Show OF DIFFER 1 DATIE DATE oharles brewerton Brewer too tOD of payano gende ends the follo follow wim dt to the editor in the edi orial columns of the semiweekly NEWS of dec 31 1895 5 it is stated ches ibe 8 ory of soldiers being be ing killed by Indi indians atis while seeking to 10 return a mormon epigrams emi granis gramS cow is an event which exists only in imagination permit me to state a lew few facts in the year 1854 a large body ot of sioux and cheyenne indian consisting conis ing ot of over braves were encamped on the oath mouth side ol 01 north platte about twelve miles baht of fort laramie La A mormon emigrant train con consisting isLing chiefly of scandinavians passed by them the indians wanted trouble and killed a cow ander protest when the company rescued laramie they complained to the of the post of the outrage he Drom sent a small company ot soldiers to lo inquire into the matter the indians massacred mab SAcred the soldiers to my recollection twenty seven or twenty igat eight were killed I 1 I 1 was on the plains that oat year traveling in roben RobertL L campbells Campbel ln company and was on the ibe ground a few days af er the occurrence I 1 think all this happened in august of be year men mem boned theand the end of thia episode culminated in the ibe killing of indian i a by general harney in ash hollow a year or two afterwards it if our correspondent will reau read again agaid the ibe editorial note referred to he will ee that the remark as to the imago estive character of the event related only to the mormon emigrants eo en route over the plains from nauvoo in 1113 1847 it was oo on that date and company ny that the story quoted depended depend ej perhaps we would have made the matter clearer by saying that seven years jear later one of the abe incidents nm referred to in the story etory occurred and bad been made to do service for a prior occasion the event ot of 1864 1854 narrated by our orr correspondent respondent resulted Bulea re to ft the death of 0 81 men menthe the lieuter lieutenant laDt and 29 priva privates tep the officer 7 tw raab but the responsibility for the killing was waa chiefly on the in ter er preter who Is ie said to have been under the influence of liquor in de tailing ta ilio the story of the fight the indians said aalde the interpreter was the laor aar one to be killed he pleaded for his lite life reminding the savage warriors war of favors be bad shown them the laconic reply was waa that as aa bin big ness haj had caused the ha death of thirty 0 n Is own people it was only fair to them that be should die too the sold lert made a brave fight as aa long as aa able the indians losing among amon their kalled a chief and his hie equaw |