62 THE PIMA INDIANS [eth. ann. 26 



\^ At the Salt River settlement a Mexican under the influence 

 of wliisky killed a Pima, but the Indians "were good enough not 



to want to kill" the nmrderer. 

 KJ Gila Crossing (a) , Salt River, Blackwater (b) . In the spring of 

 (a) 1891 occurred the last and most disastrous of the Gila floods. 



j55_2, The Maricopa and PhoenLx Railroad bridge was swept away and 



<-;!_7 the channels of both the Gila and Salt rivers were changed in 

 '*') many places. The destruction of cultivated lands led to the 



change of the Salt River Pimas from the low bottoms to the mesas. 



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TTH Gila Crossing. A boarding school " for Indian children was 

 established at Phoenix. 



1 1 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. 



V— 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. 



Blacli-water. The chief and one of the headmen at Black- 

 water died during the year. 



18Q2-93 



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 maudlm tones said he 

 thought he saw himself striking someone under him.* 

 fryr The schoolhouse was moved out of Phoenix to a point 3 miles 

 north of the cit}' 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 wliich two men, drunk 

 with whisky, killed each other. 

 I In the spring of 1892 the Gila Crossing chief, Ato'wfi,kam, died. 



I I The Government issued barbed wire for fencing at Gila Ci'oss- 

 1 I mg, 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. 



W The chief, who had been bitten some years before by a rattle- 

 snake but had recovered, died m the spring of 1893. 



a It was opened in a leased hotel building in September, 1891. Owing to lack ol facilities only boys, to 



the number of 42, were admitted. 



t> The pjtssion for distilled liquor had arisen within the last quarter of a century. Lieutenant Emory 

 wrote, in November, 184G, "Aguardiente (brandy t is known among their chief men only, and the abuse 

 of this and the vices which it entails are vet unknown." 



