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Show I Navajo Indians I Threatening Whites H Redskins Are Aroused by the Shoot- H Ing of Tribesman Near H . Utah Line M ,p- i -7-vF- M Phoenix, Ariz., Feb. 7. Flvo thou- H eand residents in tho northwestern H portion of Arizona aro nlarmcd over H reports that tho Hopl trlbo of Navajo Indians wero threatening to go on warpath, according to reports recclv- cd hero, early tonight. Approximate- H ly 25,000 Indians aro living on tho B Navajo' reservation, but It was not H known 'vlmt porportlon of them were lnvolvod In, the threatened uprising. Tho -Hopl Indians became angered, H it was, said, when ono of their nam- 1 her wn8' shot and killed several days H ago by polico officers. The Indian H opened rflro on tho ofllcers when they H nttempted to arrest him, and was B killed by ono or tho ofllcers n moment B later, according to information re- H eolved .by Thomas Flynn, district nt- H torney.V H Tho shooting occurred near Leo's H Ferry, n crossing on tho Grand Can- B yon of Arizona, about fifty miles H south of tho Arizona-Utah boundary H line. Word of tho threatened troublo H -was first brought to Flagstaff by an H Indlnn'Trunncr. H Although, Instructions from tho H United" States authorities at Wash- ington woro being awaited by ofllclnls H hero before taking any nctlon, n num- H her ofnicputy marshals were prepar-, ing to mako tho Journey to tho rosor- H vatlon to invcstlgato tho reports. I B Efforts probably will 1)0 mado to 1 havo a troop of cavolry from E Pnso H nccompany the deputes to tho sceno, H , it was said tonight. Tlio Indian res- H . ervatfon is located In ono of tho most inaccessible portions of tho state. H ' Flagstaff, which is about 1G0 miles H . away, is tho nearest point to which H ' telephono and telegraph communlc- ntlon isXnvnllab'o. Snow is soveral H ' feet deep throughout this section. |