The weekly Arizona miner., 1870-06-04
Vhs aNiner.
Local Intelligence.
PRrscorr. June 4, 1870.
Good Day and Good Man for Killing Indians. htta


 Indians. hta o.u cullumber, of Kirkland Valley, in this ,ounty. has immortalizcd himself oy oespa'o",ns ,n,ec deyiiish Apachcs, one day, recently on ,hs day in question, sam, who IS young 'n'l' s ". 5os, his new and reliable sixteenshooter, ..a .,arted into the hills to prospect Tor game na had not gone great distance before he espieo' A..rno on the limb of a tree, what appeared to S .n,ver filled with arrows, such as our Indian ..is are in the habit of letting fly at us. That n's ','a, and those arrows, hanging there led sam Snl.lin0. and he thought there must be Indians ny He vas correct, for, pretty soon, up S sO savage head from under the tree. sam Y, s, al il. and spoiled it's looks by making olg s,nc. hole In 1t. Three or four more savage heads .... ,hcn seen by him, and, lest their owDers ,.ond accuse him of being partial, he honored s ono with shot The Indians had guns, too, h,, did net get time to use them, so quick was s,,, w;,h his sxtcen-shooter. He returned to ,be ralley. told his story. when party accompa- rlss him to the hunting ground" where, alter 1,I;ren, search one Indian was found, "dead as a .aup He is pretty confident of having killed or ,ouDded two more sayages, who were, no doubt, naaEed of nN tuelF tplnINutos N"h NiN "N''f Ns .boald have something more tangible than thanks ,or the Christian work performed by him on that day.
 ,xo,vyR MAS KrLLED.-M. Tompkins, who arrived here Tuesday last, In charge of the stage informs us that Dave Knapp, keeper of the Deep Wash Station. on the Prescott and La Paz road, ,,ss shot and Killed at that place, on the after mon of Monday, May 22d, by man whose name he did not learn, but who had been employed by Knapp prrvious to the shooting The trouble that led to thc shooting was il is said, caused oy Knapp, who had been absent from hls place Tor short lime. accusing the bired man of having stolen two or more packs of cards, during his lKnapp'sl absence, This the hired man stoutiy denied. saving thai had he wanted to steal, he could have stolen part of the money taken in dur ing Knapp's absence-some sixty or seventy dol lars Knapp paid nc attention 10 this, and kept on repeating the charge, until the accused became heated and said that ssy person wsc said he was thief was a d--d liar, or similar words Al this, Knapp, who was standing behind the coun' ter. drew his six-shootcr, ready cooked and aimed fiat the hired mans head who also drew his six shooter, fired and killed Knapp. He weut, soou
 
 iued and discharged, oa the grounds that he had Killed Knapp to save his own life. Ills statement of lhe affair, as given al La Par, was, we learn endorsed by several persons who witnessed th' TOW which ended in Knapp's death. GRASr's STAGE, with five large sacks of mai matter, and 5evcfal passengers, arrived here Tues day last, in good time. Nearly onc.half the mai matter brought up this trip, should have beer received here on the 23d.
 D. HENDERSON S BRo, have moyet Into thei new brick store, and are hard al work shelvinl and slowing away goods.
 CAMPBELL & Burrrx talk of building anothe brick store soon, their old one being too smal fOr their raridiy increasing business. The new store Is to be erected on the lot adjoining the ol on the north
 RANCH soiD Saturday last. Mr. RearnIs, 0 Lower ssy6x Ctoes, soi,i i,is r~...;. and mininl property to two gentlemen who recently arrive here from California. for the sum of s3,00o. Tn property Is distant from Prescott about eigt miles. Mir. R. and wife will remove 10 plac further up the creek. NF wwWwHMH
 ANOTHER SCHOOL OPENED MT. Chris ha opened school in house belonging to Wm. } Kelly, on Granite street, and is now busily CT gagged cultivatng the minds of several youn ladies. He has taught school hero before. and well known to our people.
 CORPORAL FESsELL, of Company I. 18th h iAhiry' died in Fort whIpple Hospital on la Tuesday morning, from the effects of woun which he received short time ago. He was good soldier, and bis death Is regretted by all wt knew him. - FREIGHT TgAIss.-The freight train of Dr. ' !" Jones, arrived here, from the Colorado rive yesterday.
 ASovernmcnt train arrived hero during q week. from Camp Mcdowell, in charge of Frau i'Anes' It will load lumber, at the Governmc as'nll' si2 miles from Prescott, and start ba, to acDowell in few days.
 DooAs AND GUNS CoNIsa.--James Grant, mi contractor furnishes the following, in a no uA'en Wiekenburg, May 2lth:
 nave adyices of a large lot of chldreI s.uool books that were forwarded from Nc ,oik oy Gov A. P. K. Safford, to my care, f u'H'ounon in and about Prescott Also, | arms TOT the use of the citizens of this section arizona are on the way.
 IS the desire of the Governor that mil ,O'npanles be organized in Prescott and Wick, .urg' " he desires some organization to rcecI them" Tr l, s.F ', GNAA aftH 6 "kAtHER AND caors.--The weather-the pa ,. a-has been infernelly mean We had, fir
 '''hc winds; then hail, snow and rain" .
 a'n or either, and but little of all" Tuesd ... s "eanesday nights, heavy frosts fell, cuttI vV"n corn potatoes, wheat, barley, etc, and,