Daily Alta California
San Francisco, California
Wednesday Morning, June 21st, 1865
INDIAN TROUBLES IN ARIZONA.
( From the Resident Correspondent of the ALTA CALIFORNIA. )
LA PAZ, June 7th, 1865
EDITORS ALTA.— Our Indian troubles have been augmenting a
mite since my last, and I think a few items of events of
that character will not come amiss to you, for the parties
connected you are intimately acquainted with. Mr. Gray has
had another hairbreadth escape from those murderous Apaches .
He returned, as I wrote you, from an ineffectual attempt to
get to Prescott, at the time of Cunningham' s murder by these
red devils. But nothing daunted, he started again on the 23d
ult. for the above place, in company with Grant, our mail
contractor. Grant returned in a few days, leaving Mr. Gray
with Lieutenant Blake and a small body of, infantry, who were
going to Date Creek. They travel led to Date Creek without
spying an Indian; here Lieutenant Blake pitched camp. Mr-
Gray and Mr. Duff, the mail carrier, started from this place
( Date Creek) , with an escort of four mounted soldiers, for
Prescott. They had got within twenty miles of the latter
place, when they were attacked by about one hundred Indians ,
well armed, as usual with all the implements of modern
warfare, of which they have been getting an abundant supply
lately. One of the soldiers received his death wound and was
left to die, and another was severely wounded. Mr. Gray and
the balance of the party escaped unhurt, and arrived at
Prescott the same night. This is the second narrow escape
Mr. Gray has had within a month. Our long expected troops
are arriving, but move like snails. Before they arrive at
Prescott the Apaches will have cleaned the place out- They
now find their moccasin tracks all around, and even in the
Plaza of the town. W. E.
