The weekly Arizona miner., 1871-05-27
l25 INDIANS KILLED.
Righteous Retribution.

Righteous RetIibuton.
 Want of time and space prevented more than brief mention of the fact in the last number of the MINER, that on Sunday, April 29th, l25 Pinal Apache Indians were killed in Arivipa Canyon, and 2S' children taken alive.
 The dri,ona Cai,sn of May 9th has col umn of particulars of, and comments on the Killing, from which we collate these items, promising that the canyon is situated south of the Gila river, some forty miles east of Florence, and about sixty miles north of Tucson. For weeks it had been known that band of Indians were camped in that vi- cinity, and numbers of animals stolen from the friendly Papago Indians near Tucson, and Rom Mexican and American settlers around Tucson and San Xavier, had been trailed into tine canyon. Evidence was found proving satisfactorily that four citizens in San Pedro valley were murdered by the party there en- eamped. These discoveries were rendered more aggravating by the fact that those red skins had made one of the old style Pinal treaties with the commander of Camp Grant, had been receiving rations from that post for some time, and had in an apparently friendly mood settled themselves in the canyon, near the post, and while eating Government sup plies would make their murderous raids, and return under the shadow, as it were, of Camp Grant, to gorge themselves on the meat of stolen mules, horses, donkeys and cattle, rejoicing over their success, gloating over their plunder and resting in fancied se- curity till prepared to make another descent on some defenceless settler, or traveller Hay ing the proof of their treachery, the dwellers in Tucson and vicinity went after the Finals, and of the entire band in camp at the time of attack, only seven are known to have escaped.
 The Citizen vindicates the killng-iustifies 1t, and at length recites the provocation, and iss editor Is excusable for so doing, as he i. only recent settler in Arizona.
 But we applaud and glorify the deed, and ejoice in the establishment of that reserva- lion in Arivipa Canyon, where l25 good Pi- nals shall rest without hunger or thirst till the resurrection.
 Last November 500 Sharps and Spencer nrbines, procured from Government, were distributed to Arizonans, with plenty of am milton to enable them to protect themselye. against the Apaches. The surest protection that can be devised is to show these devils "a human shape that we con whip them and will cit
 Again and again during the past bloody years, has the MINER urged upon the settlers 10 organize and carry the war home to the villages of the redskins. Now, shall we faint at the result of our teachings7 Shall we apologize2
 One fact alone would forbid that we should do so: At Tubac, march %, 1871, an Arizona pioneer, l.. B. Wooster, and Mexi- can woman, Trinidad Iguera, were killed by indians. in the Pnal camp, after the slaughter, a breastpin was found and recoc- nized by her friends at Tucson as the one al- ways worn by the woman killed at Tubac- that would be enough.
 But the whole past history of our Territory would hsunt us to the grave, if weak enough 70 endeayor to pallate or excuse this mas sacre. For such it was,-we do n't mince matters, or apply words to the acts of say ages that we fear to describe similar deeds of IT own with.) No! thousand times NO. ihe blood of our relatives and friends, spill on nearly every road and trail, in every farm ing settlement and mining district in Arizona, cries out to us from the ground to rejoice that they are partially avenged.
 will the advocates of the Quaker policy howl through the Eastern press, and call the act another Piegan horror Let them; and we suggest new name: let such deeds in in Arizona be known as Pinalization. How is that for highi