Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-07-19

MT. Grenell silently procured the two horses and sent the messenger back with word to Antonio to come with the cap tves direct to his house. Then he called upon the commanding officer and inform ed him that the captives would be at his (GreneTs) house at sundown. In the meantime the news having spread, all hands gathered and watched the sun slowly sinking towards Chimney Peak which lies west of the fort
 Just as the sun was disappearing be hind the peak Antonio, his friend and the two captives, stopped at Greneus cablh and the supposed two long lost captlves were turned over to MT. Grenen. That same evening the mail left the fort for San Diego and the news was published in all the papers of the State of California. When the captiyes came to the house good many of the bystanders laughed at MT, Grenell and said that they were In dlans, as they had been tattooed on the chin and were very dark from sunburn they looked indeed like Indians.
 All the ladies from the fort came to see them, but the captives would not look at them or speak to them; they could not get word out of either of them so that the ladies also were about concluding that they had Indian women before them, | when MT. Grenell went into the room with the ladies and raised the hair of one captive up behind the ears where the sun could not have burnt the skin and then | they saw the white skin and also observed that the hair was very fine. But when they examined the other they found the skin to be brown and that puzzled them all, the more so as neither ot the women would talk a word to anybody. The ladies then took care of them and dressed them up and ill few days the captlves began to talk through an interpreter. The dark skinned captive told her h1s- tory; she proved to be Mexican and was sent to her people. The other, who was Olive Oatman, was taken care of by the ladies at the fort until her brother came for her and took her to thelr friends in Rogue RiverV alley
 It appears from Olives statement that when Antonio and his friend arrived at the Indian rancheria where the captlves were the two Indians staid around there for sometime. One-8ay Olive and the other captive were told that they had been sold to Yuma Indians and to say Ii they wanted to go Theyssaid no, that they would rather stay with their friends; that made the Indians more anxious to trade them off. When they arrived at the fort and saw the white women they were ashamed and wished themselves back with the Indians again and would have run away if they had had good chance
 but as time passed they became more satisfied.
 When Olives brother came she did moi
 know him, but was satisfied he was hel
 brother. That was the first time sht
 heard others speak of the murder of hel
 family. She often told me she would like to see some of her old friends, even l
 they were Indians
 She had good deal to say about golc and silver in the country; her storiei
 about the gold and silver had no end. The last time 1 came here was in '57, il the fall. l have since heard she got mar l ried and went east and was living hap I py life. Lorenzo still lived in ROgut
 River Valley, at least 1 was told so. I'm
 closes the story of the Oatmanfamily. \ N. B.-When Olive and the Mexican
 captive were brought to Yuma 1 thinl
 several of the members of this societ i were living there; Bro. Solomon Warner l Geo. Martin and P R. Brady, MT. A H Lynn met Olive Oatman in Rogue Rive I Valley in 1855. These members may havt . additional matter to communicate upol l the subject.