The Weekly Arizonian., 1869-09-04

| mus; say that I never saw finer looI: dians in my life. They told US that tbo. Pedro, had about 200 braves in his ba. 5 if these two be fair specimen, it is .T tribe. On the 25th of July a strapoa L came into the village and created cn:, excitement. l. was some time before VI.
 find out what the matter was, bn, c
 we learned that large party of sel5s,,
 succeeded in destroying 9 rancheria ara
 a lot of corn, and had wounded one r.,
 and taken several prisoners. The r.nsl
 thus destroyed belonged to portion ofp,5
 band, and we naturally felt alarmed ;b;.'.
 that Pedro might retaiiate on us. In.
 friends told us not to fear, as Pedro had
 some of his people to Us and they eouI5
 tect us. They also said that this party had.
 structions from Pedro not to go to the ,r
 where they were jumped, and it vas tbsr
 fault, and that they had but themseIv.,
 blame. On July 30th another runner a,,;.
 saying that the troops were on the Prieta
 would lay there that day. and in all prob,br
 proceed next day to the Bonito, and from tb.. afterwards, to the CarriHx
 As We did not know the intentions of ,l. troops we deemed it prudent to make for tb.r so Dodd and I, accompanied by MippaI three of his men, started for the R;o p,,. Upon arriving here we found the comma, had left, but we took tue trail and to!lov.5 7, across on the Rio Bonito and just at 1r.. forndth camp. Here we found ColonaI c. lst cavalry in command, to whom we rao,.,,I Hc was, very justly, surprised 10 see two vba, men "ith thase Indians and, quite naturally inquired what the devil brought us here i, this country, among the Indiaus, where be b.5 four companies and expected to fgh: era,, minute We recounted to him all the na,,.n lars; still, if 1t had nos been that recoooz., George Cooler, who, upon my makinr mv,.lf known to him, told the Colonel wh6 I ga. think Dodd and would have been furnisL'5 government transportation to Goodwip n. jrant. But We were treated very kindly Ir he Colonel, Captain Barry. and eyervbo.? The Col. having deemed it necessary to DIo:. he Indians under guard, we requested to fe Feated ln ike manner, that these Indians vbo lad so much confidence ill us sbond ro, hlnk We had betrayed them, and so. for t5s lrSt time, l lay down to sleep with senfina tanding guard over ne. In the mor,,;n, .hen l a|oke picked ap canteen to co to he river and get some water, when 1bc senf, Tel sung out "ha!E!@ ani yoa had better Ia IeTe me, 1 haIt=d iuStauter; lie foIlo,yin, oro'. ehind me to tke river When comipg b.%' 5ol Green called me and said - am s,..- n&t you IeIt that young man over tEefe L.j. aulE8 to Charley, wuom we left at the yilIaoo Il C"flZo) out the best thing 1 can do viii @ to send Captain Barry with his commaod f, st hlu away" Just before starring. the CoJ ad a talk with Miguel who showed his Iarter, Whlch he had segeral-one from James " arieton, Id. EVens, Major Chapin. and yori- IS otner oLncerS. lie told the Col that he had l"AJs been friendly to the whites that be had ever stolen anything from them, that he conI ud no tracks Of stolen animals going ieto h.. Juh'ry, that he was anxious 10 get protectiop oh me government, and that we were ro;n, itn nm to oanta te to see General C1er.T .pi 9s permission from him to live on bls ranch to see II he would put himself and hi. nso. Ie on reservation. Upon arriving at the village saw the wife
 the Cnlei run up to captain Barry hold opt sr hand and say ''s0LdGdo 61,e1o" We 'mPed that night within about 100 wards of c fanchera; in half an hour every woman lu enid that could carry fodder wera carrv- g loads ot It to the horses; baskets of corn ere gwen to the meu, whopiscbed into it w.b eaSure and could see the difFarcnco + n,aoo
 1nGLn-aIi i were on the fight few hours bt- l1' put To" were sitting, or stretched full lS Il upon the ground smoking the nine of Nce-eScn had eaten his fill ot Indian rdas,- 5 ears ana now seemed at peace with all -nAihu' Even Manuel and his tame Anacb- were cooled down and were taIkiny and l8hlng With their wild brothers.
 Before leaving, the Captain had a Jong con- lsatlon with the chief Miguel; he tolJ btn u hS had come with the intention of kiIlip, T 2 Sno all his people, thinking that they ngrp l indians, but that be had chsn.,ed his nd; lIsy must however, 20 immedioteIv 10 mp Mcdowell and see general Dovin and "oIlu accompany them. He gave ne 6 ,eE to 0enl Devln and took his command ! started for the Rio Bonito. while we sot iyShlhS In readiness for our trip to McDoR- 'ns particulars of which trip I will give Y PetnapS py next maIl-at presentlet it sui
 ~ gay tnas between the White Mountains D,rI u@mp McDo"ell have seen the richest nlry ever set foot in.
 am, dear Bob,