The weekly Arizona miner., 1878-09-06
PIMA INDIANS.
war with Them more than Probable

Nearly year since we called the atten- fenfion of the Indian Department at Wash ington to the fact that large number of the Pima Indians, under surly, disaffected old Chief, known as Chin-chir-a-cum, had abandoned his Reservation upon the Gila and with his thieving followers had settled upon . fine tract of land North of the Salt River and running along parallel with and opposife the Tempe settlement. These h. disns are the owners of many horses, which they turn loose upon the fields of the whites, and in many instances have destroyed whole crops. Hogs, of which these Pima's gre very foad, arc Kidnapped, and soon converted into posola--a dish composed of meat, berries and dirt, and much relished by the balf-civilized tribes of Indians in Arizona.
 A heavy .sx has been laid upon the good citizens of Tempe by those Indians, whose deteptah1e sets have been winked at by theie htresiding on the Gila. Patience hGfod d to be virtue with the farmers of Tempe, and unless something is done sooB to protect them from Indian iscur- sions, good Pimas will be sent to their hap py hunting grounds, and the blame laid at the doors of law-abiding, tax paying com munity.
 The Indian Department ordered the Pi- mas to be forced onto their Reservation on the 0ila, but Agent Stout, seemingly, ig- nored the instructions sent him by his su- periors, and said that "the Indians must not 90"
 We take the liberty of coppying from a urivate letter written us from Tempe, dated the 27th of August, by reliable farmer of that place, which gives pretty fair idea of how matters stand:
 sIs there no hope of these Pima Indians being removed 2 They are making it very lively for the people of this settlement. Within the last few weeks they have taken from my place. at low estimate, Si50 worth of breeding sows. purchased milk COW, on Saturday last, and, on Monday, Pima Indian took her from the picket ia front of ny house and swam her over the river to tue Indian camp. I was close behind the Indian, but was compelled to give up the chnse on account of the river being over its banks and not fordable. The Indian made it nicely with the assistance of dry cot fenwood pole.
 "Mormon Jones is taking them into the Mormon ditch company, and encouraging them to leave the Gila and join him on the Salt River. He is the only one of the Lat ter-Day Saints who desires them in this valley, as those 'burly reptiles have made it practice to turn their stock loose upon the growing crops of every one in this im- mediate vicinity; and the result is that the Hornons have saved but little outside of some wheat which they cut for hay.
 1t seems to me that the chief executive of tho Territory should have some jurisdic- tion in the premises and take action. We are tired of being rnn over by these wild men, who heed no one, and only respect the whites when they are in force sufficient to make them dc SO.
 "Tiiic last summer two Indians were elubted to-death at the raRcharia on Salt River, for wifchcraft, or bad medicine something taught them by the Mormons. A large family of children belonging to n-chir-a-cum's band were stricken down with disease, and some of Jone's Pima Apostles undertook the cure by laying on of hands. Little Indian died, also two Apostles. I wish they would encourage the practice until all were cured and gone to their happy hunting ground.
 "The Indians have made hostile demon strations towards all Mormons except Jones. They took prospector's horse, saddle and bridle, few days since, while the poor fellow was resting beneath the shade of a cottonwood. And so the thing goes.
 "New, that the Idaho war is settled, 1t would be we'll to bring the troops down this way, for I fear they will be soon needed"