Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-10-15
KILLED BY THE INDIANS.
A Party in Pursuit Of ThieYing Red.
skins are OHtnumbered
and Shot Down.

The San Francisco Post of Au-
gust 26th, says:
Edgar Hall, of Indian Valley,
reported the following details of
fatal affair with Indians, who gave
the scouts on their trail more than
they bargained for. Hall says: On
Saturday, the 18th inst, several
horses We're stolen from persons liy-
ing in Indian Volley, William
Munday being the principal loser.
On the 10th Mr.. Munday, S. S.
Smith Tor three-fingered Smith,,
Tom Healy and Jake G~rosclose left
Indian Valley in pursuit of the In
dians. Scion Hall, his soa Edgar
(the ~narrator) and Grosclose started
out on the day before, Sunday, and
had followed about ten miles, when
they found a well-de6ned trail.
William Muuday and the three
Others named above started again
on the day following, and were go.
ing about forty miles, to what B
known as the falls of the Pave
ABOUT thirty miles below the GIe.
Payette lake, when they came upoi
the Indians at noon of Tue day.
"The Indians were secreted in
the rocks. At the first fle, before
they were observed by any of the
party, they shot and killed Munday.
At this moment Healy and eros.
close dismounted, when the latter
was shot in the breast, and turning
to Smith said, 'They have got me-.
Mr.. Healy then got behind a rock
and asked Smith to stay with him.
Smith, however, being a man of
experience in such matters, saw
that they were completely outnum-
bered and at the mercy of the In
dams, and not having dismounted
from his mule, turned to flee, when
he was fired upon by the Indians
and shot through the thigh. The
next shot took his mule from under
him, and going on foot and run
ming for life, he was again hit by a
shot, which broke his arm, Hav-
ing a start Of the Indians, Smith
made his escape by running, and
succeeded, after travelling thirty
miles, in reaching Whites mail
station, in the Little Salmon
meadow, on Thursday, where there
we're three or four men. Smith
says that after leaving Healy, who
was completely surrounded by the
Indians, he heard about a dozen
shots, and after a short interval an
other shot was fired, which makes
it certain that poor Healy met his
sad fate at the hands Of the red
fends.
GAS soon as Smith arrived at
Whites station a courier was sent
to Major Drum, who, with his com.
mand of 100 infantry, was en-
camped near the head Of the Wei
ser, thirteen miles from Whites.
Major Drum, upon receiving the
news, Immediately marched to
Whites station, arriving there the
same day that Smith got in. DR..
Walker, who was at Whites station,
aud who took the message to Major
Drum, came on to Indian Valley,
bringing the news to the citizens Of
Boise City, and Edgar Hall started
for the same place soon afterward.
Major Drum has no physician with
his command. He sent a messen-
ger to Fort Boise for one to be sent
to him. OF the three killed, Will
liam Munday, an enterprising and
worthy citizen of Indian Valley,
leaves a wife and three children,
and Grosclose, who was a single
man, leaves a father, mother, three
sisters and two brothers, who ale
settled in Indian Valley, to mourn
their loss.
"Another party of four-namely,
James Crews, Perry Clark, S. +.
Smith and Henry Ohilds-left In
dian Valley on Monday, the 10Th
instant, fer their mining claims on
what is known as C~opeland's dig
gings. Their route lay nearly IN
the same direction the Indians hal
} taken. Since the departure of these
men, nothing has been heard Of
them, and it is seriously feared that
; they have been taken in by the In
dams. Smith says hat as nearly
, as he could estimate the Indians,
! he thinks that there were at least
Seventy-ive in the party that at
tackled them.