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The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-01-06
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Mir. c. Schroeder writes us s, Park, Wallapai District, under d,,s Der 26: 'e 1-~~--
 in the first place he mentions hi. ~.u grounded surprise at finding, upon his ,,,;r. q, n 'a 'ne distf'et few weeks ago. Miners, 'fA grown up town of some thirty or0 O''ao'e adobe buildings, besides several brush shanties and few tents.
 The cost of living is quite reasonable Txo boarding houses, kept in good style, furnish board for SIP per week. One of these i. owned and conducted by a gentleman from Los Angeles, Cal, the other by a Ce,es,;,l who "speakee English all same Mel;,,, man." Provisions of all classes are iron ,I to 10 per cent. cheaper than at Prescott !.
 There is constant demand for grain, whrs finds ready market at from 12 to Is es,. per pound.
 J. S. McCarthy-well and favorably knO, in this section-had arrived from San rn cisco-in the interest, it is supposed, of 6 tain mining princes of that city. Mir. ! Carthy says, (and his opinion is by no mes valueless), that Wallapai win rank amang { richest silver districts ever discovered on | Pacific coast
 Water is abundant throughoat the sut, District. The Mineral Park gusa, al0s contains stream of water of sufficient u ume to run 4O-stamp mill the year round.
 Money is scarce, yet nobody is "des broke" Generally the miners have a suf ciency to carry them through the Winter.
 Good carpenters and adobe layers find cuu stant employment at from eight to ten do lars per day.
 Christmas was celebrated in good style Davison's Restaurant, where a ball was gil en in the evening.
 A heavy shower of rain had fallen the ds before Christmas. and served to infuse ne hopes into the minds of the people.
The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-01-06
Health of the Regular Army.

The annual report of Surgeon General Barnes states that the monthly reports of sick and wounded, received at his office for the fiscal year terminating June 90, 1871, represent an average mean strength of 29,- 3G5 white, and 2,60S colored troops Among the white troops, the total number of cases of all kinds reported, as taken on the sick list, was G3,507, being at the rate of 2, l63 per l,OOO of mean strength. (That is, about two entries on sick report, during the year, for each man.) Of the whole number taken on sick report, 53,7l0, or l,6S3 per 1000 of strength, were for disease alone, and S,797, or 300 per ,0O0 of strength, were wounds, ac- cidents and injuries of all kinds. The aver age number constantly on sick report during tue year, was ,4SO, or 5l per 1000 of strength; of these, 100, or II per 1000 of strength, were under treatment for disease, and 900, or 10 per 1000 of strength, for wounds, accidents and injuries.
 The total number of deaths reported was 5l9, or l7 per 1000 of mean strength. Of these, 36a, or F per 1,UOO of strength, died of disease, and l56, or , per 1000 of strength, of wounds, accidents and injuries. The total mortality rate is greater than that for the proviouO yoar, the chief increase occurring in the proportion of deaths from disease. The proportion of deaths from all causes to cases treated, was one death to 122 cases.
 One thousand and ninety-one white sol ders are reported to have been discharged on "Surgeon's certificate of disability" being at the rate of g per 1000 of mean strength.
 The reports from the colored troops give the following figures, which do not include the white officers: The total number of cases. of all kinds, reported, was 3,55l, or l ,262 per 1000 of strength. Of these, 2,9G4, or l l,l37 per 1000 of strength, were cases of disease, and 5S7, or 225 per 1000 of strength, were wounds, accidents and injuries. The average number constantly on sick report, was lO4, or 40 per 1000, of whom "A, or 2S per |" were under treatment for disease.
 l2 per 1000, for wounds r~
The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-01-06
The Blue Water Massacre.

We condense the following account of the late horrible massacre at Blue Water station, from private letter written us from Tucson, under date of December 9:
 Mr. iinn and NIT. Benedict had just ar rived at Tucson, via the San Diego road, and brought news contirmatory of the reported murder of J. W. Baker, keeper of the Blue water station, his Wife and boy about seven years old. The news of the horrible affair was brought to Picacho station, by some Mexican boys, on the 22d, just as Messrs. Linn and Benedict had reached that place. These gentlemen immediately hastened to the spot and there discovered four dead bod ies in the corral, adjoining the house. From the position of the corpses they inferred that Mir. Baker was shot and killed first. His wife must have struggled hard for her life, as her arms and breast were riddled with buck-shot, and her dress on the right arm was burned. The boy was also killed; but the babe, about five months old, bore no mark ofviolence, and evidently perished of hunger and cold, in the rain that fell on the evening of the day Thursday, the 2lst) upon which this butchery was enacted
 As to to the authors of the murder there seems to be no decided opinion generally. The heavy rains which fell immediately after the massacre so effectually obliterated the trail of the assassins as to render pursuit i'm possible. The guilt is, by some ascribed to Indians, while others maintain that the mur- der was the work of three half-breeds from Sonora employed by Mir. Baker to cut and gather in hay for use at his station. | The horses and whatevcr.valuables remain ed about the house after the inmates had been murdered were carried off by the as- sassins.
 The mystery which surrounds this matter cannot, however, continue. No thorough investigation had been made at the date o! our advice, but the matter will receive prop er attention, with .L- .ow of placing the guilt where it properly belongs.
 ! LATER-Tucson, Dec. 2S.-I hasten to send you this as postscript to my letter of Monday
 In the absence of His Excellency, Governor Stafford, (gOne to the Calabasas mine,) the Territorial Secretary and Acting Governor, Coles Bashford, has promptly issued pro- clamation offering reward. on behalf of the Territory, of $l,0oO, for the apprehension and conviction of the party or parties who murdered the Baker family, on the 2lst or 22d inst, at the Blue Water station. The Supervisors of thls county have offered a re- ward of $500 for the arrest and conviction of the murderers; while our publc-spirited fellow-citizcns Hiram s. Stevens, Esq, and Sehor I.copO'do Cari,lo ofrel rewards Of S5e0 and $100, res actively, to the same end. It is now the osettled opinion that the mur- der was the wort, of half breeds, and that r must nave passed through Tucson on Inc way to Sonora, on Friday night last There are several parties Tow on the road thithcr, in no. pursuit oi tne cold-blooded assassins.
 His Honor Judge Tweed has arrived from Prescott.
The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-01-06
CONVICTED BY ITS OWN MOUTH.
sacramento ocalis,na) Record.I

... Sacramento (Calornia) Record
 = .o,erably evident that the views ex-
 ,d in the editorials of the Union rela-
 Pc to Arizona affairs are not based upon its own correspondence from that Territory, for in its last issue appeared letter from Tucson expressing diametrically opposite opinions to those advanced in an article upon the same subject, published on the next page. In this instance it stands condemned of falsehood at the mouth of its own correspondent, and by an odd act of inadyertcnce it has cOntriyed to publish, simultaneously, its own state ferring to the late Wickenburg massacre, speaks of it as "that other fal>ehood about the murdering the stage passengers near Wickenburg by the Apaches, which has since been pretty conclusivcly proved to have been the work of white fiends." The correspond ent, who has nothing in common with the journal he writes for. has the following: .
 General Crook expected arrive here from Prescott early next month The citizens of Tucson will give him warm and hearty reception The General is learn engaged in investigating the late wholesale near Wickenburg. It Is settled that the murderers Achc Moave Indians from the Date Creek Reservation hat arrant humbugger and fanatic, Vincent Coyer is justly cargeabie with this mercess slaughter of cent white persons
 Certainly the Union's own columns do hot bear out its assertion that the Wickenbuyg massacre has been conclusively proved " to have been committed by white men, nor is it the San Francisco papers alone that ''preSent Colyer q, malicious marpot, the enemy of his own race, etc." The Union's correspond ent, however, has evidently sent his letter to the wrong journal, as may be seen from his concluding remarks:
 Our people grateful to the Sacramento Unon for manly and able advocacy of their inst claims upon the Government for full and complete protection against the murderous AIqchcs.
 If that was not meant for satire, it is very rich. The Union's manly and able advoca- cy" of the claims of the white settlers con- sists in blackguarding them as "borber blood hounds.n B ~..a supporting the plan of Colyer, to leave them at the mercy of the murder ous Apaches." Our dishonest cotemporary is, however, right in predicting that the Pres ident's peace policy will succeed, but it is wrong in assuming that that policy is at all like anything it has ever advocated. The Presidents peace policy consists in deter imitation to whip the Apaches into submis- sion. That is what General Crook has been ordered to do, and that is what he unques- tionably will do. Vincent Colyer and his milk k-and water policy arc shelvcd together, hard as it is for the Union to admit, and the only journal on the Pacific Coast that has raised it's voice against the just claims of the Arizona settlers for protection, has received the rebuke its brutality merited. No more convincing proof of the cold-blooded men dacity ot the sheet referred to could be ad- duced tbau its repetition of 8 notorious and exploded lalsehood jn the same issue with fresh exposure Of that falschood by a resi- ucDJ uI -lunOHd.
The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-01-06
OUR NEW DEPARTURE.

Reader, 6o sou perccTe that the MINER las taken new departure If not, we will taks tbc hber;y of informing you that its prcppri .ons ar, increased The last number seen v you was in size lsN 26, while thc rumhcg 1eiv.o ,yu ls23& g. This iacrease in size vii enable us to publish more reading inattor, and to use larger type for all Of said matter than our former cramped space admit tee l. vii, of course, take more labor and money to pCbl,sb a ,apcr of this size than -re of our olt size. but, relying npon a suf- at increase Of patronage to carry us h wrfh this new, selfimposed task, We
 to be able to make improvements
 f the paper, which, with its
 proportions, yjll, we know,
 ever before, a paper of
 1y well feel proud.
The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-01-06
Maricopa County.

Recent private letters from friends in Salt BIver valley, are burlened with accounts of Holiday celebrations, down there, to the ex- ciuslon of all else, which lead us to think that all the people of the valley enjoyed them selves hugely" The ball was grand suc- cess Ladies and gentlemen from Maricopa Wells and other points on tie Gila river, were present to participate in the entertainment.
The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-01-06
A New Bug-a boo.

Not .ong since, ee heard yonng mother, not five A1ndrea miles ffam Prescott, trying to put her babe to sleep, unlesahs influence 0f tue following
 "Eash-a-by-l,aey, vineeAt e..lysr k com ing etc, etc.
 W aid not stay iOne easugh b witness V fleet lbs sblatfs produced uaca inc
 '~secent, oas presume it went otf in.o
 .ai.1 soestatter the mention of inc
 - tbe. wousd-bechisf of the Indian
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inwthe first num-

rin the vear-lS;2, and the first of the en- :.rned series, tVt the non arrival of g new hsaG:og. and otter articles sent for to New York. more chan four months ago, has pge- ycatcl ss from carrying out our entire p,aa.
 T1,c subscription rates Of tue pap'r arc tue ssns ns before, and all persons acquainted with tie cost of living, labor and material bcre, vii cay that they are as low as, under ths c cuinstsaeeS, wo could afford 10 place tA,la th these few remarks, the MNEN [ .sts ~ atr,ns and readers everywhere.
The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-01-06
D YEAR.

.6ousand eight hundred an'
 las passed away, and glad ar
 {, for it was year of calamitiei
 y, we believe, that had ever
 on the people of this planet
 'e of the hoary Kingdom oi
 terribly, from famine and
 pt over portions of Asia
 lting its people in its
 preading disrnsy among
 the old lines of it's march:
 an indulgent Providence,
 dyance of the ruthless de-
 d time 10 favage Western
 America, were spared from hay sotaIl down before it,-as leaves before an Autumn wind.
 .France-once happy, sunny France-saw her fair fields wet with the blood of her slain children; her proud laurels torn from her brow, her prestige gone; her monuments and temples pulled down and in ruins, and all, all as a punishment for the violation of that Heavenly admonition, "All they that take the sword shall perish by the sword" Germany, too, her Conquerer, has had reason to bewail avictory won at so great a sacrifice Of thou sands of her bravest and best citizens, and we do most sincerely hope that horrid war will never again be rcsOrted to, by Gods creatures, in any part of the civilized world. While our own country has been blessed with peace, portions of it have suffered ter ribly by fire and flood, and the terrible dis aster that has befallen Chicago will not soon be forgotten. Again, other portions of our beloved country have suffered from drouth, but, as a general thing, the people of the United States have been prosperous if not happy, in the past year. The living, in this Territory have good reason to be we'll satisfied in that they have friumphed over the devil and his agent Vincent Colyer. True, many of our friends and relatives have been murdered, much val uable property has been stolen and destroyed, by our savage foe. Nature has refused us a sufficiency of rain and snow for mining and agricultural purposes, yet, notwithstanding all these drawbacks and sad calamities, We can. and ought to, look white and red enc mes in the face, put our trust in God, the Administration, General Crook, his officers and soldiers, to right the wrong under which we have groancd, under which we still live and suffer
 Goodbye, old year, and may Father Tino forgive your many, very many crnnes.
The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-01-06
From Yuma County.

We compile the following from the Erer
 ss If December l6 and 9:
 1t d meeting of the School Trustees, J. S. esrr wgs authorized to contract for desks for
 rty er more srholars. H. NJ. Alexander
 Fbas, Bake rerr authorized to contract
 aa, npctcnt teacher, and it was deter .' e qublic school as soon as
 -. '''s ''''''-'~ s-ea5 be perfected. sSspenaed one a. a. ,@,',n,,t-",o~s ,,' '.' r in ~e estate of 'i P naebins.. .'.,.,'l'sS, .S ,'' ' p,e.9 oe,panies S !, 7. u. I. anu ... ap VI oas''ry arrived a, Arizona Cit, ' 'u.
 .u' The h"ops make an sesIlent an og aIs, ,h. , o~,ns to .hescareisy O. horses a a o' the troops will be obliged ,o ,,.-.s loot, to Camp McDowea '0 '''
 4 municipal convention Wa. ,.ns
 se'nbie on the 2sth, for the pa,n~. 'o -sa h .lns city officers for the ensuing re,. 'i'
 The U. s. Depository at Tucson ha. knowiedged the receipt of money, forwarsss 's 'ne City Council of Arizona City. in n,r m mt Tor titles of lands upon which Arizona City is located '''s
The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-01-06

 that the rain ,r-n Of tte l9th u.t.. was most violent vl' 'cl bad visited tAat Stat, |; period of ten reaTs Many ot tho r5, Uyerilowcd their pank-. carrying awoy b'' es. houses, feDe-s, etc. The railroad b.. at Tamedcro, near Gilroy, was -'~ and ,be E..t sadly arLed for so In the several towns the Tainls computed at from , to ' inches.
 The Carson river, Ncy. oYe bank ou the 2lst, ot vhic
 IVES four feet deep O. City.
 EA-Secretary Scv 1own of pas~' '- ,ery l5a.
 The Oakland DgRy Nos, Of Dec ls this:
 A dispatch wa' received yestcnlT,
 hrt six companies ofthe Filh C3v'r7 R started some two 0r thrre weeks a-o te toaEt and .r znu8, were aH .ar. ssG would rrIv, .t Oakland. Ia .a- X portion the regiment sd about a week ago and were r.saa i.ower Goa. hut inc r.uafa-a. hccau. -u.. .annl on the route lH. a'l come tEraRl ut'l last cy ing jE ,e e ldatn .as alongside Jie alIo9d Dl pany's af during ,1. afternoon, ara ctivea ti troops OD tkcir 1--.a' l-.f all seen re-sh s-5ting aa0a- .aa . and will nskn t warm Ter the Afast.s.
The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-01-06
THANKs.-We are indebted to Department

headquarters for copies of recent n' some of which we print elsewhere.
 ries m relation to the recent 'strisi q
 tenant Whitman will be given a pl some future time. It appears that ths whch recently met at Tucson. to tr onlcer' :. ia,led T, to perform the duty assip Wnich laiiure' we perceive, has nece the DepartmentgC Comman, the members of said Go, a'D courteous, but very decided J--
The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-01-06

SAN FRAscIsco. December la 4s..2.,- are selling Legal Tenders at @ aag t.,s;,,
The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-01-06

While sincerely hoping that all hostile In- dians of this Territory will abandon their ancient cut-throat mode of life, and act in accordance with this order, the requirements of which will, no doubt, be communicated to them, we cannot now believe they will do so II not, and General Crook should have his new reigment of cavalry ready for operations ln ne field, at the expiration of the day fixed for treating all Apaches who may be absent from their reservations as hostile, the ball will open, in earnest, and be kept up until our red brethren" shall become satisfied of tho power of the Great Father to make them behave themselves.
The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-01-06
ATTENTION, INDIANS.
General Orders, No. 35, dated, ''lIeadquar- ters Department of Arizona, Prescott, De- ccmber 2, 2S71," arc as follows:

In accordance with the of the orlers the Dyis- ron Commander, the time within the limits of which all rowing bands of Apache Indians required 20 upon their excavations is announced and fixed ls February 18th lS1 on and alter which date all Apache Indians found outside of their Reservations will be considered treat cd as hostile.
 The hands temporarily provided for at Camps Bcae's Sprlns Date Creek and Mcdowell, will long as they .agularly mustered and accounted for by the DOS, o,f- I = in accordance with existing regulations and
 r,ma,n ,Gtsd and fed at those posts heretofore. tents fl this order M , 'he con,
The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-01-06

1he citVe. cf paaa 7ra Fu- -..- and, Prob.b'y- also, tboseo 1i are { iern.aed t1 have pebF, haza thing {. ing ofa the pres, We hay
 The I. heretOro for the though executio fain see for the ties, and tion.
 Charl
The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-01-06
The News.

The psica of goll, in New N,rs. op. oH '.e 21tn. at }15}, and closed # o3
 SHer.a dispatches from Icz.- sa .le5 !. h1f.a sta.c t4ag toe Da., bone of tl rebcIhor is broken, anu tlst the early an absolute overthrow of tbe insae,.. ieads ], inevitable
 From Wjnnamacea. Nev. t.erc is Q 7 Ior, of disatcctior among tae FruJe Iuaiar 4 few psominentindr duais Of ne .p,, vi wished 10 ride on tac passenger lra.a NitAet paylae fare, were put oh' b, .le eondoctr Toy threaten to take vo@eance hy tear. 2 afa5 q -... l '90s apprehension entertained ia cons luence
 From Sa-rauer Cat. eomes the nerse .the election ot ua. 4. 4 SaFgcs, as T 2 Senator fer 5', years-to e>ee, Senaios
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Ia. wing a, are from the San Der.

The Paz stage arrives Thursday ,-.-
 <, arre'nE among the passenssrs from A, sC1a, Cue only two spTylvo~s of tl, VV;,l,a,, slTg ss2ee m--ssacro, Mir. N. krngsr and Miss SAeppsrd 1t= former has reroys.a,3 fran A unds, the latter is not so forum ste as her wounds have not yet healed.
The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-01-06
The Public Schools

Ihe citV ct Iaaa and }'tu- md. prob.b'y also, thoscof 1l Ire { ierua-d c lsye nehf.
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