Bisbee daily review., 1905-10-17
HOW GEO WOODWARD KILLED TWO INDIANS An Old Timer in Sonora Who Now Proposes to Take
 Things Easy

ln lAS OOuSldS papers Audl GSOiSS .. Woodward, me well known Amencan banker and mining man Of McOtzeuma sonora, intended leaving Mexlco for good. and haa disposed oI his interests there and would soon leave for Los Angeles, California, to make his future home.
 A mining man who arrived from Moctezuma yesterday and who is well acquainted with Mir. Woodward, sad that it was partially true that he in tended to leave AocteZuma temporal rily, but as 10 selling out all of his great interests in that part of the country as a whole, il was mistake.
 According to thls gentleman's re port, Woodward does intend to retire rom hls banking and mercantile busi- ness, but as far as disposing Ot h.s land and realty interests he has no such intention.
 He is simply retiring for a few years from a long and active life in Sonora, where he has accumulated a large fortune. to take a rest, and has only sold his business and leased a portion of his estate so that he will not be bothered with its care.
 Mir. Woodward, besides doing a gen eral banking and mining business, has conducted a general mercantile store in Moctezuma for nearly twenty years and desiring to take a rest has maue a deal with R. $. Nickers, another American, closely allied with the mer- cantile interests Of the Transvaal Mining Company, to take over all of hiG y1yirh nf purchasing hls realty.
 Under a contract entered into a few weeks ago MT. Nickers and hIs asso- eiates take over MT. Woodwards pal aIial residence and store, under lease Tor ten years. at a stated figure; pur- chase his stage line from Nacozari to NOctezuma, and the good will of his business and other interests outright, and pay to him for the entire conces- sion the sum of 60,0O0 Mexican mon ey. The first payment of SzU,0UO to be made ln cash, and the balance in TWO payments uue within one year. NoouW ard mas aiso leased hIs line farm o1 GOO acres of bottom land on the MoctezUna rlyer, and likewise A-s bIg catuIe range of zv,UOU acres northeast ot the town, but II IS 1n- Gerstood these nave not been taken over Dy the Vlckers people. Most Of hls MInIug properues, uicludlng the cid San Juan Del ttIo .nInes, are under bond 10 AnerIcan ana Ensusn syndI- cates, so he virtually leaves ms many interests Ill d posIuon 10 not cause niIn aLy more care until he wishes to lesume all acuye uIe agaIn.
 George F. N oOdward was one of the most noted Amerlcans In Ibe state OI sonora. he was D-rn In San Tran CISCO, California, years ago, and was son oI well known DanKer there and cousin ot the noted fanIIy ot N ooowarOs who owned WoodWards $ GarGens, the most famous show place ln Frisco Tn the aays o1 old, lne days oI gouu, the days oI 4S.
 h h4s younger days he joined the Western UmoH Telegraph Company, having learned 10 be an operator, but tlrIng of the work-a-day nIe. IeIt hIs home in Oakland, where hIs family had lnCved, ana although haY4ng rich father, started out TOT himself as a solder ot fortune.
 lie hrsL became a bronco buster and cowboy m one of the southern coun- lies or the state, and afterwards drift ed into Arizona, where he became d cattlenan. From here he drltted into Texas, in the same line of business, and eventually moved into Sonora.
 For number of years he devoted his time to cattle raising in that state, but finally sold out to become a mer- chant in the old capital, Moctezuma.
 His record there has been one of note ever since he first went in, and his life was a strenuous one in the early days of his residence.
 The country was then harassed and the people living in terror of the Apaches on one side and the Yaquis on the other, and Woodward was of great service to the Mexican and American governments in subduing the two hostile Indian tribes.
 During the time that General Law ton made his famous pursuit of Ger onimo and his band of Apaches into Sonora, Woodward greatly assisted the general and likewise killed two of his scouts.
 The way it happened was this: Woodward was in the mountains look ing for some of his horses which had strayed, and ran into a bunch of In- dians, whom he took to be hostile Apaches. He immediately began fir. ing into the bunch, and after killing two made a break for town. The next day one of Lawton's lieutenanJs rode into Moctezuma bringing with him the Indians who had escaped from Woodward's fire, and who be- longed to a company of scouts in the T. s. service. and wanted the authori- ties to deliver Woodward up for his actions. The scouts, who were fierce enemies of the Apaches, were greatly aroused over the killing of two of the troop by an American, and Woodward had serious time getting out of the difficulty.
 Everything was, however, finally satisfactorily explained, and the scouts withdrew without making any trouble.
 Woodward had a good deal of other trouble with Indians and bad Mexi- cans during his early days in that country, but when peaceful times