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Show The Little Colorado. In the Arizona Enterprise, published pub-lished at Prescott, A. T.( of November Novem-ber 3d, a correspondence from the Horse Head Crossing, ncur the above place, is published. The writer says that an organization of desperadoes are at work there, committing numerous nu-merous thefts and lawless acta. Thev are well armed and mounted, and Bay they will make the country a hell as long as they stay in it. One of the gang, who goes by tbe nameofSny-dor, nameofSny-dor, formerly lived in Colorado; bis right name is William Cavnis, and there ia a reward of $1,500 for him. Tbe scoundrels have been commitlitg crimes of almost every nature, and a man iB in more danger on the head of the Little Colorado river now than when the Apaches were on the warpath. war-path. There are about 400 men at the headwaters of this a '.ream and it seems strange that they cannot muster mus-ter courage enough among them to arrest the highwaymen. Tbe follow iug are the closing paragraphs of the letter: The Mormon BOttlsrs here are good, law-abiding citizens, aud this year have raised larye crops of diflerent kinds. They have built dims acrons tho river and tat en out several large ditches. A Baw mill has been built and a grist mill ia in process of erection. erec-tion. There are fivo Mormon settlements on the Little Colorado. Tbe thieves make themselvea very scarce around these camps, as the Mormons are ex-1 cellent trailera. There are two storee, one ot which ia owued by Mr. J. Hay- wood, who haa also me mail contract Irom Foit Vingai to Rock Station. Beu Baker haa the contract from that poiat to Prescott. Tbe road from Fort VVingto to Pino Springe is, good, but there are about ten miles Ibis aide oi Stoneuiau's lake that is j vry ruclty. |