two, near Adobe Meadows. - Mid August, 1863 Attack on the Church Party on Pine Creek in Round Valley. - September 2, 1863. George K. Phillips organized and led a company of thirty well-armed men from San Carlos, with others from Bend City and the Union mill. With Merriam as guide, they left San Carlos to aid the three other men of the Church party to recover their bodies and punish their attackers. - September 3, 1863 The bodies of two men were recovered, one was never found, presumed captured. Paiute were gone, leaving large supplies of pine nuts which Phillips' company destroyed. Returning to San Carlos the party encountered two men intending to build a sawmill at Big Pine. Indians had warned them to leave, and after talking with the Phillips company they decided to do so. During the remaining months of 1863, there were no further incidents with the Paiutes in Owens Valley. Captain McLaughlin made a tour of inspection of Owens Valley as far as Bishop Creek. - November 23 - December 16,1863 McLaughlin reported: The valley is fast filling up with settlers and miners, and no fear is entertained of Indians as far up as Bishop Creek, which is the highest settlement in the valley. There the people are very uneasy, and fear to travel to and from Aurora, from whence their supplies are obtained. I would therefore respectfully recommend that so soon as the grass is sufficiently good that a force be sent into the valley to be stationed between Bishop Creek and Aurora, where the greater portion of the Indians supposed to be now in the valley are congregated. A letter to the Alta California, from Bend City, dated December 17, 1863, said: "With regard to the Indians, all has been quiet on Owens River for months past, and there is no prospect of a renewal of hostilities." New trouble During the latter part of 1864 Indian depredations began again, and white settlers or travelers were picked off when it could be done safely. Lieut. Robert Daley, commanding a detachment of Second Cavalry California Volunteers, was ordered to escort the Indian agent to the Owens River Valley to ascertain the true condition of the Indians there as soon as possible. - October 22, 1864 Horse trader named Watkins killed at Black Rocks Springs. Affair at Cinderella Mine - November 21, 1864 The band of