Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-09-11
THE INDIAN SCARE.
How the Patriotic TOmbstonsrs Respond ia Tiins
 of Danger.
rrnnhstnne Nugget. Sept. s.l

Tombstone Nugget. Sept. g.
 All day Sunday the air was full of ru- mors of war. On the principal streets oracles held forth to listening crowds, Of inc r;.vaees of Indians, the great dcs tructioI to life and property which would fellow. Some said there were lu,UD h. dian braves on the wafpath, and the whole Territory would be devastated and made a bowling waste. Fresh rumors came in every hour that families Lad been massacred and half the stock in the country had been dr.yer of One man just in from Sulphur Valley, re- uorted that he had seen fifteen or twenty Indians on the hills and had left fer the seclusion which Tombstone grants. The massacre of General Carr and his com mand was most eneTeetIclliy discussed from every available point, and the blood of the dead soldiers was crying for re- yepee. Ihen somebody vi h a rum nose would
 MAKE FEW ALCOHOLIC EI-dARRs, Regarding the proper way to iigLt In diaDs how they should be killed and prepared for the grave, and when the st;Ge came in an excited individual told how a hand of Indians had murdered llO Chinarnen and white men near Wilcox; that the train had been stopped, the women and children taken out and straw burnt around them, and all the men kiVeI. In fact the excitement grew so fast and furiO Js, and the warlike feeling ran so high. that, lad 1t nOt been the Holy Sabbath, company would have bcen raised and started OiIt -Jr the race track. As it was, one individual, with the best possible intentions, and With c degree of liberality alike credltab.e to patriot sm and generosity, donated slU towards paying the expenses Cf raising T volunteer squad. On Monday mass | meeting was called to meet at the Theatre at l2 m. At that hour motley crowd [ gathered and stirring speeches made. but nothing effected, and another meeting ordered for p. m. At that hour about l the same crowd again met, and discussed the situation. There was no trouble h raising company of 29O men, but there was great trouble
 IS OBTAINING ANY PRlyATEs, ' The majority wishing to enlist as slltler- and quartermasters, and the remGindei desiring offices from Brigadiers-GeueTaI to Captain. One man who offered to %
 
 tempt as a low, groyeling soul, with nc pride or ambition. So they adjourned again until 7:3O in he evening. At that time everything was booming; there Wer1 l5 Generals. r ColOnels, 30 Majors, 6l Captains, Lieuteuants and one solitary lonesome individual with black clay pipe and a pair of riyeted oyeralis, whc wanted to be Sergeant. Some warlikt resolutions were introduced, when Mayor Cum appeared in his great dispatch act and read the latest from the seat ol war to the effect that Gen. Carr had not beeI massacred, but Captain Hontig and ioul soldiers killed and three or four wound ed. No families had been slaughtered and no Indians were ravaging the conn try. Then Hon. Thomas Fitch got ul and with few appropriate remarks, m trOduced the following resolutions WhicL were read and unanimously adopted:
 Resolved, That there is no possible ground to apprehend that Tombstone ol any other city or town in Arizona of one tenth of cur population, will BOW, ol ever be attacked by any Indians what ever, or that there IS the slightest neces sitv for the organization of a volunteer military force for any purpose.
 Resolved, That Tn the opinion Of tn: meeting, the military forces of the Unit ed States are ample to promptly quel the recent Indian attack in the Northern and Central parts Of Arizona and aveng' its victims.
 Some enc moved to adjourn sine die which was done amid great and pro | longed applause, and thus "ondeth th' first lesson