Lyon County times. [volume] (Silver City, Nev.) 1874-1907, 1897-02-27
THE GREAT INDIAN SCARE.

"A mountains Made Out Of q MOiehill
Because a Red Man Objects to Hav
ing HIS sister Outraged by White
Men. Facts About the Great up
rising" aa@s.s
For the past week the papers
of the State have been full Of the
"Indian Outbrake" in Mason Val
ley.
Two weeks ago tonight Charles
Genzel and Cy Logan, two of Ma
son, Valleys promising young men,,
endeavored to keep two young Piute
squaws from returning from the
town of Yerington to the Indian
camp, but short distance from
that place. Some reports say the
boys ravished the girls and others
that they were about to, when the
brother of one girl appeared on the
scene and endeavored to get his
sister to go to the camp. This the
white boys tried to prevent, and
there was a row, after which Logan
followed the Piute up and struck
him on the side of the head with
short iron bar, cutting his ear in
two and fracturing his scull. Lo-
gan and Genzel after seeing what
they had done, Disappeared, and
the wounded Piute, with tie assist
ance of his sister and some other
Indians managed to get to the In
dian camp. The Indian died last
Saturday, and was buried the next
day, having lived just week after
receiving the injury. His name
was Jim King, and he was an In
dian policeman on the Pyramid
Lake Reservation, but was visiting
some of his people in Mason Val
ley.
After the assault was made on
King, up to the time of his death,
no attempt was made to arrest Lo-
gan and Genzel, and upon the adj
vice of friends the left the country.
This naturally made the Indians
sore and they talked pretty rough,
and undoubtedly they would have
made it unhealthy for the perpe-
traitors OF the crime if they could
have laid hands on them, but no
threats were made to burn the town
or Kill anyone else. However, the
more timid of the white people tel
egraphed to the Governor to send
troops as there was about to be an
Indian outbreak, and the press
correspondents began to get in their
deadly work on the case.
On Monday morning of this
week Adjutant General Galusha, of
Carson, went out to the valley, but
he found no occasion for alarm nor
any necessity for troops.
Logan and Genzel were arrested
in Winnemucca Monday, and Sher-
iff Littell left here Tuesday to
bring the culprits back and arrived
here with them Thursday morning.
They had a preliminary hearing
the same day before Justice Haw-
kins, and will have a regular hear
ing next Tuesday morning at 10
O'Clock, at which time witnesses
from Mason Valley will be present
to testify in the case.
The Piutes as we'll as white people
do not believe that Genzel was half
as much to blame for the trouble
as Logan, and it will probably be
shown that the former tried to pref
vent the latter from striking the
blow that caused the Indians death.
The affair is an unfortunate one,
1t will probably cost Lyon county
several hundred dollars before the
case is settled, and the advertising
the section where the tragedy &C.
Cured has received by over-aDxious
press correspondents is not of the
kind that will make home-seekers
look that way for a place to locate.
Nobody desires to live in country
where there are Indian "uprisings,"
and the law is not as protective of
one as another. @ss @