BATTLE WITH INDIANS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 283, 22 April 1911, Page 9

BATTLE WITH INDIANS

A WAR PARTY WIPED OUT. New York, February 20. Yelling the old war-whoop, dancing wildly, lighting with bows and arrows, twelve outlawed Shoshone Indians made their last stand against the whites in the Navada desert. They fought as gamely as ever Indians fought. The squaw's and children stood beside the bucks. Tt was hopeless striving, but the twelve stood the ground stoically till eight of them—four men, two women and two children—had been picked off by the rifles of the pursuers. The remaining four were helpless to resist capture. The whites had lost only one man. Perhaps in the days of Deerfoot these Indians would have been heroes, and war and massacres would have followed. Tint not in the year 1011. There was an inquest a few days later, but nothing came of that. The little battle was the outcome of the murder of four wealthy ranchers. These, men disappeared on January 10, and weeks later their bodies were found shot, mutilated and stripped. The sheriff Bitliered a force, and started on the trail that, led from the scene of the murder. For nearly three weeks they dogged the footsteps, soon learning that their quarry was a band of Indians. The trails grew fresher, and the men knew they were gaining on the murderers. They sighted them, surrounded them, and destroyed them.