The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-09-12
COWBOYS AND MENCANS FIGHT
BLOODY ENCOUNTER AT SMALL
TOWN NEAR BIsBEE, ARR.
One American and One Mexican Dead
and Several Wounded-More Trou-
BILE Is Feared.

Denver, Colo, Sept. ia special to.
the News from Bisbee, lAriz., says: Late
Saturday afternoon there occurred at
Naco, small town on the Information
al line, nine miles from here. shoot
ing affair which has already caused the
death of one American cowboy and
Mexican guard, and the wounding of
several others, and ultimately in de-
livering over to the Mexican authori-
ties four American citizens who. will be
tried for murder
Several weeks ago James Heron was
arrested by Mexican line riders charg
ed with smuggling horses and was be-
ing taken by guards to Nogales for
hearing. While at Naco, Bob Clayton,
a friend of Heron, asked permission
to accompany him to Nogales. The
Mexican officers consented, but at the
same time notified Clayton that he
would have to disaEm himself, giving
him thirty minutes to do so. When the
time was up the guards started toward
Clayton who pulled his gun and COM
menced shooting, at the same time
backing toward this side of the line.
The guards, seven in number return
ed the fire, while two other cowboys,
one of whom was named Franco, came
to Clayton's rescue, who escaped to this
through his body, from the effects of
which he died here last night.
Captain Molina, of the Mexican
guards, was shot twice, once through
the right thigh and through the arm,
neither of which is serious. Franco
was arrested by the guards and placed
in Jail, while the other cowboy escaped.
An hour and a half later three guards
who started with Heron to NOgales,
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American cowboys, friends of Heron,
who were bent upon rescuing him. A
lively fight took place, resulting in the
killing of a guard named Pedrogan, and
the wounding of Manuel Rivona so Sc
verely that death is expected hourly.
The third guard escaped to the custom
house, and securing help, returned and
drove the cowboys across to this side
of the line.
Heron refused to come back with
his rescuers, but continued on to No
gales, where he gave himself up. He
chooses to face the charge of snug
Cling rather than risk being taken by
officers here, who hold a warrant for
him, he having escaped from the Ok
lahoma penitentiary after being sem
fenced for twenty-five years for muir
c,a-.
Late Saturday night another cowboy
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saloon on the Mexican side of the line,
was arrested by those authorities,
charged with being implicated in the
affair, and is now in Jail at Naco with
France.
The cowboys, since the fight, have
been gathering horses and their friends,
and are heavily arming themselves,
preparatory, 1T is said, to an attempt to
rescue Ramsey and Franco. There are
now in this city and at points near here
and Naco over fifty of them armed
with Winchesters and sixsnooters. The
Mexican guards at Naco have been re-
inforced by the addition of a body of
twenty-five Cordados under Lieutenant
Colonel Kosterlitzky, and they now
have an armed force of nearly a hum
dred men guarding the line and Jail
in which the Americans are confined.
Should the attempt at rescue be made.
most serious battle will result, as
both parties are worked up to fever
heat over the killings.
The four cowboys who attacked the
guards in Sonora are well known in
this city and are here tonight, not hav-
ing been placed under arrest. Their
movements are being watched, and
they will not be allowed to leave the
country. Mexican Consul Gavito is ar
ranging matters at once to have the
authorities here arrest and hold them
until the proper papers can be ar
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