LURED TO DEATH BY AN ASSASSIN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10419, 17 April 1897, Page 2 (Supplement)

LURED TO DEATH BY AN ASSASSIN.

TWO MINERS MISSING FROM THEIR CAMP. ENTICED AWAY BY TREACHEROUS TALE OF TREASURE. Sax Diego, Cal., Feb. 9—Far up tho Colorado Hirer, foine 200 miles above tho Needles and midway between Black and Grand canyons, is a settlement known as Rioville. Thirty miles down stream from Riovillo there it a lonely placer mining camp at what is known us the Spanish Bar. From » tent pitched at this camp two mining prospectors walked out in company with a half breel Indian on January 28. Since then nothing has been soun or hoard of tho whito men, and tho half-bred is fleeing from two posses of man-hunters. Tho missing men are Munn Davis, a well-known mining man and machinist of this city, and Jumo» L. Stearns, u locomotive engineer in tho Southern California Railway's employ, who had beon on a vacation for some months.

These men, in company with Major Groonwale and Frank F. Barnes, of this city, left San Diego on November 28 to prospect, locate, and dovolop certain properties along tho Colorado River. Arriving at Riovillo thoy left Barnes and proceeded on to Spanish Bar. To-day a letter was recoived from Barnos, dated tiie 4th inst. ut Riovillo. It stated that un Indian runner had just arrived from the camp, bringing a lettor from Major Greenwult giving tho information that six days boforo an Indian halfbreed namod Mouse had appeared at the tent and shared the hospitility of the miners. The next morning he volunteered to show tho mon a copper ore prospect but a short distance away. Davis buckled on hi? revolver and both men started out, not stopping to oven put on their coata. Ureenwalt watched his partners disappear over a neighbouring hillock, and neither he nor any other white man, so far as known, has seen them since. Sixteen hours later Mouse was discovered in tho act of stealing a valuable horso from Postmaster Bowrell, at Riovillo, but beforo a shot could be tired he galloped out of range. It has since beon learned thab a day prior to his visit to the miners ho stole a horse and riflo from a etage-drivor near Vegas Wash, but in crossing tho river his horse became mired and was left to die.

George W. Beermaker loft to-night for San Bornardino, where he will join ,oxSheriff Bowman and the Sheriff of San Bernardino County. Together they will hunt on the desert for Mouse, whom thoy believe to be the slayer of thoir frionds, and who is probably hiuing somowhero on the desert, Barnes has already started on the trail with a party of inan-hunters.