has not been any
danger from Indians along either road
leading to Phoebe, nor in the surround
ing valleys. We publish this that all
may know the extent of the deception
and fraud perpelrated by A. G. Cleav-
land and Daniel Murphy and those
guilty of aiding and abetting their
plans to excite the people and produce
q needless and unjustifiable war upon
the Indians of Nevada.
Witness our hands, at Phoebe, Neva-
da, September 10th, 1875.
ANDREW FIFE, Sheriff.
d. A. FAULKs, Com.
il LYNCH, or
j. HOFFMAN, Lincoln.
In the light Of all the facts connected
with the late excitement, we hesitate
not to pronounce the above as great an
outrage as the rumored war" itself.
There is not a particle of testimony 60
ing to show that either Cleavland or
Murphy sought to create the excite
ment. Toland had been killed under
peculiar circumstances, and the move
ments of the Indians we're suspicious.
There were neither guns nor amuni-
ton in the valley. This being the state
of affairs, they sent the following dis
patch to the Sheriff of Lincoln and a
similar one to the Sheriff of White
Pine.
SPRING VALLEY, Sept. A..
ProCHE, 5, lS75-10 A. NJ.
To Andy Fife:
DEAR SIR: Can you send us some
Henry rifles, ammunition and a few
men The Indians have broken out
here and we have no arms. If possible
send relief Immediately in haste.
DAN. MURPHY,
A. &. CLEAvLAND.
Via Cherry Creek, Sept. 5th.
Now, we submit there is nothing very
panicky in that. AS prudent men,
with unprotected women and children
all around them, could they have done
less :? All other dispatc hes about a
general uprising emanated elsewhere
than with Cleavland and Murphy, and
in this connection it is proper to re-
mind the Commissions of Lincoln of
the hand they took themselves in the
sensational line. In n of his tele-
grams to General Schofield Governor
Bradley used these words:
"Dispatches just at hand, signed by
all of the Commissioners of Lincoln
county say300 Indians have surrounded
Patterson and Cave valley, and that
all the Indians in Eastern Nevada APP
pear to be on the war-path, and ask fol
200 guns and ammunition"