The Arizona Miner
Prescott, Arizona Territory
July 30th, 1870
Indians Suing For Peace.
Is the Good Time Coming?
It is, if the rumors now in circulation concerning the expressed
determination of various tribes of Apaches to bury the hatchet ,
and take their white brothers by the hand instead of by the
throat, as heretofore, turns out to be true. If the savages
really mean to do this, all will soon be well with them and us.
We really hope their professions of peace are sincere, and that
the little "unpleasantness , "
on the Agua Frio, Monday last, was
a sort of closing frolic. The once savage Coyoteros are now said
to be pious and lamblike, the daring vengeful Pinal s ,
show
symptoms of hunger and hanker after Government rations; and the
cruel, treacherous Apache Mohaves and Yavapai s, to the west of
us, profess a desire to sin no more! Several hundred of the
latter are, it is said, encamped near the Santa Maria river ,
about forty miles north of Camp Date Creek, prepared to treat
with the military authorities, and help us fight our enemies. So
they have informed Colonel o t Beirne, of Camp Date Creek; through
some Mexicans, who were out there cutting hay, whom the Indians
visited under flag of truce. Of course, General Stoneman has
been apprised of all this, and has taken action in the matter ,
but what that action is we cannot now say. We only know that the
savages cannot fool him, should that be the game they wish to
play. The Mexicans on returning from the Indian camp, told
Colonel O' Beirne that many of the warriors were well armed, with
guns, and had plenty of ammunition. When asked where they got so
much powder and lead, we are told they replied "At LaPaz . "
Col .
O' Beirne' s force being rather small, General Stoneman was not
slow in sending Captain Monahan and 30 troopers ,
f rom Fort
Rawlins, to assist him in case of emergency. What the result of
all this peace talk will be, is, at present, a mystery.
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