The weekly Arizona miner., 1870-06-04
Indians and Whites.

] ell is situated in the southern part of faya-
 pai county, on the eastern bank oi the kio
 Verde. about nipe miles above the point
 where that stream joins Salt River, and some
 % or 30 miles above the thriving town oi
 Phoenix. Several years ago, when troops
 were first stationed at Mcdowell, the sur
 rounding country was filled with Apache
 Indians. and, as there were then no white
 settlements in the immediate vicinity for the
 savage thieves to prey upon, they stole, ex-
 clusiyely, from Government, notwithstanding which, the officers of Government tried, first, !
 in friendly way to reform the savages, by
 feeding them Government ratons and talking
 "pcacen to them. Matters went on in this
 way, until the dupicity of the Indians be-
 came too garing. Then, and not until then,
 did the troops make war upon them, and, under the lead of Col. Sanford and other good and true officers, inflicted sore punish | ment upon the willy savages, who, once more ] subsided and tried the "peace" dodge. II
 was successful. They were again taken in
 charge by Uncle Samuel, at Camp Reno, and
 feasted at the public crib. During this t'me many white men took up ranches on the rich
 bottom lands of the Verde and Salt rivers,
 and commenced the work of cultivating the
 soil. They had, of course, cattle and horses,
 and were getting along swimmingly until the
 Indians commenced stealing from them. The
 officers at the post hearing of these depreda-
 tions upon the settlers, commenced, again, to
 think that the Tontos and Finals were play
 ing double The Indians, we believe, sur
 missed as much, and well they might. They
 soon after left, and not only kept on stealing, but commenced killing. Citizens and sol diers were often waylaid and murdered Sanford and others again took the field, and war has been carried on from Mcdowell ever since. We mention these facts in order tC , show our Eastern fellow-citizens, who sym . pathize with the Indians, and lay all th, blame for Indian troubles upon the heads O :, the citizens and soldiers of the frontiers, tha - they err in so doing.
 j. At Camp Goodwin, on the Gila, the sam n course was pursued towards the Indians ther l. another branch of the Apache family-th IT Coyoteros-wth precisely the same result: t They would one day talk peace, and gorg l. themselves out of the commissary, and, th l. next, imbrue their hands in the blood of som d white man, rob ranch, or stampede Gov e ernment herd. The savages acted precisel 70 the same way with the first white men wh Ig settled in our own section of the Territor, i'd At Walkers Camp, eight or nine miles froi Prescott, they were, at first, friendly wit " the miners, who divided their scanty stor, f. of provisions with the "noble reds an pc clothed them in their cast-off garments. Bu is how did they repay them for this :? By Il ne only way known to Apaches .nurdering an lg robbing them.
 to Perhaps, it may be said in their defens Id that they were not to blame, as the whit Id had invaded taeir country. Perhaps not. Blu es tell us, ye canting hypocrites of the Eas n. whose fathers once resolved "that the cart Id Sas the Lords that it belonged to Il ed saints, and that they were His saints,n vi si- you now repudiate that doctrine Is it n 1t because yea are sleek and fat; rich, and W, ot. provided with lands that once belonged lie the savagesl It must be. Now, there ok plenty of room in the West, for us and t to Indians, and, were the latter disposed st. 'let us alone" all would be we'll o l. ed They could help us and VIC could he UT them, and both would be happier. They ail not object to our staying here and worki ice for them, but they most seriously object ok seeing us in possession of horses cattle, shee ut etc, for they make it a point to rob us he them as fast as we become possessed of the VII Then, they must be opposed to any increa ice in our numbers, for they keep thinning c as population by killing one or more white m ,it- every week. Now, this Territory was ,ht quired by the blood and treasure of wh ;an men, and we contend that white men ha ry- as much right to exist upon its soil as ha AL the savsges. And, recollect, they have mol ost ing of which we care to dispossess them. I re land is not theirs, for t was purchased fir of Mexico and thrown open to settlement est our Government. This being the case, ler arc at loss to account for the absurd s es ings and doings of those people of our O in race who side with ssS .sgs~srtssS>l ,us us of robbing, cheating, and swindling the le- Bless your benighted souls, Quakers, Sh' of dyites, and misinformed philanthropists, in reverse is true. The Indians of Arizona hi
 Lired better since whites first settled in le- than ever before, therefore, it is the heit