Show Summer Bowling Leagues Finish With Team Honors I Individual and team champions were crowned last week at the conclusion of at the first Summer tournament at Moab Lanes Copping Cop COl ping team honors were P Be I K KFord KFord Ford the and Walnut Lane Cliff Clift Johnson and Bobble Bobbie Young took scratch score honors for tor men and women Individual honors for tor men went to a 1034 1 scratch score for six games trolled rolled by Johnson He was trailed by Al Ai Lange with 1004 1001 Glen Hansen Lea Les E. E Erbes Erbes Er- Er bes and A A. II n. Skinner 7 They were the top five In a afield afield field that Included d Syl I ick Homer Likes Kent Robertson Robert son ion n Henry Baty Gall Gail Leavitt Jack Duane John Benson Jack Stewart and Lec LeGrande rande Carter Following Bobby Youngs Young's fine score tot for four games were Ginger Clark Carol Hockett Jody Hayes and V Verna Martin Seven others ted led for tor the Sunday finals I Dorothy Marlyn Marlyn Mar Mar- lyn Atwood Nola Jones Floyce Wells Vivian Wells anI and MaryByrd Mary I Byrd qualified for finals also I Six teams from the mens men's I leagues rolled roiled into the finals on onI I handicap scores In the four game match Wednesday P K KFord KFord KFord Ford took top honors with 1 total pins GS took look second place with and Sprouse Sprouse-Reitz third with Robertson Brothers Brothers Brothers Bro Bro- Rotary two and URO trail trail- til ed in the finals Walnut Lane captured the I trophy for the women's leagues I rolling a series to edge the newcomers by br 38 is pins Millets Millers Su Suj took third place with a total Basin BlUm Fishing Fish ing Apache Motel and Crescent Junction comprised comprise the rest of the top six teams I In the mixed league roll off I the hit a a 2 2 2966 Continued on P page g I 8 1 1 ft INDIAN FIGHT Continued from Page Page l 1 marker commemorates Is out standing It is in memory of ten men who died protecting their families and property from ren rend renegade Indians back on June 15 1881 For a number of years cattleman cat catt and ranchers had suffered suffered suffered suf suf- many losses from the depredations depredations depredations de de- predations of the or renegade ren rend gade Indians who would not stay on a n reservation bur but roamed roam roam- roamed I ed at wilt will over southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah Utah They would steal horses homes front from southwestern Colorado settlers and drive them away to the rims of western San Juan county county coun ty Utah where the Indians were supreme and still stitt claimed district as M their thelt own Two vo ranchers by the names of ot John Thurman and Dick May owned about head of fine horses and ranged them in the I I Burnt Cabin district and the Indians In I looked with longing eyes eyet of these horses for months No NI Noone Noone one knows Just lust how it happened but a n small bunch of cattlemen and ranchers of or Dolores and Mancos Colo Coto found the bodies of ot Thurman and May murdered and amt h ho bodies badly badty burned The and all nit the horses homes be- be longing lo In pair pall were gone J in l ii o e country at that time was sparsely settled and It took n a number of days to organize or or- a posse to follow the In ma dins Rico flee Colo Coto at that time was a booming little Utile mining camp and as soon as possible a n apos posse pos sp e was or organized composed chiefly of miners prospectors and freighters Also a n posse was organized at Dolores bissa and Mancos of cattlemen cat n and ranchers After leaving Burnt Springs cabin the Indians struck for Dodge Springs where they had left their squaws papooses and I old men In order to be ready for ft l fight if necessary At the Vega east of where Monticello Monti- Monti cello now stands the Indians stole a bunch of horses from a Spud Hudson Huson and hastily broke camp at Dodge Springs taking all horses and th their lr goats The went directly for the south and west of the Blue Mountains Hudson and his cowboys were organized into a posse and followed followed fol fold lowed a dim trail trait as it had rained around the south and west side of the Blue mountains through Indian Creek up Hart canyon to the Hatch ranch The cowboys were half starved and worn wom out their mounts tender- tender footed from the three days trav tray cling the rough and rocky coun coun- try It has always puzzled the old pioneers why the Indians had hadnot hadnot hadnot not taken advantage of the opportunity op op- opportunity to ambush and kill all aU of the posse paRse This group were a day late for forthe forthe forthe the battle at the battleground but on that fateful day the Indians Indians Indians In In- met trails with another posse which Intercepted them near the place of the ment The dead were Hard Tarter John B. B Galloway Wiley Tarter Hiram Melvin Jimmy Heaton and George Taylor Taylor Taylor Tay Tay- lor of Rico Tom Click of Dolores Dolores Dolores Do Do- lores Colo and Alfred Wilson and Isadore Wilson of Moab Wounded were Jordon Bean of Dolores Jim Hall of Rico and Harge Marge EskrIdge of Durango The whites were buried burled where they fell feU and some were later moved for final burial near their homes Two Indians were left dead on the field and it is believed ed that several dead and many wounded were carried along as I the Indians moved on after the battle Joran Joron Bean shot in the head and believed dead recuperated sufficiently the next morning morningto to ride a horse away from the area He Ife spent his remaining days living at Bridger Mont Take a trip into beautiful Castie Castle Castle Cas Cas- tle tie Valley a Valley a short side trip to the monument is available A jeep road or short hike winds down canyon to the monument Besides the beautiful setting and the picturesque surroundIng surrounding surrounding surround surround- I ing rock cliffs the towering I Castle Rock and the Priest and the Nuns you may be assured that Castle Valley is with early day history and loaded with Indian lore A sign directs the visitor to the site from the theLa theLa theLa La Sal mountain loop road |