The record-union., 1897-05-17
THE RENEGADE FLUTES.
INTERESTING INCIDENTS IN RE-
LATION TO THE BAND.
Ii Little nouse is Caught There VIII
Probably be a Lynching by
Enraged Timers.

KINGMAN (AriZ.}, May 16.-The
/ renegade Piute Indians of Southern
Nevada are again brought to public
notice by the murder with the last few
days of ten or more 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 ana hills of
Death Valley and spread out and
reached the great river OF the West. 1t
was among these red fends that John
d. Lee secreted himself after the Noun
tain Meadow massacre. Many of them
are adherents of the Mormon Church
and are controlled by the bishops,
whom they servilcly 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 We're their raids upon
stage coaches and caravans. They even
became SC bold that they entered the
| outskirts Of the little settlements and
shot men down. \ expedition was
formed at old HarGyville on the Colo
RADIO River ard a maurading band of
redskins was followed fifty miles into
the desert \ burro had been loaded
with sugar, bacon and flour, which had
been thoroughly mixed with crystallzed
strychnine- On the evening OF the
| second day the posse camped at the
mouth of q wide canyon, In the morn
ing one of the members climbed TO the
summit of q high hill and discovered
the Indians camped in the same cam
yOn about mile away. Reporting TO
the other members of the expedition,
they saddled their horses, packed the
burrO and sent one of the number up
the canyon to attract the attention of
the Indians. Soon the yelling horde
came down upon the little band of
whites who We're making frantic efforts
to get the burro away. At last they
abandoned the donkey to his fate and
rode rapidly homeward. The Piutes
killed the donkey and, making camp,
prepared for a feast. The feast was
| one of death. Nineteen dead bodies
We're found by the Indians who went
out to hunt up the missing band. Cap
tain w. H Hardy. now of Phoenix, was
one of the leaders in this raid on the
band of desert 'fiends Soon after this
Captain Hardy and John Moss made
a treaty of peace with the Piutes and
they have kept this compact as a tribe,
| but frequently one gets angered and
kills whites until his thirst for blood is
| satisfied
| 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 prospect
ors. He is still at large
! Emulating the example of Mouse,
! Ahvote, the outcast of the renegade
tribe who was compelled by the whites
| to kill his own brother because the lat
| ter assassinated a stage driver, con-
ceived it his duty to rid the land of as
many whites as possible. Secure in
| the belief that they were living among
| q peaceable tribe the miners and team
sters of Ell Dorado Canyon fell easy
victims to this fiend. The story of
! how he crept upon them one by one
in the Ell Dorado Canyon until he had
slain no less than ten. has already been
/ told. and the edict of the miners tC
| members of his tribe that he must suf-
| fer death was successfully carried out
The six Indians who went sent out
/ to slay the murderer followed down
each bank Of the river and at last
! found him in hiding in a slough thirty
miles below. A cousin was ordered to
shoot him down and fired three bullets
into his body. He died without strug-
gle. Five bodies have so far been found
and many more are missing as a re-
suit of this Indians bloody debauch.
| Officers are now in hot pursuit after
| Mouse and within a week Kingman
| will be the scene of a lynching with
! sanguinary trimmings.