Show NEW ROUTES TO california captain simpson of the topographical engineers who was sent out last spring 0 by geni benl johnston to 00 complete the burve survey y of a military road from camp floyd to genoa carboa carson county commenced last year has recently returned from the expedition and from his communication in it will be seen that that energetic getic c and scientific officer has succeeded in exploring and surveying two routes between those two point points s by either elther of which the distance between this city and california via carson valley is shortened about three hundred miles s it if the he dis die distance tance only be taken into consideration the advantage of these new routes over the old humboldt or st abary marya s route is very apparent and a matter of importance to emigrants and travelers and particularly to such as mayba maybe may bs vv wending ending their way westward late in the season which evidently will be the case this fall as there are hundreds according to report who are on their way from the states to california that have not yet reached this point and will not for some eone weeks to come but in addition to being I 1 some three hundred miles nearer captain simpson is confident that these new routes will be found better than the old route in respect to woo goodwater wood dwater and grass no small item items with the traveler in an uninhabited babl babi ted desolate country Esc AxED deloss Gibson who had been confined for some time in the jail of this county accused of the crime of murder csur der made his escape on thursday evening last it seems beems seems that the sheriff wa was absent from the cit yand mr Allred the keeper of the jail jali on taking the prisoners their supper let them out of their cells ceils into the hall to eat there being gome some five or six of them with only one man beside allred for a guard by some fatal carelessness the door to the passage at the foot of the starra leading lea iea dirig to the basement where the prison cells are located was left unlocked when be he went down which gibson must have observed and ami watching an opportunity when the keeper was waa getting some water for a crazy man confined there he sprang to the door rushed up stairs escaped into the street and was out of eight before allred could possibly reach the front door fearing that the other prisoners pris onera might attempt to get away be he went back and secured the prison doors before giving ingaby any alarm search was wag immediately instituted for the prisoner and the united states marshal notified of the occur occurrence but he has not yet been found how flow much blame should sh uld be attached to the keeper and the man on guard who abd seems to have had no experience in such matters we do not know but men to whom has been in trusted the custody and safe keeping of Pirl prisons bony sony era legally detain detained edy edi cannot be too vigilant lantin in the discharge of their duties A reward of abr three ee hundred dollars has been offered by the sheriff of this county for the apprehension and delivery to him in this city of the said gibson and unless be he has fled fied from the Territory he will in all probability be found and returned to the jail there to remain till discharged by due courvi course of law lav ARRIVALS gen 11 EL S eldredge J W coward and joseph IV young arrived from the states on the evening of the in thirty days from florence nebraska having baring left that place on the of July they are in good health and had bad a pleasant trip across the plains capt Steven sons bons company of 53 wagons wab was pass passed edby by them near ash hollow on the of june Nes lins 51 wagons was about 40 miles ahead of Steven sons the handcart hand band cart company with wagons and 57 hand carts was 35 miles west of laramie on the ad of august angust browns company consisting of nearly 70 wagons and the train 71 wagons in charge of H D haight ank and and F P kesler were encamped encamp edon on greasewood on the ath dinst and jil J clemmon HL lemmon emmon with 16 wagons was passed near the third crossing of the sweet water the comp companies antes were all g getting etting along very well though somewhat slowly and will not arrive arrive as a s soon as has been anticipated ant ici feramorz little wit with a mule train of bome some 15 wagons was expected to start from florence on the of july and daniel danle I 1 davison davis on the same day with a small ox train the latter of course will be late in getting over the I 1 loun taida taina r DARING DARIN there was a most nt f coi cot C and daring murder committed in n this caty y on thursday last which caused some little excitement cit ement more than eather of the other homicides hom i that have been committed within the city corporation since the new order of things hab haa been introduced here the as as reported are as follows sergeant Sei sel geant ralph pike loth infantry hayl hayi having haying 11 9 been indicted by the grand jury in in at attendance te hiance upon the district court now in ses bes session bion aion for an assault with intent to kill committed upon the person of howard spencer in iru rush valley last march a brief notice of which we published at the time had come to the city from camp floyd under a military guard of eight or ten soldiers in command of lieutenant marshall to answer to the indictment and instead of being taken into custody by the U S marshal or commuted to prison to await awalt hi hs s trial like others accused of crimes was permitted to go 90 about the city in charge of some of th the e so diers of the guard about 1 pm on thursday while walking down east temple tempie street with three soldiers I 1 helas he was wab met by a man near townsends Town sends senda hotel who spoke to him and then drew a pistol and shot him the ball entering the right side at the twelfth rib infliction inflicting 0 a mortal wound of which he died about one on monday morning it is said that at the time of the khe occurrence there were at least one hundred men including several officers of the army army and the soldiers of the guard that came with pike from camp floyd within pistol shot of the murderer and yet be he walked coolly about hait halt way way across the street before any effort was made to arrest him and then he ran and succeeded in getting away with from thirty to forty men in in pursuit of him from the attending circumstances suspicions have rested upon spencer who came near losing his life by the brutal assault made upon him by pike lo 10 which reference has been ma made debut but so far as we have haye been informed no one who witnessed the shooting was able to identify the daring individual who thus in a public street commit committed tia tid one of the highest crimes known to the law without any apparent attempt at concealment and whoever he may be behe he is certainly a brave daring f fellow el unless a maniac and a man that would be danger dangerous ous oas for a person less brave to encounter the grand jury we understand under the special direction of the court have been in quiring into the matter but with what success i we have not been informed fwu ive lve do not ap prove of the act but if it shall finally be made to appear that young spencer was the murderer there are many roady no doubt who will justify the deed and laud the bravery of a I 1 lad ad who thus avenged the wrong that bad been committed upon him without provocation in our opinion it is far better at all times under ordinary circumstances for the law to take its course than for the injured to ave axe aaeng kneir r i own wrongs by whomsoever ever comm V GOODS AT COPT COST it will be he ree see been b by nefer refer er ing fag to our advertising columns that stine stained co have purchased the stock of merchandize merchandise dize that remained unsold imported by Aless bless rs ewing winsor letton and offer the same for sale at the LOWEST FIGURES cronyn co are also offering for sale a choice stock of groceries and arid dry goods at reasonable prices and so are our neighbors J C little co if neither of these establishments have got what you want or if they have and will not sell at fair prices wait a day or two till capt Al millers illers train arrives and try him thoy th othere there is no necessity for being in a hurry burry as there Is any amount of merchandize merchandise dize on the way to this market that will be sold at less prices than are now asked by the cheapest firm in the cit city an fn in fact tact the universal motto of merchants and traders just now seems to be cost and carriage a which will be explained ere long THE NEW YORK comes to us asking a notice and exchange both which we readily comply with the waverley is one of the handsomest weekly journals printed in this country it is devoted to refinement science ancey literature the news arts poetry romance commerce agriculture ac contains eight pages is published in new york and boston subscription price 2 per ari art annam adro single copies three copies for 5 fr subscriptions script ions direct to JONES SMITH publishers new york waverley 15 brattle brattie street boston mass more hore ilore MOKE INDIAN D lyric ULTI esa Es A company of dragoons from camp floyd numbering about fifty me li cut gay passed this hi city en the loth ia dinst for the purpose of protecting the emiera emigrants nta on the northern route and punishing the indians indiana for their recent outrage in that region if they could be found on sunday morning an express came in in on the way to geni gehl johnston with the intelli gence that gay was waa attacked by the indians in box elder kanyon friday evening just as he was encamping for the night and killed and wounded levei several a men and killed and drove off some twenty horses yesterday tuesday in the afternoon another company under command of gordon passed northward to support gay but there are strong suspicions that the rumor of the attack wag was all a hoax or greatly exaggerated as from dr forneas For report the indians had bad left that section of country several day daya before the alleged encounter if there is any truth in the matter we shall bhail get it by the mail this evening 1 |