Gold Prospector Killed: Cattle Farmer Beaten Adelaide, Sept. 11.
The unusual truculence display ed by the aborigines in the north west comer of South Australix compelling the owners of stations to take the aw into their own hands.
Seventeen natives were killed recently following the murder of a gold prospector named William Brooks, who was battered to death, while another outrage was inflicted on a cattle-farmer named William Morton, who way giving native beggars food when others attacked him from behind. Morton, a very powerful man, drew his revolver. He was immediately surrounded by howling blacks, who showered boomerangs and struck the revolver from his grasp. They left him fo: dead, but he recovered and managed to reach his homestead, 27 milos away, in a very serious condition.
Last week 200 natives held a warlike corroboree at Jap Springs.
The residents in this district of South Australia are afraid to leave their homes unguarded and are, secking greater police protection. Reuter.
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