The weekly Arizona miner., 1871-06-10
THE CAMP GRANT MASSACRE.

Almost all our California exchanges have more or less to say with regard to the Camp Grant massacre and, strange to say, albeit there was but one massacre" effected. The contained accounts give so many different versions of this, as almost to enduce tho be- lief that there must have been, at least, half dozen attacks made upon the Indian ran chers near Camp Grant--which a few are pleased to term reservation"
 Of the many accounts which we have read, about the most ridiculous is that published in the San Francisco Chronicle of May 2lst, from the pen of a correspondent at Camp Grant, who had, at least, the good sense to withheld his signature. He wished, no doubt, to swerve the popular sentiment from it's wonted course, that the country at large may weep with him over the death of his unholy affiliation and the fate of his brethern. It is to be hoped, however, that an intelligent public will treat an anonymous calumny with about the same consideration that it received from its author, who would not hazard his name in connection. It is not our intention to devote much of our time or space to the work of reviewing an article which is so clearly powerless to accomplish its intended purpose, viz: to brand as towards and assas- sins people who heroically avenged the wrongs that the government still permitted to be practised upon them, after they had, for years, pleaded in vain, to the proper author ities for security of lite and property, against the repeated devastations of savage, hostile Indians but certain allegation therein ap- bearing having been used by few sensible writers, in California, who wished to view and review the matter in its every light, we will here consider this statement, and abau- don the calumny--as a production quite as unworthy of serious notice by us as it was of the writer's name--which latter, we have stated, does not appear.
 A few writers in their comments, have dwelt, and others may dwell upon the state ment that the Indians killed " were under the protection of the Government having surrendered themselves and being considered as prisoners ofwar."
 Yes es prisoners of par Prisoners o war-armed to the teeth unrestrained and under no surveillance, whatever Prisoners of war-canped at a distance, 1t is stated, o four miles from the post to which they owed obedience Prisoners of war-who visited the valley of the Santa Cruz, distant st miles, there murdered two persons and cap tured all the cattle and horses in the neigh borhood, a few of which, together with al ornament worn by one of the victims, wer rccaptured at Camp Grant Prisoners O war-who next captured the U s. mail, l. miles east of the San Pedro and 65 miles iron their rsncheria, and murdered the driver Prisoners Os war-who marched to the Sal Pedro settlement and there murdered tn last settlers in the valley whence the ayeng ing force followed their trail to the Caml Grant encampment Prisoners of war-wh' had just succeeded in all these depreciation and were again on the warpath, to the mum Der of more than one hundred, with the com mandng officer of Camp Grant, at the hea of forty men, following on their trail! Q 800 Indians, thus fantastically styled "pris oners of war;" to whom provisions and, it i alleged, ammunition were supplied at Cam Grant, less than $50 were present when tb Papago Indians made the attack: the bal ance were on tine warpath, with Captai Stanwood in pursuit.
 We have seen the action of the Papago In dians and the few citizens who accompanie, them, denounced as n "cowardly slaughter c helpless women and children.n We do no know it to have been such but we do sur mise the quality of his aflilation who pu forth this statement. We are cFcdibly in formed that some of the women and childre were killed, and do not attempt to deny th probability that such may have been the cas, It could not possibly have been otherwis, where men and women were collected indi, criminately; and men, particularly Papag Indians, in the excitement of battle, are nc the proper persons of wboa to expe' nice discrimination. We should be as read as any of our contemporaries 10 d'