Edwin Doty and Brien Byram, of Knoxville, Ill., Mr .-- -- Carter, of Wisconsin, Geo.

Allen, Leander Woolsey and Chas.

Clark, of Henderson, Ill., Mr .-- -- Gretzinger, of Oskaloosa, Iowa, and a Frenchman whose name is unknown.
There were some others connected more or less with the party at some part of the trip, but not coming in with the Jayhawker organization.

So far as learned, their names are as follows:--John Galler, Jim Woods and Jim Martin of Miss., Ed Croker of N.Y., David Funk, Mr.Town, Henry Wade, wife and three children, Nat Ward, John D.Martin, of Texas, Old Francis, a Frenchman, Fred Carr and Negro "Joe," from Miss.
There were a great many reports about finding rich mines about this time, and these stories have been magnified and told in all sorts of ways since then, and parties have returned to try to find the great riches.
Among the Jayhawkers were two Germans who could speak but little English and probably for this reason, kept apart from the remainder of the party.
One day, after the wagons were abandoned these German fellows were marching along alone with their packs on their backs in the warm sun, suffering very much for want of water and food, when one of them sat down on a hill-side in pretty nearly absolute despair, while the other man went down into a ravine hoping to find a puddle of water in the rocky bottom somewhere, though it was almost a forlorn hope.

All at once he called out to his partner on the hill--"John, come down here and get some of this gold.