CALIFORNIA.
IMPORTANT INTELLIGENT ATTACK BY INDIANS. (From the Sacramento Union,) Captain Woodward arrived here Saturday evening from Salt Lake, briogj the mail. He also brings important intellj gence in regard to several attacks madei Indians, on different points of Ids journey fan Great Sait Lake City, and on his return thence. ® The following is a detailed account, On the 18th July, between the bead of tin Humboldt and Goose Creek, Captain Woodward, who was ahead of bis party aboot ten miles, was attacked and fired at, within 30 yards, by two Indians with rifles. Cant. Woodward escaped without injury by retreat, ing to bis party. At the City Rocks, near the junction of the Fort Hall and Salt Lake Roads, 14 packers from Wisconsin were attacked on the 3rd August by another party of Indians. One of the packers was killed, three mortally wounded, and four taken. Captain Woodward on his return from Great Salt Lake with the mail, crossed the scene of conflict three days later, where he found the dead body. On the 10th, two of the party (numbering ten in all) were cut off between theWls and the Humboldt by a party of six or eight Indians. They retreated to a company in the rear, who same up aud encountered the Indians, killing one. No further annoyance was experienced ontil they got 70 miles down the Humboldt, when, on the 12th, they were attacked aboutsonrise by a party of Indians, who attempted to stampede the stock, but being unsuccessful, they secreted themselves in the willowsand commenced a brisk fire. Mr. Miiligate was wounded slightly on the left breast by a rifle ball. A mule was nlc 0 shot in the leg. The party then hitched up under the fire of the In* dians, and moved down the road, fighting their way. The Indians went on the road, and ascended the mountain over which the road passes ; on its top a sharp engage* ment took place, in which two Indians were killed and two severely wounded. None of the whites were injured. A fine mare belonging to Mr, Wood was killed. On the 15th of August Mr. Woodward'! party met Mr. Henderson, the .mail carrier, who the previous day had been attacked by a small party of Indians, and narrowly escaped a shot which passed through his shirt above the elbow. A mule w« slightly wounded. Captain Woodward compelled to bring back the mail from Cerwn River, before he could get a party suffix 111 to carry it through. , The next difficu'ty took place tbif#® 11 “• the Twenty-six mile desert on the where another party of Indians atte®W“ stampede the stock, in which they At the station-house in Carson Va e Ji word was brought in that Indians were ran* ning off stock, and one Indian was into prison. Seven others were disw«« concealed in the willows. Four were 0 coyed out. During the betwepn J Indians and the whites, one Indian w» dead and one of the whites wouiiu«“ the leg by an arrow. The remB . l " j escaped. The Indian prisoner was re next morning,
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 657, 19 November 1851, Page 4
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519CALIFORNIA. New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 657, 19 November 1851, Page 4
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