The weekly Arizona miner., 1871-09-23
AFFAIRS ON THE CHA.

We publish below private letter from King & Woolsey, dated at Agua Calientc, on the rTth inst. The outlaws of Sonora have ! too long been permitted to prey upsn the set tiers of the Lower Gila. and it is about time | that the Government take some steps to put l, an end to this guerrilla war. This k not a question that can be viewed in the sane cat egory with that in which the Indian figures SO prominently, but it is fragrant violation of the rights of American citizens on Amer can soil, at the hands of the people of for
 cigu State. Mexico has outgrown the ter TOTS of the Vengeance of Alamo and invites another drubbing. At all events the inhabi- tants of the Lower Gila should have military aid to carry them through the presen, crisis
 The following is the letter to which we call attention:
 Our Mexican neigbbors would fll your pa per every week with items II you would chronicle such small items as killing few white men or driving of dozen, or so, of fat horses. As 10 keeping anything in tue shape of horse nesh we have given that up long ago. There have been several thousand head of Texas cattle on the river, below this | place, for the last year, awaiting an opportu- nty to cross into California, which have | furnished nice picking for the slower class of Sonora .hieyes. They have stolen several hundred head of cattle from the Texans dur. | ing last spring and suDnler-'aking only
 dozen or SD at time. But about The 10th
 of August they capped the climax by driy.
 ing of l25 head in one drove. The scoun' cirel,, headed by one Ventina Martinez, came ] q ,I all ha fa.
 tions at night. When near Mohawk Station,
 that being about the center of the Texas
 herd they gathered what cattle they wanted
 and took the main road for Maricopa Wells; {; | putting on a bold face by calling at every
 station and by paying the duties on the cat l tie, which obligation they discharged by | turning over & certain number of the cattle
 claiming to have driven the nerd from Souo- ra. So well did they play their part that the cattle were not missed for eight days i;
 and when 1t was discovered that they had been stolen Mr. Kent, one of tine owners Of
 the stolen stock. Mcssrs. Greenup, Sansom,
 and Scott, all stock men on the Gila, follow
 ed them in hot haste and overlook them near
 Sacaton Station. Mar,izez and two others
 who were with him at Maricopa. also six or
 seven more Mexlcans, were with the band.
 Wm. Greenup and Jno. Rosers--the latter.
 of Tucson, joined tho pursuing party at Ma
 ricopa Wei!s--being some distance in ad-
 vance, rode boldly into the camp of thieves
 and disarmed and arrested Martinez and the
 two who were known to be his confederates.
 4 few minutes after giving up his pistol. Martinez lesped on horse and made bold
 run fur his life. followed by Jno. Rogers, who
 thinks he got in two good shots. But the
 thiet hay ng the best horse made good his escape. The two other thieves are m the
 hands of the "cow boys,n who will deliver
 them to the authorities of Yuma county, as , there Is a reward of SlU0 apiece offered for them. What the end of this will be no one | can tell. Several notorious Mexicans are leaving the river who say that if Martinez
 should die of bis wounds not a white man will be left on the Gila. The honestly dis , posed Mexicans believe the threats will be carried into execution, and are anxious to 3 leave on account of the trouble that is brew. . ing. Four white men and seven Mexican, have been murdered in this neighborhood, by
 bandits from Sonora, within the pas F eight months and besides this loss of life II loss of property to the value of severa thousand dollars by the same lawless scoun f drel.. Through all this course of murder anC .. robbery, Martinez is the first Mexican band ever shot at; and if that so enragcs his asso J. ciates that we are all to be slaughtered il J. retaliation, you will admit that our lives anc r. property hang by slender thread indeed n We have quietly submitted to murder anC f robbery for the last ten years. and we csi '' count the names of more men on the Gill IS who have been murdered by Mexcans with
 in the time stated, than there are now resi-
 dents of the same scope of country. In speak
 ing of the Gila mean tue Lower Gia, iron
 Gls Bend to Gila City. There is no excus
 for these crimes-nothing but a bloodthirst, IT thieving nature. do not know of a sngl
 instance in which the Nexicans have experi '" enced any unkindness or i'll treatment at th h. hands of the people here. We have nevc l. asked for aid from the military for the reaso k, that we thought the people on the borde t. needed more aid than VIC did; but from th ic appearance of things just now we will hay rs to have assistance if We are to remain here 10 Since my advent into this Territory, eleye
 years ago, have never felt that life an d property were as much endangered b 'n Apache Indians as they gre by Mexcans, o to the Lower Gila, at present.