Arizona citizen., 1875-12-11
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
special Dispatches to THE CITIZEN, by
 United States Telegraph Line.
PACIFIC COAST MATTERS.

PACIFIC COAST MATTERS.
 CAMPO, CAL, December 4.-This morning between 10 and 10 30 o'clock, this place was attacked by q party of Mexicans supposed to be the band of Chayez-six in number. They rode up to the store, left their horses stand ing and came inside the store. Moth ing was suspected, although we had been under arms for some three weeks knowing that part of the Chavez band were at Las Juntas in Lower California, and intended to attack thi. place; but since the death of Chavez in Arizona, we have beer somewhat of our guard Three of them came ir the store and three staid outside, and il is thought they intended to rob tho store without any fuss. Those inside the store pulled out their reyolvers and presented them at L. II. Gaskill, it i: thought to frighten him. He dodged behind the counter, secured a double barreled gun, and as they could nOt run out without being shot, they jumped over the counter on top of NIT Gaskill, and one pressed his revolver close to him and fired, shooting him through just above the left lung, the ! ball coming out at his back. The in stant the shot was fired, everything was confusion; the blood squirting ou | Gaskill's mouth into the face of tho Mexican who, thinking Gaskill dead run outside and commenced shooting at everybody and every thing. Mr Gaskill run outside with a double bar relied shotgun and shot one of th, gang twice in the face with bucksho and downed him Another of tht band rushed into the blacksmith shOI with the intention of killing Mir E | Gaskill, and did fire one shot, shooting him through the feshy part of th, shoulder, but that was the last shot h, ever fired, for MT. Gaskill shot hin dead in his tracks. Another Mexican from Lower California, thought tc
 be peaceable and not in any cOnneC ton with the band, was shot througl the neck and side. It is thought h. cannot recover as he is bleeding in formally.
 One of the Mexicans and I Iwho exchanged shots without hurting O
 touching each other. Having fired al
 my shots, concluded the best plal he rests very easy. Of the three wh,
 got away, all are positive that two ar
 severely wounded, one shot througl the neck with a pistol ball and tL
 other in the breast and neck with buck shot, and one being dead and tw
 others at this place wounded, we ca
 claim no more than a good days work ! CAMPO, December 5.-About fou o'clock this morning, one of the Me, jeans who was shot by L. H. Gaskil
 crawled up to the house and begged [
 be taken in. He had been out in tn
 brush hiding, but the cold mornin made him seek shelter He was in a d,
 ing condition, and plying him, the pet pie took him in and made him be close to the fire. Five buckshot wound were found on the right side, thre . near the lung and two lower down i the abdomen there are also tw ? wounds in the right arm. His case ' hopeless, as Dr. Willard thinks he cal
 not live till midnight. The otht - Mexican, whom we all thought W, : innocent, Is proved to be one of th gang and one who run to head off r E. Gaskill, and the one who was sh, g by MT. Gaskill. His condition tn
 evening is much better, as he is able Q set up. Mir. Hunsaker has put him
 irons, locking a large 20-foot fro f chain to one of his ankles. They wi | take him to San Diego by stage t ]. morrow. He has told SO many di Q ferent stories and contradIcted himse j. SO much, it is hard to tell what h l name is or what his relations we
 with the band. lie told Silas Gsski f if he would clear him, he would wol t for him twelve years without pay.
 Justice Cline served as coroner {
 day at the inquest held over the - mains of the dead man. Twelve iur l men were sworn and they viewed Il - body. Several witnesses were calle
 and testified concerning the outraC ; and the manner of his death and II y jury rendered the following verdict A We, the jury, do find that deceasc c came to his death from the effects
 nine buckshot wounds in the rigI ], breast, at the hands of Silas E. Gaskil l. and we further find that the act VI justifiable, as it was done in self d '' fensc.
 '' 4 rude box was made, his remain N' placed inside and buried. The par who were out in search of the renal
 der of the band, retnrned this af;ernoC
 and reported they had not heard D ,r seen anything Of them. IL is thoug If they struck over through StarvatiC h Valley and went to Las Juntas. NJ