Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-11-01
INDIANS AT ALMA.
Two Men Killed by Roaming Apaches.
slINer City Enlerprise.

A-AAt~A R4A'Nr
 Captain WH. French, manager of the W. $. ranch at Alma, arrived in Silver City last Monday and gives the following particulars of the killing by Indians on the Frisco river about 9 miles above Alma. On Thursday of last week Juan Jose Barera accompanied by his two sons, Avaran and Manuel Barera, left their home at the Frisco plaza with an OK team to bring a load of vegetables from their garden in the box canon of the Frisco river some five or six miles below
 After getting their load they started on their road home. They had proceeded but a short distance when they were at tackled by Indians, who fired at them from rocks on the west side of the canon. Avarau Barera was killed at the first fire being shot downward through the body. The father jumped from the wagon and ran thirty or forty yards when he was shot down. The other son, Manuel who was behind on horseback, ran as fast as his horse would carry him to where he was hidden from view when he dismount- ed and escaped in the heavy underbrush. The fiends dragged the body of the old man from where it fell and threw it into the Frisco river. The boy Manuel ran to the house of Mir. RObesOn owner of the box o brand of cattle about two miles down the rlyer. where he found Mrs Rob- esOn and Mrs. Golden alone in the house, Mr. Robeson and Mrs. Golden's son hay ing gone to the plaza but short time before, and making a narrow escape from the Indians as they were only quarter of a mile ahead of the Barera family. Manuel Barera reported the killing of his father and brother by the Indians. and the terrified women barricaded the house the best they could and awaited in suspense the return of their husband and son. Manuel BeTera borrowing one of the two rifles which were at the house, ran down the river about one mile to the house of Mexican named Gerone.
 Mir. Robeson and his companion on their return from the plaza came across the bodies of the two Mexicans in the canon but could not account for the mur- der as they had no thought of Indians being in the vicinity. Sending the boy to the house and passing his own home by side trail Robeson proceeded down the river to the house of the Mexican Gerone, intending to tell him of the mur- der of his friends. Here the affair was explained to him by the son and brother of the murdered men. It was needless to say he reached home as quickly as possi- ble. Not knowing in what number the Indians might be present they all re- l mained hidden throughout the day. Af- ter nightfall Robeson accompanied by his family and Mrs. Golden went to the lower Frisco to give the alarm, arriving at the w. 5. ranch between 3 and o'clock ill the morning on Friday. A volunteer party was soon made up and repaired to the scene of the butchery ar irving there about II o'clock a. m, twen- | ty-four hours after the men were killed. The trail showed three barefooted and one shod horse. Where the Indians had dragged the body of Juan Jose and where they had stood around while beating Avaran on the head, were found the tracks of two with mOccasins and one barefooted Indian. The trail was follow ed across the Salise mountains for sev- eral miles toward the reservation until lost among the rocks. Averan Barera ! after being shot was beaten about the head with an axe taken from the wagon and which was found near the body GOV cred with blood. Manuel Barera owes his escape to having dropped a glove which he had turned back to look for. He heard the shots, supposed it to be S3nffh9dY mgnf e6; shooting at game or for amqse; ] he came in sight one Indian was on top of the wagon looking for what he could steal. The Indian on top of the wagon immediately fired at him, the others then fired from the brush. He was so terrified that after dismounting he threw away nearly all his clothing including boots
 and hat and in this way ran to the houses
 below. The murder was one of pure
 wantonness there being no arms or any.
 thing else in possession of the victims tc
 tempt the cupidity of these monsters
 The question occurs to Us. of what Jlst
 are U. $. troops at ornamental barracks
 of the interior states? Could they be o
 more service on this frontier? They
 might at least do picket duty around the
 reservation and let citizens know whe1
 the fiends were going out for a raid, i
 they could not intercept them.