Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1890-08-27
THE SUPAl INDIANS.
A California Tenderfoot Disco'- CTS Tribe Heretofore Cn-
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. kn0A u-L1 HUI.
 And Proceeds to Air His igao- rance sn tbe Chronicle, which
 Prints his story B. a sensation.
 One of tl1e most amusing and rldleu- ious p!eoes n0f hunchausenisms that has been perpe,fated for q long time appesreG in the san Francisco Gkroni- oie oF August 18th. IL seems that man called Cei. ". Fl. Holabrid of Claremout. Les Angeles courty, Cs.i- fornia, es,sape.l from bis guarG:sas and came scross into Arizona. He stopped of al Williams, in this county, and from there vent up into what he calls the unkno~n regions of the CatsTact Canyon. aud bound what he supposed to he lries oI Indians never heard oi before-.he- supais. The rediculoas- ness and shsutdisy oi Inc story told by shis doughty citizen of California, with a military. preax 10 his name. c&n be better appreciated by stating the fact that in Cataract Canyon are serera. well developed mines, and the section has been visited by hundreds of people before I, was discovered by this valiant colonel. The Supa; Indians are as well known to the people of Arizona As the wallapais or Mofsves. They are sell sustaining tribe, instead of being in a starving condition, as described by this wonderful explorer. They have as fioe peach orchards as csn be found in Cali fornia. while they cultivate the soil also and raise sufficient food for their support, h contradiction to the as- sertion of Colonel Holsbird, as to their being strangers to civilization, they visit ail ;he towns along the Ii .e ot the Atlantic and Pacific railroad, as well as Prescott, and trade with citizens oi them. The Colonel probably met with a hunting party oi the tribe, as he ceE' ssinly could noi have visited their vll lage and made such sn outrageous as sertson in regard to them. There Is nc tribe of Indians anywhere to-day that are mere prosperous than the Supsis- They are better fed and better clothee shan any wild tribe in the west. Below will be found Colonel Holabird's senss- tionai story about them as 1t appeared in the Chronicle.
 s'Colonel W II. Holabird oI vlare mont, Los Angeles county, is at thu Palace Hotel, having just returned from an exploring expedition in ih' canyons ef :he Colorado. He lett Will jams, a station on the Atlantic and Pa oifc railroad. with his guide, William Bass, 8 taamsteI. photographer ana two servants, and travelled through al almost wholly unexplored region About loQ miles due north of William he found the Yayi-Supai tribe oi In dians, hying in exclusion Tn Cstarac canyon, no5 far from the Grand can yon Of the Colorado.
 a' found there strange race oi re' men said Colonel Holahird to Chroni cle reporter last evening. 'l guess wss the second white man who eve visited their canyon. They are reaceaSle people, but avoid coming II contact with the whites. They are Q the Apache family, but are evidently i very ancient people. The men ar magnificent specimens oi manhood with fine physiques. | rounded up th settlement. and counted just 24I them, fully two,thirds being female The valley in which their tribe haS lived For many years in seclusion ha but tive ways of approach Itcontsir perhaps s.O00 acres, and is inclosed b almost perpendicular walls 4,oo0 ie' high.
 "'Th chief of the ,trange tribe h ing in this canyon Is sn old man ot years named Captain Tom, nan given him by John D. Lee, the Mormoi who escaped from Utah and Tor s' years lived in hiding with the red mei He was the frst white man the IaN Supais h ad ever seen, and he taugl tue chief the whiteman's language ar the use of firearms. The Indians h' ia small houses woven from your willow trees. They are simple sr harmless people, wholly unacqusint' with civilization The young men ai experts with the bow and arrow. aT can kill birds in tine air and rabbits ( the run with the greatest ease. II old chief met our party with two wa riors as a bodygusrd. They were dec ed up with paint and thsr trapping and looked lierca enough.
 a'I found ;hese Indians in a stsrvii condition living on cedar berries al grass seeds Az soon as l reached ts railroad l communicated with the terior Department. asking for assii ance for these Indians, and the rer from, the Interior Department stat that the red men were wanderr people and could not ask the Cover rnent for assistance. have since
 ported the case to General Miles, al he has promised to investigate the m
 ter. The Indians are not s rowing p'
 ple, but have lived in the snyon fol century Or more. General Miles
 formed me that he had heard oi q strange race, but had never been a to secure a guide to the canyon wh
 they live.
 ~Dr. Samuel Dorchester, whon
 met at Williams, A. T.. has just G oladed taking the Indian census
 Arizona, which shows an Indian pol laticn y. the territory & follows Nav jos. lS.o00; Papsgos, Pimss and M'
 copas, 5000; san Carlos Apsch 4.5O0: Moquis, 2,scO; Mojaves, 2,2t
 and Yavi-Sapais 250. beings a total
 over 3S.o0o Indians in Arizona.
 The Buckeye Blade records the de
 ol Robert Long. a former resident