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esses into the river. On Oct. 31 an encounter occurs in which two citizens and one Mormon are killed. On Nov. 2 the Mormons attack Independence, but are routed and forced to promise to leave the county before. Jan. 1, 1834......Nov. 2, 1833 Congress adds the Platte purchase, a triangle north of the Missouri River, west of the western boundary of the State, and south of the northern boundary to Missouri, thus making it slave territory......June 7, 1836 Depredations and murders in Carroll county traced to a band of desperadoes composed principally of a family named Hetherly, old Mrs. Hetherly being a sister of the Kentucky brigands, Big and Little Harpe. The band broken up by the arrest and imprisonment of some of its chief men......July 17, 1836 Bank of the State of Missouri established at St. Louis; capital, $5,000,000, about four-fifths belonging to the State......1837 By proclamation of President Van Buren, the law of June 7, 1836, regarding the Platte purchase, takes