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The i'c'<ii)iont ol' the news sent one of liis family to inform another 

 of his party, and so the news was spread so quietly tiiat (he <:;uard 

 seareely noticed what was j^oiiifi on until the men heyan slipping 

 one hy one into the mesquite thickets. Before he could reach his 

 friends, who were out in tiie fields, the whole proscrihed party had 

 escaped and were on their way toward Santan, where they and 

 their friends attacked their Santan opjjonents early the next morning. 



Juan Thomas, his two hrothers, father, and uncle were in the party 

 attacked. The old man. Has, was the hravest, and fought openly 

 with how and arrows until they succeeded in driving ofl" their assail- 

 ants. He was slightly wounded with a hullet in the ahdomen and 

 an arrow in the arm, hut no one was killed. One of the l)rothers 

 was irrigating his field when a runner came with the news that his 

 family was being killed and that he was in danger also. lie lan 

 toward the Double buttes and soon saw another man running in a 

 coiu-se parallel to his own. The other saw him, and both began 

 (Uidging to escape from the two clumps of mesquite behind which 

 they had halted. Then they discovered that they were brothers, 

 anil the}" debated long as to what they should do. It is also said that 

 they shed tears at the peril of tlu'ir iclatives, to whose aid they could 

 not go without weapons. It was also a cause of grief that their fel- 

 lows should ri.se against them. They decided to return to the village, 

 but by that time the fight had ended. 



Has had come out of his hou.se and chaseil those wlio were trying 

 to shoot him. They fired several shots and some arrows at him, 

 but when he came near tliey ran away. He called his enemies by 

 name, inviting them to come and get satisfaction if they were bent on 

 kilhng him. When the attacking party withdrew, the Tlumias family 

 went to the Double buttes, and on finding that they were not pur- 

 sued they went to Blackwater, where their story so art)usetl their 

 friends that an expedition was organized to seek revenge. They 

 secured two boxes of cartridges from the trader at Blackwater and 

 came down the river. 



They formed a skirmish line as they approached the lower settle- 

 ment and met their opponents at the Government school building. 

 The Santan party hastily knocked a few loopholes in the adobe walls 

 and gathered in and anmnd the buihling, to withstand an attack. 

 The Blackwater men killed three among those outside the school- 

 house and could have killed many more with their superior weapons, 

 but their thirst for revenge seemed to l)e satisfied with that munber, 

 and they did not pursue those wlio fled across the mesa like fright- 

 ened rabbits. 



