Arizona miner., 1867-01-12


 By the arrival in Prescott on Monday last,
 Of Captain Hodges and his company of Ra :
 gers, we heard of this last most horrible trae-
 ely, most fitt;Ng finale to the series of In
 dian atrocities committed on the Prescott
 and Mohaye road during the year just closed
 On the evening of December ;JOth, scouts
 from the Rangers, who were encamped near
 the Willows, eighty.iive miles from Prescott
 on the Mohave road, discovered signs of In- dians and animals, travelling in southerly
 direction, After midnight sixteen of the
 party started in pursuit, leaving nine men in charge Of the camp, and followed the trail
 tili nearly daylight, when they came upon an Indian village, which had evidently been abandoned but a few days previously. Find ing that the Indians had moved farther south, two men were sent back to camp to assist n
 bringing on the supplies, and the remaininr fourteen followed the trail until the mdal,. of the forenoon of the 3lst, when the Indians were discovered, campcd in a rugged canon. The party divided and creeping cautiously down from the hills attacked ths unsuspicious children of the forest, from two points in such styie ;ha; escape was alaiest impossible A ] scene of carnage followed One of the at tacknag party was killed and three wounded. The Indians fought bravely, but of all those Who were surprised in their quiet home. cnlv one, dusky maiden of some twenty sum- mers, Is known to have escaped Twenty three Indians were killed, a renegade Mohaye and his squaw being among the number. | When all opposition had ceased, some of the i party attended to the wounded, while otl,- | CTS gathered together the stores of corn. | beans, seeds, dried meat, roots, fruits and | other provision, with bows, arrows and other weapons, and committed the whole with the | houses. to the flames
 The body of J. Hartman. who was in- | s,antiy killed at the commencement of the fight, was carefully buried near the spot where he fell. And having constructed litter to carry one of the wounded who was unable l to walk, the party retraced their steps until ' they met their comrads with the pack train.
 During the past year the cruel. hloodtl ,rs- ty, nerciless WalIapais, assisted by members ei other tribes of the same stamp, have been stealing. killing ant burning, between Pres | colt and liardyville, until every ranch and station bad been made scene of desola,ion and the tales told by the surviving victims nave aroused the most apathetic of our citi- | zens But this little affair is on the other side. The Rangers turned the table. beat the savages at their own game, and succeeded X in establishing little reservation in the Wafiapai country where tweenty-three good Indians will pro obably remain until they are called fer ii
 Captain Hodges arrived in town on )ron1ay last with his company, and they were joyfully r greeted by their fellow citizens Mr Hart man, who was killed, was formerly from Ans tin, Nevada He had been robbed of his last horse by the Indians. and joined the expedi- ton moved by feelings of revenge. "Uncle Joe Blackwell, gray headed and gray | bearded active pioseer, was shot through bis leii arm above the elbow. D. Duppa was wounded twice in his right leg, one arrow passing through his thigh, another penetrat ing to the bone above the knea. The fn,ian guide, Dick ofton, better known as Indian !. Dick, faithful Ute, was hit by an arrow which ff=s straek hi- hand, and then h. stomach; for some hcws he was pposed to 5 5e fatally wounded. All three are doing q. : well as could be expected.
 We hope to be able during 1867. to chroni- :, 'ie the doiRgs of many surprise parties Ike z this Hurrah for the Yayapai County Ran t ;ers. s