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Show SELECTED. Arizona Indian Traedie. From tli .- Present .AT I .'.. of NovmuW 1 lL. wo tuaju.3rfz the iollowir; : .uii'iay evening -i-t u:i wn- j-.-oe and iiu.c-t on the B;g Ba'. Miners. tui!!-iLi-n. tearu-tors. cc. trt-re r.--::r;' anj eiijoyitiz theiuiVca a'':--r a l:urd vrtok work. But tht-re o:.e i'iiikh Lete-.-arv to cor.)i!e;e eDj ivui-.-nt 'he mail, with its letrers, had riot arrived t'r ui tlie Azua Frio Ranch, di-taat about eight iiiiies. and N. 3L.-Mi.ian wa j-ireiiariDir to go and brinir it. whoa J. T. iiuiiock and Wm. Fraic-y re-fUe.-ted him tu itay at hou.e and let tneru go alter it. as thev wished to take a ride. MeMillen did as desired, and Bollock and Fraiey. uioun-ed upon up-on good horses, and armed with Henry rifles and pistols, set out upon what they expeced wouid be a pleasant journey. They soon reached their destination, des-tination, procured the welcome letters and papers, and started for Big Bug, which place poor Bullock was not destined des-tined to reach alive. When about one mile north of B g Bug creek, and about two miles Iroui the mill, they were fired upon by about eighteen Indians, In-dians, who lay concealed in the bru-h, close to and upon each side of the road. Budock fell dead at the first fire, and Fraiey received three wounds two from bullets and one from an arrow. ar-row. One of the horses received a severe se-vere wound. Friley rode on as last as he cou'd, followed by the Indians for some distance. dis-tance. hen within about bLJ yards from the mill, loss of blood, etc., had weakened him so that he could notride any 1 dither, and he got oft" his horse. The two horses made their way to the mill; the people knew there, in an instant, in-stant, what had happened, and. started down the road. They first found poor Fraiey, and carried him to the house. The body of Bu'lock was next found, taken to the mill aud buried. Fraiey. with great fortitude, bore up under his wounds until five o'clock -Monday muni-tng. muni-tng. when he expired, lie was a ua- live nf Kentucky, where his relatives now reside. Bullock, we believe, was a native of Canada. Those who knew both men, speak of them in the very highest term;. While the people of Pre.-cott were di.-cussing these murders, another, lira horrible, if possible, was being enacted in the woods, nut over two miles from the plazi. Thomas Rut ledge, an industrious Englishman, had gone out, Tuesday morning, to bring in a Jnad of wood. Tie el lei nut return that night, which fact, as snou as it became known, gave rise to tiie wmi-.-l fears. iSo, early, Wednesday morning, a pany followed his wagon track, until they came up with the wagon, near which thev found the body of urny l-"t. Ij i.i ju.u, pellola.ed lill budcisaud arrows. ,,d l.l-jj-atcLJi',- l)y "a hue, flat rock, which the miscreants had Hung upon it, and which still covered it when the body-was body-was found. L'pou being brought to town, not less tlian live ImlL.r or . row holes were found in his body. i J''rom Rutledge the savages" got a , span of' horses and a six-shooting pistol. pis-tol. From the men killed on Big Bun they got two Henri nlles and one pistol, besides the mail which tell into their hands. The arrows found sticking stick-ing in these men have been ear. fully compared with those used by the eastern Apaches, from which they difi'er materially, the greatest difference differ-ence being between the heads. That they were Apache-Mohaves who committed com-mitted these terrible crimes, is pretty-generally pretty-generally believed and acknowledged. It aflords us intense pleasure to be able to state that the party of Piama Indians that left Prescott a snort time ago, succeeded in killing thirteen Apache Mohaves, and wounding several sev-eral others. But we regret to have to state that our Pima friends lost two of their number, and hid live others wounded. The particulars of this, to ns, pleasant affair, are about as follows: Early on Monday morning last, as the Pimas were traveling through Bell s canon, on their way to Camp Pate creek, they discovered fresh Apache tracks going northward, followed them, and soon after struck a raneheria, into which they sailed with the fore-omg result. It is said they peeled the scalps (miii the heads of the dead devils, and took them with them. |
