The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1911-03-04
Posse Exterminates Indian Band
Eight Shoshones That Killed Nevada Sheepmen Are Wiped
Out-SquawsF Fight Like Men-Driven Into the Open,
Renegades Make a Stand-One White Man Slain

the posse split n Sheriff Ferrel and
three men went to Elko, Nevada, pick.
ing up the trail near Tuscarora. In the
meantime Sheriff Lamb of Humboldt
County had taken the field with a posse
OF picked men. Constable Dean Young
Of Tuscarora had Joined in the man
hunt and the Indian police was ordered
out from tie Duck Greek reservation.
For three days the posses closed in on
the murderous band. having them sur
rounded between Golconda and Tusca-
rora.
Captured Squaw Makes Confession
According to the Reno Gazette of
February 2S the ~16-year.old squaw
captured by the posse admits hat her
party of Shoshones slaughtered Cam
bron. Laxague, Erramouspe and Indiana.
Then she ~recites a tale of other murders,
including that of Frank Dott, which
bad been a mystery for the past year.
She tells also Of the killing of three
other white men and a Chineses on the
present expedition, making nine cow
ardly murders in all. and. with the
mortality Of the battle included, bring.
ing the list of dead up to IS.
The rewards offered for the capture
or killing If the renegades totals $500,
of which $4,000 was offered by the State
of Nevada, $1,000 by the Humphrey.
Cambron CATTLE Company, $1,000 by the
State Of California, $1,000 by the resi-
dents of Surprise Valley, and it is be-
lieved that Miller g. Lux will add $1,000
to this sum, while there are possible
ties of further rewards.
1t is lot yet known how the money
will be divided, but the posse of % men,
under CAPTAIN Donnelley will doubtless
each receive q share, with the posi-
bility of reimbursing others who tracked
and e~ndeavored to head off the rene
gades.
Indians We're An OUTLAW Band
From a write-np of the chase and a
description of this murderous band of
Indians, the following is taken from
the Winnemucca Star of last Saturday /:
That the Indians who murdered the
sheepmen are the same band of out.
laws that killed Frank Dopp in north
ern Elko County last May is almost a
certainty. IL will be remembered
that a battle occurred between a band
of Indian horse thieves and N. r. Uric.
Gay TRAINER and Ed Diffendaffer, in
which Frank Dopp, a, nephew of Tran
mer, was shot to death. Uric and q
brother of TRAINER are the men who
killed the Quillicis at Inlay the first
part Of January, who are now in Jail
here waiting trail.
Yesterday Sheriff Terrell interviewed
Uric in the county Jail here and the
latter gave the officer descriptions of
the Indians who were in the band that
killed Frank Dopp. The number in
the party and its composition tally ex-
actly with the party the posse has
been following aud which it is now
known murdered the four sheepmen.
The Indian murderers are now de-
initely known to be an outlaw band of
Shoshones, all belonging to u family.
who left the Duck Valley reservation,
in northern Elko, over a year ago.
They have been rustling horses and
cattle ever since, committing murder
whenever their operations have been
interfered with. After killing Frank
Dopp they disappeared from that Sec
ton and went westward, probably tax.
ing about the same route over which
they are now being pursued on the
back trail. Last July the Indians
stopped at Lays ranch, in Jackson
mountain, and traded for some old
harness. Later they were seen in
Limbro canyon, In the extreme western
part of this county. where they were
running off horses. An Indian who
was hunting started to ride up to one
of the young bucks. when the outlaw
pointed his rifle at the other and warn
ed him to keep his distance. The Indian
hunter did as he was told.
The same band of outlaw went west
ward as far as Eagleville. California,
where they camped last August or
September. leaving there to go back in
to the section of country where they
committed their latest and most fendish
crime a few weeks ago. Members of
the posse from E~agleville know the In
dams. so there is no possibility of there
being any trouble in identifying the
murderers if they are caught. The
feeling of the members Of the posse
from Elgleville is said to be so strong
that they will stay with the hunt until
the outlaws are finally captured. no
matter how long it takes.
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