Mohave County miner and our mineral wealth., 1919-03-01
REM|N|SCENSES OF
 INDIAN KILLINGS
By JOHN l.. RIGGS.

I observe in late issues of "The Miner" references to murders com mitted across the river in Nevada, supposedly by an Indian, presumably the desperado Queho of nine years ago. The editor reiterates that this method of coming-back does not run true to form in Indian nature; that when he makes his first getaway he stays away. |
 Yes, I agree that this theory work ed out in the past up to Queho's day fairly well, but why? l lived in Eldorado Canyon in the eighties and think I know the why. Because we always managed to get the Indian, and he ran true to form as dead Indian. When an Indian killed white man we simply requested" the other Indians to go and get him and bring in his head, and informed them how much money was available for the job. They got the Indian and the money. And that is the only logical solution in this present case.
 I will cite a few cases from mem ory regarding killings by Indians in that section of country. In 1887 Loco, a 17-year-old Piute boy shot and kill ed Thomas Jennings in the town of Eldorado Canyon and fled up to Scanlon's Ferry. Indian Bob Black, who was afterwafd killed by Jack Longstreet in the Goldfield country, accompanied by two other Indians, were chosen by lot to take his trail. They found him, overpowered him and bound him up and were going to take him back alive, buthe told them all particulars of the crime and how he had been made drunk and per suaded to commit the murder and by whom, and they turned him loose. Bob afterward told me the stoy. But Johnny Ferguson, my boyhood friend and discoverer of Delamar, Nevada, found Loco working on a ranch in Pahranagat Valley and gave Piute $2O to kill him. So Loco never came back.
 Indian George Williams posed as a Mesagunip and was real bad-man. He was feared alike by whites and Indians. The superstition regarding the Mesagunip is that he is a man whom bullet will not kill. We knew that it was only a matter of time until George would kill one or per haps half dozen, so when he got on a big drunk and made people hide out we took the matter up with Bob Black, furnished him six-shooter and he went after him. He found him asleep and shot him through the head, with the remark: "You are a h-l of Mesagunip."
 Later came Little Mouse, a civiliz- ed Indian, who murdered two pros pectors up at Vegas Wash, in the Big Bend of the Colorado. The Southwestern Mining Company, managed by Charles Gracey, paid an Indian $200 to get him. He got him up in the same mountains where they are chasing this outlaw now.
 Later came Ahvote, who killed five men from Nelson to the Bonanza mill, within two days. Indian trail CTS followed him to the Indian camp at Cottonwood Island and killed him, Gracey paid $150 for him.
 Then comes Queho. He killed old man Woodworth at Timber mountain and Gilbert at the Goldbug mill, and it was supposed one other man at or near Vegas Wash. Queho, it was generally known, hid along the river and in the Mt. Newberry country for months afterward. He ate dinner with Frank Barnes months afterward above Bull Head. Barnes knew him we'll. He has roamed from the reser- vation at Fort Mohave to the reser- vation on the Muddy ever since. The Indians can get him should they be "induced" to do so.
 It is very probable that now that he is being chased he will again cross into Arizona, as he did before.
 He is Menyar, and will keep kill ing until killed.
 (The Miner is pleased to note
 that MT. Briggs takes exception to the views of the editor re-
 garding the recent killing on the
 Nevada side of the Colorado
 river, but we will have to take
 issue with him in the cases
 cited.)
 In the year 1891 an Indian named AntOp swan the C0lOrad0 flyer from Eldorado Canyon to the Ari- zona side during the night and kill ed William Jennings, Mormon mail rider, who was sleeping in front of his cabin, by crushing his head with rock, and then swan back to the Nevada side. The murder was discovered and the white men made effort to find the one who com mitted the crime. It soon became known that Antop was the murderer and his sister told Ahvote that he would have to go out and get him Ahvote was afraid of him, but the white men insisted that he bring in the criminal. Ahvote was half brother of Antop, but nevertheless he went down the river to Cotton wood Island and laid in wait for Antop and killed him. As the whites demanded that he bring back some thing that would show he had. killed the murderer, Ahvote brought back his toes and ears. He was paid $20C for the job. And it is thought that breeding over the fact that he