El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-12-22

awakened by LUZ galioping near thm
and seeing how much they were out
numbered they took to their heels at
once, running up the side of the noun
tain. Luz soon began throwing lead
at them from his old reliable Sharpe,
sending eight bullets after them. This
soon brought the other men, and the
trail was followed by the blood of one
of the Indians to the top of the noun
tain where they found him dead. The
Indians being afoot, their trail could
not be followed An the rocks
So completely surprised were the In
dams that they stampeded. leaving all
their bows. arrows and lances in their
camp. Among the trophies captured
were four horses belonging to citizens
in and near Uvalde. and a mule belong
ing to Mr.. Griner, about two dozen
teguas (moccasins) and Mexican
saddle.
| LUIS next meeting with the Conan
ches was when Henry Adams, broth
er of Capt. Bill Adams. and Frank
Robinson father of our present coun-
ty judge, were killed. Luz and his
, brother were horse hunting at the
mouth of the Nueces canon and discov-
cred fresh Indian signs on both sides
of the river. They went at once to
L
told them they must be mistaken, and
limited pretty strongly that he thought
they were afraid.
Luz answered, THE horses are yours,
Captain. and we lose nothing; if you
do not believe US. you may lose your
horses
These same Indians had that morn
ing killed his brother Henry. and
Frank Robinson, as stated, and were
10, h4i,-
raid among the settlers and committed
many outrages.
LUIS next experience was on the
west prong o fthe Nueces river, cow
hunting. He was major domo for Capt.
Adams. and had 90 Mexicans building
a fence of rock and poles. The Co
manches attacked their camp. There
were only a few men there at the time,
all the others. being at work on the
fence. and the Indians made a clean
sweep of everything they could carry
off. Those men in camp escaped and
ran to the working party near by. who
came and took the trail of the Indians.
Only few OF LUIS men were armed.
but they made the best display they
could of their guns and numbers, so
the Indians made no attempt to fight,
but were anxious to get off with their
plumber.
Il
used to haul poles and water for the
men. He saw the Indians coming and
was lucky enough to be above them
i and hid behind a cedar tree until they
got opposite TO him Then he opened
fire on them and kept it up until the
men from camp joined him. The In
dams made no halt but as their trail
showed blood Luz and his men follow
ed them. as they had a few horses.
and found one dead Comanche. He
was evidently a chief. as he had a
leather strap fastened to the top of
his head, that reachd to the ground,
and was covered with silver plates
hammered out of Mexican dollars and
smaller coins towards the bottom of
the strap; he also had silver earrings.
Luz got his shield bow and culver of
arrows.
| Another time on the west prong &C
the Nueces. Luz was COW hunting and
came on four mounted Indians. One of
them had horse the same color as
Mart Adams's and wore beard, so
Luz thought it was Adams. hunting a
beef to kill for the men. He had plen-
ty of time to have shot before they
saw him. AS soon as he discovered
they were Indians he began firing. Two
of the Indians stopped to fight and two
ran, probably their squaws. LUIS
brother. Pedro, who was riding the
fence. hearing so much firing came
to him, but not until LUZ had fired
some thirty or forty shots.
That evening they followed the trail
and found a red American blanket at
a water hole. 1t had fourteen bullet
holes in it and the water was quite red
from the blood of a wounded Indian.
| The Indian probably died and they hid
or buried his body. They left the
blanket. Luz hoped he had gone
wnere he would not need one.
|
| LUIS next round with the Conan
ches was at Kickapoo Springs, where
| Bill Adams had a ranch. Luz was
corporal or major domo. and had nine
Mexicans with him on a COW hunt
LUXE told his men to stop and rest and
he rode up on hill near by to look
around for cattle or maybe Indians
for they were always in evidence, es-
pecially when one did not want them.
Indians had been watching them and
hid in some cedars on the opposite side
of the hill and knowing they would
be discovered opened fire on him as
| soon as he topped the hill. Luz was al
ways ready, and as he was not hit he
returned their fire and exchanged
three or four shots before his men got
| to him. They were not long for they
knew at once what the racket meant
The vaqueros at once began an attack
and tn Indians considered discre-
ton the better part of valor and left
The Mexicans followed and found one
dead Comanche hid under a bank
They were going south to raid the set
Element on the Nueces. F'rio, and Sab
inal.