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Show " INDIANS THREATEN TO GO ONWARPATH ARIZONA REDMEN ARE INCENSED OVER KILLING OF ONE OF TRIBESMEN BY OFFICER. Indian Opened Fire on Officers When They Attempted to Arrest Him. Renegade Utah Piutes Agitate Disturbance. Phoenix, Ariz.--Five thousand residents resi-dents of the northwestern portion of Arizona are alarmed over reports that the Hopi tribe on the Navajo reservation reserva-tion are threatening to go on the "war path," according to reports received here Monday. Approximately 25,000 Indians are living on the Navajo reservation, reser-vation, but it was not known what proportion of them were involved in threatening uprisings. The Hopi Indians became angered, it as said, when one of their numiber was shot and killed several days ago by police officers. The Indian opened fire on the officers when they attempted at-tempted -to arrest him and was killed by one of the officers a moment later. Friends of the Indian immediately began to foment trouble among other Indians on the reservation, and some of the Piutes who went on the war-patr war-patr in the Bluff, Utah, district about a year ago, 'began agitating disturbance disturb-ance amiong this gang. The shooting occurred near Lees ferry, a crossing on the Grand canyon of Arizona, about fifty miles south of the Arizona-Utah boundary line. Word of the threatened trouble was brought to Flagstaff by an Indian runner. Efforts probably will be made to have a troop of cavalry from El Paso accompany the deputies to the scene. : |