The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-02-28
RUNNING FIGHT
WITH INDIANS
Nevada State Police Come Up
With ShOshOnes Who MUIR
dered Four StOckmen.
ONE MEMBER OF POSSE
KILLED DURING BATTLE
Four Braves, Two Squaws and
Two Dusky Children Slain,
and Others Captured.

WINNEMUCCA, New, Feb. 81
Eight Indians, including two squaws
and two children, and one white man,
were killed in a running fight yester.
day afternoon near Tusoar rora. when a
pursuing posse of twenty-one men came
up with band of twelve Shoshones
CHARGED with the murder of four
wealthy Nev~da stockmen in northern
Washoe county on January 19. On the
posse 8 side Edward Hogle Of Eagle.
vile, Cal, was killed, The squaws,
armed only with bows and arrows,
fought stubbornly by the side of the
braves. steel-tipped arrow struck
one of the posse in the chest, inflict-
in~ painful but not serious wound.
The posse was composed of state
police under Captain J. p. Donnelly, su-
Perlntendent of the Nevada state po-
lice, and several stockmen under Sher-
IF Smith of Modoc county, California
1t probably was the first time in many
years that bows and arrows figured in
an Indian fight.
Girl and Four Children Captured.
A 16year- old girl and three children
were captured. 1t is said that loot
taken from the bodies of the murdered
stockmen was found in the camp of
Indians.
The state police, under Captain Don
nelly, and Sheriff Smith IS posse had
been trailing the Indians since Feb
ruary 8, when the mutilated' bodies OF
| the murdered stockmen, frozen solid,
| were found.
Saturday night Captain Donnelly and
| Sheriff Smith and their men stopped
at Stewart S ranch, twenty-five miles
north of Winnemucca. Yesterday morn.
| q rp1pbpI fhono of
band of Indians camped about ten
miles northwest. Led by "Skinny'
Pascal, an Indian trailer, the posse fol
lowed the trail and sighted the Sho-
shoncs, moving in single file. about
noon fifty miles northwest of Winnie.
mucca.
Leader Killed First.
After a consultation, "Skinnyn Pas
cal. the Indian with the posse. was
sent ahead to talk to the band. When
within u hundred yards old "Indian
Nike the leader, raised his rifle and
fired. "SBinny' Pascal dropped from
his horse unhurt and fired twice. "In-
dian Nike fell and was seen to crawl
away in the bushes where lie later was
found dead.
When they saw that their leader had
fallen, the remainder of the band
started down n canyon, driving their
stock before them 4 running fight
cnsued. The bucks with their rifles
acted ut first as rear guard, while
the squaws and children ran ahead.
One of the young bucks fell under the
posse S fire.
Two miles down the canyon the In
dlans crossed ridge and went into
another but smaller cunyon. Here
they made stand. When the state
police and sheriif's posse again came
up with the band the Indians, includ.
in~ tho squaws and children, were beat
ing drums and executing u "war
dance, The white men dismounted
and, crawling through and over rocks.
a pitched battle followed 1t was here
that Ed Hogle was killed.
Battle Soon Over.
With only two bucks armed with
rifles and two squaws aud several chill
dren using bows and arrows against II
score Of white men, the fight was soon
over. After the bucks had fallen and
having no desire to kill the women
and children. the posse made rush and
captured the girl and three smaller chill
drep, The latter stood their ground to
the last, wounding one of the posse with
an arrow and fighting with sticks and
stones until overpowered,
According 10 the telephone reports
received here from Captain Donnelly
the squaws fought bravely by the side
OF the bucks and, under the circum.
stances, the killing Of them and the
children was unavoidable.
a messenger was sent to Kelly 8
ranch. ten miles distant, where a wagon
was obtained and the captives and the
body of Hogle taken to that place
The Indians will be buried where they
fell upon the arrival of the coroner
who started from Wipnemucca today.