The weekly Arizona miner., 1869-11-27
Friendly Indians.

| While we would not place straw in the | way of any Indian, of any tribe, that wishes | to travel over the trails of friendship to tue | white settlers and settlements of this Terri tory, VIC beg our citizens and the military | authorities not to put too much faith in | prolessedly friendly Indians. TE bed of them wiN bear wateting The Moquis have the | reputation of being great friends of the whites, and, perhaps they are, but some of our citizens doubt it; that is, if those bands | of Indians who have visited us in the past | under the name of Moquis, were really Mo | quis. Ii seems strange to some people that | nearly every visit of these Moquis to town | and fort should be followed, almost immedi- ately, by raids, murders and robberies. That such has been the case is fact beyond dis ] pute, and, reasoning therefrom, our citizens naturally enough-suspicion them and doubt their 'friendliness." While not prepared to charge them, hatfootedly, with duplicity, we sometimes think them no better than they ought to be" If not the real authors of the | horrible crimes recently committed, they may have had a finger in the bloody pie. They may have come in here to play spy for the hostile savages, with whom, it Is alleged, they are upon intimate terms. IT SC, our meek visitors are just as guilty as the butch CTS who did the bloody work. When on their first or second visit here a couple of years ago, they profcssed to fear and hate the | Apaches, yet, as soon as they got away from town, they placed their weapons in the packs 1 carried by their animals, and walked along fearlessly, through the worst portion of the Apache country This did not look as though they dreaded danger. Their avowal, to us, that the Apaches are their enemies is all moonshiEe The two tribes arc on friendly terms, and we know it We might cite other facts to show that the Moquis are not above suspicion, and should not be allowed to visit the settlements, while VIC are at WAT with their race; but we think we have said enough 10 warn our people against them.
 There are other tribes of friendly Indi- ans in the Territory that will bear watching. Such, for instance, as the Pimas, Mohayes and Yumas. or course, there is not much danger of the Pimas helping the Apaches, but they can and do annoy our people in va rious ways. Some Of the tribe have been caught in the act of stealing and destroying the property of white citizens, and it is gen erally conceded that Indians who will steal and destroy property, would, if they dared, do worse,
 The Yumas assist their hostile brethren of the interior by furnishing them powder, etc, and, if some Mohaves do no worse, great many people up this way are simply mistaken. The Wallapais-a tribe that until recently has been our bitterest foe-arc now said 10 be friendly, and some of them have rvccntly aided the troops on scout. Let us hope that they arc sincere.
 One or two bands of Apaches have also . expressed desire to throw up the sponge, and, in fact, one band, Dclachayes', did abandon the war.path for short time, and even oondescended to do small chores for the ! military, at Camp Reno, and eat humble pie" from the public crib But they soon got tired of this mode of living. put out to the mountains and resumed ther ancient bnsi- ness of killing and stealing. But s skcst time ago they attacked the prospecting party : led by Cal. Jackson, of this place, ,o prove , their friendship, we presume. Cal and his men could sec no friendship in the assault
 and put period to the existence of severn of them.
 i. The coyotercs another oily gammor
 
 ! tribe-can talk the language of peace witl . great Ruency. But their hearts are black | and no dependence can be placed in wha |, they say. As God liveth, the Apachcs am d their friends need more bleeding and les q feeding, to make "good Indians Of them