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Show THE NAVAJOES ARE THREATENING. Cowboys Say They Have Heen Ktlllnc, Cattle and Talking ot Burning Hunches. Denneb, Feb. 11. A dispatch received from New Mexico stated that the Navajo Indians had gone on the warpath, and that a battle was in progress near Albuquerque, It created great excitement. Later advices show that the first reports wero greatly exaggerated. ex-aggerated. A dispatch from CooIIdge, N. St., says that the trouble Is between the Nayajocs and cattlemen, and was caused by renegade Indians killing cattle. Chief Mununo was requested ten days ago to remove the Indians. This was granted, but Tuesday three Indians were found coming com-ing down the trail toward Chavez, and the cowboys ordered them back. They started back, und on a bluif built a sigual fire. Soon forty renetrade Indians came to their assistance, in defiance of the cowboys and the promise not to trespass. There were no cowboys at Chavez iiff the time, but the Indians In-dians claim that their deserted camp was burned by the cowboys and that they were going to gel even. Tlie Indians threatened to burn a ranch occupied by u cattle man named Coudington, and they left Chavez, going iu that direction. Hurry Coady, his mother and two men were at the ranch. They were greatly terrified when the Indians In-dians rose up and began yelling and shooting shoot-ing indiscriminately. No one was hurt, and the Indians, apparently satisfied with having scared the people, rode away. Harry Cody at ouco mounted a pony and rode sixteen miles to Coolidge for assistance. Fifteen armed cowboys immediately left for the ranch, which Is sixteen miles distant, arriving at 0 p.m., but all yvas vuiet. The cowboys remained at the ranch until noon, hut could discover no Indians. Lieutenant Wallace, second cavalry, and twenty men from Fort Wingute with pack mules, passed Coolidge on their way t" the San Vntonio raneh, with orders to remain there several days und be ready to ipiell any hostilities on the part of the Indians. Everything is quiet at aud in the vicinity of Chavez. |