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Updated: May 17, 2025
"How can you tell that? You are cunning to know people without looking at then. Let them wait." And the next moment he issued from the guard-house, and approached the peasants. "Your name?" said he, sharply, to the first of the party. "José Samaniego," was the answer. "A poor aldeano from Artica, para servir á vuestra señoria. These are my wife and daughter."
"From Berriozar," answered the man, naming a village at a greater distance from Pampeluna than the one to which old Samaniego claimed to belong. And then, as if he supposed the officer inclined to become a customer, he reached over to his pannier and took out a basket of figs. "Fine figs, your worship," said he, mixing execrably bad Spanish with Basque words. "Muy barato.
The raid was unexpected owing to the fact that the Samaniego brothers had contracts with the government and the stuff in their outfit was intended for the very Indians concerned in the ambuscade. One of the Samaniegos was slain at this massacre. Then there was the Tumacacori raid, at Barnett's ranch in the Tumacacori Mountains, when Charlie Murray and Tom Shaw were killed.
Pedro de Lerma himself, while lying on his sick couch in the quarters of a friend in Cuzco, was visited by a soldier, named Samaniego, whom he had once struck for an act of disobedience. This person entered the solitary chamber of the wounded man took his place by his bed-side, and then, upbraiding him for the insult, told him that he had come to wash it away in his blood!
"If you live in Berriozar, I live in heaven," said Samaniego. "But fear nothing from us. Viva el Rey Carlos!" He burst into a shrill laugh, echoed by his companions, and, quickening their pace, the party was presently out of sight.
The governor, who had already decided to restore the archbishop to his see but without showing the least indication of rehabilitating the royal jurisdiction, and establishing obedience to what had been commanded despatched General Don Tomas de Andaya and Sargento-mayor Don Gonzales Samaniego for his illustrious Lordship; they were accompanied by the Dominican father Fray Baltasar de Santa Cruz.
Old Samaniego looked round, and his shrivelled features puckered themselves into a comical smile. "Is that your road to Berriozar, neighbour?" said he. "It is a new one, if it be." The person addressed cast a glance over his shoulder, and muttered an inaudible reply, at the same time that he thrust his hand under the vegetables that half filled his panniers.
The famous massacre of the Samaniego freight teams and the destruction of his outfit at Cedar Springs, between Fort Thomas and Wilcox, was witnessed by Charles Beck, another friend of mine. Beck had come in with a quantity of fruit and was unloading it when he heard a fusilade of shots around a bend in the road. A moment later a boy came by helter-skelter on a horse.
Much of this freighting was done with great teams of mules and horses, veritable caravans, owned by firms such as Tully & Ochoa or M.G. Samaniego of Tucson, but enough was left for the two and four-horse teams of the Mormons, who thus were enabled from the hauling of a few tons of coke to provide provisions for their families and implements for the tilling of their fields.
But as his wants were pressing and as his scruples were soon laid to rest by his friends he finally listened to them and went to the provinces. He began by visiting some sick persons, and at first made only moderate charges, as his conscience dictated, but later, like the young philosopher of whom Samaniego tells, he ended by putting a higher price on his visits.
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