Weekly journal-miner., 1909-07-14
M1LLER MAY GET
 INDIAN CLAIMS SOON
From Thursday's DailyO

Receiving an urgent e telegram per
 taining to his Indian claims agains
 the government, Samuel c. Miller vii
 leave today for Los Angeles, sayins
 that his presence is desired there al
 once on this matter. He states tha
 his attorneys are in that city at tn,
 present time, and he believes that
 representatives of the Indian Claims
 bureau are likewise there.
 It is the opinion of MT. Miller that
 the question of the payment due him
 IS at last to be adjusted, and he feels
 somewhat elated over the receipt of
 the news, and confidently believes
 that the matter will soon be disposed
 of. The sum agreed upon by MT
 Miller and the government aggregates
 over $20,0O0. This amount was or.
 iginally placed before the Indian
 Depreciation bureau as long as twen- ty-fve years ago. The loss of that sum was incurred through the Indian
 wars waged in this section from
 1863 to 1873, in which time MT. Miller had much property destroyed by fire by the Apaches. They also stole hundreds of head of stock be- longing to him.
 Clustered around this transaction there are "reminiscences of the past which take one back to the early days of the sixties, when the Apache scontested the right of the white man to every inch of the ground in this section, and Prescott was included in the zone of the hellish doings of that time. In that time Mir Miller was the heaviest freighter in Arizona, hay ing a string of ten trains, each of sixteen mules. He employed many men, and his route was from Hardy vile, on the Colorado river, to Pres colt. On that line he was a prey of the Apache, and he lost many ami mals and much freight of a valuable nature. With incessant raids on his freighting stock, he also had his mule herds run off and his home burned. This home was located on the identical spot of his present house on the outskirts of the city, his eorrals being adjacent.
 Clustered to the past in this man s life there are tales of thrilling day, a day, in short, of which the average resident of the present time cannot form the slightest conception Being the "boss' freighter of that time, MT. Miller was the victim of many raids, and in that line of Apache doings, one vivid chapter will again be mentioned to bring to the surface again a story in which an es- timable Prescott lady will be linked to a deed that will thrill everyone. It was that heroic act on the part of Mir. Miller when he sent a bullet crashing through the heart of Wauba Uba, the far chief of the Wallapais. He was coming to Prescott with five trains of freight wagons, and while at Beale Springs, in Mohave county now, this Wallapai chief came down through a ravine and asked to make a treaty. That signifed that fba ob;af ,.-onfad eor,ath;n- o-J ba asked for several animals and all the flour in the train. As quick as a flash MT. Miller reached for his Hawkins rifle and sent a bullet crashing through the heart of the In dian. On the adjacent range there were from seventy-fve to a hundred Indians all waiting for the signal to come and massacre the party. Wauba Uba fell dead in his tracks, and the Indians around soon began to dis perse. Believing that the party was to be ambushed a courier was sent to Hardyville, and a force of ten men was sent forward as fast as their horses would carry them. They were by Thomas D. Saunders, who is alive today and a resident of Prescott. Reaching the camp of Mil Ter, a consultation was held. It was decided to go on to Prescott, and the rescue party began to comb the ravines and mountains adjacent. They came upon one band of ten lurking around and killed every one. They then went back to the river, and MT. Miller come on to Prescott. From that time he had no further trouble.
 Freight was not the only article handled by this pioneer. He had a compartment for passengers, known as the trail wagon, which served the accommodations of the Pullman of this day.
 In camp at the springs at that