WHICH ARE THE SAVAGES?

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2220, 29 April 1880, Page 3

WHICH ARE THE SAVAGES?

According to the “ New York Tribune ”12 ITto Indians, who chanced to visit Pueblo, in Colarado, very nearly paid for a particularly bad dinner with their lives. It so chanced, that after they had ordered the repast, and were about to sit down to it, a rumour ran though the mining town that 13 Indians belonging to the tribe which lately fought against the Americans, were at the hotel. The place was immediately surrounded by between two and three thousand persons, who passed a resolution that the Utcs ought to-be lynched. This having been decided, the question arose as to cxccu f ing them,and meamvh ilc some hoys having provided themselves witli bags of coal, varied the proceedings hy pelting the Indians with all the vigour of which they were capable. Fortunately at tins juncture a train c;line up at the side of the hotel, and the Indians with a dash ran into one of the carriages. The engine-driver was equal to the emergency, and, despite a storm of howls and pieces of coal, started the train and saved the Utcs. It is unlikely that these men will return to Pueblo, especially as some 000 desperadoes have gone upon their track with the intention of hanging them if they can find them anywhere out of their reservation.