Arizona citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Pima County, A.T. [i.e. Ariz.]) 1870-1880, 1876-09-23
Anew Ugly Facts.

During the night of April 9TH, tn
Apaches on the Chiricahua reservation
while undisturbed under the peaceful
and benign influences of their chosel
agent and stipulations agreed to by an,
between them and Maj-General How
ard, murdered n VI. Rodgers and
Dir. Spence at Sulphur Springs station
about twenty-five miles from CAM
Bowie and say eighteen from thei
agency. On the morning of the Sth
scout of forty men under Lieut. Hen
ly, two citizens and four Indians fol
lowed the Indians into San Pedro val
ley and returned to Bowie on the 18th
having neither killed nor captured
any Indians or stock stolen by the Apa
ches. In the meantime, a Mr.. Lewis
was killed and Mr.. Brown wounded
on the 9Th in the San Pedro valley,
and lot of stock taken by the same
Apaches.
July IA, George Todenworth and
Joseph l.. Cadotte were killed by the
Apaches in Pinery canyon about twenty
miles from Camp Bowie. On being
advised of the murder at Camp Bowie,
sergeant and twenty men were sent
to look after the bodies and returned
within two days, having made no
scout after the Indians.
September 10, as detailed elsewhere
in to-day's paper, J. c. johnson and
Calvin Mowrey were shot and killed
while at their labor in San Pedro val
ley just where Mr.. Lewis was killed
in April, and the settlement abandoned
again as it was in April. Mr.. c. VI.
Hooker raised party of armed men
TO look after Mr.. Mowrey's body, that
of Mr.. Johnson having been previous
ly foundO and accidentally a couple of.
energetic cavalry sergeants with few
men were camped at Tres Alamos en-
route to their post, and they started in
pursuit, but all returned for obvious
reasons, and again the murderous Apa
ches are going about whithersoever
they choose, doubtless rejoicing in
their easy success in theft and murder
and freedom from punishment.
On Wednesday, while near the post
office in Tucson, Lieut. Ray declared
he believed that at least twenty men
had been murdered by Indians in the
Chiricahua mountains during the last :
sixty days.
Five months and half have passed {
since those Indians renewed murder.
ing in Arizona. They broke their a
own agreement while unmolested and s
IN undisturbed enjoyment of the very 3
agent and all the conditions given and a
promised them on behalf of govern 20
ment, and it is worse than ordinary o
falsehood to say subsequent events a.
either led them to a renewal of hostili- W
ties or in any manner excuses their a.
crimes or their exemption from punish Il
ment. But as we were about to saw. W
five and one-half months have passed al
since those Apaches recommended to O.
murder our people and break up the II
homes of those they permit to live, av
and not one of them has yet been \
punished. They go hither and thither p;
at will and likewise kill and steal. 81
But one relief from destruction OF
seems open to the citizens exposed to p'
10 the south and east of here, and that al
is for the Governor to exercise the pow bl
er conferred on him by the law of Ari- fu
iona, and call out by volunteering OF 70
otherwise, sufficient militia to thor 50
'ughly scour the hauntS of the hos y
lle Indians; organize such militia into flu
companies, and by having them under IL
his control, get them armed by the an
government Until some such effect fu
We measures are adopted and carried ne
nto execution, exposed settlers must lii
lbandon their homes and come to the an
arger settlements, or incur the risk of to
'eing murdered while at their peaceful We
work of making homes for themselves fe'
md families. ar