30 . HISTORY OF PASADENA. 



making all possible speed, they were led up into the thick brush upon the 

 eastern bank of the Arroyo. Half way up the hill they encountered the 

 body of one of the victims, stark dead. An arrow pierced his heart to the 

 center. Upon withdrawing it they found the arrow head was of glass. 

 They then remembered that they had seen at the camp just left, the rem- 

 nants of a black bottle out of which the Indians had been constructing 

 arrowheads. The body had not been molested in any way. The dead man 

 had a Derringer pistol in his hand which had been recently discharged. 

 The other man could not be found, but on the following day his horse and 

 bloody saddle entered ont of the ranch herds, and the search was continued, 

 with the result that not far from the spot where the first man was found lay 

 the body of his companion. He had been killed by a single arrow piercing 

 the heart, but entering at the back. This arrow was also pointed with a 

 head made of black glass. These are two of the most remarkable arrow shots 

 ever heard of. The body of this man had not been disturbed either. In 

 his hand was a revolver with one barrel freshly discharged, and in his 

 pocket was found nearly $40. It was evident therefore that the object was 

 not robbery. The mystery attending this tragedy was never thoroughly ex- 

 plained. The theory was that these men, coming suddenly upon the band 

 of apparently wild Indians, (for they wore no clothes but breech- 

 clouts, no hats, and were armed with bows and arrows,) attacked them with 

 their pistols. The Indians returned the fire with the results already told. 

 They suddenly left for their homes in the mountains of the desert country. 

 Only one man ever saw them, and irom him I obtained a description of the 

 band but too late to pursue them. 



"Two years after the above occurrence the people around the outskirts 

 of San Bernardino were annoyed by frequent thefts of calves from their cor- 

 rals. A party started in pursuit of the marauders, and overtaking them 

 before they reached their mountain home, captured them and gave them a 

 drum-head court-martial and executed them on the spot. Indians, after they 

 find there is no escape from death, boast of the scalps they have taken, so 

 now did the chief of this party boast of having killed two white men in the 

 Arroyo Seco a couple of years before. And that is all we ever learned of 

 this remarkable event." 



HELEN HUNT JACKSON'S WORK. 



Hon. Abbott Kinney, in the Pasadena Valley Union of September 5, 

 1885, speaking of the then recent death of Mrs. Helen Hunt Jackson, who 

 was associated with him on the U. S. Indian Commission, says : 



"Helen Hunt Jackson was a woman of warm heart, poetic insight, and 

 large cultivation. Her sympathies were wide enough to have a place for 

 every one in distress whom she knew. She was as much at home and as 

 welcome at the .scanty fireside of the hovel as in the palace of the rich. The 

 Mission Indians of Southern California, for the most part an industrious and 

 much injured people, have much to thank Mrs. Jackson for in the improved 

 condition of their land tenures, their good schools, and the more intelligent 

 course of the government toward them. Her poems, novels and essays 

 have been widely read ; many of them are of a high order of merit, and 

 some of her poems are gems, true to nature, simple and touching, that have 

 in them the qualities of perpetual endurance. "Ramona" is her last great 

 work. It has been well said that it is by far the best novel ever written 



