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Mayor Fleming, who recently returned
from Solomonville, Arizona, states that the feel-
ing there is very strong against the cowboys
who killed Sol Luna’s sheep herders. Fleming
says there is no question but what it was an
unprovoked and cold-blooded murder. All of
the men were shot in the back, and powder
burned, which is a mute contradiction of the
statement made by the cowboys that the Mexi-
cans fired on them first. The circumstances go
to show that the men were sitting around their
fires, when they were assassinated. Two of the
bodies had not been found, but the cowboys said
that they were all killed but two boys aged 7
and 9 years. The boys were spared, and finally
made their way into Camp Apache almost dead
with hunger, fatigue and exposure. The sheep
were 18 miles from the ranch of the Chiricahu
cattle company, and were being moved towards
Springerville. If there is any law in Arizona
these murderers will be hung. They are worse
enemies to a country than the Apaches. If jus-
tice is not done in this matter the officials of
Graham county will be to blame, and capitalists
will be pretty apt to give that county a wide
berth in the future.