| Show AN JUAN ix and its paules 41 by albert R lyman liman A 11 0 chapter IV 1 clutes admired I 1 laskel haskel but it Ts la asking king tod much of human nature a brider tinder those circumstances to refrain from eating white mans beet beef and ap white mans attractive agrees lett left to grazion gra zeon zelon the hills the sott settlers lers cattle were I 1 starving out the on oil which the indians halt hail llyia and those cattle left little tor for it the lie 1 indian ponies to subsist upon it I 1 an anything similar to con science disturbed the flutes while they did these things they could consistently argue they had a right because of what aliat these things had cost them t 0 yes we to do remember perfectly how exasperating all tilts this was from the white mans angle for it frequency happened we were the white man and very much in need of the appropriated attil ponies and sometimes sometime es tho the we did find the ponies at the piece see and time expected they were jaded and thin than ln in spite r I 1 tile good feed and had telltale tell tale p a of old saddle ba blankets I 1 on thel their r backs and worse still a horrible old pudding resulting from the plute sad idle die platte lyman had a black mare a beautiful creature nearly old enough to 10 break and lie watched her closely lest she be isaken lousy away hr almost ast as bad be found with a pudding over her kidneys she had been ranging in big grass near tilts the head of red canyon and when the flutes headed tor for that quitter quarter platte lyman went there too for the sake of ills his black mare ile he pot got there too late T they hey hao haa corner edher on ii a rim and roped her before he came in sight and seeing him they became eager to pet get their rope and depart before he arrived rived they knew just how to do it the quickest way so they snubbed the black mare over a ledge ano ana when she had fallen and broken her neck they hey took their precious rope and rode away as as it if nothing unusual lind bad happened the owner of the black mare was not mot meeting posey there for the first time nor was he seeking something entirely different dif to ehst he had seen from posey before also he was to this sort of thing from this and similar sources again and after he tad gone to his rest his son was to hpe it repeated and to form by arill inc personal contact a close anice tirco with the prince of plute horse I 1 Ih Ili teves leves it Is by virtue of that ac that these accounts ar are written 1 we are not trying to represent that we loved posey in the days when 0 P personal had resulted in IT a complete tora severance of all diplomatic relations and he be was skulking under cover of the night or the under bauch br uchin in hopes of an opportunity to then the creore foi that matter we are not professing even yet to be t i alv loving but we know that worse me nthan posey have come from more favorable environments than the efi en which him and turned him loose on a little colony of struggling pioneers but before we begin i relating elating too f anany many of his we ive must iko careful fy into account nome bome of the prominent influences and events which made him ich whit it hp he was waa for in the formative period of his youth and 1 l yelling manhood some very I 1 im press lve demonstrations were Nvere made could not tall fall to have a telling effect A dear bear in mind that the h in belonged to them the little Pl flutes utes figured that it was theirs by ever kind of unchallengeable fact and con dipiton that Is ever necessary to ali the right of a people to a country but in contradiction to this belief of theirs came the white strangers ap to j themselves the range lange alad the resources which had yielded the indians their food and their clothing and had made and supplied then hanics with all that constitutes home when white men planted themselves in n the country the aiutes still went where they pleased of course if toi for no other reason than to prove tveit continued right to do so and to maintain their supremacy in their beloved fatherland father land with their scrub she shei their loud smelling milk goats boats and their lenn scarified fied ponies ponie they camill t ed it exactly where v here they were not wanted for they viewed the white invasion with and maintained first and full claim to elk mountain resolved to keep it as the heart if their hunting ground no cattle i had yet found they way up over it iti rim but unknown uni cnown to two white men lisaj am d viewed it from th lop top of one of the bears ears on lint jint mountain in the fall they still started tires fires in tile the grass to make clearings in which they could see game the PP rexf season pud frid to its ren inte depths they resorted oft 11 ll tr to contemn contemplate late the unhappy affairs of the count country rv son san tinn junn was no lonter theirs 1 n HB mst list on presence of th thee e ve pale ani strangers stian geis persistent in policy poll cy and ever increasing ilici easing in numbers num beis meant lu in soi strange but certain way that iho 1110 would he be super seeded reduced subjected the fact that in tit the e first place their own fathers had taken this very country from somo some other people was no reason at all that those white men should take li it fro from m them did we say t the lie flutes stole from the white men to their way of thinking they did no such thing despoiling an enemy was a noble art inherited from their fathers an essential practice adding gain and interest to life it ran in their blood the successful tip appropriation of tl a rivals goods was the work of a brave man a chlof chief it if a man took the property of his friends and his equals thence was really a thief and deserved to be killed hilled if we ve do not become too diplomatic in riving giving the whole of 11 rc qc CO count tint we ve may show that the clutes bisp disposed 0 sed of their thieves in this very way but they claimed praise instead of blame for maintain ing their tribal standards in robb robbing the navajos cavajos and the mormons cormons Mor mons true to their peace agreement the plutos plotted no slaughter of the de fon fen seles sorted forted conlone on tile the san juan river they appropriated his horses killed its hla cattle plundered hla his i c mi Ns his loda fields find even his kIt kitchen chez i when they found it unguarded but all this grey grew tame as it became clear the invaders had come to stay in their doar retreat j in the spring of 1881 they turned their res restless t less jaze gaze to the invaders at ata blue mountain from whom they had neither accepted nor heard any offer pf af friendship some of these blue mountain men liked trouble they had j made unmistakable bids for it anai in not 0 t taking trouble to distinguish be i those anoe wanted it and those av who ho the indians found na nb reason why they should not turn w with fth their pent up feelings to that inviting v quarter at what has conic come to be known a as pluto springs east of blue mountain jola lolini 11 thurman Ihu imin tended a band ot ot fine blooded horses while tho Ili titans 0 t invaders cattle hoy looked with covetous eyes at hit good horses the die lure of 0 the beautiful animals at the springs may havu havo lieen been quite enough to draw them I 1 in that direction even it the attraction had not been made doubly great by other things including cash in the latter part pait of april bichard may took byron smith a horse buyer from a point in colorado out to tho the springs to look at hermans Hur mana mans horses smith expected to buy the horses or some of them and he be carried canted sil silver er and greenback to settle the deal how the indians became aware or of that thoney money and how they began anil finished the massacre mass acie of the three men they have not yet told I 1 and n I 1 one else remains to tell it pass i n cowboys found the cabin in ashes t til it pretests Prem ests ls robbed the horses rone one they found tile the mutilated remains ot 01 thurman and may but the horse buyer 11 d disappeared and fehir determined efforts failed to reach him the fate of this thim nin mn r rz 14 1 1 i a mystery nearly fort forty y years and then a skeleton was discovered behind I 1 some big rocks down the canyon cannon whether lie he hid and was found an ani I 1 murdered mui derod there or whether he drag god ged his wounded Ivoun ded self sele there to die alone Is only to bo be guessed with tl belr horses their money an aind other plunder hie Ilie flutes turned do literately libera tely to the south west traveller nr tir towards bluff where the settlers in fort had no idea ot 0 what had happened those red handed indians lind avit them their families their milk goats and camp trall fians s find and had biad no fear of oc being apprehended li ded on oil bluff dorali four miles from the little town chev tlc alc l some conle apil horses into beir ii aird rd but TOP too nielson who liari liar bened to io be riding there shw then them F rd fd d herrind anav to 0 o olve the alarm they sent ecat a bullet whist whistling lill in hi direction its as lie ho dic disappeared appeared hut but h 11 roon poon hid had ten tell or it a lozen men front from the fort on their trall a mouse 1 uil ing out to intercept intel capt a lion aloni at dolling boiling spring in butler P huff men saw the clutes on ills sloping eloping rock rack across the can canyon on their horses their goats and theli their families making a motley and extensive ap pear arce or of life thirty braves sour soui n 11 rode lode town down to meet the ahe white men in the valley galley but the jatter jailer began to hunt among the hun him dred and fifty head of horros itald to claim their 0 own wn without compromise tho the 1 indians sent up tip it 1 wili wild yell ell nn 11 dlan their gun thrusting them I 1 in the faces or against the iho eclips of cp ti I 1 PI ft binm nm he file mit foit hut but not too sudden ly however believer for the men from tile the loit fort to get their own oun weapons in fit position to make the killing a mutual affair tilts this den d en persistent men from the fort did not meet the file same fate as the three at the hors corp ranch must be credited to a gallant red streak of pinte honor the list first boom of the deadly clash was due any second ond old daldo held P rusty trigger less rifle in joe Ni elsons face anil and ra ising a stone to strike the hammer and the load when another anc eared on oil the cliff behind them and called everything to a hat halt with a long shrill yell ile he told his neoila that these white men were rin ties to the tica treaty and that my must be alvi their horses and allowed to gil 0 o in nei iso tile the scene chanced in a see nl rivery P ivery indian lowered its his ann ani aal they surrendered i eleven head of 0 horses bior es without protest but a fortain sillo aw ow 11 r slid rabi ano indar lm dor bently alid kenniv loider 01 1 tn old hue bitin maria floured fl ared flint 1 at yc should I te ie e maln in it case find and when he ordered her to Us ills mount she her ber voice in a ion inn a and 11 d bitter erv rv of 11 trems whan annn of f her peoble offered to tn interfere intel bere rere hr man illan told tod her to erv louder and slip lifted up tip voice and wept as af they fire are said to tn 1 v dorle dore in ancient times it lie he poth ln PIA t bluff anan tonic ber fird find fir d lir ir frn the old hi him hii m rn pr 1 I lef I 1 to 0 F thefil ns nr h ha fl her loopo re rlyn 1 1 their ae f nt nn nil oll not dis dishons di holo it A teals than 0 th P it apin tn 11 0 morim hitt araen aman kincl annl pd 1 I like ilke rm nav othar to tn tham lind 1111 t 1 s toola ninn v sn aft A shirli chih I 1 hall had no value alne at all they bought two lusts ath of 0 the bluff men one for twenty fir fl dollars ollars il and another for fifty they had lines and other straps irom from several ets eta of harness find and their plunder booked like lice tile tha plunder from a u raid but the news of the killing cattle came some time later to the fort ari dolling boiling the ilutta moved slowly up the shooting down cattle wherever tile they found them tilts this shooting was for noth ln but bill fun full or for cussedness cus edness for they touched 0 lichel but few of the carcasses tho the front from some of the fat cows they cut away the mammary gands to be used for fat they caught and cruelly calves and young cattle seeming thereby to asuree their disappointed appetite for vengeance on tile the too friendly settlers |
