60 THE PIMA INDIANS [kth. axx. 26 



y GUa Crossing, Salt river. The Maricopa and Phoenix railroad 

 F was built during this year, and thus coiinection was established 



between the fertile districts of the Salt river and the Southern 

 Pacific railroad." 



Salt River. The medicine-man Staups gave a great dance at vSan- 

 tan, which was accompanied by races and other ceremonies wiiicli 

 attracted man}- visitors, among whom were a Yuma and his wife, 

 e o o o BlacJcwater. Juan Thomas was employed as a scout l)y 



S 6 e iiip troops who pursued Geroniino during his last flight into 

 Mexico. The eight dots on Juan's stick represent the soldiers wliom 

 the Pimas accompanied. The minor leaders of the Apaches had 

 entered the Pima camp thinking that they were friends, and had been 

 captured, except seven who broke away. The commanding ofiicer 

 having ordered a fresh party of Pimas who had come up, to pursue the 

 escaping Apaches, thirty-one Pimas and eight soldiers tracked the 

 Apaches for two months, until they doultled liack to the White moun- 

 tains, where they were captured by the wliite soldiers before the 

 Pimas overtook them. 



1887-88 



^^ Gila Crossing, Salt river. Special mention is made by two 

 annalists of the severe earthquake of May 3, 1887.' Owl Ear 

 declared that "it was noticed by many of our people, if not by all, 

 who wondered why the earth shook so." 



V| Gih, Crossing. The stage station at Gila Crossing, no longer 

 needed after the railroad was built from the Southern Pacific to 

 Phoenix, was moved during this year to Maricopa junction. 



The Gila Crossing settlement was prosperous, and the Casa 

 Blanca people went dowai to dance and share the, products of 

 their brothers' industry. 



1 1 During a tizwin carousal which took place later in the year, two 

 Gila Crossing men killed each other. 

 /!^ It was at this time that "a Mexican (sic) counted the bones of 



the people." '^ 



/ The Maricopas were all living together at Mo'hatiik mountain 



when a Cjuarrel arose in which a medicine-man was killed. Ilis 



friends retaliated by killing a medicine-man of the opposite faction. 



This resulted in a division of the tribe, some going to the Pima settle- 



n The road was completed July 2, 1887. 



^ This is known as the ' " Sonora earthquake. ' ' The shocks were so severe in that state as to be destruc- 

 tive to property and human life. At Tombstone, Ariz., the severe shocks lasted ten seconds, and the 

 vibrations continued for a full minute. The earthquake was felt throughout the southern part of the 

 Territory, and many ranchmen firmly believe that the drought of the last few years, which has trans- 

 formed the grassy mesas into a desert waste, is due to that earthquake. See Goodfellow in Science, 

 New York, Aug. 12, 1887. 



c This is the Pima -view of the somatological investigations of Dr Herman F. C. ten Kate, who meas- 

 ured 312 Pimas, besides many others among the Maricopas, Papagos. Zunis. etc. His results are briefly 

 summarized in the Journal of .American Ethnology and Archjeology, ill, 119. 



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