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BlackwaUr. The Pinias went on a rampaif^n against the 

 Apaches with the Papagos, hut the parties quarreled and 

 separated. The Pinias killed an Apache woman near Salt 

 river while on their way home. 



18SQ-70 



^ (Tila Crossing. A man at Kso'tfik was killed hy the accidental 

 discharge of a revolver in the hands of a companion. 



(£^ o Blaclcwater. An unusually heavy ram occurred during the 

 <^ °° winter, which gullied the hills deeply. 



The Apaches were making tizwin when the soldiers and Pima 

 scouts attacked them; they took the alarm and escaped, leaving the 

 liquor in the hands of the allies. 



18VO-71 



Crila Crossing. The first canal " at Tempe was huilt by the Mormon 

 settlers [1870]. 



yLy2 Bluckwater. The A])aches had come to the river at Santan 

 t] A for water and some Pimas discovered their trail and set off 

 ^ " in pursuit. They failed to inflict any injury upon the enemy 

 and retired with one of their own number mortally wounded. 



At this time a Pima was killed at Ta-atiikam l)y the Apaches. 

 These two corpses were burned. 



Another Pima was killed during the year at Tempe by the Apaches, 

 and his body was buried. 



1871 72 



Gila Crossing. An epidemic of measles prevailed in all the villages 

 during this year. The Indians knew absolutely nothing al)out treat- 

 ing the di.sease, and many died.'' 



Salt River. In the winter the Kwahadk's went on the warjjath 

 against the Apaches and were accompanied by Na-aputk t'. They 

 tried to surprise the enemy at a tank near Picacho, but found no one 

 there. They followed the trail, however, until they came to a j)oint 

 near the present station of Ked Rock, where they .sent out scouts in 

 the. night, who discovered the whereabouts of the enemy by hearing 

 one of them cough. The}' surrounded the camp and attacked it at 



ot the natives, ancient and modem, who have located their homes beyond the reach ol the freshets 

 thai triinsforni the shallow beds of blistering sand into irresistible torrents that ovornin the bottom 

 ianii.'i which may have lieon untouched by Hood (or many years, "The flood cif .Sci)tcmber, ISfiS. was 

 ix'rhaps the most destructive ever known, destroying three of the Pima \illages and a largo amount 

 of property on the lower Gila." Bancroft. .Wll. rM. 



« The main canal is less than 2 miles in length. It has been enlarged several times, so that its capac- 

 ity is now 325 cubic feet per second, irrigating over :iO,000 acn-s. 



&The experience of the agency physicians in after years show that the high rate of mortality from 

 this disease has not been due to the lack of acquired inmumity, but to the ignorance of the I'imas as 

 to the proper care of patients. and espit-ially th<)sc convalescing. The youth who was the only victim 

 at Sacaton in 18JI0 took a cold water shower bath ay soon as he was able to be about and paid the fM-nalty 

 for his rashness. 



