Article clipped from Wilmington Delaware Gazette and State Journal

lb* Hloid*ir«r D..irnd •»lil|p|iln«*|w*«a ol »»•• F«UIII»«Ham. k •»« III* VleMM*'K dlepwlob ffw»iu Mw« oouaty, Californio.. f|Iraoan aeoonnt of tbo mordor of ft aoltltr and four Iteltai by • band of Piatt Indian*. Tbo roam* for thi ontbreak ^ folly nmnlid m the part of the Indian*. Tun Mono Lake region I* a daeolnt#. itorilo muon, mnoh renembUog tbn country aronnd tun DoAd Sea. Tbn woUm of fan lako are tboron^lilf Impregnate 1 with baiat, Mlt and m*naaia aal the only anginal life found in it !• • noft of a worsu. oboat one-fourth of an Inch in l««tb, rmwbhng in aiipeorancc a abiiiop.On tb* w item ehur* of Mono Lake lir.d a 4'ttier named LouU Butt mao. a holer or Ian by birtb lie bad raided there for orar 20 jam, railing cattl* an the atant'd |*ntungo around the lake, Icmlicitf a lonely life.OiHMuitonally bo w: ti'd kill a Plate and out thn body into tb* alkaline voter* of the lake, wh«re It would aoon pftriry. Tbit fact wa* well kaown to tbn wh\toa raiding in that oeotlon and I bo gentle man wM * Iron tht« Information *ayo ho La* o*cn fonr of the** bodioo oalmlf to* pe alfg at the bottom u? tbe lake 8am-ixuu'e arowrd ioUnthm wei to n-e the bod loo M *000 09 ibey became on 111 gently htrdenoJ for bitching porti and door-ate no.It bappned that a body of Plntea •♦rated :.»ar the cabin of Hitnmao, and in tbo clear wat«ro of tbo lake near by tbey aaw the boJ!*lt; of IhoSr murdered hMtrcn lying In lb* water audorgotug tbe proetwi of patriQoatioo. They bo-came framed for revenue, and going to Haiaaian'e cabin took him otn (ho wa* •Iona) nod ofc it him through tbe heart. They then vent moral ml*** to a place wb?r« feu* llilliv v*rr and killed thrno o9 them one escaping to Boiie and nl**miig the fltlima, tilling them at tbo •am© t’ui« no* to oo on* there for a few day*, H* the Indiana hod aworn to kill any while man that oatue oat. Tbe county otSciali haro • tar ted to capture tbe Indiana.
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Wilmington Delaware Gazette and State Journal

Wilmington, Delaware, US

Thu, Feb 28, 1889

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