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7 I spent the day in the office word has reached us by Telegraph
and Letters from St John that about the 24 of June while
the Mexicans were celebrating St Johns Day 3 of Greers
sons, & a highered hired man, J Von & a son of hHatch rode
into Town armed with Pistols & guns The Mexicans ordered them
to leave town or put away their arms which they refused to do then
fighting between the two parties commenced. Mexicans gathered their
arms and drove the cowboys into some unfinished houses James Von
was killed The Hatch boy shot in the shoulder. The three Greer
Boys taken prisioner & Nathan C Tinney killed while thrying to stop the fight
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