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Show H SQUAWS KILLED IN A BATTLE. H The battle fought to the north of Winnemucca, Nevada, in which H four Indian bucks, thier squaws and papooses resisted a well-armed ' posse of white men proves that the American Indian, whatever may H be his shortcomings, is not open to the charge of cowardice. H The Indian band had murdered eight or nine persons and had H been trailed for a distance of 200 miles. When finally overtaken H and commanded to surrender, though their pursuers were four to H one, they answered with derision and defiantly opened the deadly H conflict with a shot. When the men had fallen, the squaws continued H to fight andethey had to be subdued by death blows. As at the bat- tie of Wounded Knee, the squaws asked no quarter and gave none. m While the cause for which these women of the wilds fought B merited death, still their indifference to personal danger, their devo- H tion to their families and their courage forces the regret that the H untutored, untamed, uncivilised passions in them could not have been controlled so that they might have avoided their fatal mistakes and the better impulses, such as family affection and herioc self- M abnegation and self-sacrifice, might have served a good purpose. |