Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1885-06-13

silence, reigncd throughout inc cartl
throughout all space, and that ! was
the only spectator It was so oppres-
sivcly lifcless and lonesome that one
could almost feel the bony fingers OF
the Great Hereafter creeping up and
down the spine. But suddenly the
engine pulled a million sparks into
the unsuspecting air and then we
rolled away from the after-dusk dark
ness into the deeper black OF mid
night
About daylight at a point 500 miles
from San Francisco | left the train and
soon after was in a stage bound for
Prescott. distant ffty-seven miles near
ly due south This portion Of All
iona, and in fact the greater part Of
the territory, is a plateau, Of 5000 to
5000 feet elevation, generally cons ist
ing of rolling rocky hills, with an occa-
sional open plain or small level valley.
Several mountain ranges. having peaks
5000 to $4,000 feet high extend in a
north west and south-easterly direction
with the trend Of the sea coast, but
none Of them reach in an unbroken
line from end to end of the territory,
like the Sierra Nevada and coast range
in California. The altitude of the
region through which we passed was
from 5000 to 5000 feet, and for more
than half the distance the road passed
over succession of low hills thickly
covered with a forest of juniper, a small
species of cedar A little grass grew
among the rocks, but owing to the
absence of water except during the wet
test part of the rainy season, it is little
used for pasturage and is uninhablted.
The soil, II there is any, IS obscured
by the lava boalderS OF which the hills
are composed. The surface is very
much like that of the country in the
vicinity of Mahukona and kawaihac
Only two canyons were encountered,
the first called Rattlesnake, the second
HelPS Canyon. The latter looks not
unlike kipapa gulch mauka of the
Waialua road, but has no green mania
MIA to relieve the solemn grey of the
cliffs. The long, narrow, tortuous
Chino Valley was reached about thirty
miles from the railroad, and then the
riding was more comfortable. We
passed few wagons along the road.
One OF them was an army wagon going
for supplies for the garrison at Fort
Whipple, and was driven by soldier,
the first one ever saw in the uniform
of the regular army wearing medal.
Such decorations are not obtained SC
easily from Uncle Sam as from the
European governments, many of the
officers of which have their breasts
covered with stars and crosses till they
look like the rigging of a man-o'-wal
on wash-day In another stage we met
were General Crook and wife, and one
or two others. Crook is our bes
Indian fighter and is known by the
Apaches as the "Gray Fox" His last
battle with them was fought about sixty
miles from here two years ago, and nc
war party has left their reservation
since. This is the first instance since
the closing years of the SEVENTEEN cen
tury that this savage tribe has knowr
SO long period OF peace, and perhaps
the first in its history. Spanish ex
plorers penetrated Arizona Tor "Ari
yuma" as it was then called, as earl,
as 1898, but the first settlements were
not made until $50 years later. The
Indians attacked party that attempt
ed to found mission in the southern
part Of Arizona in 1905, and murdered
some OF the priests. And from tina
time up to 1883 year never passe(
without Witnessing their fiendish atroci
,,oe nT ,ba ,,p, ,,,,ee,npc fnupAaH h,
the Jesuits and franciscans all wer
destroyed by Indians but the grand oil
church OF st. Xavior near Tucson
which is still in use. Other tribe
were converted by the pious Padres
but nothing has ever made any impress
sion ON the fierce Apaches but lead
and vast amount of it has bee
expended upon them by Span
ards, Mexicans, and Americans su,
cessively and the almost univers;
opinion Of those who know them bes
is that the end is not yet. They hay
always been at war with the tribes thu
accepted, or protested to accept, tn
teachings Of the priests, and the Garlic:
record OF them is that they were pc
petual enemies OF nearly every othe
neighboring tribe, and occasionally tn
different bands into which they wei
divided fought with each other. Th
various sub-tribes now gathered t.
gelher on the San Carlos reservation
number about 5000 souls, and III
land set apart Tor them embraces a
area OF 4,a4o square miles. All tn
Indians in the territory number abo,
$4,000.