Show C mule A merchants or thieves 1 j 4 from bom eom a reliable source we are informed thab that a company of some ten men have lately taken the southern route to california with a band of about eighty g fine mules and horses probably including many of those that have been stolen from this thil and adjoining 0 counties tha thu fall the th company traveled mostly in the night d fook ook good care to avoid the tha settlements but were seen by many as they were feed neng tEng m in the da day dwy y time tima in sec secluded lulea places or traveling at night when they could not be easily eardly recognized our inform informant ant says that several parties were 0 the company in hopes of over taking 1 them and recovering 4 8 stolen animals we hope they may bui but con lder ider it very doubt foi fol as some of the pursuers were two days travel behind when the company passed by parowan carowan Pa rowan and the mule merchants some of whom have been about this cit city y during 0 the semmer as understood were making a their way southward very fast from reports there are reasons for believing that there is another band of the kind being gathered up up as mules and horses are daily being stolen in every settlement mostly taken from the ranges 0 and ere long b another departure of horse and mule dealers from the vicinity of so some bome of the outer settlements will probably be announced if their is not discovered in time to prevent their exodus for california the rendezvous of the company that has gone y has beef been ascertained to have been about ten miles south east of the road rod in round valley leybe iween between salt creek and fillmore stealing 0 among a certain class of men that have baie of late lato infested this territory is the order of the day when will they allieane allI eave or the last gnel gney of them die |