| Show historical SPOT ON NEAR AMERICAN FALLS the following interesting account of 0 an indian indian massacre which occurred near american palls falls idaho in 1862 recently published in the american falls press was handed this office by lorenzo J bott ot of this cit city y W we are r reproducing producing re it here for the benefit of 0 the readers ot of the news as follows many tourists traveling the highway between burley and american falls have haro had their aroused while passing through the rock formations formations a few miles this side of american falls which pre are highly rom romantic autto and pot not less so from the marge announced announcement e n t on a small board sign which tells of an indian massacre in 1862 it would be a marked respect it if a stone cutter would chissel out on the natural rocks a lasting tribute to the hardy pioneers who earlier lot lost their lives at this spot ot of the he event the american falls press has hag secured detail which Is authentic and we publish the following with the hope that this and other othe r ill places liay may be everlastingly marked in hi the interest of history ot of the oregon trail the press says there were no sur survivors of the indian Mass massacre Lere ot of the city of rocks but the day folios following ing the massacre there remained the bloody frag fragments ot of 11 pioneers who had answered the call of westward hol ho that was sixty years ago august ath and la in the diary of alva zaring of which the press has baa obtained a copy there la is an I 1 account of the massacre massacar e contained in a letter written to a mrs mrs bronson by john C human sixty years year s Is not so long a time as history goes but it Is more than the span oftie of the average life the pioneers the ore gon trail which today has become a national highway but then was only marked by infrequent wagon trains alva zaring says in his diary that there were eleven men massacred august ath 1862 at the city of rocks fourteen miles south west of american falls seven were buried in one grave and tour four in another and their graves to this day are marked by mounds ot of stone that bear no names or trace ot of identity to those who lost their lives the letter contained in the zaring darlng diary follows snake river august 11 1862 mrs bornson my dear friend on the esth of this month I 1 wrote you and sent the letter by a mormon to chandler co salt lake to bei be mailed that was the first opportunity I 1 got ot of sending a letter since the upper crossing ot of the platt I 1 little when I 1 wrote you on the ath that an occurrence was to take place next day and the day following and which will long impress itself upon my mind and that we were in the very midst of a great danger and seemed to b be almost entirely unconscious of it I 1 will relate what happened as near as I 1 cart can on saturday about 6 p in I 1 naas was riding ahead of the train a mile or so go in search of some grass and a camping place at which we might remain over sunday on looking up the road ahead oi ot me I 1 saw a horseman coming toward me in in a lay hasty manner this was a rare thing to see sea any person coming eastward and especially in so BO hasty a manner on his approaching pro aching me I 1 discovered that it was a man belonging to aur our wagon and who had left us on the day previous to over tae take a friend ot of his who he learned was in a train two days ahead of us The first thing he said to me was my god john the indians indiana have massacred a train and robbed them of bf ill all they had and they are only a short distance from us us I 1 at once become tons conscious clous ot our extreme danger and turned back to io inform the train and bring up the wagons which were lagging behind and I 1 expected an n attack to be made any moment learning that two ox trains were ahead of us and going to camp at or near the battlefield we ve pushed on to over take them in an hours driving we wo cama came to the place where the horrible scena scene took place but found the indians had run off off the stock taking provisions cloth ing etc of the left the wagons which the ox trains ahead abeid of us 11 continued on paige page 2 column 2 THE CHILDREN DESERVE THE BEST WE IVE HATE editorial from colliers the most important crop ot of the year is being harvested now ain in the boys ind and girls the public schools are bradu cating atlig how does it gra grade e depends pretty much on whom weve hired to cultivate d 0 ernt it it if we have hired good labor can we biank thank obrown our own wisdom m or are the thanks coming totham in indian than providence supposed to take special care of the dim minded what wages have we paid the national national education association has published what wages the state superintendents ot of schools were paid last year these salaries remember top the school wage scales the pay ot of all who work under the state superintendent in scales down way down from his affie the highest paid superintendent in pennsylvania drew the I 1 lowest paid in south dakota drew 1800 the average state superintendent quite a a year man figure down from asoo to miss jones who taught your boy or girl in the S 2 grammar school grade and it if you dont like the job she ahe did or if you do for that matter start thinking then compare even with what corporations the size of a state tit school chool system pay their executives aives knowing belter than ri to expect big things of a cheap man this is no plea for hundred thou tho u sand dollar state superintendents no argument that teaching ought to be a money makers business ids a prod to plain horse sense about miss jones and principal smith the actual cultivators ot of our most important crop |
