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Show 52 o sen is .tSud Auia, I San Francisco, 17. A Wnllula, Washington territory, dispatch says three woedchoppers arrived here last night, find report having met the shcritl uf Yakima county, with a company of thirty-five whites and fiiteeu friendly Indians, last Saturday night, near Priest lipids on the Columbia river, who had been to Cbief Mlvcu' camp fjr the murderers of the Perkins ftmily. Although Moses had piomiad tu aid the sherd! in capturing these murderers, he met the enerill r.nd b:s p.rty with hia whole baud of well .ir::i:d varricrs in war paint, and with nnst hostile denioiK-:.';''.ions. The abend retreated from Misjs.' slrunhoU, and was apparently ap-parently trying to evade pursuit, when seen. He told these men to get to some settlement as sona as possible pos-sible and S3nd him aid. One of the men claims to have seen the renegade chieftain Smohalla, at Priest lit;. ids. Pricndly Iudians have been warninp woodchoppers in the vicinity of Priest liapids to leavo for some time. |
