Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-05-28
CALABAsAs HAPPENINGS.
Season Fairly OpenOd-Llvsly Times
 Among the RoEghs.

Pleknieking Season Fairly openOd-Llvsly Times Among the RoEghs.
 Last Sunday afternoon a saloon keep
 CT from near the Mexico line came to
 Calabasas and indulged in a shooting
 fraeas, by which two men were slightly
 wounded, one of them being an innocent
 bystander. 1t appears that the saloon
 keeper and a stranger were having some
 words in front ot Smith < Baia's saloon
 when a crowd gathered to witness the
 melee, which ended in the stranger be-
 ing shot in the arm, the ball penetrating
 it, and striking another party in the
 ankle making a very painful wound.
 After doing the shooting he put spurs
 to his horse and skipped out; but Deputy
 Sheriff Vosburgh was not long in getting
 his horse ready, and an exciting race of
 about four miles was had between the
 two hOrsemen, when the deputy
 took his man and made him drop his
 guns, two in number, and marched him
 back to town where he was brought be- fore Justice St. John, and the men whom
 he had shot not appearing, he was fined to the full extent of the law, which he
 paid and departed
 Monday morning about seven o'clock, a man came into town from Areoe's camp, situated about eIght miles from this place, after the Coroner and Deputy Sheriff, to go there immediately. The cause for their presence at that place
 was the result of a shooting affray in
 which two MeIicans named Jose M.
 Vigil and Mariana Gonzales were killed outright and Wm. Gordon, a night herd CT, better known as shorty" at the camp, was slightly wounded. The affair happened in a saloon about a quarter of mile from the camp. It appears that in the afternoon of Sunday, MT. Gordon went up to this saloon, kept by G. A Seabury, and while playing monte, some person removed a new hat from his head and placed theron an old one. In the evening shorty" again returned to the saloon when the hat matter was brought up, and from words the affair turned to shots. One shot was fired at Shorty" by a Mexican but it missed him, when he pulled his revolver, which snapped and he retreated into the street, and as he was doing so was shot in the hip. He dropped and immediately com menced firing among the Mexicans, emptying five chambers of his pistol, when he was assisted to his feet by friends and hurried of to camp. It was near midnight when this occurred, and after lighting the lamps in the saloon, which had been extinguished in the fra Gas, it was found that two Mexicans were killed outright, and one missing, who was wounded, and was last seen en- tering dense thicket near by. Before the arrival of the Coroner and Deputy Sheriff, the Mexicans, some thirty in number, had assembled and were pre- pairing to make raid on the camp for the purpose of taking Shorty" out and make him dance an air jig at then end of a string of hemp. The men at the camp were well pre- pared to meet the attacking party, as they were armed with Remington and Sharp's rifles. No doubt but for the timely arrival of the officers, there would have been few more Mexlcans to hold an inquest over. The Deputy Sheriff rode up to the Mexicans and assured them that justice would be meted ont to the guilty parties, when the work of holding the inquest was proceeded with. l One of the men was shot twice by a | pistol or rife, one of the balls penetrat- l ing the heart, and the other about two inches to the left; the other man was I undoubtedly shot by a double barreled | shotgun, as a large hole was made in his | body near the heart. During the in- quest a cranky blacksmith who was present, ierked the Coroner's revolver SAt oA AAo oNohbaAu DClOIt uG be prevented, shot at a Mexican, just grazing his scalp. The Coroner im- nediately after the inquest called a court and fined him SlOO and three months inl- prisonment in the county jail; his name 8 Fred Ball.
 During the time of the holding of the inquest, the armed force at the camp, kept advancing up rsviue in the cau- ron, until within several hundred feet 'f the saloon, when the Deputy Sheriff, who had kept his eyes on them. ordered hem to return to camp. Their object T coming up was, that they wished to ,e on hand in case the Mexicans should ttempt to make an attack on the officers md few Americans present, to assist in defending them.
 A Tumor was circulated in Calabasas hat the officers were cOrralled by the iexicans and theIr lives were in danger, yhen two wagon lOads of well armed nen left that place for the camp, only to meet the Coroner and Deputy Sheriff on heir return, all safe and sound