Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-05-08


 ' form dodge quickly. Soon heard ) yelp, a signal danger. The nex
 minute l saw lot of ragged squaws
 children and bucks climbing up ove
 the rough and rocky mountain. The, S had been camped in small ravin
 close by and were evidently laying fo
 me.
 Now it was my time to move. M,
 horse was uneasy. I did not stop t
 water him, but at once mounted anC
 the horse realized the situation anC
 started to run down over the rougl I rocky trail. Ichecked up, and whel I 1 got to the road I tried to hold him ! but run he would. I finally got hin , quieted. had sixteen miles tC : ride to Beal Springs the next watel
 and fifty miles to my home. I had tC f travel little slow so as not to kill tho , noble animal. I reached Beal Springs r ip less than two hours. The horse had not drunk for eighteen hours and
 the weather was warm, so I only all lowed the horse to drink one-half what he would have drunk. I filled my canteen and drank myself. Irealized that my nerves and my whole system was shaky. The fact is I was
 whipped without a fight.
 1 mounted my horse and rode over
 the Cerbat range to Coyote spring , four miles. Here I allowed the horse
 to satisfy himself with water.
 1 had, not noticed any signal smokes ahead of me and I thought that 1 was out of danger and rode quietly along over smooth road for about five miles. I was yet trem- bling and rather broke up. I con cluded that I would stop few min utes and rest, and finding a little batch of grass I took of the bridle and let the horse feed while I made a cup of coffee. I had gathered up some sticks and fixed for a fire when my horse threw up his head and snuffed. I looked, and within ten yards of me I saw an Indian ap- preaching. He had a bow and ar row in place but did not seem to be on the war path. He said, ''how de doc, how de doc; tobacco smokum.' l threw him small piece of tobacco. l next threw my saddlebags on the saddle, frightened my cinch, and without putting on the bridle mounted and the horse started on a run. I soon coaxed him to stop. I got of and put on the brldle, as I had learned that the Indians would so appear to party; one Indian would come, soon one more would come, and in very short time there might be six or eight. Then they would take the advantage. I did not care to stop longer. 1 could go home without eating and did so, arriving about p. m., but I was asked if I was sick when 1 reached there. I said no, but was tired. I drank cup of tea but ate but little. I went to bed but could only sleep few min utes at time. It took me five or six days to get to myself again. As soon as 1 would close my eyes to sleep l saw those red devils that held me up. 1 finally got strengthened out and in ten days pgrty of military came along and I accompanied them to Prescott. I sold my mule train, got a little money-the balance I never got. I sold my saloon to the quar- termaster at Whipple post. 1 sold as much of my goods as 1 could and sold my timers tools to Campbell & Buffum. I sold my buildings and loaded the balance of my property on the OK train and returned to Hardy vile, where I turned the oxen loose on the river bottom, and as soon as they were fat I sold them to the quartermaster for beef, and I con cluded to stop at home and take no more risks with the Indians. aban- doned the toll road that cost me S35,0O0 to build. The fact was I could not fight single handed the United States army and the Indians at the same time.
 Since the Indians gave up and came in and made peace I have ire quently met one of the Indians that held me up, but never apologized or asked his pardon for the lie I told them. The fact was saw no Apaches. I made up lie out ofwhole cloth, but am satisfied that that lie saved my life, also saved my horse.
 In the spring of 1872 Gen. Crook was sent to Arizona to make peace with the Indians. Soon after arriving in the territory he began to learn what had been done and got at the real sit uation. He came to my house and stopped over night and asked a great many questions, and l saw no more of him for several months. In 1872 Lieut.. George Wheeler, of the topo- graphical engineer corps, came to Ari- zona for the purpose of exploring northern Arizona. Prior to this large country in northern Arizona was rep resented on the government maps as unexplored. Over 500 miles of the Colorado river was not marked in. With Lieut.. Wheeler came three young men, one Loring, and two others. These young men were from some of the best families of Massachusetts. They had lust graduated from Yale college. They were roughing it for health. In November, 1873, Wheeler got through his work and the three young men were paid of in Prescott. They had about one thousand dollars each in one hundred dollar greenbacks. There were no railroads ill Arizona at that time, and they took stage for Los An geles. They rode the first night all right. Thenext morning, about twenty miles west of Wickenburg, four In dians attacked the stage, killed the three young men and the driver. One man. by the name of Kruger, and a woman of the lower class jumped from the stage and run. The Indians had muzzle-loading guns, and before they could reload Kruger and the woman had got out of the way. The horses were shot and the stage pillaged. The news of this affair got to Gen. Crooks ears and he sent out four men to in vestigate. Soon the Indian agent started a story that it was Mexicans that did the robbing, and Mexican appeared in Wickenburg with money, and soon it was telegraphed to Wash ington to this effect, but the four men sent out to investigate returned to Gen. Crook and reported that it was four Indians from Camp Date Creek that murdered the Loring party and plundered the stage.
 There was Mexican that arrived in Wickenburg the next day after the hold up. He had some money and bought a saloon, and spent money