Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1875-01-24
INDIANS EYNCHED.

COR an account of the fate of the two
indians, Tempiute Bill and his bro
Their. who were arrested by the Sho-
sbones and taken to Belmont. 1t
appears that Deputy Sheriff j. A.
Ridwell arrived at the Crescent mill
with the two Indians, whom he had
brought from Belmont, and left them
AT the mill under guard of two men
while he went to Hike. While he
was gone the Indians made break,
and one of them, the younger OF the
two brothers, escaped. Tempiute
Bill himself was overpowered, though
not until after a desperate struggle,
during which he was shot in the
foot and very nearly succeeded in
wrestling a pistol from one of the
onards. After DIR. Bidwell's return
a crowd of men came to the mil
from Hike, and demanded the pris-
oner from him. The Doctor, being
a Deputy Sheriff, refused, but the
c;tizens were not to be denied; they
were in dead earnest and in no mood
for trifling, and perforce DR.. Bid
we'll had to give way to superior
force. Tempiute Bill was then taken
to Hike. He told of several muir
ders in which he and other Indians
had been concerned, naming Mo-
ouitch and another called Johnny as
the guilty parties. He said last Au-
cust tbey killed a man who he said
was crazy, near the Crescent Wash,
about four miles from Hike; that
Moouitch and Johnny had pounded
the man to death with rocks and that
the body would be found under
rock pile at the point designated. a
party was sent out and sure enough
the body was brought in and decent
lv buried. The Indian also con-
fessed to killinga man in the hills In
the rear of Greer's ranch and anoth-
er at Tempiute Springs. AS the In
dams Moquitch and Johnny were at
the Indian camp down the valley a
party was sent to bring them in.
They only brought Moquitch. After
their arrival Tempiute Bill and Mo-
ouitch were placed in wagon, PIN
ioned, with ropes around their necks,
and taken to a two story stone build
ing. From the upper window
plank was run out, the ropes were
attached, when the horses attached
to the wagon it, is supposed took
fright at something and dragged Off
the wagon, leaving the two Indians
hanging by the neck, and as no one
relieved them they soon died. The
other Indians were then dismissed.
After these Indians had thus eXpi-
ated their manifold crimes, hearing
that "Johnny" was at the camp in
the valley, number of citizens went
down and surrounded the camp.
When "Johnny" found that escape
was cut off, he went for his gun, but
the citizens were too quick for him,
and a general melee followed, par
ticipated in by all the Indians in the
camp. The citizens made but short
work of them. The time for forbear-
ance had gone by. The result was
that some seven or eight Indians
We're killed; the rest saved them
selves by flight. Among the slain
was "Johnny," who seemed while
living to have been actuated with
peculiar animosity against the whites
and took every opportunity of graft
flying it by numbering every solitary
straggler that might fall in his pow
er. These bloodthirsty savages have
had thus lesson taught them that it
Is probable the survivors will not
readily forget, and for time, at any
rate, will keep from imbruing their
murderous hands in the blood OF the
unprotected prospector and traveller.
Mob violence we at all times depre-
cate, but there are times and occa-
slons when it seems to be justitiable.
The settlers of Hike are living in an
exposed and out-of-the-way locality,
Tar from other settlements, and in
pursuing their ordinary avocations
OF farming and mining are necessa-
rily daily exposed to be attacked and
murdered when entirely off their
guard. Under these circumstances
1t is not to be wondered at, that, hav-
ing the Indians within their grasp,
whom they know had committed
several murders and openly confess