| Blackwater. Two Christians died in this year, one at Blackwater and the other at the Cottonwoods.[1] |
During this year a Blackwater youth at the Phoenix school committed suicide by shooting himself. |
Gila Crossing. The Kwahadkʽs indulged in a tizwin drunk in which one man was killed. |
Gila Crossing, Salt River. The Gila Crossing chief fell dead in the prisoner's chair when on trial at Sacaton for selling whisky. |
1896–97
Gila Crossing. An epidemic of smallpox prevailed and the whites established a quarantine which the calendrist interprets as, "the Pimas were ordered to stay at home." |
Blackwater. Square indicates the Gila Crossing church. |
| Salt River. The Maricopa and Phoenix railroad was extended from Tempe to Mesa [a distance of about 8 miles] during this year. |
1897–98
Gila Crossing. At the beginning of this year the Gila Crossing Catholic and the Casa Blanca Presbyterian churches were being built. |
A Papago chief was killed at Maricopa by a companion who was drunk with whisky. |
The Rsânikam people went to Akûtcĭny to dance and run a relay race. |
In various ways the Spanish-American war was brought to the notice of the Pimas and Kâemâ-â made a record of the event by the sign which might be supposed to be a bush or a yucca plant. |
| Blackwater. Juan's brother "and another man" died. |
1898–99
Gila Crossing. Many children died this year of measles at the Phoenix Indian boarding school.[2]
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- ↑ Professing Christians among the Pimas were not so rare at this time that the death of two need have been recorded. This was the time when the long labors of the missionary were beginning to take effect and the converts numbered hundreds each year.
- ↑ The disease also prevailed at Sacaton. Nearly all the children in the school, about two hundred, were sick, but the indefatigable efforts of the agency physician saved all but one, who disobeyed his orders.
