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Show Neva da State Police Come Up With Shosliones Who Mur-derefi Mur-derefi Four Stockmen. ONE MEMBER OF POSSE KILLED DURING BATTLE Four Braves, Two Squaws and Two Dusky Children Slain, and Others Captured. WINXEMUCCA Nev.f Feb. 27. Eight Indians, including two squaws H and two children, nnd one white man, H wore killed in a running tight yestor- day afternoon near Tusoarora. when a H pursuing posse of twenty-one men came H up with a band of twelve Shoshones H charged with the murder of four H wealthy Nev-da stockmen in northern H Washoe county on January 1?. On the H posse's side Edward Hogle of Eagle- H ville, Cal., was killed. Tho squaws, H armed only with bows and arrows, H fought stubbornly by the side of the H braves. A steel-tipped arrow struck H one of the posao in the chest, inflict- H in" a painful but not serious wound. H The posse was composed of stale lfl police undor Captain J. P. Donnelly, su- 1 perintendent ot tho Nevada state po- H lice, and several stockmen under Slier- H iff Smith of Modoc county, California. H It probably was tho first time in many H years that bows and arrows figured in H an Indian fight. IH Girl and Four Children Captured. A 16-year-old girl and three children were captured. It. is said that loot 1 taken from the .bodies of tlio murdered H stockmen was found in the camp of H Indians. IH The state police, under Captain Don- H nelly, and Sheriff Smith's posse had H been trailing the Indians since Fob- H ruary S, when tho mutilated bodies of H the murdered stockmen, frozen solid, H were found. i H Saturday night Captaiu Donnelly and I H Sheriff Smith aud their men stopped I H at Stewart's ranch, twenty-five miles ll north of "VVinncmuccn. Yesterday morn- H ing a report reached tbcm there of a band of Indians camped about ten H miles northwest. Led by "Skinny'' Pascal, an Jndiau trailer, the posse i'ol- H lowed .the trail and sighted the Sho- shoncs, moving in single file, about noon fifty miles northwest of Whine- Leader Hilled First. jH After a consultation, ".Skinny" Pas-cal. Pas-cal. the Indian with the posse, was H sent ahead (o talk to the baud. When within a hundred yards old "Indian jH Mike,'' the leader, raised his rifle and fired. "Skinny" Pascal dropped from his horso unhurt and fired twice. "In-dian "In-dian Mike" fell and was seen to crawl away iu the bushes whero he later was found dead. When they saw that their leader had fallen, Ilio remainder of tho .band started down a canyon, driving their stock before them. A running fight ensued. The bucks with their ritlcs acted at first as a rear guard, while IH tho squaws and children ran ahead. il One of the young bucks fell under tho 1 posse's fire. Two miles down the canyon the In-diaiiH In-diaiiH crossed a ridge and went into another but smaller canyon. Here H they made a stand. When the state jH police and sheriff's posse again came up with, the .bund, the Indians, iuclud-in" iuclud-in" tlio squaws and children, were beat- i ing drums and executing a "war dunce." The white men dismounted and, crawling through and over rod;. fH a pitched battle followed. It was hero that Ed Hogle was killed. Battle Soou Over. ' With only two buck's armed with jH rifles and two squaws aud several chit-dren chit-dren using bows aud arrows against a ( score of white men, the fight was soon i over. After the bucks had fallen aud ' having uo desire to kill tho women and children, the posse made a rush aud captured the ."id ami Hiroe smaller chil-dren. chil-dren. The latter stood their ground to the last, wounding one of the posse with an arrow and fighting with sticks and stones until overpowered. According to the telophonc reports received here from Captnin Donnelly. the squaws fought bravely by the sido of the bucks and, under the circuin-stances, circuin-stances, the killing of them nnd tho IH children was unavoidable. A messenger was sent to Kelly's ranch, ten niilc:- distant, where a wagon was obtained aud the captives and the body of II ogle taken to that place. The' Indians will lie buried whero they fell upon the arrival of the coroner, who started from Winueniuccn today. |
