Show 12 PIUTE 1 BAND DECLARES WAR ON WHITES AT BLANDING ONE INDIAN KILLED TWO WOUNDED IN PITCHED BATTLE POSSE ON TRAIL airplane wired for today to locate renegades Rene gades U S marshal on S scene cene to take charge of situation A telegram was sent jent this morning by the san juan commissioners to governor mabey blabey asking him to send a scout plane line to blanding to locate the indians the plane will doubt at jess be equipped with a machine gun run and bombs united states marshal ray bay ward passed through moab e last jai night to lake take charge of 0 the situation at blanding iam A message from monticello this morning states tha a runner runder or came in to t 0 blanding late last lut night from the scene stene 0 of f the I 1 fight he fie said wd the fo four ur men headed by F B hammond who were missing from the posse were found still trailing the in deans and had camped tuesday night at comb wash 25 miles southwest of blanding the body of joe bishops boy was found 18 miles from blanding landing Il on comb ridge the indians had returned in the night and aad taken his guns no trace of the two clutes thought to have been wounded in tuesdays battle rs h has been found the indiana are thought to be hiding in the country west of blanding with a posse of fifty men sur ro round anding lg they the posse that left blanding yesterday took several pack mules loaded with supplies and are prepared to stay out several days if necessary four squaws and six pa in exhausted condition and gooses were found yesterday an were put with the other captured aiutes being held under PU biard d at blanding the renegades rene gades it was found had returned to the battle ground in the night tuesday and picked up their camp outfit and horses which they had left during the fight when bishops boy was killed no known fighting occurred mt yesterday five horses are thought to have been stolen h yesterday by the indians from a pasture near blanding k the posse sent to montezuma creek returned to blanding at last night and reported that the montezuma utes show no inclination to join with the alien allen canyon aiutes and no trouble Is expected from them the indian agent from ignacio ignado DOD colo Is expected to arrive at blanding today to look into the situation the renegade piute diute indians of san juan county are again a which has on various occasions ahw on the rampage the same gang curing bring the past ten years declared war against the whites and terrorized the towns of blanding and bluff is again up to its old tricks this weeks fracas start started ed monday when two young bucks who had bad raided a sheep camp were haled into court after H the their i r trial they escaped from the sheriff and fled to the nearby hills where they joined the main body of renegades rene gades armed 0 posses immediately left in pursuit and a running fight ensued bishops boy one of the two indians on ion trial has been killed by the posse and two other indians are known to have been wounded tive vive of the indians horses have also been killed the sheriff and one of his deputies had their horses shot from baider them there have been no casualties among the whites 34 although hough several have had narrow es escapes es the indians were slowly driven south and when they reach id comb ridge about twe twenty y miles south of blanding they veer td 3 to the east apparently heading ing for montezuma c canyon anyon last haht it word was received that the posses were on the indians writ leading toward the canyon and they expect to catch uewl up with th 60 e renegades today several members of the posse returned to blanding last night and ad reported that the body tody of 0 bisbo bishops P fa boy kil killed ed tuesday by athe the whites had been found they also reported d that all mem im wr of the posses were safe it was feared feare aTu tuesday ead ay that a posse pose of d four men headed by attorney F 13 1 hammond gammo ammo nd of monticello dio bad had been ambushed bushed by the indians an and d possibly y killed this MY left monticello Mun early tuesday morning with wit h guns and ammunition and ana on reaching blanding left at once for the scene oi if the pitched battle nothing further was heard from mr ham and and party until jast ast night when word was received safe ide yesterday were afternoon two indians on foot were seen in the felds south of blanding they caught two horses and made tifer WIT escape eastward before they could be headed off it is I 1 k bought ought they will join the main body of the renegades in the canyon country coutry and band the determined to capture the entire t posses are taday it ia is will vill occur sometime altogether likely that a clash raging making the trailing trailing berday a heavy snow storm atom was of the indians difficult s very in rounding up be used that a go government verent airplane may on mabey the e outlaw governor C R aiutes is a possibility or whether wired the san juan commissioners loner asking furni furnished she tot t that it could be 1 plane was desired and stating jery very few houra notice the cOMMISsi commissioners Onen in their to reply be bo joed the governor to have the plane placed in readiness it will be etched to t the he scene of the trouble at a any n I 1 minute believed e uld tripped with machine and bombs ain and it ft is tipped guns senses their be the redskins to very effective weapon in bringing should no that the constant trouble with t the he renegades ager should be compelled com to g gb fabe be tolerated and that they bland to their reservation is the determination of the people 1 of of the who are continually harrasser harr assed by the depredations the effect of tes the present warfare will doubtless have f the govern 1 trudging gag the situation forcefully to the attention 0 the san juan ment it to the indians be moved out of S while this beeles trouble so 80 far has h not t ben been so accounts serious amri Is I 1 bould Im magine after the sensational alamina its iwuona 14 the daily papers of the capital th e situation before has it S oyer and result in several tho the gs most disquieting feature is the fact that old band there Is is the zenus of 0 RU a theP lutes is in in charge at of of rendering derin it is said the trouble about two at to when WIMM three in we bey safta fra awl 1 sto stole I 1 0 some sheep and boy dutchey be herder cifers dutche Dute heyl I 1 the intimidated last wee week but ed last ui since 41 dieda t assisted isted by old sheriff W E L as joe bishop captured bishop bishops boy boy and took them to and canups held blanding for trial they were and were tried day days several akere for of charl charge go warning on a monday convicted and held to arceny heine being shortly after litter the the district court started to take olliver trial indiana indians sheriff to dinner he mounted his he the to accompany horse and ordered the indiana indians him bishop boy picked said take me if if you 0 U I 1 dob club and aandy vota up a st sheriff drew his revolver er can the indian he be would have to him if he be boovy u hackle shackle tied bm buck k ran to his hone horse the young make his es and 2 tinted to near 1 le ar by sheriff mapped snapped bill hi eun gun at it c cape fleeing the indian hot but it miss missed td fire the band hind in his the with pun gun and olliver bridle reins rems of the indiana indians caught the prevent the flutes plate to hone A e sc follow followed edthe the indian escape from the can gun d I 1 taking sheriff him and starting to nm run continua Cont bed on last pan pace pa UTIS DEMPE WAN N WHITES NEAN N G continued from tint first page olliver went into hie his louse got an other gun tun and made for bishops boy in fhe the meantime the latter had rem died the gun and started to ride away on hie his home horse and sheriff diliver Olli quickly mounting his hit own hone started in n pursuit A running fight ensued a number of shot being fired the ile officer officers horse waa was ahot shot from under him and bishop bishops boy joined the other indians who were camped near by the indians joined the fugitive fugitives la in X flight and posse posses were quickly or 0 by the sheriff to head bled off the hand band the indiana indians who had attend ed the trial had evidently concealed gun guns in the brueh brush near town and when the pone posse overtook them a run ning fight ensued several of the in deans having high powered rifles i many shots wre exchanged and some eon narrow escape were experienced by members of the posses deputy john roger rogers hone horse was shot from under him A yar car loaded with ties reached the scene and the indians fired five thota shots at it one bullet passing lengthwise through the rear seat on which three deputies were sitting another shot punctured a is tire tin n this Is occurred monday afternoon about two miles from blanding A large band of indiana indians were surrounded and forced to surrender sun ended they included about forty squaw es s and a num number lier of bucks back an and d all are being held nt at blanding under heay heavy guard the bunch of who joined bishops boy about twelve in n umber were surrounded in the rocks south of et blanding bland ing and it long range fight was as carried on all through monday night in the meantime courier couriers la had been sent to monticello for long lone range gua gus arriving arrivi nir about 3 tuesday morning they immediately returned to the scene of the fight and tuesday MOrT morning a pitched battle ensued for or over two hours on the I 1 ridge near comb wasl bishops Bia hopa I 1 boy the flung oung plate plute who started the trouble was reported killed and it U is 11 thought two other others were wounded two of the indians dlana In horses were killed and three others were wound cd td leaving the renegades almost on fa foot the body of bishops boy and the two wounded indians were taken by the other indians old posey the wily old piute diute who I 1 has long been a ringleader ring kader Lader in the depredations committed by the indians took charge of the outlaw band after the trouble started after almost continuous monday night and tuesday morning the indians who it was thought had been surrounded in the cedars about tout four miles south of blanding blending made their way south and succeeded in going twenty ral miles 1 with the posse in hoi hot pursuit pursuit the aiutes cut the telephone line between mantling anding Ul and bluff but not until after the bluff people had been warn td d of the situation and told to guard the trails and passes of the san juan river to prevent the indians escape to Q the navajo reservation reinforced posses numbering about fifty men left blanding yesterday to join in the fight prepared for a lone long ege the indians indians known to be in eluded in the outlaw band are old posey boy dutchess Dutch Dutche eya ys boy posey boy charlea charleys boy stubby a boy and probably four other others with the exception of old posey the wild est and moat most dangerous of the clutes the members mea ibera of the band are art mostly young bucks who hare have been in a treat great deal of trouble the past never everal years precipitating a number of flashes with the whites which almost resulted in lit blooM bed the band of forty indians being held at blanding under guard includes old mancos jim mancos george georg Chi shiirley irley joe bishop dutchey johnny peterson and ri most at 0 of these being the older indians they are being held in the th school house under later information about tuesday tuesdays clash Is to the effect that a running battle ensued over a distance cei of ten tan miles wits two indiana are ate known to have fallen from frons their hones horses and were taken along by the other imm ben bets of the band posses are guarding all trail trails and very precaution la is illig beaff taken to prevent the escape the redskins red reds skins klas the pos ie Is out of communication with eang Bl and little new news is received as to the pro cress of the fight it Is thought that old posey will fight the whites to the Is last st ditch and there is little hope for a surrender of the band bond until he is disposed of posey played a leading role in the warfare which occurred seven even years ago agot pre by the arrest and arid escape of everett hatch who killed a mexican sheep hearder dad by posey and old polk the band held lout out for several weeks during which time a cowboy eskin was killed by old posey the war department an ally took charge and dispatched gen eral hugh I 1 L scott then chief of staff stiff of the army to bluff to negotiate with the outlaws after a parley with posey and P polk 0 ik I general scott induced the clutes t to 0 1 surrender ur render and tes ne gat was taken to denver for trial he was subsequently acquitted uit ted and died of tuberculosis about tout a year ago A number of other clashes with the indians have occurred in recent years usually caused by the indians killing the whites cattle and ww abet and robbing camps |