Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-07-27 | Page 8 | Three Indians Killed

THREE INDIANS KILLED, Fight Between Ecdmon and Cowboys; Several of Latter Woundpd. Special to Tho Trlbuno. HARLEM, Mont., July 2G. News has reached here of a shootlntr affray af-fray at Rocky Point, ln tho Bad Lando ui me .uisBuun river, m3i x rioay, in which three rnen. all Indians, nre enld to have been killed. Several cowboys were wounded, one, It Is believed, fatally. fa-tally. The trouble la eald to havo been started by a half-breed named Brown. Brown and several Indians wero on their way to the Crow recurvation, and stopped for a time at Rocky PolnL There they began drinking and playing poker with some cowboys. A disagreement disagree-ment ensued and this led to the use of weapons. AArhen the smoke cleared away it was found that Brown. AloysluB Chandler and an Arapahoe Indian wero dead, their bodies being literally filled with bullets. An investigation of the affair will be made nt once by the officers of the Fort Logan agency here. Rocky Point Is eighty miles south of Harlem, and communication with that place la impossible im-possible unless by carrier.