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Show STATE POLICE KILL INDIANS Four Braves, Two Squaws and Two Children of Band Which Mur-deed Mur-deed Nevada Stockmen Killed. Wlnnemucca, Nev. In a running fight Monday afternoon near Tuscan rora, eight Indians, including two Bquaws and two children, and one white man were killed, when a pursuing pursu-ing posse of twenty-one men came up with a band of twelve Shoshones charged with the murder of four wealthy Nevada stockmen in northern north-ern Washoe county on January ' 19. On the posse's Bide Edw-ard Hogle of Eagleville, Cal., was killed the squaws, armed only with bows and arrows, fought stubbornly by the side of the braves. A steel-tipped arrow struck one of the posse in the chest, inflicting inflict-ing a painful but not serious wound. The posse was composed of state police under. Captain J. P. Donnelly, superintendent of the Nevada state police, and several stockmen under Sheriff Smith of Modoc county, California. Cali-fornia. It probably was the first time In many years that bows and arrows figured in an Indian fight. A 16-year-oid girl and three children chil-dren were captured. It Is said that loot taken from the bodies of the murdered mur-dered stockmen was round in the camp of the Indians. The state police, under Captain Donnelly, and Sheriff Smith's posse had been trailing the Indians since February 8, when the mutilated bodies bod-ies of the murdered stockmen, frozen solid, were found. |