The Arizona Miner
Prescott, Arizona Territory
June 18th, 1870
More Sad News .
Sad is the news we have to relate, this
week. More white blood has been shed by
the accursed Apaches Within a little
while, they have taken the lives of four
citizens and one soldier, and the end is
not yet! Saturday last, as Alfred Johnson
and a man named Watson were returning to
Kirkland Valley, from Deep Wash station,
they were attacked and cruelly murdered,
by a party of savages, at a point on the
near Willow Springs .
Next day
road ,
( Sunday) ,
at the same place ,
the same
party of Indians attacked Miller & Bro's.
freight train, but were repulsed, with
the loss of one Indian, whom Jake Miller
killed with his unerring rifle.
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