The weekly Arizona miner., 1870-10-01
INDIAN ITEMS.

lhnce Oi fOO or DOD yhrus rom lHe camp. NHue cooling his heated frame in the creek be was star tied by the ycils of some thirty redskins who had quietly surrounded him, and seemed 10 be highly | pleased by his aquatic Dancuvers. For an instant the Licuientnt supposed his last moBcats were getting very scarce, hut the party proved to I've | Apache Mohav,s, and one of them accompanied the Lieutenant to camp, and the rest afier a time | followed him and had an interview with the boys in bluc on n reaccahe footing.
 Since thc above occurrence. B iricndics visited the hay camp near Camp Verde, and word being sent to camp, Captains Iliwlcy and Monihou went out and had big talk wiih them. The reds pro | fesscd themselves desrous Of maintaining pcarc- ful relations sud were allowed Co depart without molcsiation
 On Saturday last, NJ Banaman and Chas ! Manly went out sero.. Agua Trio Vaiicy on ihe | Verde roti, 70 hunt SO, finding my l,nmc ihls sl,;e of a-i Crvrk. they turned north, and went ] up Into the Black II lls Alrr going into the i buls some distance, they Killed deer; and pack ing lt on a horse went on tlu they eiinu Into on l arroyo. or guleh, which cmpties into tbc npTer cLd of Agua Trio Valley. Turning homcwafd. they followed down inc arroyo mile or more J and saried deer ai which they arvd several ! shois finally Killing it. Tue deer fcll on a baf some % or Jo yards wide with a high hiuf al thc ! tack, and the Wa.h or arroyo in front with pre- ! clpitous blun 100 feet high tryond While they were engaged iB drcssing ihe deer. Mcssrs and | NJ were a.tonished by storm of bullets .irkinz i the e-trth around them and ,hc ycils Of hand of 1 Indians. Looking up. they saW tbe edge oi tLe l bar lined for DO yards wlth a crowd Of iampng ] yelling rcdskins SeiEug their frightened horses 1 B and N lrft tLe deer. and rnado good ume oyer ! The edge of thc btr. down % of 90 f,i into thc wash and across iis bcd co some huge rocks tisai ! bad evidently fallen from tho biuf. on tht north side of thc wash. Although many thois ucru fired at them foriunatrs 70, ithcr ncu nor animals were hit iBos, of thg bairts passlng over tboir ! beads as did tb~ hr,i yoiiey Hardly wcrc they l safely bchind thr rocks. saca Inc redskins chow cd themselves along the edge of fisc tar some 70 yards from the rock. EAch of the men drcd two or three shots hasiily in the drsi excitement bot finding that tbry were comparatively safs teiipd the rocks. As the wasA open for iSo ysrds aiore and below, ,hsy took eopnsei and resolved to make some good indisns Each bed Henry Has: Manly had g7 ea-srssKss sss Brsasslss q and each had Colts pi.sol. witb pieniy of an- : munltiou Saving zach one cartrtdge for the rthcs--for ls.t shoi ,bcy began to make carrfal
 
 sbo~~d itscli on tae edge of the bar. psying no attention Co the ho~iing wntclses oa ,he siga. os those who Acpt crawling dos Ihe bar For ,,ote than too hours they kcpf thelr pp.i, and h ,ha, |, me sbot aud klled nlas Indians. ~ho iuss bscd down over Inc eiEe ot lhc bsr and lsia thsts ! in plals sigi,t-cnd probably Killed and wUuudrd 1 othoFs wha fcll bacS On 'he bar oui Of sirht Ai the end of that time. thc arng having neariy l ces.ea from those on the elur' ani DO more ind'- ans being vi.ibir thc bar their rthr cartridge i-ias aesrIy gone. snd the sua going ao~n' v aud V concluded 10 take ihcif ehanees and 'nn'e on. uhieh ticy dld Leading theif horse>. in order thAi tiey misht take Co slsriter al once V nss's' sary, tbey ~vnt down the Wash, ~hich wAs oi'et | for half mile. giving c0uccalnent Tor the To- i dlans 10 iay in ambush, uutil ihry iound chancs Co get out ,ac perth side, which iheS sHcoceded ] Ia doing sAIciy ksagh The Indians hr d seTrTai shots from the kigt hiHsts oa the south Toe men kept the sharyosi lookout, menacing 'A' cowardiy sncsks on Inc tiuas coTiipoaly S'ih their Hcnry's: and gAiniag the bigh groenf on th' north side Of thc wAsh keja the ridErs a0d oPrn ground tiii they got out of The hills near frga Springs, when thvy struck bee line fof ho'ae' l arrlving at Brunamans ranch little aher duA Later in the cvrrtuz iarrv hre visiblc in The hilIs about wherc Inc hsht took place, probably caused hy ihe Indians burning thc desd as they { have been known Co do on other orcasious. This is tbe story as told u. by Mr. Br,ntam, saorn Of many interesting details Manly broaght thu deer, which was packed on the horsc, 70 .hi ranch in saf-ty Mir. Bran ,man says that when he has heard men who have hccH attacked D, IndIans, tell iheir AdventUfes he has onen wishrt that he could have a little brush with them. bu this hret be u0w hapcs may bc bl- fast hostile en counter whh Apachcs. He thinks the lndiani have large raacheris uear where tho hght oe cured, and that the several shots drcd at thc dee
 aroused them and brought them 10 the hlgG ~hrf' ] seeing him and Manly both bending down oye the deer they supposed that r volIey wonld kil both at once, and only missed thelr calculation D,
 overshootIng ne most white men ~Ill who arv no , Fpractlced tn shooting down from high position
 lie also states that in ,he sandy wash hsioS th har, he noticed a gyeat many ehildrcns tracks Mr. Branaman don't propose to hunt In th
 Black Hills agaln with less than hhy men.
 On Monday, C. Dunn turned his span O black horses loose 10 graze, and as they did nn
 come up at night. be looked for them Tnesda morning and found where the Indians had sur [ rounded them about one-haIf mile northcasi Q his house. F. A. Cook and Mir. DGnn followe
 the trail up the guich 10 the divide between tow
 anu Lynx creek, over the same route " which 2
 many of his cattle and horses have been spirit'
 away during the past four years-when being sa ,seed that they were taGen the night before, h | did no, pursue the investigation further.
 - On Monday night the dogs at the Fort Whlppl Hospital raised . great fuss and some of the II
 natrs went 10 the ontbuidngs and saw forms (