Arizona republican., 1896-03-05

and calamltOuS m1Sf0rtune would come onto them and no soul be left to tel. their sorrowing tale.
 The warriors journeyed to the south by slow marching and on the 3Sth day they saw with surprise in the early morning a column of men marching towards them. The Pimas all lined up for battle, expecting to meet an enemy, but instead, and to their surprise they saw their guides rush ahead and lov- ingly greet the new corners. Perceiv- ing this they went forward and re- ceived a friendly greeting. Finally the Pimas learned with much sorrow, from the strangers that their chief, Wave Ke-Hote, had been taken pris- oner by the men with hairy faces and shining coats, and that a great number of their people, both men and women, had been killed. They begged of their allies, the Pimas, ito return and not suffer on their account, that they, the beaten people, would go up into the high mountains and live where they knew the hairy men would not venture to follow them.
 So the Pimas had nothing further to do but retrace their footprints, re- joicing and singing at, to them, the happy ending of their first great war campaign, not knowing what desola- tion awaited them on their return to their homes.
 At last they reached a point on their homeward journey, a place called Vinum Vavey Gron welD twenty five miles south of the Gila. Here they placed their signal fires on top of the highest hills, and were much worried at receiving no answer to their sig na.s. At the break of day following they dispatched several of their swift est runners ito learn the cause why their signals had not been answered, and further to ascertain what, prepara- tions their kin folks had made to re- ceive them.
 Immediately after the departure of the runners the main column started at quick pace and about noon reached a point four miles from the Gila river where the head of the column stopped | to rest. The chief again sent aids to the top of a desert peak near by to | spy out and see what they could learn | When the Indians reached the top of the peak they shouted down that the messengers were returning and were but short distance away but they saw no signs of others In few minutes the messengers rushed wildly into camp and without speaking a word or making a sign prostrated themselves before their great chief.
 The chief asked the prostrate and trembling forms, 'sWhat word do you bring? Speak quick, command you, 1 tell me what you have learned" The messengers answered, "Pea-an- -u-ma,' meaning We know nothing" D" Where are our old people?" they answered Pima" i've know noD
 | When Hhe messengers who were dis patched in the early morning arrived at the big village called Va-Ke-Tam (the house on the high ground) they saw only sun bleached human bones and not one of the big houses stand ing which they had left only two and a half months before. They could learn no cause of the destruction and them, so they hastened to return and report.
 The multitude, one to the other
 would ask ''Has Chueke?" what has happened? the answer would be from each and every one, Pima, Pima," don't know.) So the cry was kept uI until they reached the villages They
 did not find a living being. Their houses were all destroyed and their I pottery all broken. The evil spirit the night demon, whom they cal Hauk, and of whom al the Indians are in great dread, had come upon them. But the chief and his captains soon learned the true cause of the calamity
 The chief then gathered together the most brave of his men and marched out towards the north on trail which had been lately been made by a great number of people travelling in the di- rection of Ka-Cot Crooked mountain) now known as Superstition. At the
 foot of this mountain they found 6 great horde of people like themselves
 but speaking in different language and whom later on they came to know
 as Apaches. This was the first token
 which the River Indians ever had o1 the wild and murderous tribe which lived north of them. The Indians
 now known as PimaS, gave battle tC the Apaches and drove them beyond : the mountains. They captured severa
 hundred, all of whom they burned al
 stakes.
 Still the poor people who were lef
 homeless and fatherleSs and childless : continued to ask each other what they possessed and the only answer was Pima, Pima," (donlt know) hence tn. name. The Pimas soon learned, aftel
 their attack on the Apaches, who ths demons were that had destroyed their homes. They found their clothing ant . household goods in the possession O. the Apaches.
 Hence the destroyed buildings wticl i tada1r IIa1a ,at