The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-02-03

; time, feared by the Apaches, winch race o' demons then courted the favor of Amer'cahs,
 while they still kept on at thelr o'd "o
 robbing and butcbering MeAic"' .,,
 b,If.civiIized Indians scattered U" ''',@9
 ,Lroughout the Gadsden Purchase'
 -,... af affair, lasted in the Gadsden Pur- cbase un.il the year 1861, when the savaSes ,urped their weapons upon Americans as we'll as Mexicans and Indians. Up to that year the Apacbes visited the mail stations and were treated in the most cordial manner un- til one day, one of Cachise's braves commit ted some spiteful act in corral. for which act he received kick from one John Wilson, an employe of the Mail Company. This awoke the slumbering devil in the Apache; he reported the affair to Cachis, who went to Mr. Robert Swoop, the head man of the sta tion, told him that his man Wilson had in- suited one of his Indians, which Indian, Cachse said desired satisfaction; in fact wished to fight a duel with Wilson. To this Wilson assented preliminaries were a-rang- ! eI, and one day, in presence of all the whites and nearly ali of the Indians, the combat ants each armed with a loaded X-shooter,
 met in deadly conflict, and the Indian went
 down to rise no more. Cachise ard his 1ndi-
 ans, though disappointed, appeared satisfied
 but, soon after this occurrence train was attacked, plundered and all the white people with it either murdered or carried into cap tivity; then stations were attacked, and cruel, relentless, savage warfare has ever since been waged upon Americans by Apaches. And such q war as has never darkened the pages of history 4 war wherein white cap lives have been tortured to death, in various dcvlish modes, the most fearful of which was, to our mind, the hanging of men by the heels, to the limbs of trees, while under meath their heads slowburning fires were kept up until long after the last spark of life had been friod out of the poor victims
 Previous to this, the Indians in this sec ton of tine Territory had used every endcayor to stop and kill all immigrants who attempt ! ed to pass over the Bealc route, to Califor- mia, as Mir. Banghart, now of Chino Valley,
 who, with his family, was driven back by the Apaches, well remembers.
 As early as 1855, "our" Indians made des-
 perate attempts to kill F. x. Aubrey and party while said party was returning from ] California to the States.
 ] In 1863, when the first white people set tied in this portion of the Territory, the In- dians tried to screen their diabolical hearts with friendship, great amounts of which they professed to have for their "white brethren" wfo, NJ know, shared their scanty ,upplic, of food aHi clothing with the lndi-
 us Soon, however, animals of whites dis appeared, Mir Iriian commenced to remind the whites that the wood they were burning was tbcIr~ lthc lndiansO; that the grass winch their animals were eating was Indian ....ss, &,., &c., and that Indians wanted pay for these things. This was more than the whites were able, or wished to, stand. Their Government had bought and paid for the Territory had organized and established a Government over it, and by so doing had asked them to come and occupy it. Know ing this, knowing that there was plenty of room, etc, for themselves and the Indians, they concluded to stay, and "work out their title to it." This they had almost succeeded in accomplishing, when, in an evil hour, Vim cent Colyer, bogus apostle of peace, came here, and, by display of pro consular power, and lavish expenditure of presents to In dians, stayed the tide of battle that was then in our favor, and made an impression for evil, upon our foes, which, we fear, will be very hard to rub out. This, too, after ten years of sorrow and suffering had been passed by our people; after about five hundred American and Mexican lives had been taken by the foe after hundreds of people had been plundered ot animals and other property, and after other hundreds had been driven from the country to seek safety and living elsewhere. These statements are facts, which Colyer Cree, or any other robber of friendly Indi- ans dare not deny.
 It Is also we'll known that from 1861 up to the present time, many "treaties" of peace have been made with the Apaches, by mill tary officers of the Government, who Lave fed said treaty making Apaches at military posts, and supplied their other wants, so long as the Apaches condcscended to stay around said posts, or even to call, once in great while. It is, too, fact beyond dispute, that, during those treaty periods, more murders and robberies were committed by the Indi- ans than at other times. And why2 We'll, the why thereof was that treaties have gen orally been made late during Fall seasons, with the view, on the part of the Indians, of .eving additional food and clothing during ,ss ~nter months, and safe places for their ,,,, women and children to tarry at,
 mn "e ~@sors, armed with guns picked GoTerUman, a '@e pOs~ and well provided with
 Go,eFnmen' ros provisions aud ammunition sal.
 ned lISa forth on raids against s," nuD,,,O''' n sal
 any they killed soldiers and Se''s oeeasGn,
 'o'ernmem property. Now @' ro"''Sca'eo
 oihcers oi 'hOss feeding posts wsr. Oi the l.,,s. H.