Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-01-25

AOOAS Oo1SNA'
living in Douglass County in this State,
left Salt Lake for the purpose of emigrat-
ing to California. There were five men
accompanying Cossers party, among whom
was the since notorious Bill Hickman, the
DANTE or Destroying Angel of Brigam Young.
The five, being OF about the same stripe,
we're under the leadership of Hickman; and
while they were camped at Stoney Point,
on the Humboldt River, some Shoshones
were standing around, when one of the
DANTE gang shot and killed a couple of
them. Their only reason given for doing it
was the pleasure that killing of redskins
afforded thesmurderers. Three or four days
later, while upon the same river, Hickman
satellites killed two more Indians and a
squaw, and scalped the former. AS before,
they made no attempt at justifying their
acts by accusing their victims Of having
committed a wrong.
In this manner the seeds Of discord were
planted among the Indians of Nevada, that
ripened into hatred and retaliation, yield
ing fruit to be gathered in the years that.
followed, alike by the California Immigrant
the settler and prospector in our mountains
and valleys. Up to this time there had been
no instance of hostility on the part of the
natives, yet at five separate times their pee
wantonly slaughtered by the whites; a
ghouish succession OF bloody illfamies that
produced result
In the fall of the same year (lS5l) Col
A. Woodward of Sacramento. California, IL
company with two guards named Oscar
Fifteen and John Hawthorn, were carrying
the mail from Salt Lake to Sacramento,
and camped one night at the scene OF HEX
man S massacre That night mortal tragedy
was enacted there among the mountains,
by the banks of the Humboldt River; but
its lent. passing waters, told no tale. The
next traveller over the route found the
mangled bodies of three white men there,
and the newspapers of the Pacific Coast
recorded the fact as another outrage Oh the
overland road by the savages, and demanded
an determination of the tribe. The party
who discovered these bodies was S. A
kinsey, who now lives at Genoa in this
State He was carrying the eastward-bound
mail for Salt Lake, and was accompanied
by couple of men as guards; but upon
their arrival at the scene Of the late TRACE
dies, they camped, intending to pass dan
gerous point ahead in the night. As dark
ness came they were prevented from doing
Ia tn ho h11il firpc
in places that revealed any object that might
pass that way To go around was impossi-
bic. They were consequently forced to
remain at camp until daylight before max
ing the attempt to continue their journey.
In the morning they mounted and rode for
ward Where the river came nearest to the
rocks number of willows were growing,
and the horsemen, as they approached this
place, leveled their rifles at it and rode
quietly along. turning in their saddles as
they passed, to enable them to continue
facing the point of danger. Thus they made
their way along by the willows to more
open and safe locality. As they passed be-
yond rifle range, however, and lowered their
from their willow ambush, yelling and
gesticulating in impotent rage at the escape
of their proposed victims.
In June 1851, Joseph Zumwalt, now a
resident of California, discovered Lake
Tahoe. from whence he made trip, by the
way of Dayton, to Truckee Meadows, and
from the latter place to Pyramid Lake. In
passing down the river between these last
named points, his party came upon the half
decomposed body of a white man, whose
hair was red, and they buried the remains.
He had been pursued and finally murdered
by large band of Indians, probably Piutes;
this much the numerous pony tracks. still
distinguishable in the soil, revealed, and
nothing more.
IF. F. Victor gives their number Us and
Washington Irving as 80.
fJOe Meek places the number killed at the nrSt
fire and in the after pursuit at 10.