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this city, for the following excerpt of early
pioneer history in this territory, then a part of
the state of Sonora, Mexico. It is in relation to
the killing, by Indians, of a number of white
men at Yuma, in 1850, now 41 years ago, and
known as the Yuma Ferry Massacre.
We have been treated with a glimpse at
an old copy of the Weekly Missouri Republican,
yellow and rusty with age, of the date of July
19, 1850. The address which is written in pencil
on the margin is, “A. O. Keating, Monterey.”
It contains many items which have either long
been forgotten, or settled down into historical
facts, but which now, seen in the newspaper
forms, in which they first appeared, are matters
of absorbing curiosity. Among such items we
noticed, and were particularly interested in the
account of the Yuma Ferry massacre, which
took place on the 21st day of April, 1850, when
a party of Americans who owned the ferry near
the junction of the Gila and Colorado rivers,
together with their employes, were brutally
murdered by the Yuma Indians, up to that time
supposed to be friendly.