Arizona weekly miner., 1875-01-22
PRESCOTT ARIZONA FRIDAY LvENING, JANUARY 22. 1875

men were murdered by two Mexican de>pes- adoeS. A short distance east of the station a
 road branches off to the right, leading off ] across the great plain into Sunora, which Is much traveled. FilibuStering Station, l2 miles distant, is the sGpper station, and here
 we prepare for night ride of fifty miles " donning oycrcoats and wrapping in blaEketS, as the night air is chilly, running down to 55-, the thermometer during the day stand ing at from G5o to S0o. We pass during the night Antelope Peak, 6 miles; Mohawk, II miles: Teamsters' Camp. l6 miles; S:anwiX, l5 miles; Woolsey's five miles, and arrive at Burkcs, six miles, at a. m, here we take qreak fast Here Mr. Whistler, the former owner. was murdered July 1th of this year, by q Mexican. who was pursued by two Mexiran settlers ani caught near the Sonora line, GO miles distant, brought back and hung by the Nigilantcs two days afterwards. Soon after lea, ing Burke, We cross sandstone bowdpr mesa for several miles and at twelve miles distant reach Oatman Flat, made mem orble by the murder of the 0atuan family by the Tcnto-A ApacheS. March l9, 1851, as recorded on the head board at the grave, which i, close by the road. The next drive l before arriving there we pass peculiar sand stone ledge hill, of some two acres in extent, a half mile distant from any other high land, a3d known aS
 THE PAINTED OCKS.
 At the base of the mountain or hill are lying, partly imbedded in sand, large sand stone bowlders. worn smooth and blackened by the suns rays during hundreds, Or per hapS thousands of years of exposure. From ore to two hundred of these powders, as well aS the face of the le'igcS, are covered with bieroelyphic>, including representations of horses, birds men, animals, snakes, lizards, ii,he~, trees and plants. These characters were cut into the body ot the rock and must have required much skill, time and patience to have been So well and permanently done. When it was done, by whom and for what purpose, is yet unknown. l am informed that there are several other places in the Territory where similar inscriptions are founG and that in my tour shall meet with them and also with some old ruins of large cities and other works of men who lived here prior to the pres mt Indian race. At Kenyon Station we take supper the second day out from Yuma, and while eating, J. Boudot, the driver, gave US the particulars of the murder of E1. Lumley by two Mexican>, August l9, 1873. They tied him up under q tree in the back yard and killed him with a machete knife, cutting and hacking him in a most horrid manner. The murderers were pur- sued by band of men across the Colorado river below Yuma, oveTtaken on the Colo rado desert, in San Diego county, California, one of them shot dead and the other cap tured, taken back and hung to a mesquit tree hut Il few rods distant from where tue murder was committed. Thus perish most of these outlaws. From Kenyon to Gila Bend the road Is hard and smooth ant the distance. sixteen miles k made in about two hours. We leave Gila Bend after dark and have heavy, sandy road to this point, 43 miles, passing through canon of several miles in length on the route and arrive here m the early gray of the morning, chilled and worn out with our continued ride of 1S3 miles in a sitting posture and without sleep for two days and two nights. Stretching away across Gila valley, which to the north east is sixty miles across, rises the Four Peak mountains with snow covered tops. which gliSten and glimmer in the bright sunlight and are plain in view.
 THE INDIAN COUNTRY.
 Just oeyohd lhese hlgh peaks to the north Is the country of the Tonto Apaches, about the worst Indians on the continent. whose deeds of murder, violence and blood would fill volumes The Pimos and Marico- pas have T reservation of some twenty seven miles m length, commencing few miles east; but they roam everywhere. The Pim6s num- Der 1000 and the Naricopas GOO. They are quiet and peaceabie but most inveterate thieves, Ike all other Indians. great many curiosities are continually heinz fnnnd