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THE WEEKLY mtr Aggm " A WTy flAT ft MINER. Myxs VOIOIi Y. AKIZOXA Mirs'lSI,. i'LHMrtllKl) EVERY SATURDAY MORNING. At vm n, Yavapai Uotrrrv, Abizoxa. TERMS 01' SIJIISCKII'TION: .. ' On Copy, Gnu Vwr. $7 00 ' Pit Months 4 00 " " Thrco Month, 2 50 ?lngk- CopitM, 25 RATES OF ADVERTISING: t)nc qnri on limn, fJUW; raeh mlilllloml r.,ni', r,l -7). Each additional square, wine rate. V Itt.'Tu! discount will be made to persons con t'niiici; ttn- same advertisement for three, six, or t Uf months. Professional or business cards Inserted upon ri .kc')n4lil terms. Xlift.fyal Tender Xotti tnkn at pur in payment fur tulcriitimtt tuiwtittny ami jab tevrk. Term, Invnrliilily In iitlviinre. JOHN It MAKIOX ..IIB.VJ. It. WBAVKIt. I'rafirWb. Directory of Yavapai County. Ii .'r . t Jih1 VM. TraniR, Vt ltr Jn.ie- IlRZKktAII 1IROOKS, Ii,.-ri. t Attom Jims M. Hot'STana, -iT A. J. MOOML 1 ltft!r JOHK II. liKHAN, I ',Tr----.r-r WlLLUM CoT, t .era ( Uiir.cl VuU I!. W. WSIXB, J. TT.KM8 OP COfHTSt ,.wiCmtt-l'W3lfcrl ilsjr, and TUnl Mm- r c.Mirt Vint Maeaajy in January, AjM, Jalj- a " ''" . IKlAItt) Ot" SUt'lSRVISOriS! I, U Cow II J. ft. Camptwll, P. H. WoMhriirfc. ' ,.r I w i1k I'lwt MoAy ta January, April, JJ ST1CKS )! TItK TRACK Sam -it I liUir. VV UnramL Business & Professional Cards. .1. P. II A 11(2 Hit V 12, MT!IKY AND COUNSKL0K-AT-I.AW, M ntrzutMa street, I'resvou, Arizona. JOIlaV HOWARD, rTRNEY AND COUNSBLOR-AT-L rrtteo'li, Aritun. AW. A. E. DAVIS, ATTORNEY AND COUNSBLOR-AT-LAW, Mohave City, Arizona Territory. F. P. HOWARD, M. D., iitvsicrjvx axx) stjuojcon-. Wlckenbnrg, Arizona. J A3 IKS P. J1ULL, DMrirt Clerk, U. S. CvimUimfir ami JUmrder, Hardyvltle, Mohave County, Arizona. Will attond. at all W. U Ow arawtaff If4, McVf!M. IWif Attoray, 4c 17W J. GOLBWATER, WI10I.ESAI.K ASH HKTA1L DKALEU TN Groceries nml Provisions, ("Shiny, Dry-QuotU, JlooU, Shorn, Halt, if., Bj7" At the old Mand fonserly oeepll hv IJ. mi. I. A 1.V7M ArUotw. felS'te. KUSTEL & nOFMANN, METALLURGISTS AND ASSAYKRS. G-M ami SUtr HuUton Amaytl. UA'KUAL ASSAYS AND ANALYSIS MADE. Oil Commercial Strwit, Smi Kruieiof. avrn asd Oolij Ohbs workel In mU lots up to a hundred jMHind, by Chlodtiatleii aud other metboda, Pan Franclco, Col., June 2f, 150S. JylSinO t-pHlunlt Itiilnc anil flullcliilm Uerda, Sjirrlat mill (iinrrnl I'liiii-r.-of-Attonity, lr., for mile ill tlir Jllnrr Otirr. E W A It It A IV G E M E aV T ! GOOD PltKNOH 1IHBAD, EXC ELLENT VIES, CAKES, ths.. Mid- !y Carlo Loi-c. a flrM-k lMkr nd r uiry . ,ok, lrn of Hermowlllo, Bonoro, uill lw on hand and for wle, AT SCHIHEDEH'S BAKERY, MoMczumn Stret. l'rcott, on and after Sunday, ngut 10, lhtt-i. ANTONIO ViWANUEKA. CAHLO LOPEZ. I'rewyjtt, Ausun V. ISW- QJtEAT REDUCTION IN lIUCi:S OP I.U3IHKP, At the ISTew Sa-AV-Mill! THK WIM.OW ClllJKK HAWMtMi COMPANY ' anwiii.e that tlieir Mill. iHoato im W'l lil.OtV VKEEK, l'ir Jlttr Wct fmm I'n-wi.tt, l now einnptnti nn-1 rna ' an'l that Mng krat! In Ilia mtUt uo itMi.lv i"fil pjl HD tlnltrr. lhy r rnaWr.1 t waVeawl J ' 'l t ut lumlr tr friu 13 In S'.J T Owuiatxl ' an lifrrtrn; (kirgetL Yor loitaaie, w 1 f "1 IuiiiInt u 1mm h4itir M ! f, fur 3, iwl fhr qiulitir at unii raUi if rr-luction. nawti Ut an4 fntta th nifll. n alow ticik, Octutor S3, IMUiSCOTT, ARIZONA. SATURDAY MORXIXK, gvwfotf g(Utcvti$cmcnts. piONEEIt DRUfi STOItE. I'rcxcott, Arizona. On hand ami for Hiiln, HhWh Jlaliumor tiie fuxgt, Ayt JlitWt " (yor1 CVrfrry 1'tctoral, OryoT India Ctiolagogut, JlrmtmU Jitmnici Gimjtr, J'errv fiuritt Vain Killer, Ooodalt't Catarrh Htvudy, Itrovm1! llnmthial Tnekn, Jlrym,i PtUwmie l(V"i Dr. J)emnt,it J'Uei fAfmyt, Keating' Cmigk " Jayttft Patent Mtdicina, And, In feet, fnll eMortmrat of ell the l'atont Mettlclne tMamlly foond In drtig ntores. ToUd Swi, Fancy Article, Perfumery, And a Urre opply of I)ljlnf; Medldnen. N. H. Phylcko' prescriptions carefully and aecsralHy eotnM)Hiidd. (i. I). KENDALL. VW Dr. KmiWI'i oakwIn rr oi Dreg fin. I'reca4t, April l, ISO?. WORMSER & CO., Wholesale ami Retail Merchants, LA PAZ niul I'ltKSCOTT, Arizona, .... Dl'.Ar.KIlS IK .... Groceries, PrerkiioiM, Clothing, IJootir, Shoes, Liquor, Crockerj', Hardware, Farming and Mining Imp!einnt, etc., rULL THE ATTENTION OE THEIR OLD y nioiieer ftirnd end the nablle trmnallv to their new and plendht aMoruneut of coodn, re erntly purcht, by one of the Arm, In Sen Kratt eWo, and now on band at their ctorea In I 1'ai and I'rvcU. 0r u tll Mid w for yourselves. Wcarc not relUng for rnlnon prirra ; oar inouo te and 1 been, " Live and 11 Ltve." Our lock In Ia Paz I acknowledged by all whs hare amn'and examined It, to be THE LAKOEST AND REST Afortment of iftxxlj erw brought to that place. Merebanu, larmrrs, miner and others, wiMnt; to prehae Koodi, would do well to give u a eall, before purchaiai.' ejfi'here. WORMSER fc CO. mylC I-i Pax and Frteofi, Arlaooa. 32. -J. COOK, WHOLESALE AXI) RETAIL DEALER IK Groceries, Provision, Clothing, Dry-Gooi!, Hoots and Shoe, Groakory, Cioeka, Iron, Kails, Quicksilver, Tobecoo Wgarn, ota, It prpard to famtth the people all kinds ot Merchandise, for Cash, At reasonable rato, at the ADOI1IJ STOKE, Comer of G rani to aud Curley Streets. 1'reseott, Arizona, June 27, l&Vi. GRAY & CO., WHOLESALE AND It ETA I L MERCHANTS, At La Pax ami Prcscott. .... DEAMIRS IN .... GitocBitiDs, Provisions, Olotiiisc, otc Wish to osll attention to the large aaaortnwnt ot I-Ia,rclAvaae3 Now on band at thalr Store in l'rewott. WARaI AND COLD At Montozuraa Hall, Prcscott tfibavlflr, HatrCutOap. ete.. to tlio nvt amov JaSw. THKODOltlt OTTO, vd 17'OH SALI1 ,V FUW NO. I. COWS A: Apply to Proscoti, June IS, 1S02. Life Among tho Apaches. Ihj Jo!,n C. Crummy, InUrprtter to the U. S. Ihnmkry Communim, ntuler titt Hon. .Jin Jl li'trhlt in mid, '50 and '61, nml hite Major of Cfilifvrnia VolmUer Citalry, ope rating in Arixnm, New Mttim, 7'exat, and Wettern Aikanu. "We tender to Col. Cremonr our nincero concern for the treatment hit book will in evitably receive from the philanthropic and Ohrfstinn prww of the Eatrn States and the civilized world. Dealing in facts that are patent to CTerr frontiownian but ncarculv arodible to the denizens of old establUhetl ished I n i ' rcibly . communities and stating temely and forcil. iuo argument that the onlv cure for the In dian question is extermination of the Indian, In the interest of a superior race and a pro gressive civilization Col. Cremony will be met with a storm of indignation agaimrt his niuuyow. aim Trim a contemptuous sneer ; at his veracity a a recorder of jiersonal ad- sound. He is mistaken m supiosirg or say venture. The "Society for the amelioration ing that he is alone tho depository of the of the condition of the Indians" will hail j confidence of the Apaches, or single in his tne two as another evidence of the Urbari- ty and falsehood of the " white man," and of the docility, hospitality, Christian and for giving character of the Indian. When "Mowry'a Arizona ad Sonora" was published by the Harpers, three years since, a !istiaguit.hed divine criticiflng it in The Ckurekman, after admitting fits valne as a genuine contribution to geogiphic and scion tiflc knowledge, said of ite treatment of the Apache qiwutiuu: "Is this a writer in a Christian land 7n Let Uol. Cremony, there fore, summon all bw philoeophy, and 1 pre pared to And himself writum down a heathen and a barbarian, out of the pale of mercy and grace. The main cU in CoL Cretaooy's book are, within our knowledge, accurately stated. The incident of persona! ad vim tare with one exception have many parallels, ami are even exceeded in the element of the almost mi raculous. The sceptical reader may, there fore, lay aside his doobts. CoL Cremony has not done hintseif justice in the style uf his book ; a little of th IAmm kiLr, wfcieh for so practiced a writer was my, and should not have called for this correction, would have added much to his cilectiretie. There are constant repetitions of what he will cxidain in another chapter; a want of coherence In the plan, and a loocaees of language occa sionally dropping into careless inverted sea- Uncus, and n doubtful grammar which are Sggetlve of the haste of the "local" of the daily pre, awl unworthy the character of a book which is ambitious, no? only to sell but to make fame. The description of a band-to- band ht on the Gila River, (pp. 133, 134 is especially faulty, in the repeated attempt to explain the author's feelings; it naked statement of the fight and the situation was all that was needed. The imagination of the reader would supply the rest. There are tome careless errors which deserve condem nation, beewnso they are Mtnply careless. Ca- vallo Impelo, the old war chief of the Yunus, was never known as the u Naked Horse," but the "Hare-backed Horse." Col. Cremony U at fault in his statement in regard to the cnJtUatioB of crops by the Apache north of the Gila and on the A moor Two crops a year were raised by these Indi ans the principal one of com, to be con verted iu to "fe-ena,"a genuine bat rough sort of whisky. Though the Apache never read Hyron, ur has worked out of hit "innate coiucioujneW that jrarfbtind truth " The best of life Is but intoxication, Man being reasonable mast get drunk." When the U. S. Indian Agent, tan years ago, issued at Ajiache Pass a largo qnantity of corn to the bands with whom ho had made treaty, the Indians immediately carried It oil", distilled it in their rude way into -sm," and as proof of their gratitude and apprecia tion of their Great Father, stole all the cat-tlo-on the Sonoita, attacked the overland mail, and murdered every small party of Americans who, believing in the treaty, ventured to travel or to prosjiect. The summary of Mangos Colorado's char acter is appreciative and just, but the slight mention of Chew, better known in Arlaoiia as tt-cAi, w an error. No chief within tho limits or tho United States has inflicted so much effective and deadly damage to tho frontier in modern times as has Cheiss. Com bining groat personal bravery with fine strat egy and admirable tactics, ho almost invari ably "whips the fight" with small loan to bis band. On two or three occasions, how over, he has come to gnof with groat loss, and in one oncountor, when ho numbered at least two hundred men to seven, he lost ovor fifty warriors, was himself shot through tho body, and had his arm rondorotl useless for life. Ho said of this fight, that if ho had a thousand of suoh men as thoio seven Ameri cans, lie would held Arizona against all the NOVEMUBR 7, ISfti. world. Col. Cremonr' ndvico to tavollingpartie.", his Bupxestioni of caution untiring and cease less, Lia warnings nga'iist underrating the Indian enemy, are valuable and timely. His study of tho IndUn's ollensive and defensivo character is graphic, correct, earnest and not too highly colored. In this respect alone, the book must prove of groat service to any sensible man living on the frontier or who projoso to visit it. His quotations, however, arc sometimes infelicitous and common-place, and often wrong It was not I'elllsiiT w!m mailp thn famous mot in reference to the charge of tho I t i,.i.f i!rfn.i . . it i i i. x 1 Light Ungade at Ralaclava. 1 1 was Bosquet. iho net is also incorrectly given. "C'est i magnifique mais c'nest pas la Kuorre," were i the words. Hie jiroface to the book is tho worst jisrt of it, and it was only by a careful reading that we corrected our first judgment, that Col. Crrmonv was iiretentiotis nml tin. knowledge of their language and character. "limon McLean" knew them far belter language, manners, habits, life; and every man, woman and child in Arizona Ajwche, Mexican or American from lB-5 to 1863, knew this to be true. We think Col. Cre- tnony is something wild in his estimate of tho number of Apaches. " Marcial," a cele brated chief of the Apaches, mentioned at length in "Arizona and Sonora," gives a far : diUerent idea, as did also Mclean, We are a little staggered by Col. Cremony's state ment of tlie structure of tho Apache lang uage; but as he is so good a linguist, we arc afraid he has bis reviewers at a disadvantage. ! At least, that his theory is impregnable, is i well illustrated, by the anecdote of the noted advocate of New Orleans Mazureau who was retained by the heirs of a foreigner to secure their rights under the will of their relative, the State of Louisiana having re tained all the leading members of the bar to endeavor to escheat the estate on the ground of fraud. Mariirnan mtuvim! hi imimcnt with these word:- " Les homines qui amas- sent ! graades fortunes seme les proc qui , , ' germiront aprcs leurs morte. Such was the remark of the philosophic Indian." Some days after, Mazureau's son said to him, Papa, I do not find that philosophic Indian in these books." "L1 Indian c'est mot," said Mazureau, with a gesture worthy of the Theatre Imperial. But bow did you dare to say it," persisted his son. " Recauso they did not dare to contradict mo." Wc arc quite content to believe that Col. Cre mony's theory, that the most nomadic tribe in the world has a thoroughly constructed, elastic and fruitful language, will be a puzzle to the ethnologists; we are equally ready to leave him to the sturdy defence which Mazu reau gave to Ida quotation fmm the philo sophic Indian. m. .1.. . i !- ine us to indnlgf in quotation from CoL Cremo r rv iminsawi in niifl'iiinns imm i 11 rMrnii. ny's book. He has done a good thing in giv ing us a truthful picture of the Indian as he is, and not as he apjiears to the milk-and-water imagination of the Christian philanthro pist who has never cyme in intact with him. The vigor and teRe of the last chapters are worth v of the bfchest praise. If Col. Cre mony had taken as much pains with the style of the narrative as he has with that of his deductions and reflections, lie would have ; done uiniMm more justice, auu ejru us the apparent but necessary harshness oi some of the previous remarks. "Life among the Apachos " wo heartily commend to our read ers', with tho assuraneo that they will in omnsemont and instruction be the gainers, and thnnk us for our advice. CoL Cremony's conclusions, logically drawn from his facts and the oxperience of many joars, of wasted millions and countless lives, may bo summed up in three brief fontences. The reservation system is an exploded hum bug. The man who nys ho is not afraid of an Indian is a liar or a fool. The only good Indian is a dead one. The book hi fairly printed in good type. SyUtr Muttry, im S. F. Omriand Mtttthty. Texas must be a good country to emigrate from, just now. Two sets of Radicals, it ap pears, rule tho State, and in order to live high and feel good, thoy levy special taxes of frnm 1.1 t "0 pants on tho S100 to nav them for tho limo spoilt ill wrangling at tho Capi - tal, trying to make a new negro constitution, That pink of rascality, Gen. Hamilton, for - merlv flro-oatcr. socossionlst. but now Radi cal poodle, draws pay as Judge of tho Su preme Court, Memborof tho Convention, otc. Wore it not for the U. S. Soldiers stationed in tho State it would be entirely in the hands of tho Radicals, tho Coraancbes and tho d 1. Poor Texas. Spirits of hartshorn from a coat collar. will remov greaso NUMBER 45. A Letter from Commissioner Wilson. Dkpaktmknt or Tin: Interior. ! General Land Olllcc, Aup. lsL, 1808. RcgUltr and ItAcirer, V. S. Land Office, Cen tral ylomUi Territory ; Gkntlemew : In reply to your letter of the 2i)d ultimo, asking instructions in refer ence to what are called " water powor claims" in Colorado, you are informed that the fith section of the mining act of July 20, 1866, maintaias and protects tho owners of such claims, whenever by priority or jMttttUm, rights to the use of water for mining, agri cultural, manuiacttinng, or other "ae vested and iiccnitil, and the same arc tecnZnb! ad acknowledged by the local custom?, Jaws, and the decision of courts, To makc gu'ch a cIain, 0(m1 under tho Mt the right to the use of the water must havo accrued (1) by priority or pos-sion. 1 Tt. mint fw n rif.t,t mpirmiT.il tit- itin In. cal mining customs, or customs pertaining to water rights. a. I he right must lurtlier be recognized by I the laws of the State or Territory in which I tho claim may be located, i A. It must be farther recognized and aus I tained by the decision of the Courts of such j State or Territory. Y ben a claim of this kind is sanctioned by the local customs, the laws and the decision of the Courts of the State or Territory, tho owner cannot bo disturlcd in his jxissesiion, no matter whether the adjo;ning land has been returned as minora! or agricultural, nor can his improvement be appropriated by olh cr claimants under the pre-emption or home stead laws. As the risht vested in the owner under tho 9th section is an extraordinary one, differing essentially from the systems of water rights existing.cither under the common or civil laws, bc4iig In fact an auamalous system, bas ed upon the peculiar wants and condition of things fdund in some of the mining States and 1 erntonw, it will lc necessary for the claini- ant to show that this new system has been ailopteti in the Mate or lemtory as tuo law upon the subject of water rights, by leg islation at the adjudications or the highest Courts. The mere sanction of the local cus toms Is not enough, as the act require the further sanction of the law and the decision of the Courts. This office would not undertake to fasten upon a State or Tcrritorr, by issuing a patent or patents. under said 0th section, a system so 1 r-wnti11v alT!titr its local tirnnrietarv inter- esti wjtMit the same having been first adop-, i ttJ(a "P" Jf ! systems by the proper departments of tho gtate j- Territory itself; and any cWmant j applying under said section would be rcquir- wl to produce full and satisfactory proof or such adoption by the State or Tcrritorr. In mining districts where the land has been returned as mineral, such claims might bo in cluded in mining patents as the -reasonable quantity of surface ground for the convenient working of the mines, allowed by the act of July 26', 1S6G; and the fact of not Iietng ad jacent to the vein or lode, would not contra vene the pirit of the act, if the local cus toms recognize such aright as incident to tho j occupancy of a mine. nhcro extensive im provements have been made on theso water claims on lands returned as agricultural, tho water being useful for irrigation, might be in cluded in a patent for agricultural land under the pre-emption or homestead laws, where the necessary facts existed in other re- rnt:Cl. me ireo l he right to the exclusive use of tho 1 water, however, will only begranted after tho i , r i. proof above mentioned has been satisfactori ly furnished. The doctrine of exclusive posession by vir tue of prior occupancy, referred to in the 9th section of the act, has been fully adopted in California, by numerous decisions in the Su preme Court, and apjiear to have received legislative sanction in Nevada. Whether any action has been taken by the legislative orju dicial deportments in Colorado is not known at this oilke. At all events, any owner of such water claim, in a condition to ask for a jKitent, is in a condition to maintain himself, for thi proiMsnt, without a patnnt, ajjaintt all advorse claimants, under the protection ex tended to him by the act itself, Resjx-ctfully, your ob't serr't. Jos. S. Vk iuox, Commissioner. Changed its Titne. While the Governor was in the "Prcscott country," the ArUonian was as mild and non-combative as a sucking dove, but since his return to Tucson, tbo cigarrito organ has again taken to pulling tho Mi.vcb in regular billingsgate style. Now, we don't propose to give tho organ any moro notoriety than we can help. It also pitches into Dr. Alsap, accuses him of writing untruths about its town, and has the unblushing effrontery to assail his character, when all who know him know that it is above roproaoh and far superior to that of the hire-ling who attacks It. lie quotes from tho Dr's letter, as published in the Mix r.ii, and, although he, the editor, is as ig norant of grammar aud orthography as a Herroossillo peon, takes advantage of a typo- ! graphical error in the printed letter in order i to make u po'mL Such modes of tUck Lavo 1 long since ceased to be rnado uso of by gen- tlemen, and tho editor who Indulges In them niust, indeed, bo a low-bred ignoramus, or, as his subscribers term him, an idiot. Postmaster Ges'l RASOJiLL.has, in con formity with tho recent Act of Congress, is sued orders to his subordinates to send to tho Deed Letter Office all letters, circulars, etc., concerning lotteries, gift concerts, and tirai lar swindles. ft