Arizona citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Pima County, A.T. [i.e. Ariz.]) 1870-1880, 1870-12-03
PRESCOTT AND VICINITY.

~ 1dS resigned HIS COuIlHiSSlOu duu
left the Territory.
Fort Whipplc is now commanded by
Lieutenant W. L. Sherwood, 21st In
fantry, an energetic young officer.
JAS. A. Simpson, the man who, in
an alteration on the night of the Sth
instant, shot and killed A. g. Dunn,
has undergone examination before
J ustice Barnard, and is now out on
$4,000 bail. Several witnesses were
examined, none Of whom, we learn,
knew anything about the commence
ment of the fracas.
Sunday night last, in Bradshaw
mining district, Allen Cameron DIETER
known as ''Scotty,'') shot and killed a
man named VIM. Watson. 1t is said
that Cameron was not in his right
mind, when he committed the act,
and we believe it, for whisky had
long before destroyed his reason, and
rendered him idiotic. He is now in
jail. His victim was harmless
young man, who had served an en-
listment in the army.
/ d
bully named VIM. McSola, tried to
gat his pistol to shoot man named
| Dorsey. Dorsey prevented his doing
so, by grabbing him. In the tussle
which ensucd, McSola fell to the
ground dead as nail.
Professor Eilers has gone to Moiave
county to examine its mines. The
rush to the Bradshaw has been great
er than ever since election. The Big
Bug Mill is running, and turning out
lots Of bullion. Both the Wickenburg
Mills are going. The miners of Wal
nut Grove district are building a
quart road to the creek. Work is
progressing on Lynx Greek and the
Hassayampa.
It affords us intense pleasure to be
able to state that the party Of Pima
Indians that left for Prescott a short
time ago, succeeded in killing thirteen
Apache ohaves, and wounding sew
eral others But we regret to have to
state that our Pima friends lost two Of
their number, and had five others
wounded.
Early Monday morning last, as the
Pima5 We're travelling through Bells
Canon, on their way to Camp Date
Creek, they discovered fresh Apache
tracks going northward, followed them
and soon after struck a rancheria,
with the foregoing result. This
makes nearly thirty Apaches the Pr
mas have killed inside the past two
months.
a Camp Verde correspondent writes
Nov. s:
The Hawley, or Mogollon road, is
now open to Sunset Crossing, on the
Little Colorado. Colonel Brown,
commanding the post, and G. G. Bean
left this place OH the ID instant, and
| travelled to within Is miles OF the
crossing ia two days. They returned
on the 7th instant, at ?. NJ, and
express themselves delighted with the
road iii every particular. Six miles
east OF Jaycox's Tanks, at Chavez
Pass, they came up With Lieut.. Owen
and his industrious party Of soldiers
and citizens, who were at their last
work on the road, which opens the way
through to the Little Colorado River
At this pass there IS no water: how
ever, ten miles eastward, at Opdyke's
Tanks there is an abul. dance, cOnse-
quently, the longest drive that will
have to be made without water, on the
entire road, will be only 16 miles
The country, after leaving Beaver
Greek, ten miles east of the Verde Riv-
er, or junction OF the Wild Cherry
Greek road, is covered with cedars for
distance of Is miles, when you pass
through dense pine and oak forest
for thirty miles or more, after which
it is open to the river The entire dis
lance from the Verde River to the
Little Colorado, at Sunset Crossing, is
not over so miles, thus saving upwards
of SO miles from Prescott, via this
route. Decides being better road in
every particular.
The people OF Northern Arizona
should congratulate themselves upon
their good fortune in having an enter
prising Department Commander, as
well as so thorough and pushing a
person as G. G. Bean, who has bean
the only citizen that has assisted, in
any way, to make this much needed
improvement in the Territory. Mr..
Bean has not only aided in person to
encourage the work, but has employed
ten citizens at cost of not less than
500 or 81. OOO per month to work ON