Arizona citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Pima County, A.T. [i.e. Ariz.]) 1870-1880, 1870-12-31
The Mission Camp Massacre.

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river road and find that it has arous-
ed general alarm, and a determine
ton to exhaust every measure OF 10 cal
and if need be invoke national aid
to bring the guilty wretches to JUS
tice, and prevent the repetition of
such terrible crimes 1t would require
several columns of our space to recite
the half we heard one way and anoth-
er about this outrage. The matter of
race is prominent, and it appears to be
in some measure at the root of the sew
eral murders committed along the
ella valley by Mexicans within the
past few years. In this instance the
young son of Mr.. Kilbride, who hap
pened at Mission Camp at the time of
the murders, was spared, as the muir
derers said, because he had Mexican
blood in his veins, and Mrs, Reidt
was denounced as a damned gring0
bitch," and other worse epithets hay
ing reference to race. 1t is the boast
of many Mexicans, so the American
settlers declare, that they will yet
clean the river of whites, from one
end to the other. The Sonora line is
near by and can be crossed in twenty
four hours after the commission of a
crime. When over, criminals are
quite secure, and the readiness with
which they can repeatraids and crimes
and return, encourages them in their
work Of pillage and murder, There
seems to be low branch of the Mexi-
can race who, when injured or fancy
they have grievances to redress, never
resort to legal processes Or any other,
but murderous attacks with all ad-
vantages ON their side, and many of
them now infest the highway from
Laguna Station, where the Los An
geles and San Bernardino road inter
sects, to just above Mission Camp,
where there is a prominently travelled
road to Sonora. The station keeper
at Laguna remarked in our hearing,
and that too before he knew of the
Mission Camp massacre, that the road
was lined with suspicious Sonorani-
ans, and he believed many of the hor-
ses they had were stolen in Los Ange-
les and San Bernardino Counties.
He and others along there were on the
alert, and keep good watchful eye
out for these fellows. The Lower
California boundary is but four miles
from Laguna, and the travelled road
lies mostly ont Of the United States
from thence to Fort Yuma, and we
may say the facility for escape Of
criminals is very great along the stage
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San Diego, and unless the Mexican
authorities will promptly aid in cap
turing, returning, and III all pc ssible
ways bringing these bad men to prob
er punishment, even a worse condi-
ton of affairs on the border will en-
sure Citizens Of the United States
will endure much before resorting to
illegal means of redress, but in this
instance the limit is almost reached.
This matter will be pressed home
upon the Mexican authorities personal
ly and officially, and if not responded
to with promptness and effect, the
United States government will be call
ed upon to effectively interfere. Our
border must be protected from these
migratory thieves and murderers
This subject shall have farther atten-
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A meeting was to be held in Arizo-
ma City on Tuesday last to exchange
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