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Show INDIAN DEPREDATIONS 263 the herd only went a short distance from town to graze. Two of the herders were stationed a short distance east of the herd on a knoll where their horses were feeding just below. The other three herders were on the north. Wm. Adams, Jr., who happened to be in the edge of town saw ten per-sons riding fast from the east hills towards the herd. Thinking they were the ten herds- men he took no more notice of it until he heard shooting in the direction of the herd; then he was convinced that the men he had seen were Indians. Before the Indians reached the herd, they separated, six going east and the other four west of the herd. Jasper Robertson, Swen Anderson and Louis Lund who were north of the herd, had killed some rabbits and were cleaning them in a hollow by the water hollow ditch, and did not know anything about the presence of Indians until the savages rode to the brink of the hollow and shot Lund through the re-gion of the heart. He immediately fell forward into the water, and the other two jumped up and ran. Jasper Robertson was shot through the thigh, while Anderson escaped unhurt. Albert Col! ard and Char-les Jones, who were on the east of the herd, heard the shooting and ran toward the place where their horses were. The Indians tried to head them off, but the boys had the start and were not overtaken. W. H. Adams and Thomas Caldwell, hearing the shooting, thought it was the boys and Indians fight-ing, and they mounted their horses and went to the scene of action as speedily as they could. When they got about two miles from town they saw cat-tle which had been shot along the trail on which |
