Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-12-13
forward like deer and the skir,nish began

forward like deer and the skirnish began and a better executed one l never wit messed even from veteran soldiers. There was not break in either line from begin ming to end of the affair which covered a distance of nearly four miles before the Indians werestruck. They were completely surprised and sleeping Tn absolute security it their wickiups with only buck and squaw Gs lookouts on bluff above the rancheria who were playing cards by small fire and were both clubbed to death before they could give the alarm. The Papagoes attacked them in their wickiups with clubs and guns. and all who escaped them took to the bluffs and were received and dispatched by the other wing which oc- cupied a position above them. The attack was so swift and fierce that within half hour the whole work was ended and not an adult Indian left to tell the tale. Some 2S or 80 small papooses were spared and brought to Tucson as captlves. Nota slngle man of our command was hurt to mar the full measure of our triumph, and at eight o'clock on the bright morning of April 3O. 1871, our tired troops were resting and breakfasting on the San Pedro few miles above the post in the full satisfaction of work we'll done. Here also might your historian lay down his pen and rest; but believing that in order to fully vlndlcate those who were actors in this drama ard others who were aids and abettors. he craves your indulgence whilst he gives a brief summary of the causes which drove our people osuch extreme measures, and the happy effects resulting therefrom. Through the greater part of the year 1870 and the first of 1871 these Indian had held a carnival of murder and plunder in all our settlements until our people were ap- palled and almost paralyzed. On the San Pedro the bravest and best of its pioneers ! had fallen by the wayside instance: Henry Lang, Alex Mckenzie, Sam Brown. ] Simms, and many others well known to | all of you. On the Santa Cruz noble ] Wooster. his wife, Sanders and an innumerable host slept the sleep that ! knows no waking. On the Scnoita the i gallant Pennington, Jackson, Carrol, Roth elwell and others were slain without a | chance of defense. and our Secretary Wm. ! J. Osborn severely wounded. In the vicin- ity of Tucson mail drivers and riders, and almost all others whom temerity or neces- | sity caused to leave the protection of our adobe walls were pitilessly slaughtered. makes the array truly appalling; add to this the fact that the remaining settlers on the San Pedro,n not knowing who the next victim would be, had at last resolved to abandon their crops in the fields and fly with their wives and little ones to Tucson for safety. and the picture Is complete up to that glorious and memorable morning of April 30 1871, when swift punishment was dealt out to those red handed butchers. and they were wiped from the face of the earth. Behold now tine happy results i'm mediately following that episode. The farmers of San Pedro returned with their wives and babes to gather their abandoned crops. On the Sonoita, Santa Cruz and all other settlements of Southern Arizona new life springs up, confdences restored and industry bounds forward with an i'm petus that has known no check in the whole fourteen years that have elapsed since that occurrence. In view ofallIthes facts | call on all Arizonans to answer ou their conscience you call the killing of the Apaches at Camp Grant on the morning of April 30, 1871, q massacre?
 WM. $. OURY.
 Tuo5oN, A. T., April 6, 1885.