Arizona weekly miner., 1877-02-16
ARIZONA MILITIA.
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The Territorial militia prospecting party
 will be organized st an early date, it is ex-
 pected that they will mako their frs, move
 ment on the mineral country in Southeast
 em Arizona; but as the Governors message sets forth that at "lesst twenty persons
 have been killed by Indians in that part of
 the country within the last six months, and
 the arms of the party will chiefly consist of
 prospecting tools, they will move in "heavy army wagons" ca swell beaten roads a, the
 rate of few miles a day, with instructions
 to locate all mineral land oapturei from
 the Apaehes for those in whose interests this
 party has been organizcl. Tho Territory Is, of course, tc psy all expenses, if it has ! money enough. if not. the general govern meut will be pctitioned for as much more as may be required for the basiaess
 \ few ysars since when white men were being killed nearly every day, and upon near ly every trail in ouI County, and by the half dozen, no appropriation. were asked for; neither was the militia ordered out to ehas. tise the willy Indians, nor was any uneom- mon demonstrations made on the part of our executive officer to check their dev!lish work. Still it was no uncommon thing for the citizens of Nsvapai to organize a vol unteer company to follow and ohastise them, which they did most efeotually on several different Occasions-for instance, when Messrs. Bowers lost their herd of cattle. citizens came together and organized par ty to pursue the Indians; those who were not able to % in person, furnished horses guns, etc, and the result of this eKpo,li- ton was the recovery of tn, stock and the killing of 51 of our red brothsga. This ex- petition was commanded by John Town send, who killed nine Indians himself Again, expeditions were made up and went out under Col. Woolscy, Tom Hodge and many others, with good results
 We see no reason why tho people of southern Arizona, who were never content until they succeeded in robhiag northern Arizona of her Indians. should not have organized an independent volunteer com pany to follow up these Indians or whatever TRIBE that may have committed the recent outrages in Pima County They could have we'll afforded to equip a company of forty or fifty men and send them into the field lo chas,ise the offenders and breakers of the peace, alter having had the furnishing of supplies and the benefit of all Iergsisiles for the last three years, and thus show her sis- ter lavapai that Pima was not all for self But Pima has no msynanimity In her; she robbed us of our Indians. our Capital. ard has been trying to rob us of all our protec- ! ton, and her last grand scheme has been 10 ! rob the Territory out of ten thousand dol | lars, to do work which the United States 1. has already furnished troops to do, aud off ccred by competent men.
 What next will you ask for, Pima. you may want to get some of our rich mines, az ricultural lands, fine forests of pine, but you 1 will never succeed. nor in capturing our good, ! true, white American citizens. Throw up the ! sponge, Pima. settle down where you belong and do not allow such men as Ben Block and l others b excite you in regard to their loos- ing hundreds of mules, when, in fact no single animal had been lost and no other in- jury had been done except the shooting of an arrow into dog, in the mud town of Tu- bsc, by some cruel wretch, just for fun Sc send for Clua.