1891–92
Gila Crossing. A boarding school[1] for Indian children was established at Phoenix. |
Two men died at Gila Crossing during the autumn, and it was supposed that they were poisoned by the tizwin which they had been drinking. |
In a tizwin drunk on the Salt River reservation a Papago shot a Pima and fled to escape the consequences, leaving his wife at the village. |
Blackwater. The chief and one of the headmen at Blackwater died during the year. |
1892–93
Gila Crossing. Two friends went to Maricopa and got drunk on whisky. One cut the other's throat; he then went to the villages on the river above Gila Crossing and in maudlin tones said he thought he saw himself striking someone under him.[2] |
The schoolhouse was moved out of Phoenix to a point 3 miles north of the city during the summer of this year (1892). |
A woman was struck by lightning at Hi’atam, the village above Gila Crossing. |
A dance at Salt River occurred in which two men, drunk with whisky, killed each other. |
In the spring of 1892 the Gila Crossing chief, Ato’wâkäm, died. |
The Government issued barbed wire for fencing at Gila Crossing, and directed the people to make a road across the fields, which should be fenced to form a lane. |
Blackwater. A woman was gored to death at Blackwater by a cow. |
The chief, who had been bitten some years before by a rattlesnake but had recovered, died in the spring of 1893. |
- ↑ It was opened in leased hotel building in September, 1891. Owing to lack of facilities only boys, to the number of 42, were admitted.
- ↑ The passion for distilled liquor had arisen within the last quarter of a century. Lieutenant Emory wrote, in November, 1846, "Aguardiente (brandy) is known among their chief men only, and the abuse of this and the vices which it entails are yet unknown."