Serious Rumor Disproved

Daily British Colonist, July 11, 1864

We are happy to learn from passengers by the Enterprise that the report of the killing of McLean and 40 of his party and the capture of Mr. Cox and the rest of the expedition by the Indians, is entirely without foundation. The rumor was wantonly set in circulation by some mischievous persons in the upper country. One of our informants on his way down called at Mr. McLean’s residence and saw one of his sons, from whom he gathered that nothing further had been heard of the expedition since word had been sent of a skirmish with the Indians, in which one of McLean’s party received a wound....