The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-01-20
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coLYEa ON THE WICKENBuh1
 MASSACRE.

Washington dispatch to the New York Tribune. which we copy below, is of char acter which must convince every intelligent mind that, although the Secretary oi 'he Board of Indian Commissioners IS an ach- nowledged traitor to all the better attributes of the human heart, he possesses one iaudaole trait of character; but unfortunateiy It h' in his case, possessed only to be abused. ms i. nerseyerance. Had the old scoundrei d. rected this solitary virtue in the proper chan nel-to champion truth and justice, he would moi. today. be in disgrace; but no, he chose rather to champion theft, falsehood and mur- der-and hence, his one virtue, which might if properly directed, have sustained him against the tongues of q thousand accusers, when so perverted served only to accelerate the process which wrought his disgrace.
 Divested of tho satelitious light by which he shone in Arizona; charged of falsehoood by the subsequent action of the Indian Blu reau. and target for the animadversion of every honest man, ct the East as well as at the West, he adheres to his heresy and false hood, even to the present hour, with all the tenacity and malignity ascribed to devil in- carnate in his efforts to enslave the souls of men.
 prominent military officer told us, uot very many weeks ago, that we must not yet congratulate ourselves and felow-citizens upon the allegorical death of Vincent Colyer. "Vincent,n said he, twill never surrender so "long as he shall hold a Government office. "I know him we'll He may possibly remain apassiye for few months until the public ! indignation against him will have partially "subsided, but at such time you must expect ito find him chanting his hypocrisy again, sand to some purpose. The man is dishon- "est by nature, and profound hypocrite by "training and education. He is avaricious Gas a hungry wolf, and so long as his position is such as to bring any portion of the public "moneys directly or indirectly under his "control, so long vii he continue to concen "trate all his energies and whatever of au- "thority he may retain for the purpose of accomplishing his personal aggrandzement "He would, today advocate hostile mea- "sures, if he only knew how to harmonize "this doctrine with his professions of peace "and believed that his private interests might "be thereby subseryed."
 That this gsntieman's interpretation of Vincent Colyef-m s pre-emiucutly correct tho f5llowing ojll bear testimony,
 Mir Vincent Colycr relates some interesting .a-ss lclts in r5gasi Co the outbreak among thc Apachc-MDhay,>, who are charged with having atlarkci the Nickcnhurg stage.cJach aud numbering yo-ng Lorius and aers. lie says that before his visit to the northwest portion of Arizona, inhabited by the Mo- hayes, this tribe which had been at peace for more than three years, and who were not among those against whom General Crook was waging n campaign, had stolen some cat tie on the road, as they were in very starv ing and destitute condition. They had, up to that time been charged with no murders (which statement is base falscbood, as will appear form tie fact that the are known to have murdered five men between 'Ine and the latter part ot August among whom was Ah-shan Neuniug, killed July 2tth. and Che last of whom was l. Gabriel, at Chino Valley, August 2Jth Eu N.seR-i As Mr. Coiyer wes 3as,ing through thc country. iEith an escort of seventeen cayalrymeu commanded by Lieutenant -Eul in the stage, near Date Irrch Che owner ut .. ranch engaged passage for his a.ie and daughter as he expected .is house would be attacked by Iadlans that night The Indians had made an attack in the morning and were repulse,i, with two of their number wounded hence the fear of another attack.--ED. From the woman MT. Colyer learned that few days before one of the Apache Mohaves had come to her house to do some small piece of work for her, as he was in the custom of doing. As he stood in front of her house three men rode up, and seeing that the Indian had good Henry rifle demanded of him to give it up. of course the Indian refused, so they took it away from him by force, he resisting to the best of his ability, and they knocked him down with the but of it after they had secur- ed it. Enraged at his resistance one of them then shot the Indian with his pistol. The three men then rode away, and the owner of the ranch buried the Indian in his garden. Now this pitiful story Is absolutely willom any foundation. It could never have been related to MT. Colyer; for it is extremely improbable that fugitive wife would invent afalsehood, m the course of her flight, in ex- tenuation of the attack, by savages, which rendered it imperative for her to flee for safety te military post The Indian who killed MT. Henning, on the 24th of July, was af. forwards killed by Mir. Genung, after he had fired two shots at the latter, from a pistol This occurred near Date Greek, and is doubt- less the occurrence which suggested to Col yer the idea of the above romance.-Epl On the morning of the day when Mir. Colyer passed through, party of Indians were mass ing down the road near where the Indian was murdered, and the farmers fearinc ,ba, they were coming to ayenge the death Inf their comrade fired into them, wounding son,e of them. This is modestway of putting m attack, in which two laborers were fired unon by party of savages. while the former were at work in field. The laborers fled to the house, distance of some 800 yards, followed by the savages. They escaped, in safety within the door, and then opened fire upon the savages, from within, driving themF of and wounding two of their number, as stat cd. As the Mohaves had committed nc murders before, Tor, at least, only five with in period of ten weeks and as the murder of Loring and the other travellers took place within 70 miles Iseyenty-six miicsl of tn,