The Weekly Arizonian., 1870-01-29
THE WEEKLY ARTZONAN
JANUARY 29.............~l87O.-
HAT REPORT.

forth the fallacioaI character of that recit,
 10 which the General has so recklessly alike
 hia signature < report of this nature, an
 from such source, having tendency to sws
 public sentiment and thereby to seriously in
 tsrfere with the rights of 0 people, deserve
 not to bt merely winked at and passed over
 it should be traced to its origin that the part
 or parties, who will thus deliberately and with
 out any known cause endeayot to interfer
 with tho legitimate prerogatives of a people
 struggling, as do the people of Arizona, againS
 the most terrible obstacles-may be held uE
 to public snimadVersion and public contempt
 The following is another extract from the re
 port referred to; and we shall see how it ii
 sustained by ths facts which follow
 AS the cattle of the settlers and Indians
 stray and be occasionally lost, and stock brssks iuto felds, there is no good feeling between the Indians and the shtters; the latter accuse the Indians Of trespassDg against them. and threaten vengeance. The Indians being mum.
 erOus. sri idefant and sullen."
 "The latter accuse the Indians of ,resnass- ing against them" l his latter refers to inc settlers in the neighborbood of the Pima aud hsricoPa reservation; and they accuse these Indians of tresrassing agaius them and this accusation is secuted by Gen Ord, who, in an indirect manner, intimates, above his official signature, that it is absolutely without any iu.t foundation. Then We are given to understand that these Indians never depredats; that when disturbances arise, tha whites are in every ;r- stance, the aggressors; that the Indians stern Tn their innocence and secure in their streDrtb Ers defiant
 h his picture of the character of these say ages, Gan. Ord, it will bs observed, has endcw- ed them with nober attributes than can h. I3oad to prevail throughout the gentles; civil ihsi community Does Gen. Ord know that these model Indians manufacture what tbpv term tis rja, a species of intoxicating Iionor that they drink ;hs said tis,oin ard beeom, intoxicated; that while under this inAuerce they no longer think o stealing, as when sober, but frequertly set 10 work 10 take frcible DOS session of cattle or teams; that 1.-the advice or the command ofthe Indian agent mee,wi,b their full approval, they respect it, but that if it conflict at all with their views it is reflected with the most evident contempt Does Gen | Ord know all this and yet more that these In lians do just as they please in everything. and have never been deterred by the preseuce of Gen Alexander or any other military officer and there are hundreds of settlers and other, st MaricOpa, Pima, Florence and Phoenix, who will give the lie 10 any official or other report which will undertake to contradict any of the tatemsnta which We have here made-as the ame are facts known to all
 As regards the Indians 'trespaseing." the 1 ettlers have ample cause to make such accu.. stion. It is only a month ago that two of hese Indians came to where Mr Apple was 1; amTed with his train, (by the side of the road here it leads through their country,) and talk ( lg his mules from tho wagon to which they | sr tied, had proceeded some 800 yards be- i 're they were overtaken ny the tesmsters. and . ie mules recovered. Thus failed in sheir at, n mpt to steal thsy next tried to stampede the llsi by throwing brands and coaIs from the ! mp fire among them and beyond doubt tr ould have succeeded had it not been that the ly dles, upon being brought back, were pla ced bl thin an enclosure, formed by the wagons om which they could not escape Thus an 'yed for hours by these so-called good In ans Mr. Apple was obliged 10 break camp" or 5 proceed on his journey before his mules to .a mad time to feed, and without his cooking V; .usils, of which the Indians had taken pos Vi sion, i, Now, it may be asked why Mr Apple, with < seven uen could not chasti,e these two h. or ms but those who live nesr the reservation i. ov, as he well knew, that had he employed bp
 sres no only would it have cost him his no ,perly, then in ,heir counsry, but in all pro-
 iIity the lives ofths entire party would be so rs sacrificed. ,h, iad svsry such outrage must bs calmly pa