Show I 1 I 1 shocking murder supposed to have been done dane by Ird indians ians on the ath insi dinst two sons of bishop allen alien weeks named william and warren started from I 1 1 the fort in cedar Ceda ralley about 30 miles south west of this city to get a load of wood As the boys were gone longer than was deemed ry some men started out to learn the cause of their delay following the wagon tracks they came to where it had been turned off the road and in a short di distance further farther found the dead bodies of the cruelly murdered boys they were shot twice through the chest had their scalps torn off and were otherwise horribly mutilated As nearly all the indians are very P endly and only three moccasin tracks were discovered near the neof the murder it is highly probable and indeed quite certain that hat this merciless deed was committed by a few reckless savages without the previews toft countenance counte nane e or know knowledge knoWledg ledga 3 of any tribe or even of the majority thereof S several everal friendly indians have ass assured tired govern or young that they will use their best skill and efforts to search oat and deliver up th the e murderers to be dealt with according to law while we deeply sympathize with the bereaved relatives we discern no cause for deviating from the constantly counseled policy of kind tho firm treatment ent of the indians generally but it certainly is self evident that no pains should be spared in finishing forts securing tring crops and having everything tit in the best possible condition for any sudden outbreak for it is well known to all that the ignorant untutored temperament of the indian is very unreliable and their freaks of anger hasty and wayward I 1 inasmuch as the indians prove energetic and faithful tit in delivering up transgressors against us t to Q be tried by our lows laws any white person for unius unjustifiably killing or abusing an indian will be rigorously dealt with for the whites do know how to do right having been often and plainly taught |