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Wahe and others conspired for several months. Their plan was to gain entry to Fort Churchill posing as friends of the white man, and then at a signal they would slaughter the small garrison of about forty men. The planned conspiracy was discovered by the Walker River Indian Agent, and Wahe was forced to flee to Oregon. He died upon his return to Nevada in May 1862.74
Other Indian troubles occurred in 1863 when E-zed-wa, chief of the Walker River Indians was killed, along with his horse, by a drunken white man outside of Fort Churchill. His body was later found in the Carson River by members of his band. Several prospectors were killed in Humboldt County in 1864 (although Indian responsibility has never been proven). Two other gold hunters were murdered by Paiutes near Walker Lake in the early months of 1865. In this instance the Indians were taking revenge on people who had recently flogged them. But the most grievous of events took place on March 14, 1865. This is known to history as the Mud Lake massacre.75