The weekly Arizona miner., 1869-08-21
Recent Indian Expectations.
What Must We Do to savo Ourselves


 Time and again have we appealed to our Government for proper protection for life and property, and in spite of all our appeals, we are still left unprotected, and the villain ous, bloodthirsty savage is still free to mur- der and rob us, which he does whenever op- portunity offers. Shall we, then, keep on appealing, to no purpose shall we still suffer on, like wretched peons, hoping, begging for more troops, or shall we, as soon as the crops are gathered, or if possible, before that timer raise what force we can and take the field against the red miscreants who torment us, and do what we can towards killing them, or driving them out of the Territory, are questions of great moment to us, and that should be decided at once. The recent crimes committed by the savages show that they are more intent than ever upon destroying what little property they have left us, and forcing us to abandon the country. It is high time something was being done to thwart them in their designs and repay them for past mis- deeds.
 We have no fault to find with the handful of regular troops now in the Territory; they have probably done as we'll as like number of citizens would have done under similar circumstances. But, we do find fault with our sleepy Government for its baseness in permitting worthless savages to murder and rob us at pleasure, and before God and man, we charge it with the monstrous crime of be- ing accessory to the murder of it's own citi- zens and soldiers, in that it has not rendered us that protection against enemies, which its most sacred obligations bind it to do. Ne groes, who are but little, if any, better than our savage foes, command the admiration of the present Administration, sad its strongest energies have been, are, put forth in their be- half, while we, the white pioneers of land flied with the enemies of ourselves, our Gov ernment, and civilization, are put off, from day to day, and from year to year, with finn sy promises of more troops" Is this right Is it just? We think not. And right here we wish to say that by asserting the forego- ing fact, it is far from our purpose to make political capital to be used against the party having the Government in charge. Our sole i object in doing so Is to, if possible, attract the attention of Government and people to our helpless condition and unenviable situa- tion, with the hope that troops sufficient to put an end to a war that has impoverished and desolated our towns and settlements will be despatched here at once.
 During the past two weeks, the Indians fired into party, near Walnut Grove, killing one man, a Mexican; and at the lower end of the Grove, they first visited the ranch of A. c. Swain and L. R. Stephenson, stole horse belonging to Mr. Swain and carried off and destroyed great deal of corn and wheat, and day or two thereafter, came back and set fire to MT. Swain's house, wagon, grain, etc., all of which were consumed, thus leay- ing him without house, home, or anything else.
 At Skull Valley, they burned the house of s. s. Strode, while himself and family were absent at neighbor's, and the poor man has no resource left him but to commence anew the battle of life for bread and raiment for himself and those dependent upon him.
 At the Montgomery mine on the Hassa- yampa, they burned house belonging to Mr Genung, and at Mint valley, they fired at one of the ranchmen. They and their sign are plenty all over the country between Granite Wash and Prescott, and there is nc telling when or where their depredations will stop, unless something is speedily done by the military and citizens to check them in thei, l internal career.
 BAScRoFT's GUIDE FOR TRAVELLERS i: now published monthly instead of quarterly by II. H. Bancroft X Co.,, San Francisco. IT