Two Men Killed

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ttle mustang he was riding, got away from the party. The officers fired several shots at close range but missed him. It is said the soldiers joined in the fusillade but did no better shooting than the civil officers and the fugitive escaped. Indians At Alma Two Men Killed Captain Wm. French, manager of the W. S. ranch at Alma, arrived in Silver City last Mon- day and gives the following particulars of the killing by Indians on the ’Frisco river about 25 miles above Alma. On Thursday of last week Juan Jose Barrera accompanied by his two sons, Avaran and Manuel Barrera, left their home at the ’Frisco plaza with an ox team to bring a load of vegetables from their garden in the box canon of the ’Frisco river some five or six miles below. After getting their load they started on their road home. They had proceeded but a short distance when they were attacked by Indians, who fired at them from rocks on the west side of the canon. Avaran Barrera was killed at the first fire, being shot downward through the body. The father jumped from the