10130. The Arizona Miner, Prescott, Arizona Territory, October 24th, 1868. We have received several letters from citizens of La Paz

The Arizona Miner Prescott, Arizona Territory October 24th, 1868 We have received several letters from citizens of La Paz, Yuma county, complaining bitterly of the Governor of this Territory for ordering the arrest of citizens implicated in the killing of at that place recently The a band of cut—throat Indians , it seems , military and the Superintendent of Indian Affairs, back up this action of the Governor, and complaint is made of Things have corne to a pretty pass when U.S. them also. officials, instead of laboring to protect our people, imprison Former Iy Governor them for daring to protect themselves . McCormick went in for the strongest kind of measures against these Indians, even going so far as to advise their destruction whenever found. In Kansas and Colorado, Government furnishes citizens arms and In Arizona, ammunition with which to kill hostile Indians . citizens are arrested and placed in irons for killing a few of the red scoundrels who make a business of robbing and murdering white citizens. A stop has got to be put to this mode of procedure, else those who back up the Indians in their murderous doings will find out, when too late, that Arizonians are not the ignorant, cowardly people they take them to be.