Arizona citizen., 1874-02-14

ty men out there, and A. c. Benedict, Messrs. Smerdon, Romano and Machado also went. They arrived on Thursday and on that day and the next, buried the bodies. The troops went on to San Car los and the citizens returned. The trail of the Apaches was down the San Pedro in the direction of Saddle mountain.
 January 31, in the evening, the San Car los Apaches, evidently the same ones that afterwards committed the murders above described, attacked the train of Barnett x Block which was encamped near the agency, killed Charles Armstrong and wounded another man (whose name we have been unable to obtain). These are the circumstances as nearly as we can get them: The Indians came into the camp and made the usual professions of friend ship, and then one took Winchester rifle from Armstrong and with 1t shot him twice in the head near the eyes and once in the body, and, shot another man in the upper part of the thigh, but the wound will not prove fatal. Eight mules and three horses are missing and are supposed to have been taken by the Apaches. The Indians were drunk with tiz-win, and they soon found and tapped barrel of whisky belonging to Hugus x Daly, and made way with all put gallon or two; also took four sacks of four. No other dam age was done the train or it's freight. Word was at once sent to San Carlos and then to Camp Grant. Lieutenant Rice was soon out with hls available force at San Carlos, and Major Brown, command ing Camp Grant, immediately sent Capt Taylor and about fifty men to report at San Carlos, at which place the latter ar rived the 2d. On the 5th another com mand of troops was sent out from Grant bv Major Brown. Excepting four blind souaws and a White Mountain Apache boy, all left San Carlos and took all their property with them, and their rancherias were burned up; they also took forty government Springfield rifles and con-
 
 from where they killed Armstrong, down the Aribaipa canyon and evidently to old Camp Grant, which place they reached on the third and committed the five mur- ders recited.
 Sunday last about ten a. m., six Apa- ches attacked three men in campin Round Valley, about sixteen miles up the. Gila from Florence, and shot and killed one of them-R. E. Wilson. These men were in the employ of H. c. Hooker and were bound from Wickenburg to Ills ranch near Camp Grant. They had a wagon drawn bytwo horses and one riding horse. The Indians took the three horses, three saddles, all the blankets and clothing, and appear to have hurried away without damaging the wagon or anything left in or at it. One man got to Florence the same evening and reported both his com panions killed, but another soon after reported himself al! right except some damage to an ankle by jumping down 8 high embankment in effecting his escape. Seventeen citizens, of Florence, all armed and mounted started early Monday morn ing and brought the body of Wilson, the wagon and other property, to Florence, where the body was buried.
 A party of immigrants arc encamped about ten miles down this valley. One Of them reports that on Tuesday he was out, in the Rillito valley, mile and . halflroaf>; camp, after their stock, and that4frefl In< r. dian5 fired on him, but that he sSe>t
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