20179. The Arizona Miner, Prescott, Arizona Territory, May 31st, 1873. One Indian, sure, will soon be tried... (article)

The Arizona Miner Prescott, Arizona Territory May 31st, 1873 One Indian, sure, will soon be tried for complicity in the murder of Loring, Hamel and others, at the time of the Wickenburg massacre.

20134. Prescott Yavapai Co. Arizona Octo. 4th 72. Sister Ellen, I have for sometime thought you may have forgotten me as I have not heard from you (letter)

Prescott Yavapai Co. Arizona Octo. 4” 72. Sister Ellen I have for sometime thought you may have forgotten me as I have not heard from you: well I dont know but that the fault may lie at my door but be it as it may I shall write you and thus remove the responsibility to some one else. My health is good and location the same as before. This part of the country affords nothing that would probably interest you but still what there is I’ll try and tell as you will see, in the papers before this comes to hand: the indians have been treated to that which they dont often get via, good sound threshings during the last ten days (57) fifty seven have been killed in two fights and possibly as many more wounded. They have had control of the territory long enough in fact they were very busy killing and stealing just as often an such so am pleased these Loring’s murderers have been brought to light they were Camp Date Creek indians as we supposed some of these are in the guard house and some were killed while trying to arrest them they drew their rations at the above named camp it was a free fight indians commenced first Gen’l. Crook got knocked down during the fracas. The war has actively commenced. The diamond business I think is a humbug gotten for speculation mining and prospecting is dull farmers have gathered their crops in and I think they are better than last year, and still are not extra good shooting affairs take place as usual, one man buried to day and one lynching done. Esther in fact you would pronounce the morals of Prescott below par. I hear that there has been a new arrival is it so I guess it is Miss Helen allows me to rest in ignorance as to what transpires at Snag maybe some one else so occupies her thoughts to my exclusion give my respects to, well young ladies in general Tom sr. and Tom junior and the rest. Respectfully from your brother Jesse A. Park I am in the Dry Store yet

20078. The Arizona Miner, Prescott, Arizona Territory, February 17th, 1872. The Wickenburg Massacre. Misrepresentation of Facts by One of the Survivors. (article)

The Arizona Miner Prescott, Arizona Territory February 17th, 1872 THE WICKENBURG MASSACRE. Misrepresentation of Facts by One of the Survivors. It is not at all pleasant for us to have to brand Wm. Kruger, who, with Mollie Sheppard, escaped death at the time the Indians captured the stage near Wickenburg, in the early part of November last, as a contemptible liar and slanderer; yet we do so in behalf of humane men slandered by Kruger, as well as in vindication of the truth. But, to the point. About the 3rd of January last, Wm. Kruger and Mollie Sheppard arrived at Los Angeles, California, about which date Kruger gave to a reporter for the News, a detailed statement of the massacre, in which we find the following paragraph: Loring, Shoholm, Hamel and Adams, were all decently buried at Wickenburg, but Salmon was interred in the middle of the road near where the attack was made. And so little pains were taken to cover him that portions of his remains are still exposed above the surface. What portions of his body the coyotes could get at they stripped the bones clear of the flesh. When the survivors passed the scene on their way here, the bare bones protruded above ground. The scoundrels who undertook to do this last act of charity had the audacity to charge the estate $95 for the job, that being the amount of cash found on the dead man’s person. In the above we find four seperate and distinct lies. The remains of Mr. Salmon were interred in a deep grave, dug in a side hill several yards south of the road, and those who dug said grave and buried the remains, assure us that no coyote or other carnivorous brute has ever tasted of the flesh thereof; nor has Kruger ever seen any bones in the vicinity save, perhaps, in imagination. Again, the “scoundrels” referred to are honest, brave, humane and generous men— citizens of Wickenburg, who, instead of having “had the audacity to charge $95 for the job, that being the amount of cash found on the dead man’s body,” gave every cent of said cash to Lieutenant Lockwood, U.S.E., (attached to the Wheeler expedition, of which the unfortunate Hamel was likewise a member.) So much for Kruger’s veracity in this matter, which is in keeping with the lies he has spread broadcast over the country regarding the treatment received by himself and paramour from the command ant of Camp Date Creek, a false and lying account of which he wrote to this paper during our absence in Southern Arizona.