The Weekly Arizonian., 1869-09-04

8 ed by the Reyd. Vincent Colyer, the grea @ Peace man, and by Dr. Palmer the great Bu n man who has the toad that spirits blood fror | his eyes. On Major French asking his Indian . if they were willing for the Apaches to liv : with them, they emPhaticalIy said mo, an [ consequently no Navajoes visited the counci
 oftha Apaches. Before leaving Canon Booito
 the Navajo post Major French gave me sOm'
 tobacco, garden seeds and several articles tC
 give to these Indians. also good advice for them On my return to Wingate, ". Dodd, brother of the late Col Doid, volunteered to accom-
 pany me-so We pulled out from Wingate, July
 5th, made Zunia the same day, saw the one-
 eyed chief Miguel and had quite an interesting
 talk with him. He seemed well pleased that
 we were roing into his country. We remained
 one day at Zunia and went back to Wingate
 to get provisions Col. Greasy accompanied us
 on our return to Zunia, where he informed Ai guel that the commanding officer at Fort Win gate could not make peace with him, that it would be necessary to go to Santa Fe to see the General, that We were going into their
 country to look for gold and that he must
 treat us we'll, and in return that we would go
 with him to Santa Fe and assist him ill mak-
 ing peace to all ofwhich he readily assented,
 promising to protect us from all bad Indians and to show us where there was plenty of gold,
 On the 10th We started for the White Noun tains, having been joined at Zunia by young man named Charley Franklin We crossed the Little Colorado abont six miles above the mouth of the Znnia river, and for several days we travelled over the finest timhered and watered country that have ever seen-as l stock country 1t cannot be excelled. On the | 18th we arrived al the Indian village of the | chief Miguel, We were met several miles from the village, by all the band women and chil- dren, all, gave us hearty welcome and escort. | ed us to town. The village is on a beautiful 1 stream finely timbered-walnut, Sycamore, pne-and in fact finer variety of timher than have ever seen in any part of the west The valley is wide and has more available land than any of our streams in New Mexico. We found plenty of corn here and relished the roastino ears Nmuchly," This stream is called the Car. 1zo, and is tributary of the Rio Priato We 'emalned in the vicinity for several days, pros- 'ecting. found no gold, but found silver indi- ;atIons. The chief of the White Mountain ApacLes, that live on the Bonito and Priato
 ent tSo Indians to tell US to wait eiqht days o: him, as he vas west of the Prieto. gettiur lescaL In the mean time we had collected bout 40 Indians under Miguel and stated rest for stream that they represent as being l lll ofgod. When we had d, at length, arrived : lose to tho stream an Indian came dssbino p to us--he wes painted white and armed { Tth an Infantry breech-loading gun-he said C e must turn back, that his chief would not a lIow us to proceed further west, and if we did < lat they would kill us alI Just then the band = owe in sight. Miguel putus behind the com f land and told us not to be alarmed as those V ldlans would have to kill him and his Indians g store they should injure us. The Chief of the :, her party came forward and said we were in
 S country that we must turn back, or other 0 lse he would iglt us. Our Indians said tbev h i'd promised to show us the gold end that it ti as to their interest to do so, as we could show s em how to secure it, and that they conld il y more manta and other goods better witb V 'ld than with horses and deer skins, and if ], would cay go on, they would go. pot- fo At this time another party of Ie pachss, under Q chief named "Chiouito Y" p' @e to as. They advised us to go back as the Tn 1t hlFeF and Final Indians were very strong es d Ue would get them in4o trouble if we at. la nP'ea to go on, but our Indisns would not.
 nESt' AE'ea to any argument, fearing vs ve 8ht believe them towards. By this time xe t tn re completely surrounded, and from the lopd ba hn Aing' end all talking ct once, we .hougb4 on, mi le e had come; but Miguel kept constantly Ca ing es' through the interpreter to stand ffh' !, don shoot, "don's be afraid" ''you a0' o" Ill not ba Aurt, &c. This excitsmen lasted sg, ut half an hour when iaeshort- bsired scsln- ell
 oFeV oT on condition that Es would ro yoi A on our srAil-which ws did on a double nc' 'A' on our srrlVSl at the village we found co, 'her runner from the White Mountain cb;of
 To' saying that Pedro was not ready to