Details Ol The Late Modoc Massacre

When on tho 29th of November last, Captain Jack and his Modoc warriors were driven from thoir encampment on Lost river, Oregon, a portion of the band, who had for some montbs occupied a position aoross the stream near tne white settlement of Tub Lake, seized tho oppor;unity to perpétrate a most bloody massacre. Wüliam Boddy, his two stepsons, Richard and Willie Carrigan, and his son-in-law, Nicholaa Schtira, -were cut;ing fiiewood in the timber not far from ;heir home, and about noon the team of the latter canie at a gallop, driverless down the road to the farmhonse, and ns ït drew near was seen to be eovered with blood. Mrs. Scheira, thinking her hnsbund had been thrown out, ran vip the road a quarter of a mile, and fourid him ;ying by the roadside shot through the ïiead, but still alive. He expired in a few minutes. Six Indians dashed past tier toward the house, and Mrs. íácheira, at once suspecting the truth, hurried on in search of tho other men. A little further on Richard, and the eldest stepson, was discovered killed and stripped naked, lying across the wagon. Horses and harness were gone. Mr. Boddy had been choppiug wood a quarter of a mile further on and a number of Indians were seen at that point. The woman dared not go on, and turnedback to find Willie, who had been tending sheep near the tiouse, lying in the field with a bullet through his breast and his throat ent. Only the vromen of the family esoaped. Their next-door neighbor and all his family but the wife were also slaughtered. The two women, Mrs. Boddy and Mrs. Scheira, traveled till dark in the two feet of snow, and sat down under a tree to wait for mornïng, and rlnally, totally oxbansted, reached the Lost Eiver bridge in tho afternoon of the next day. The Indians had been threatening assault for months, but it was not considered that a guard from tho fort would be neeessary. As it was the services of tho soldiers were confined to discovering and interring the unfortunate victims. Ths "Washington correspondent of tho Free Press writes : It is believfed in well informed eircles that the late negotiations which resulted in the acquisiliion of certairt territory in Santo Domingo by a private eorporation is only the begmning of a huge political "job " or a filibusteiïng scheme on a grand scale. While tho purehase or acquisition of Sam ana Btiy ia ostensihly by a private company, it is believed that certain government officials in Washington are either directly or indirectly interested in ■the scheme, and before long our gnvernment will be called upon to foot some heavy bilis