Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-02-06

I. not refuse the demand. We find, also. tia
y the owners of said stock cannot drive then
70 to the settlements from the great depth 0
# snow between Pyramid Lake ana Lake
q |Vashoe and Carson Val eys. We believ,
e that the Pah Utahs are determined to roi
4. and murder as many of our citizens as The,
, can, aore especially cur citizens upon Tx
borders.
Finding it impossible to bring the In
dams to any terms o. peace, notwithstand
ing the advantages offered them, We deter
mined 70 return as speedily as possible,
and make this our report to your exceilency
WILLIAM WEATHERLOw,
. T. J. HARVEY.
It will be observed that the report OF the
| commissioners was dated Feb II, 1860 On
the next day Gov. Root asks assistance
from the Genl commanding the Pacific
Department, that so thoroughly explains
the position of affairs III that part Of the
country, that we give the document in fall:
GESI CLARKE, q. S, A.
CONAANDER OF THE
| Pacific DEPARTMENT.
SIR: We are about to be plunged into q
bloody and protracted war with the Pail.
| Ute Indians Within the last nine months
| there has beea seven Of our citizens IDug
dered by the Indians. Up 10 the LAST muir
| der we were unable TO fisten these dGpEe-
lations on any particular triba Out always
| bclisvet! il was the PAN Ute5j and not wish
i.C to b.ame them until We were sure
Of the facts. On the thic.eenth day Of last
month Mr. Dexter Z DemLling was most
| brutally murdered at Ills own house and
plrnGered Of everything and his horses
| drew. OF AS soon as | was informed q the
ut - aft ba
,nurderers (there being snow Oh the ground
they could be easily tracel). with orders to
follow on their tracks until they would lind
to what tribe they belonged to; ami if they
would prove TO be Pah- Utes, not to give
the battle, but to return and report, rs we
had, some two years ago, made u treaty
with the Pah Utes, one Of the s:ipulatiCma
of which was, that if any Of their tribe com
mitted anT murders or depredations on any
Of the whites We were first to 60 TO the chiefs
and that hey would deliver up the murder
ers or make redress, and that We were to do
the same on eur part with them. On the |
third day ont they came on 10 tie Indians |,
and found them to be Pah- Utes; to which |
| call your attention to the paper marx ed |
y. Immediatey Oh receiving this report |
and agreeable to said treaty, ] sent Cap. !
VIM. Weatherlow and Thomas J. Harvey, |
as commissioners, to proceed to the Pain
Utes' headquarters and there inform the
chief of this murder and demand redress
Here allow me to call your attention to the
paper marked B. 1t is now pretty we'll an
established fact that the Pah- Utahs killed
those eight men. one of them being Mr.,
Peter Lassen. How soon others must fall
is not known, for war there is now newt
able. We have but few good arms and but
little ammunition.
I q co |
upon you for a company of Dragons to
come to our aid at once, as 1t may save a
ruinous war to show them that We have
other help besides our own citizens, they ,
knowing our weakness. And, if it is not in
your power at present to dispatch a com
papy of men here, [ do most respectfully
demand of you arms and ammunition, with a 1
field piece, to drive them out Of their forts
4 four or six FOUNDER is indispensable in
lighting the Pah Utahs. We have no In {
liam Agent to call on, so it is to you We 7
ook for assistance. 3
[ remain your humble servant,
Governor of Nevada Territory.
SUsANvILLE, Feb. 12th, 1860
2. S.-Sir: If you should forward to us Il
rms. ammunition, etc, hereby appoint a
Iol. [. II. Lewis to receive and receipt for @
nd bring them here at once.
/. Roof.
The foregoing indicates, with sufficient "
learness, that the accumulated hostility
etween the two races had reached that I
oint where it required but spark to cause
TO burst forth into a fierce war flame.
he Commanding General sent no troops "
nc, furnished no arms; and it all terminated
that sanguinary outbreak, i'll the follow
,g Nay, that resulted so disastrously to
9th the Indians and whites