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the terri- fied women barricaded the house the best they could and awaited in suspense the return of their husband and son. Manuel Barrera, bor- rowing one of the two rifles which were at the house, ran down the river about one mile to the house of a Mexican named Gerone. Mr. Robeson and his companion on their return from the plaza came across the bodies of the two Mexicans in the canon but could not account for the murder as they had no thought of Indians being in the vicinity. Sending the boy to the house and passing his own home by a side trail Robeson proceeded down the river to the house of the Mexican Gerone, intending to tell him of the murder of his friends. Here the affair was explained to him by the son and brother of the murdered men. It was needless to say he reached home as quickly as possible. Not knowing in what number the Indians might be present they all remained hidden throughout the day. After nightfall Robeson, accompanied by his family and Mrs. Golden, went to the lower ’Frisco to give the alarm, arriving at the W S ranch between 3 and 4 o’clock in the morn- ing on Friday. A volunteer party was soon made up and repaired to the scene of the butchery, arriving there about 11 o’clock a.m., twenty-four hours after the men were killed. The trail showed three barefooted and one shod horse. Where the Indians had dragged the body of Juan Jose and where they had stood around while beating Avaran on the head, were found the tracks of two with moccasins and one bare- footed Indian. The trail was followed across the Salise mountains for several miles toward