Bisbee daily review., 1915-04-10
PIMA INDIANS HAVE
 NEVER KILLED WHITE
 PEOPLE IN HISTORY
w. E. Barnes, Trayeling PaSsen- ger Agent for Arizona Eastern, Gives Interesting COmmen- tary on PimaS.


 tary on PimaS.
 That the Pima Indians have never killed a white man, is the statement of w E. Barnes. travelling passenger agent for the Southern Pacific rail road, who has recently returned to Tucson from a trip to Sacaton, where he visited the agency under the con trol of Frank Thackery. Indian agent. and inspected the work being done by the members of that tribe, says the star
 Of the Pimas Mr Barnes saysl The Pimas call themselves "Aatam"- the people"-and amcug the rude tribes inhabiting the great southwest from a very remote time the Pimas were indeed "the people" At the time of the advent of the faithful Spanish missionaries in the 17th cen. tury they were occupying towns oi rancherias and practicing various i'm dustrial arts, including well devel. oped agriculture by means of gooo system of irrigation
 Tribes Were Divided.
 The Pimas were divided into wha, was known as pmas Altos and Pimas Bajos. the latter division being also known as the Nevome, and inhabited what is now Sonora and Chihuahua. Tho Pimas Altos inhabited the val leays Of the Cila and Salt; another division called the Papago bear people" -dwelt in the valley of the santa Cruz. and the country extend ing from the san Xavier del Bac tc Quitoyaquita. The Sobaipuri tribe in. habited the San Pedro valley aud hat settlement at Tucumacari and Tu 3ac.
 The Relentless Apache
 The relentless Apache forced th, Sobsipun to merge with the papagC and the identity of the tribe was lost but many of their excellent charac terisucs still survive among the Pa pagoes occupying the reservation near the old mission of San Xavier del Bac
 Tho MaricOpa was a b.auch of th, Yuma, forced by a bitter tribal Wa. 70 leave the country oi the Yuma an, iou the Pima The name Maricapa was given them by the Pima The Pima has eyeloped habits Of industry and is capable of an exaggerated sense of honor instances are mol wanting where he has fear.essly faced death rather than violate his word once given.
 On Prehistoric Ground
 The name "SaN Ntou" is from thf -ahuatl. small grass" dim of Za cattle. Hispauized zacate. grass" hay, for here grew in abundance of saca ton The locality has a very inter esting history and is one of thJ "sights" of Arizona. The reservation is but ashort distance from tbe mya terious ruin Of the Casa Grande and occupies the site Of the ancient in dian city of PimaUriuc ('the cor ner') because 1t was situated at th, agulc of theold and new stream bcds of the Gila Utudituc was built upon the site of a prehistoric city belong ing Co the buffers of the Casa Grande
 Sacaton was visited by Fray Mar eos de Niza in l539 and was followed ! by Francisco VasQuez de Coronado h l5lO. We know that the intrepid Jesuit. father Eusebio Francisco Kue hne, elevated the symbol of his latif there in 1894; it was father Kuehn' who founded the mission of san Nav | fer del Bac near Tucson and the stil older mission of San Jose de Tuna cacori near Tu-Bac; also the deyotel 1 Franciscan Francisco Garces, paused 1 there on his way to martydOm at Nu ma in l7SO
 All Are Christians.
 The reservation has an industra 1 boarding school. with an enrolImeu of 22j students six day school, als, St. Johns Catholic boarding schoo {. with 200 students.
 The religion of the Indians is abou evenly divided between the CathoIi and Presbyterian churches. nearly al I are practical Christians, due almos entirely to the self sacrificing labor of Father Justin Deutsch of the Cath ollie church, and Rev C. H. Cook, O the Presbyterian church. Both hay' spent many years among the Indian and are loved by them
 The Pima has from the beginning except at rare intervals, been th friend of the white man. The olde ! men of the nation living on the reseI vation, boast or never having spille,