Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-06-24
local INTELLIGENCE
Indian Difficulty.

The perils of prospecting in this wild
.,urtrv are we'll illustrated by the follow
u, account, with which we are favored
hrR p. Stevens, of an adventure which
,ook place last Sunday. and resulted in
.sa asstb of an Indian by the hands of
.,o.. there seems to b, good reason to
s,nposs he was trying to murder. 1t
onnsars from the statement made to us
10 Mr. Stevens, that the other day he
and Mr.. Newton, who keeps a boarding
honss ON Panaca Flat, started from Pah-
ranauat in company with two Indians
ons grown and the other boy--in
search of quartz ledge which the elder
Indian informed Newton and Stevens he
oonld show them. Before starting out,
these gentlemen were warned by some of
the citizens OF Pahranagat to beware of
the Indian, for he bore u bad character,
and was suspected of killinga white man
and two Chinese. Messrs. Newton and
Stevens thought, however, that they
would take the chances, calculating that
if the Indian exhibited any bad designs,
that they would be more than match
for him, On Sunday last the party ar
rived at the place pointed ont by the In
dian as their destination, which was in
the Highland range, about 40 miles
south OF Phoebe. After satisfying them
selves that there were no indica-
tious such as the Indian described,
the men proposed to return forth
with as it was a long way to the
next water. The Indian, however,
wanted to camp at that spot for the
night but the prospectors refused to do
so and started on their way back. As
they proceeded down the canyon, the
Indian kept tagging behing, and though
they waited for him five or six times, he
always kept out Of sight After leaving
the canyon the party kept on for about
six miles and then camped for the night.
As Mr.. Stevens was taking the saddle Of
of his horse, he saw the Indian about a
half mile distant, but he still kept
aoof, and did not come iuto camp,
either to supper or when the party went
to rest. The Indian boy said that he
thought that he had gone back the other
way. The men went to rest about the
usual hour. About II o'clock slight
pain in the side woke Mr.. Stevens, and
as be lay awake he saw the Indian about
fifty yards of, cautiously making his
way towards them. At this instant
Newton coughed in his sleep, and the
noise caused the Indian to hide
himself. Stevens then woke New
ton and told him the way the
Indian was acting, and they lay and
watched for about ten minutes. Seeing
nothing of the Indian during that time,
they concluded they would get up and
look around, taking their pistols with
them. They had not gone more than
sixty steps before the Indian started up,
and at once complained of being very
sick and wanted water and food. The
whole party returned to camp, where
they made the Indian lie down. At the
same time he kept complaining of some
ailment. The time passed until about 2
O'clock, when the Indian set up, and
after little while suddenly jumped on
his feet and commenced to run. The
men, then satisfied of his evil intentions
aud feeling certain that he had beer
playing possum on them for the
purpose of getting some advan
tage, fred several shots at him
three of which entered his body
and one struck him in the head. He fel
dead directly after the firing commenced
and the Indian boy ran off. As the mel
had to wait two hours for daylight il
order to catch their horses, and as tn
boy had two hours start of them, the,
concluded to direct their steps to Phoebe
as they feared that from the information
given by the boy, the Indians nigh
waylay them in the canyon lying be
tween the point where they camped o
and Pahranagat.