b"TURNING POINT INARIZONA INDIAN WARSPART 2 By Bill Roberts Reprinted from The TravelerI N JANUARY OF 1873, theMiner in Prescott published a rundown of some of the attacks on whites by Indians the previous year. The rundown shows the difficulties Howard was working against in getting the whites to accept anything less than total extermination of the Indian tribes in the Territory, as constant reports of attacks fill theMiner Tucson Citizen and the. Both papers were anti-Indian to a fault and both often overplayed the depredations, which often just amounted to hungry Indians making off with stock for food. Yet these raids made Howards mission all the more difficult, as did continuing white attacks on Indians.Bloodshed Continues Despite Peace up on Beaver Creek. Another man in the area lost nine Crook, with Howards blessing, relentlessly pursuedhead of oxen. Near Phoenix, the Agua Fria Station was those Indians who would not make peace and moveattacked and Darrell Dapper, the station owner, was to a reservation. Howards efforts proved successfulwounded. Indians also stole nearly all the horses and beyond the expectations of many in the Territory whenmules belonging to miners working the Pinal District.General George Crookhe arrived in March of 1872. The peace negotiations heThree mules were run off from Camp Verde by Indians succeeded in with many of the Indians and the supporton the 28th. The same band surprised several farmers for peace he built among many whites could be bestworking their irrigation ditches and one man wasHualpai, two Walnut Creek farms were raided. On the described as a foundation for the peace that a decadeshot in the neck. They then shot at M.K. Lerty but hedivide in the American Valley, Indians tried to capture later would take hold in Arizona Territory. Duringescaped unharmed. a man and kill him but he escaped. Far to the south much of his stay in the Territory, the battle betweennear Dragoon Mountain, a mail wagon was attacked Indians and whites raged almost unabated. On the 29th, Apaches ran off with Jake Hinkles horsebut escaped capture. from a picket at his camp on Lynx Creek. The same In February, on the 13th, four miles from Campband then plundered his cabin, making off with guns,May saw more of the same. V. A. Stevens lost four cows Date Creek, Collumbers station was attacked.ammunition, clothing, food, and other useful items.and Wm. N. Kelley two cows. Both raids were within Samuel Collumber and a Mrs. Harris were killed.Four work oxen were stolen from a place near the Deltwo miles of Prescott. They hit Adam Reisback again Simultaneously, Indians stole nearly all the stockPasco mill owned by a Mr. Clanton. The same partyat Burnt Ranch outside of Prescott, killing two fine in the area of Bradshaw City and attacked Aguiresthen made off with several mules and horses fromhorses, making six in all he had lost to Indians during freight wagon train near McWilliams place on thenearby Bradshaw miners. The Indians hit the Burntthe winter and spring of 1872. Incidents of cattle Hassayampa, wounding one man in the attack. AnotherRanch outside of Prescott stealing three valuable horsesand horse stealing were widespread and continued man was wounded in an Indian attack near Vulturebelonging to Adam Reisback. throughout the Territory all of 1872. Almost monthly Mine. John White got caught between Peeples Valleya white citizen was killed while trying to protect or and Walnut Grove by a band of Indians who attackedWelcome to Arizona, General retrieve stock or while caught alone along the trail the old pioneer but he escaped unscathed. AnotherThe first week of April saw several head of stockby small bands of Indians. Howard's visit did little to band jumped Charley Hall in Fools Canyon but Hallstolen from Campbell & Bakers ranch at what is nowalleviate this type of conflict. Nor did it prevent further also escaped unhurt. Three animals were stolen byPerkinsville. Down on the Gila, the Indians raidedmassacres of the Indians.Indians on Beaver Creek near Camp Verde from Peterthe ranch of B. F. Regan, making off with several head Arnold. Five animals were run off by Indians nearof stock and wounding Pierce Dorgan with an arrow.The Skull Cave MassacreCullings station on the Ehrenberg to Wickenburg road.Osborn P. Clark was found dead on the 16th, killedHoward had been gone from the territory for only six James Leroy got caught by a band of six Indians alongat Mint Valley near Prescott. He had been on his waymonths when a massacre similar to that at Camp Grant the Verde. He was going from Robert Neills place onhome when he was waylaid by Apaches. Up on Beavertook place, further enraging hostile Indians. Crook the Verde to a neighboring ranch when he was attacked.Creek, J. Cullingham was severely wounded. Onehad intensified his campaign against hostile Apaches in He was severely wounded. He was attacked at 7 a.m.needle-gun bullet got him in the neck and two more hitthe fall of 1872, particularly in the Tonto Basin area of on the 20th but was not found until 10 a.m. the nexthis arm. J.W. Smith and Joseph Ackerman were killedcentral Arizona.morning, lying where he fell. Robert Bell ran across theby Indians while working on the ranch of Wormser & wounded Leroy and took him to Camp Verde Hospital.Wertheimer.Near the end of December, an advance party of troops located a band of Apaches on a cliff edge on the On March 13th the Indians stole 15 horses from aOn the 26th a Mexican herder was killed and eightsouthern slopes of the Mazatals near the Salt River. camp near Pinal City. The next raid was not until thehead of work oxen driven off near Camp Crittenden.They were singing and dancing around campfires. It 24th when an Indian band stole three horses fromApril 27th saw another raid near Camp Crittenden.was just before daybreak. The soldiers fired killing six miners camped near Antelope Peak at todays Yarnell.Indians attacked the home of John Whitehead, killingof the Apaches. The rest fled into a shallow cave, its At about the same time widespread Indian raids werehim and wounding his wife. In Williamson Valley, aentrance protected by a wall of boulders. The soldiers reported. Peter Arnold lost three mules to the Indiansman named White was waylaid and killed. Near Campdemanded the warrior's surrender. They refused and 20 May 2021"