Arizona citizen., 1875-10-16
CAMP GOODWIN LETTER.
InexcusabIe Trining with Mail Matter-AI QuIet-Csmp Apache Indians Reiurnin@-Ma Murder ed and Another Murder Attempt ed-NO Names Given.
CAMP GooDwIS, October 5, 1875.

CAMP GOODWIN, October ,, 1875.
 EDITOR CITIZEN A few truthful
 words with THE CITIZEN in regard [,
 the mails or their manipulators Ther,
 is surely a screw loose somewhere l Prefatorial remarks are well enougt
 in their way provided they are no
 drawn out to "seventeenthly." Hap
 pening to be in the pOstoffice one daJ during the distribution of the mails,
 saw several CITIZENS and observed
 their addresses, which were as follows | No. l. Telegraph Operator, Santa Fe
 New Mexico;" this paper should have
 gone on through Camp Bowie to La
 Mesilia, on the Rio Grande, thence ul
 said Rio Grande to Santa Fe-its des
 tination. No. ?. HI. c. Hooker, Hook
 CTS Ranch, ArizOna;" this one should
 have tarried awhile at Camp Grant
 No. 3. "Wm. H. Cum, Prince George
 county, Maryland; what the deuce
 ever possessed this one to " fly the track" and scoot off down here, is a
 mystery, when any paper, knowing. il
 had a long journey to perform, would
 have continued on in company with
 the one for Santa Fe. Or, if opposed tc
 staging it through Arizona and New Mexico, and preferring to be little
 more stylish, then it could have gone
 to San Francisco and " there took the
 keers" Besides those just mentioned
 an occasional letter or paper addressed
 to some person st Camp Bowie, will
 find its way to this office. l noticed
 one letter addressed to person living
 in 60 Kirkland Valley," near Prescott
 this letter must surely have had the
 "jIm-iams," otherwise it would neyel :. have come away down here, to be seni
 back over :ue same route again.
 From Lie above showing, ii would appear that letter or paper going
 through the gauntlet of Arizona's post
 offices, has about as good chance Of reaching itS destination, as a pint of
 water poured out upon the bald pate oi Mt. Turnbull would have of reaching 1 the Pacific ocean.
 Some Indians just returned from the White Mountains, report that great many of those who went up on passes will be here next Saturday. All is quiet here; no great excitement among the farmers.
 4 few days ago, while attempting to ] Icgoss the Rio Gila, opposite the mili ] tary camp, a soldier was drowned his [ body was found some two miles below ! There is a report here that q lieutenant
 was drowned in the Gila somewhere aboYe here
 About two months ago three miners were camped in the Cordilleras de Glla, prospecting for mines. One morning two o' the party started out hunting, leaving the ether man in camp. The same evening one returned alone to camp, badly wounded in the chest by d gunshot The wounded man report ed to the man in camp that he had been sho; by accident, that his partner Lad mistook him for a deer. In an swer 10 the question of where is the other man." he said that after he was shot, his partner came up and said il was an accident, and wanted to start 10 the San Carlos for a doctor, but he beg ged him not to go and not to leave him. He says that afer awhile, he went to sleep, and when he awoke, the sun was nearly down and his partner was gone, but supposing he had gone for doctor, thought no more about it. He managed to crawl into camp and told the above story 10 the partner in camp. Well, they waited two days for the return of the man who had gone for a doctor. But at the end of two days no man or doctor made an ap- pearance; the well man who remained in camp. took the wounded man to the cattle-camp and went down to the San Carlos for medicine. A few days after his return to the wounded man with medicine, he proposed to bring him down to the military hospital. They started, and while in camp on the Gila, q few miles above the San Carlos, the well man lay down to take sleep, and had slept perhaps an hour, when he was awakened by blow on the head, given by the wounded man, and in fact before he could get out of reach, the wounded man came very near killing him. However, he got away and come down to the San Carlos afoot, and re- ported the mater, ana salu Jnal ne was now convinced that the wounded man had killed his partner, as he had tried to kill him. MT Cum sent party in pursuit of the wounded man, who had two or three horses with him. The pursuing party got on his trail but could not overhaul the fugitive. Af- rewards, at the solicitations of the other partner, the military sent out a party to look for the body of the other man that was supposed to have been bv the wounded man. As was rightly conjectured, the man had been murdered, and the wounded man was his murderer, and had afterwards tried to murder the other partner. The ,,.e- ;. ar, old man with rraV hair