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Interesting from the Great Salt Lake. —Intelligence front £$-iU Like city repro-neuiH thatCol. Steptue declined the nomination ot Governor of Umti, and that Judge Kinney, Chief Justice, has been uffered the appointment. He has staled that he will accept. Col. Steptoe’s command was to leave Salt Like city on the 5th of April, for Rash valley, from which cam pin*'place they *tart for California in the beginning of M*y. The object of this expedition was to secure the murderers of Capt. Gunnison, Mr. Kern, of Pniiadelphia, and others massacred by the Indiana in October, 183. The Chiefs agreed to give up seven Indians. Can-Osh then turned over to Mopr Reynolds four men, a squaw who had helped to 6trip the dead, and a child about tnreo years old. Major Reynolds refused to receive the child, but took charge of the men and the squaw, slating to Can-Osh, through the interpreter, Mr. Bean, that he still held him responsible fer the delivery in Salt Lake city, of the remainder. Some of the ludians were very much dissati=fied with the proceeding, and one chief pointed hi j rifle at the officers, but the troops soon brought their rifles to bring him down, when he desisted. The Indian murderers were trlt;ed at Nepni by a Mormon jury, and convicted of manslaughter in the second degree, and sentenced to three years’ imprisonment. On their way to jail they were permitted to escape. The account s ay s:‘ Several members of the Mormon jury acknowledged that they received instruc lions irom Brigham Young what verdict to give. It is well known that the oath of a Mormon in the church is paramount to all other obligations. The H m. Judge Kinney, after the verdict, declared that it was in direct violation of the evidence adduced.— Tae principal object of Col Steptoe’s expedition was to obtain satisfaction for the murder of Gunnison’s party; but tue Jiormous, in order to defeat this purpose, have acted in a manner that can only be accented for by their inteuse hatred towards the^general government. Tue above information comes di-,: reel from an officer who was present at the ! time. The writer speak3 strongly of the scheming and duplicity of the Mormons, j which he says strongly indicates that they j i amicipate making use of the Indians at some j I future day, should there be a rupture be- j tween the two nations of the 'Mormons’ and ‘Americans.’” ___
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Bedford White River Standard
Bedford, Indiana, US
Thu, May 31, 1855
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