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It is not necessary in this place to say more of the Boise affair than that Haller accomplished the following sum mer the hanging of the leaders of the massacre, returning to The Dalles in September, 1855, just in time to take part in a war nearer his post.

But apropo of the discord between the civil and military authorities, Governor Curry, on learning that Haller s first expedition was not likely to accomplish anything, on the eighteenth of September, 1854, issued a proclamation calling for two companies of volunteers of sixty men each, to march to Boise and punish the Indians. These com panies were to be enlisted for six months, unless sooner discharged, and to furnish their own horses, equipments, arms, and ammunition, and choose their own officers, re porting to Brigadier-General Nesmith on the twenty-fifth. The governor issued commissions to George K. Sheil as assistant adjutant-general; to John McCracken as assistant quartermaster-general; and to Victor Trevitt as commis sary and quartermaster. But Nesmith, on learning that Colonel Bonneville of Fort Vancouver had refused a re quest of the governor for arms and supplies, giving it as his opinion that a winter campaign was neither necessary nor practicable, expressed a like opinion, and the call for for volunteers was withdrawn. Meanwhile, events were marching on.