The Weekly Arizonian., 1870-04-16
FHF WEEKLY ARIRONAN
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THE INDIAN.

ftOte pOhStE Oj hlio hEGLCl
 in period of several months; and not wish.
 jug that the world should begin to think hr
 a much wronged individual ahile he is the
 worst stamp of cutthroat, robber and murder
 CT, we deem it about time to think over what
 he has been doing within the past few eeks
 and to speak of him accordingly.
 if at setting out We fail to acknowledge
 that the APache possesses sufficient cuani ng
 to make grand dupe of the military author
 ities within the Territory, it is not because we are ignorant of the fact. The Goodwin Indian policy in past years, (by which band of several hundred idle vagabond Indians was fed by the Q. M Department, up to September last, and when not employed at drawing and eating government rations at that post were occupied in murdering and robbing settlers) should be sufficient to caution the military of to-day against the folly of reposng toe much confidence in the "good Indian" of Camp Goodwin. We regret, however, to observe that the experience of the past is absolutely ignored, and, that confidence which the Indian has been 80 prompt in betraying, still fingers in the breasts of the very men whom he has betrayed. Fancy the killing of two Indians, cur of party of three by which two Mexicans were attacked last week having been pro- nounced ''cold- -booded murder" and that
 too, by men whose special duty it is 10 pro- tect and encourage settIers end to punish the common enemy, Now, We do not mean to con demn fn toto the actual living sentiment which influenced the eIpresoion of that opinion, for we believe that it was conscientiously express- cd; but We pity without attempting to vindi- cate the existence of so much weakness, so much crsdulity and so much folly, when @ few moments Of sound, sober reflection might place the matter in it's true light and destroy the strongest dogma:icul fabric which prejudice might construct.
 That our readers may betbsr understand the instance to which aiiude we shall here state, as briefly as possible the particulars of the re- cent 'eoid~blooded murGer:" On Tussday night tho 4th lnst., party Of lI4iaas stole nine animals from a ranch on 'bc Rilito. The same night three Goodwin Indians, having 4 pass from Col Pollock of Camp Goodwin, and employed to carry despatches between that postand Tucson, obtained lodging at the ranch referred to. On Wednesday morning, at very early hour, these latter took their departure. and had not been gore quite an hour when 1 Iuas HicanWcraJ p4 tb,r l, .l. IL been stolen. Messrs. Sise and Mungua, owner. of the cattle, immediately saddedup and start 1 ed in pursuit, and while riding along where l the road leads through thicket ", re fired at and both horses killed. The Indians, three in number, then rushed from their pl ace of con- l cealment and attacked the men whom ther | had thus dismounted, and in ths fight that 1 ensped Mr Slse and two of the Indians were killed: The surviving Indian fled toward the adjacent mountains. Mir Muuguia then pro- ccet' to examine the Indians, " waom he reeoo- n'zsi as ths sane who had lodged at his ranch on the previous night and discovered on the person of one the pass from Col. Pollock and the dsspa choS These documents he deliver ed to the commanding officer at Camp Lowell. receiving for his pains ashagp reprimand from ihat gentleman for having dare to kill 'those good Indians" those "peaceable Indians of Camp Goodwin" The wanion cruelty and injustice of the thing 50 worked upoa the bet, ter nature of the m itery gentleman, that he sent delegation of military n.en to the spot where the murder was perpetrated with to examine the indications oftbe grosni, and, some say, to bury the defuno, redskins. The delegation having failed ta discover any indications of an obstinate strr,- gle-neither rivulets of bcod nor broken artillery. nor ruined habita ions were there nor was the earth powed up by shot and sbel -returned horrifed at the idea of socb s,, anprovoked attack and murder on the mart of the Nexicaus, and pronouced the whole thiDg < "cosardiy assassination aud "cold-blooded murder Iu fact that brave man who .ougbt so noby for his life, and rid the country for ever Of two of those worthless, vagabond mur,