| Show THE TRUE STATEMENT A sanguinary affray between men aud and indians indiana SAN JUAN march 1887 editor deseret news I 1 notice in the columns of your paper two statements stat n ts copied from the albuquerque 71 journal ar al aud and denver news of february y ath I 1 believe the statements in them to be incorrect the two accounts do not exactly correspond however the papers named state that the I 1 indians who bad stolen the horses were found on the reservation surrounded by a large part of the tribe and that lockheart palmer and kin king were all killed kille dand and two indians were e killed and two othero other wounded now the question arises it if the sheriffs posse were all killed who is there left to tell the tale except the indians the I 1 latter atter say that lockheart and posse came to a navajo 90 by y name who lives south of the A P F R EB R there was only one other ether indian there bere besides Host arid and family who was a stranger in the country being irigon on a visit and one other bamily who lived abouo mile distant lockheart and ana the indians got into a dispute over some horses lockheart wanted the strange indian to so go to the railroad with him the indian declined to go and Lock lockheart beart drew his pistol and shot him in cold blood while lethey they were in hogans althis at this Host cline clinched hed litif lockheart and with ith the aid of his sq squaw raw succeeded in getting his pistol from him birn and shot him lockheart Lockne art with his own weapon palmer and king then opened fire on the hogan and wounded hos tel chee the latter returned the fire shooting one of the men through the body the men being on their horses started to run Host fired again and killed the horse of the third man leaving MW him afoot the wounded man felt fell from his horse by this time the indian who was living about a mile distant heard the shooting came armed to see what it was all about the two indians then followed the footman and overtook him he swung his bis ha t and gave signs for them not to shoot iut but they told him it was too late he should have thought of that before he fired on them and they shot him down in the meantime Hostel chees squaw finished killing the wounded man with an ax then Host rode about forty miles to a large gathering of Nava joes eo and aad told them what had bad taken place iud and that he did not want i to be bb given up to the americans 01 ia Y ERN STIN t |
