Arizona republican., 1921-04-13

DibbIe and Bateman started for the new strike and 1 kept on at the mine.
 "The morning they left, I put in four shots of dynamite at the bottom of the shaft In each hole I put four sticks of dynamite and cut the fuse rather long so as to give me plenty of time to climb up the 92 feet Of the shaft and get out before the blasts went off.
 Just as I climbed out os the hole I caught sight of party of seven Indians in full war paint, bearing down on the shaft They saw me at the same time and gave a yell that made me start back down the shaft But there were the fc1r dyna- mite blasts ready to go off any nlin- ute and that would have meant cer- tain death Even then I hesitated. since l. felt that it would be better to drop down the shaft than to submit to the horror of the tratement the Indians gave the whites whom they captured.
 ITO make matters worse, I had come up to the mine that morning ATithout gun. Usually we went armed everywhere and carried our rifles and pistols with us when we went to work But that day I had a lot of drills to pack and I had not been able to carry my firearms, too. The Indians fired as they came. In q flash I decided to take a chance on fighting, even if had no arms, and Jumped for the protection of the ore dump. As they passed, a bullet struck me in the groin. I thought I was finished. But the bullet had hit a heavy belt I wore and was de- f1ected. The Indians didn't know I was unarmed, of course, so they were cautious when they came back, shoot ing and yelling. AS they neared the collar of the shaft the fast blast went off with a roar and sent a lot of rock flying up into the air. The big noise startled the Indians. They went off the next blast. This sent up even more rock, which the first blast had broken. It flew in all di- rections. A lot of the rock fell around the Indians They must have thought I was using some sort of a new gun and a mighty big one. be- cause when the third blast went off way when the fourth blast made them think I was shooting mighty fast
 T only waited long enough to see that the road to the cabin was clear and then I sprinted faster than ever ran in my life. All that day I waited on the lookout for the re- turn of the Indians. But they evil dently felt that I was using sucf
 big guns they had better leave mt alone and they never came back. had no way of knowing this. though
 SO when night had fallen and tht
 way seemed clear. I started out or my horse for Wilcox. I had reached a place called Lime Kiln. where tn, government had burnt the lime nset 1 at Fort Grant, when the action of my i horse told me that there was some
 one in the neighborhood. Fearinf Indians, I got behind a tree and waited with my rifle cooked. Sur, 1 enough, few minutes later, a heat was pushed cautiously over the rim | of the arroyo in. which I was hidins and I let go. The yell that was 1e 1 loose as my rifle lifted the hat of the newcomer, told me that I hat 1 creased a white man. It was Charle. l Henderson, miner and freighteI who was on his way to tell me tha 1 Dibble and Bateman had been killed 1 by the Indians at Three Oaks ant their mutilated bodies discovered il l the road. We knew the Indians wer,
 up, but they had gone south and VI 1 all thought they were down in Olt
 Mexico. They had swung arornt and come back through the Santi Rita mountains. They had killed m, I partners on their way and ha
 thought to pick me off in passing
 We wired to Judge Dibble from Judg
 Falls store at Wilcox and he an
 his friends came up and recovere'
 the bodies of the murdered men"
 Mir. Lyons was a part of Genera
 Stonewall Jackson's forces, havin
 joined the Confederate army when
 years old. He was one of the fou
 men who had carried General Jack
 son from the field after he had bee
 killed at Chancellorsville. He insist
 Uat the story that Jackson wa killed by a shot from one of his ow