Arizona republican., 1901-06-23

Other interesting articles of somC length in the first issue of the Miner
 are found under the following head
 ings; "The Late Governor Gurley.' The Civil Government" "The Capita
 Question" "stag5s and Mails" and
 ''The Wealth of Arizona"
 One that is particularly interesting
 relates to Indians. which were then operating extensively between Whippls and this valley, and includes a letter from Colonel Poston. superintendent oi
 Indian affairs. The article is given in
 full below:
 'To this time with sl single exception
 the Indians formerly roaming in the
 immediate vicinity of this post, the
 Hualpais and Yalpapais. or az some
 have it. the Tonto Apaches, have not
 sh-wn a hostile disposition. That ex-
 ception was at the Rattlesnake or Hell
 canyon, fifteen miles north of here,
 where Captain Chacon, and some of his
 men, riding in advance Of the gover-
 nor's escort, came suddenly upon a
 small party of them. The savages re-
 fused to obey the captains order to ac-
 company him to his camp and under
 taking to run away, (and drawing
 knives 1t is saidD were fired upon, and
 two of the number killed. The day be-
 fore an hundred of the Hualpais had
 been at this post to talk with Major
 Willis. and had stoutly denied all
 knowledge of the stealing of the cattle
 lost at Canon Spring. in December last
 They moreover protested entire ignor- ance of the depredations. perpetrated at the mines. Thy agreed tG the propri- ety of the majors, proposition to shoot any one of them detected in stealing.
 They seem a poor. degraded Indian. without spirit, and many think they are not chargeable with any of the outrages lately perpetrated.
 The Piral Apaches are entirely diff ferent customers. Their pluck and audacity no one can question. They have. WE are sorry to say. succeeded in stealing from the ranches n large amount of valuable stock. King Wool sey, Esq, of the Agua Fria ranch. who had lost heavily before. was on the 18th ult. robbed of all his stock. some thirty head, excepting three yoke of oxen. actually before the plough. Above fifty of the redskins made a descent on the herd at midday and before the herders could alarm the men at the ranch, succeeded in driving off all the animals but one or two, which they Killed. Immediate pursuit was impos- slDle, without reglecting the ranch. and MT. Woolsey, who was with the gover- nor on the Verde. was sent for. and re- turned as quickly as possible. He will organize d company 60 hunt and pun ish the thieves and if 1t is as success tui as the party he headed some weeks since, which slaughtered twenty or more of them, he will have d good re- Ienge. He is one of our most daring and skillful Indian fighters, and be- ieve" fully, as he has good reason to. | In the extermiratlon policy.
 'On Saturday afternoon Messrs Nlckroy and smith of the tower Hesi- | impa dlggipgs, waited upon Secretary | with a request from the | people of that district for military pro- .cction. They reported that on Wed lesday very large body of Aba ahes rad entered the district and killed eight | 'f the miners, five Mexicans and three | AmeriC ans ard that some twenty more | We're mi:sing. The secretary immedi Il lt-!y solicited Captain Pishon. com Il in the absence Of Major Will fl IS, to send d force to the Hesiampa 'hd at higntfall, by order of the cap am twenty of Captain Butchers Mis- ourl volunteers were upon the road Iessrs. Nicl1roy and Smith expressed much satisfaction with the prompt re- ponse to their appeal. It is their pinon that the Apachcs meditate A evere and continued campaign against ne miners on the Hesiampa and at Weaver.
 A letter from Colonel Poston, super- ntendent of Indian affairs for the ter ltory, refers to numerous Apache out ages m the southern part of the ter ltory, where their disagreeable pres nee has so long been terror to the eopfe, and a bar to a proper working the silver mines. He says:
 The Apaches are more audacious han ever in this part of the country nd have destroyed and paralyzed the ldustry Of an immense district. They 'pped MT. Butterworth's party of L. bout sJ,OOO in gold and got some guns nd pistols from Mills formerly of the lowry mine) and Stevens. whom they scently killed. They drive a thrifty 7 'ade with some of tEe frontier 'Wns or Sonora and Chihuahua where ley buy ammunition and supplies nd sell plunder These internal places lght to be broken up. The governor
 sonora is not responsible because Icy are Independent pueblos, and the eXican government is not responsible cause Sonora is an independent state nere can be no prosperity in the conn until these thieving Apaches are Ibduad.
 We entirely agree with the sunerin- hdent. His office is an important one id We believe the governor and inc ople will cooperate with him in in 'suatlng vigorous movement 'ainst the barbarians who have obed and murdered our citizens at
 h. 1nc first step demanded by all e interests of the territory is to hast
 the eXtermination of hese copper- inned Williams. Let every effort be ade to clean them out. It is idle ,o K or soft measures. with such inyet- ate and brutal plunderers and as- ssins ' Colonel Poston and Ross Brovne q., are eXDected at tbis noat i, o e