Arizona weekly citizen. [volume] (Tucson, Ariz) 1880-1901, 1896-03-07

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| 1.-THE sign of the scorpion) that is our
| guide to our country. We have been
| 40 days on the trail, help Us, greas one,
or our people are lost. There has come
amongst US men strong In arms and Gov
cred with clothing which shines as the
sun, Their skIn Is yellow ard their
faces are covered with hair. They have
knives of "vinum" Qron) 80 lorg that at
two PAGES distant they can cut a mans
head 1T.
The great chief OF the PImas, who at
that time had no other nsme Lnan Ack-
a. Mal-Othum, meaning River Men, Con-
nt-d to accompany the strangers WITH
all his able bodied W rriurs to their dIs-
tant country. The Pima Indian is quite
a beiIever in fstalism, ana their Loyalty
to their great war C Ilefs 10 We'll known.
for even our own Capt. W. Ros-, who
has led them 10 many battle 'gaInst
the Apaches, can vouch for their fatalis-
tic belief and bravery.
1 will get pack again to my centena-
risn and bis notched stick.
The strangers we're fsasted SYMPTOMS
ly for ten dayo. / mean while the Pimas
made haste to commence their long
journey. o. the 10th day every thing
WAS 10 readiness, the women with their
Ke Hoes (hesd baskets) filled with food,
the men with their war clubs and
shields. The clubs were OF ironwoOd
and the shields we're made OF deer hide
and mesquit bark. There was a great
multitude. After feasting and bidding
LOVING farewell to their sged and young,
whom they were to leave behind to care
for their homes, they got themselves to-
gether early In the morning, and started
with their strange guides to a country
they never before seen. Tt was late iD
the evening when the last of the column
had vaDished beyond the southern hills
and the old people and very young left
weeping on the banks of the Gila.
They were ignorant OF the agony
which the destroying angels had ia store
for them on the other side of the north
ern mountain, or that a sudden and
cslamitous misfortune would come onto
them and no soul be left to tell the sor-
rowing tale.
Our warriors journeyed to tho south
by slow marching and on the 38tb day
they saw with surprise in the early
morn ng a column of men marching
towards them. The Pimas all lined up
fol battle expectieg to meet the enemy,
out instead, and to their surprise, they
SAW their guides rush ahead and loving
ly greet the new Corners. PerceiviDg
this tn y went forward and ceived r
friendly greeting. Finally the Pimss
earned with much sorrow, from the |
Strangers that their chief Wave Ke-Hot- |
mad been taken prisoner by the men
with hairy faces and shining coats, and |
that a great number of their people, |
9th men and women had been killed. |
hey begged Of their allies. the Pimas,
TO return and not suffer on their account. |
{ har they, the beaten people, would go
I'D into the high mountains and live
where they knew the hairy men would
not W nture t. follow them.
So the Pimas had nothing further to
10 bur retrace :heir foot prints, rejoic-
ing and singing at. to them, the hurpy
Dding OF their first great war campaign,
not knowing what desolatIon awaited
them on their return to their homes.
At last they reached a point on thei'
n mAward journey, place called VINUM
VAvEY. (rOn well) twenty-five mile
Iuih of he Gina Here they placed
b IT signal flies OF top of the hIghes
nils. and were much worried at reCeiv
ny no answer to their signals Al
,resk of the day following they dispatch
a sever al OF their swiftest runners l.
earn the cause why their signals hac
not been answered. And further to
ascertain what preparations their XII
'Olks had made to receive them.
Immediately af err the departure OF
ne runners the main columD start d al
luick pace and, about noon, reached q
point four miles from the CHA river
where the head of the column stopped
20 rest. The chief again sent aids to
he top of desert peak near by to
by out and see what they could learn.
" hen the Indians reached the top of
ne peak they shouted down mat the
passengers we're returning and we're but
short distsn.e away, but they saw no
igns OF others. In few minutes the
messengers rushEu- wildly into CANT
md without speaking word or making
sligo Frustrated themselves before their
rest chief.
The chief aeked the PROSTATE and
rem bling forms, what word do you
,ring? speak quick, / command you,
ell me what you have learned The
messengers answered "Pes-an-u-ms"
know nothing. Where are
ur old people? they answered Pima"
We know not
When the messengers who were dis
'atched In the early morning, arrived at
ne dig village called Va-Ke-Tsm-( rh.
rouse on the high ground) they saw
My sun b. ached human bones Do
ot one of the big houses standing
ghIch they had left only two and half
MOUTHS before. They could learn no
.suse of tn destruction and de-solatiou
which they saw before them, so they
fastened to return and report.
The multitude, one to the other would /
SIX HAS Chueke?" whst has happened
he answered would be from each and
very one "Pims, PIms"-Q don't know I
10 the cry was kept up until they reach {
d the villages. They did not find
wing being. Their houses were all
and their pottery all broken.
he evil spirit. The night demon,
HON they called Bsuk, and Of whom :
II the Indians are in great dread up to {
bis, had o Ime upon IL en-.
But the chief, and Lis captains, sooD ;
earned the true cause OF the calamity. :
he chief then gathered together the {
1ost brave of his men and marched out
owards the north on trail which had
zen LATELY made by great number OF
eople travelling 10 direction OF ka-Cut
-(Crooked Mountsin) now known as
Super titious." At the foot OF this
they found great horde OF I
eople like themselves, but speaking {
fferent language, and whom, later, on J
hey come to know IS Apaches. This
,as the first token which the River 10 c
ians ever bad of the wild and murder I
Us tribe which lived north OF them.
b. Ind ans, now known as PImas, gave I
attic to the Apsches and drove thea I
eyoDd the mountains. They captured
eversl hundred, all Of whom they burn :
at stakes. q
Sill the poor people who were lef' O
omeless md fatherless and chIidl-s- r
on tinued to ask each other what they g
assessed and the only answer was q
h.