The herald., 1897-05-17
PIUTE RAIDS
Make Life Miserable for
the Miners
AHv0TE'S FRIGHTFUL LIST
MADE LONGER By TWO MORE
VICTIMS
AHvoTE's FRIeHTFUL LIST
Wallapi Indians Express a Desire to
Assist in the determination Of
the Piute Tribe


egade Piute Indians Of Southern Ne
vada are again brought to public no.
tice by the murder OF many defenseless
miners and teamsters on the banks of
the murky Colorado river.
Outcasts from the tribe, they have
hid themselves away in the sand dunes
and hills Of Death valley, and spread out
and overreached the great river of the
west. 1t was among these red fiende
that John D. Lee secreted himself after
the Mountain Meadow massacre. Many
Of them are adherents of the Mormon
church and are controlled by the bish-
ops, whom they Servilely obey. They
claim their origin from a union of the
eagle and coyote, and reverence the
bird and beast as their progenitors.
The old stage road from San Bernar-
dino to Prescott ran through their do
main, and daily were their raids upon
stage coach and caravan. They even
became so bold that they entered the
outskirts of the little settlmenets and
shot men Gown. An expedition was
formed at Old Hardyville. on the Col
orado river. and marauding band Of
redskins followed fifty miles into the
desert. A burro had been loaded with
sugar, bacon and -four. and this had
been thoroughly mixed with crystalized
strychnine.
On the evening Of the second day the
posse camped at the mouth of a wide
canyon. In the morning one of the men,
bers climbed to the summit Of high
hill and discovered the Indians they
were following camped in the same
canyon, about one mile away.
Reporting to the other members Of the
expedition, they saddled their horses
and packethe burro, and then sent one
of their number up the canyon to at
tract the Indians attention. Soon the
yelling horde of red devils came down
on the little band of whites. who were
making frantic efforts to get the burro
away. At last they abandoned the poor
donkey to his fate and rode rapidly
homeward.
The Piutes killed the donkey, and
making camp. prepared ~ feast.
The feast was q feast Of death.
Nineteen dead bodies were found by
the Indians who went out to hunt up the
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Piutes and they have kept the COM
pact as tribe. but frequently one gets
angered and goes out and kills whites
until his thirst for blood Is satiated.
Last January Little Mouse, a blear-
eyed Piute, got full of bad whisky at
White Hills and went over on the Colo
RADIO river and murdered two prospec-
tors. He is still at large. Emulating the
example Of Mouse, Ahvote. the outcast
of the renegade tribe, conceived it his
duty to rid the land Of as many whites
as possible. Secure in the belief that
they were living among peaceable tribe.
the miners and teamsters Of Ell Dorado
canyon fell easy victims to this fiend.
The six Indians who were sent out to
stay the murderer followed down each
bank of the river and at last found him
in hiding in a slough, thirty miles be-
low. A cousin was ordered to shoot
him down, and fired three bullets into his
body. He died without struggle. Five
bodies have so far been found, and many
more are missing as result Of this In
dams bloody debauch.
officers are now in hot cry after Mouse
and within a week Kingman will be the
scene of lynching with red aboriginal
trimmings.
AHvOTES MURDERS
KINGMAN, Ariz, May 16.-The
sheriff's posse returned to White Hills
this evening from the chase OF Ahvote,
the Piute Indian murderer. They report
the body Judge ]. M. Morton found in a
cabin at Gold Bug, seven miles below
Ell Dorado canyon, shot through the
back. Morton had lived thirty-six hours
after being shot, and the body was not
cold when found. A burro and the outfit
Of a prospector, found 100 yards from the
Gold Bug mill, leads to the belief tha.
another man has been killed. Ahvote
was killed on Cottonwood island in the
Colorado river, thirty miles below the
canyon, by cousin, and the body buried
on the island. There are conflicting
reports Of the killing of the Indian.
Deputy Sheriff Rosborough leaves this
evening with a posse to arrest Mouse,
the other Piute Indian murderer.
The Wallapi IIkians held big pow
WOW this morning and expressed desire
to go out and exterminate the Southern
Nevada band Of Piutes. They say that
for yeas the Indians have reported the
killing of whites by this band of rene
gades. Chief Levy-Levy offers the
services of 100 warriors to the whites 70,
the purpose Of driving all the Piute:
away from the ColorsAo river. The big
talk lasted nearly all day.