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Show NAVAJlUDY FOR ANATTACK I Four Hundred Renegades Fortify and Encamp on Beautiful Mountain. I INDIAN POLICE TRUE Recalcitrants Brought to State of High Frenzy by Medi- I cine Man. Farmlngton, N. ML, Nov. 20 . Through the darkness of last nUghtt and until dawn today the 400 renegade reneg-ade Navajo IndlanB fortified and encamped en-camped on Beautiful mountain, 35 j miles southwest of the Shiprock, 1 agency, sang their war songs and,' danced their war dances around council coun-cil flrea, while lone sentries stood I svatch at the many Blgnal fires which; I fringed tho northeastern side of the? mesa. And at Sbiprock extra pre-- cautions had been taken against the-j ! surprLse of a night attack by the less1 than half civilized followers of Chief f Be Sho She were brought to a state of high frenzy by their medicine men. j At daylight Agent Shelton and his AHH Indian police, still faithful to the agency, began preparations to renew l overtures to aborigines, who sud- denly have become as vicious anl- mals Imbued with an intense hatred of tho white men who would take t from them their ancient tribal right T of many squaws. No news was had j of the success or failure met by the ) renegade runners who late yester- 1 day set out from Beautiful mountain f to distant points of the reservation I In an attempt to incite other Indians " set apparently friendly to open syni- j pathy and revolt. 'fl Though with the comtng of day- l light the opportunity for a surprise i attack was lessened. Agent Shel- I ton and Major McLaughlin, inspec- 1 tor of the agency, fear that the pas?- t j ing of another twelve hours will but taewi see the venom of the renegades in- rease and so make greater the dan 1 I ger of an attack tonight. Traders I and settlers on the reservation, Just I now learning of the tense situation. Jf have become thoroughly frightened, 'p and appealed to Agent Shelton for I I protection for themselves and their 'Aj families. General Uprising Feared. F The other Indians of the reserva-tlon. reserva-tlon. more than 3000, stalk about un-concernedly un-concernedly and none can tell where their sympathies rest. Apprehension H of a general uprising before the ' troops can arrive from Nebraska, is adding to the terror of the settlers who fear the quiet unconcern of the reservation Indians may' be but a cloak to their race prejudice. If is JH upon the coming ol troops and Gen- 1 oral Hugh L Scoti that the agency and the settlers base their hopes that bloodshed mav be averted There H are many at the settlement, however. fl who express anxiety over the recep- JB tlon which the Indians will give the troops They fear that the renegades ssill have been so exorcised by their medicine men and the almost sas- H po chief Be Sho She that they will offer armed resistance to the troops, even though greatly outnumbered by Indians Full of Fight. That the Indians will use force on occasion, was evidenced by their armed attack on the agency when l they released the eleven tribesmen svho bad been arrested on federal warrants charging horse stealing, as- i aault and bigamy, while more than a I hundred sympathizers stood on the I bank of the little San Juan river. H ready to aid them in their attack H should the agency officials show any JH intention of offering forcible resist- HHl ance to their fellows. The incipient uprising has today HH reached greater proportions than has any Indian outbreak In this section of the country for many years and agency officials do not deny that It nt will take much patience on the part er' of General Scott to placate the In- JHJ dians who uow seem thirsting for 9j fight. |