The Weekly Arizonian., 1869-12-11


 @s.N of B wagons bringing goods for
 ~ of Lord X Williams and A. < L.
 f ba, arrived frcm Sheridan-yia |
 querque.
 meptioned last week An occurrence m
 ,,sted that two mules were stolen
 ,b. corral of Mir. Allen, at his ranch, two
 4,or, toWu. In that statement however
 mistaken The number of mules
 not two but thirty.two. The opinion
 .,t prevsling is that the thieves in this
 ra not Indians, but band of Aexi-
 e.om SoEorA--the mules stolen having ,bs sane seized by the customs officers,
 ,oksn from a party of Mexicsns engaged 1 muggliug goods rom Sonora. The manner
 ,h ,be gate of the corral was broken open
 ,o. snuear to have been the work of In. ps. TIT
 rr,nves AND RoBBERIEs BY INDlANs:-Ths ian troubles during the past two weeks have
 o A more serious character than usual. ... are st all times sufficiently terrible, but
 ,. have bsen carried On with reckless ,tbatistruly surprising. Reports ofdepreda reach us from every direction-from Camp allen. Camp Crittenden, and even from Flor ce On the 29th ut. they made descent on the ranch of MT. Hopkins, on the Son. man named Ben. Aiken IF charge of se ina ranch and a Mexican in his employ ,.r, were both murdered the former they rnu,ilated in most shocking manner. few nights afterwards baEd of these Rowling savages vifitad Camp Crittenden and ala3 T COW al @ distance of legs than l % yards .om the post buildings. Not content with supr Ivinr to themselves choice portions of the ani n,I they tore up and carried off an anoccupicd en, nitcbed al a remote corner of Camp.
 From Camp Waleu We learn that about the middle of last week Nr. Burns, post trader, lost qrrything he possessed at the hands of these e,curscd Indians. His store and store-h ouse ssy burned down affer supplying themselves ~ith everything which they could manage to carry away. Among the property destroyed are horn and barley to tho value of several thousand dollars
 From Florence we have an account of the t murder by Apsches of one of hrizon&'s oldest 1 pionaers, Richard Halsted. This victim is well aai favorably known throughout the Territory -s skiful miner and an indefatigsbe pros pector At distan ce ofnine miles from Flor, encs he recently discovered valuable silver mine. and on the 30th ult went thither for the purpose of locating his claim when he was sei upon and murdered by strolling band of Indsus.
 Thus it will be seen that the condition ot the people is grAdully becoming more and more terrible, and life and property more and more insecure. It is not therefore surprising that in some instances we find men sacrifice the fruits of thelr labor to enable themss Ives to leave the Territory; that they may al least save their lives, Under the present condition Of affairs life is in danger at a distance of 300 yards out side the limits of any town CT military post ir the Territory east of the country fihe (friend' ly) Pima and Maricop0 tribes
 RDER:-A letter fro n Bsrks Station, d a.eG Nov. Both, gives us an account of most bru' tal and cold.biosled murder perpetratsd neal that pac two days previous. The tolls~ing is an ex.ract fram the etter, refsrred to, whi. h was written by Mr, Rose who discovered the bsdy Ofths murdered man:
 Yesterday the two murdeoers and theil victim, discharged soldier from McDowei started in the direction of Marisopa Wells When within two miles of this place one of th, isan,ters in looking for rabbit Accidentl, discovered an ovsrcoat, hat blouse and pipe tn coming into camp we found the .clothe! covered with blood 1 induced ths man whc had found the clothes to accompany me to tn, spot at which he found them. and there W, iounda mans track-5ars-fnotsd. We followed ca toSsri Yuma another mile to WooIssy ranch and upon inquiry found that three meI nad passed on the previous day and had beer gone but a few minutes when shots were heard ns followed the trail from Woolseys ranch one murderer mounted, the other barefoted an waking On coming to 8 point where th