Ambushed By Highwaymen

Tuosox, A. T.,May ia- Major J. W. Whaat, Paymaster ín the United States .iriny, aad Clerk Gibbon aml an escort of oleren soldiere were on their way öatuiday afteiMon bom Willcox to pay the men at fort Thomas, and when in a narrow (jorge a few Itep north of Cedar Spring they weie atteeked by a party ot ambushed mea A conetaat flre was kept up lor nearly bali an Uour. wheu eight of thi escort were wounded, Bre wriously. The robbers ucceeded ia aecuriBg 99,0ÜO and escaped imto the luomitains. Hajor Vhaiu was unhijured, tt Gibbons' elothing' was torn by the ehot A troop of infantry has ben sent o at trH Fort Grant to watc-h the mountain passes no that the highwaymen may not eneape. The nomtior of the band is not knymi, bt is believed to be seven or eight