[From the New York Herald, 1873; story by Edward Fox]
Van Bremer’s Ranch, Cal., March 18,
via Yreka, Cal., March 19, 1873.
[By telegraph.]
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verything is quiet at the seat of war, and, excepting the
occasional moving of troops from post to post, there is really nothing going
on.
A [woman] came from Captain Jack’s camp the other day and said
the Indians were mad at losing the ponies which Colonel Biddle captured.
We have now in camp three batteries of the Fourth artillery,
two companies of the Twelfth infantry and one troop of the First cavalry,
making in all about two hundred and fifty rank and file. There are two troops
of the First cavalry at Dorris’ ranch, four companies of the Twenty-first
infantry at Lost River and two troops of the First cavalry at Clear Lake—the
total number of troops amounting to about five hundred and fifty or six
hundred.
General Canby is very reticent as to what move he intends to
make, for fear the Indians would learn his intentions through the agency of
some of the [white men with Indian wives]. From preparations that are being
made I am led to believe that we will move camp before long, and completely
surround the lava bed.
There will be three or four camps—one on the banks of Tule
Lake, at the foot of the bluffs, about two miles due west of Jack’s cave;
another at the foot of the lava butte, about four miles south of Jack’s cave;
another at Land’s ranch, on the eastern side, and perhaps some on the
peninsula, to the northeast of the cave. These movements will probably be made
in the course of a few days.
Mr. Odeneal, the new addition to the Peace Commission, will
arrive in about five days.
[This is another of the Fox/McKay dispatches; it not only
appeared in the New York Herald of 20
March, but in McKay’s papers and in Associated Press papers as well. See San
Francisco Evening Bulletin, Portland Oregonian, Sacramento Union etc., 20 March, and Yreka Union, 22 March. It seems to be in Fox’s
style.]
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