George Rogers

DAILY REESE RIVER REVEILLE

April 21, 1866

MISSING SHERIFF FOUND

The body of George Rogers, the missing Sheriff of Lincoln County, has been found. He resided formerly in this county, and was informally elected in a convention of the people, held January last, Sheriff of the proposed new county of Lincoln, which embraced the Pahranagat Valley and mining district.

Shortly after his election, Rogers had occasion to go to a Mormon settlement in the neighborhood of Mountain Meadows, to recover some stock claimed by an apostate Mormon. Nothing had been heard of him since the time up to the recent recovery of his body.

It was very generally believed that he had been waylaid and killed by the Mormons and very general indignation was expressed against the people. It now appears that he was killed by a party of the Indians roaming in that section of the country.

E.G. Hammond, of Pahranagat Valley, writes as follows under date of March 26th: “The body of George Rogers, our late sheriff has just been found half way between the Pahranagat settlement and Meadow Valley. He had been shot through the back by Indians. The men went from here in search of Rogers found the Indians who murdered him, and they hung one in Meadow Valley, shot three six miles beyond, and hung the ring leader in Clover Valley.

After the Indians had killed Rogers, they killed and ate his horse. These Indians are Shoshones from the west, and they have stolen and killed and ate a mule and a horse belonging in this valley, and a party of men are going after them.

A man has jumped Rogers’ ranch and we will hold a meeting and then go in a body and put him off.”

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