Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1915-02-26
POSSE IS
FIGHTING INDIANS
BATTLE WITH REDMEN IN UTAH
WHICH REMINDS ONE OF
FRONTIER DAYS.
Reneesdes Who Resist Arrest Lay a
Trap for Officers and Pitched
Battle 10 Fought In Early
Morning.


Salt Lake City.--Word has reached
this city that as a result of an encoun-
ter between the posse under L. S.
Marshal Aquila Nebeker OF Utah and
the renegade Indians under the lead.
ership OF Old Polk and his son. Tse-
Na-Gat, at Bluff. Utah, J. C. Akin of
Dolores, Colo, deputy United states
Marshal, is dead; Jose Cordova of
Cortez, Colo. deputy United States
marshal, seriously wounded; one In
dian brave and one Piute girl were
killed, and six Piutes captured.
Dispatches received in Salt Lake
Tuesday morning said that scouts re-
ported that at least Ave Indians have
been killed and possibly more have
been wounded In the battle on the
outskirts OF this town between
posse under command of Aquila
Nebeker, United States marshal for
Utah, and the Indians under Old Polk
and his son Tse-Ne-Gat, otherwise
known as Everett Hatch. Intermittent
airing has been going on all day, sharp
shooters on either side being ready
to shoot the instant an opponent
shows himself.
This would indicate that the mar
shal,s posse has the pest OF the posi-
ton and that the Indians are on the
defense.
The first battle with the Indians be-
gan Sunday morning, when the mar
L.f N m mn nf
Indians, but we're unable to dislodge
the redmen. who were strongly en-
trenched.
Indian strategy OF the kind that one
IL accustomed to read In the histories
OF early life In the west marked the
first engagement. Several hours be-
fore daybreak. Marshal Nebeker sent
a posse of twenty-six men. under the
leadership OF A. N. Gingles. ex-sheriff
OF Montezuma, Colo; June Peterson,
sheriff of San Juan county, Utah, and
the sheriff OF Dolores county, Colo. to
surround the camp OF the Indians. The
men had nearly completed their task
when they were seen by sentinels OF
the Piutes. The redskins. with
whoops OF warning to their com
panions asleep In the camp, opened
fire on the whites and Akin dropped
at almost the first shot.
Indians began to crawl from their
tents. Wholesalers In hands, firing as
they ran to convenient entertainments.
The posse returned the IRE. One In
dian fell. Suddenly girl who had
come from one of the tents ran be-
tween the deputies and their foes,
waving her hands and screaming. The
deputies, in the half-light, were able
TO distinguish her and ceased firing.
Then she fell and lay still on the
snow-cloaked ground. BY common
consent both sides ceased firing and
Mancos Jim, Piute, who has Joined
forces with the whites, was sent into
the Indian camp with demand for
the surrender OF Tse-Na-Gat.
There ensued long pow-wow, and
at the conclusion Mancos Jim re-
turned TO the deputies with the mes
sage OF Old Polk. leader of the rene
gades.
we will not give up. We will fight
until DEATH" was the message which
Old Polk sent back.
While the deputies were consulting
ON the next step there was series
OF yells In their rear. Running to-
ward them from the direction of the
river was band OF about forty
Piutes, firing as they came on. 81
multaneously the Indians in the camp
began to shoot and the posse was be-
tween two fires