The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1907-10-17
CHAPTER VII.

There was short delay, during which
the conquerors appeared to be consulting
together in low voice; while doing so,
an Indian chief, who was no other than
the Jester, entered the hall. The general
and the capataz were then again picked
up by the redskins, and at sign from
one Of the masked men, transported on
to the voladero.
One hundred and fifty to two hundred
Indians, mostly armed with guns, and
ranged In good order round the terrace,
the center of which remained free, faced
the cavern, having among them the dis
armed Mexicans, the baggage, ,shorses and
| mules.
The tent still stood In the middle Of
what was to have been the encampment !;
but the curtain was raised, and q horse
man was standing in front of it, as II to
| defend the entrance.
At the moment when the party emerged
from the cave and appeared on the ten
race, the horsemen drawn up at the en-
trance Of the defile opened out to the
right and left, leaving a passage for a
small troop Of men dressed In hunters
garb, and whom 1t was easy to recognize
| uN WhllU mcu tWO ldulcS, IuOuuIeu OIL
ambling mules, were In the midst of them.
This troops of strangers was composed
of eight persons altogether, leading with
them two baggage mules. As the men
were disarmed, and walked on foot amid
some fifty Indian horsemen, they had, In
all probability, been surprised by a party
Of redskins.
The two ladies, one Of whom was Of
a certain age, while the other appeared
scarce 1S, and who might be supposed
closely related, through the resemblance
OF their features, were treated with ar
exquisite politeness they were far from
expecting by the Indians, and conducted
to the tent. The curtain was then low
cred, to conceal them from the glance,
of the Indians.
The newcomers, at signal from thei
conductors, ranged themselves with tn
other prisoners; they were powerful mel
whom the Indians had probably not givel
chance to defend; otherwise they look
ed as If they would sooner be killed thai
yield.
Two masked men took their seats O,
the granite blocks, and the Indians VIII
carried the general laid him on the groun
in front of this species of tribunal. Th
person who seemed to be the president O
this sinister assembly gave a sign, tn
prisoners bonds at once fell off, and h
found himself once more able to NOV
his limbs.
. The general drew himself up, crosse
bis hands on his chest, threw his bod
lack haughtily, raised his head and lool
, ed at his judges with a glance of with
ering contempt.
"What do you want with me, bandits
he said; ''enough Of this; these insoler
maneuvers will not alarm me-"
"Silence |" the president said, coldly
, "it Is not your place to speak thus"
Then he remarked to the Jester, wh
was standing few PAGES from him:
, Bring up the other prisoners, old an
new; everybody must hear what is goin
to be said"
The Jester gave signal to the wa
i. riors; some Of them dismounted, al
| preached the prisoners and, after loosel
ing the cord that bound the capataz, the
,, led him, as well as the poems and pri
oners of the second caravan, in frol
Of the tribunal. Then, at a signal fro
: the Jester, the horsemen closed up rour
the white men.
Ito be continued.)