The weekly Arizona miner., 1871-10-14

hy some person unknown to uS, but whose statements regarding men and matters are true and 10 thc.point:
 "T1He E3fuS of Nr Bls'ou Duly i}cc1iser:
 "ln your paper of a recent date l think vou do an injustice to General Crook when you say hi, temper and antcccdcntS show that he can never cooperate cordially with the Indian office. and that he ought to re- ire" During three or four yeas succeeding the war wa, repeatedly brought into official contact with General Crook, and had very many opportunities of seeing him under all phases of the Indian question. He is of gen tie manners, essentially free from buster and of irrrproachahle private life. His temper is such that he could never perform a brutal act. nor do 1 think he could 'rudcly' stop even an agent of the Indian Peace COmmis- sion.
 His Indian 'antccclcuts' are a, follows Before the war he fought with great skill, endurance and bravery against the Indians of Klamath and Trinity 'riycr>, in the vicinity of Fort Trwah, in California, in the Rogue River country, etc, of Oregon, and bore the most honorable and useful part in subiugat- ing tribes which, from the fcndl>h atrocities committed by them, were a terror to all the inhabitants From that time to this, these Indians (amDng the best of that coast m physique and prowcsSl have been friendly to the white man, and have opened an excellent country to the und,turbed occupation of our people After the war, he was placed in : command of the district of the Owyhcc, com prising southeast Idaho and southwest Ore l ron, with a rowing commission for scouting in northeast Nevada, headquarters at Fort ! Boise Ii is difficult to say which afforded l the greater anxiety at this time 10 the War l Department and General llalleck command l ing the division, the constant depredatlons and murders committed by the owyhcc and ] Snake Indians, unrcstraucd by the frequent l expensive pretenccs of scouts, or the most corrupt and dsgraccful expenditures of pub 1 lie money under General Crook predecessors in command. Instances. few among many, of the latter, are the hiring of mule trains at the rate of S130 (goid) an animal year, : the Government assuming all expense, of sub sistencc, etc, and iusuring the owners against loss, when S2O0 would have been an excessive prcc for the outright purchase of the mule the hiring extending over loo days, in some 1 cases 200 or more. 321 cents pound paid for 2j0 GOO pounds of barley, which should have cost not over ten cents Everything on
 this scale Mark the change Within a short
 time after General Crook took the command
 there was no expenditure in the district of which the most rigid and captious inspector l could make complaint the Indians were sub dued and settled on reservations, and the country. so far aS the Indians were concerned, aS safe for travel as k the road from Boston to Worcester to day. For these services and for his always iudicious treatment of the ln- dians, be, a Lieutenant Colonel. was placed lover his seniors in command of the Depart ment of the Columbia, received the thanks of the Oregon Legislature, and commanded tue ! department with no loss of money or of life
 These are his more prominent 'antcce dents What is the secret of bis unequalled
 success What is his conduct toward the
 Indian Answer--lis first attempt IS tO conciliatc, to have fair understanding to keep faith to the balance of hair, with the sayages if in the past after fair trials, this
 course has failed, he has followed them in battle determinedly, has watched and worked
 night and day in cold and hunger, pursuing
 their trail. often on foot carbine m hand, i with persistence and endurance surpassing
 those of the most vigorous trappers or scouts;
 he has made war--uot upon women and
 children--with a will and power which have
 always brought success,-and his campaigns
 have ended with the establishment of lndi-
 ans upon reservations, where they have con
 tinued to live in peace, and hold the name of
 their subduer in fear and respect. The at
 tempt to settle the Indian question in Ari-
 zona has been attended with greater trouble
 and expense than in all the other States and
 Territories of the Pacific Coast. Generals
 Mcdowell and Halleck have given it the most
 anxious consideration, the former having
 spent some five months in that wrctched
 country; different policies and campaigns
 under Generals Mason, Gregg, Dcyin, Crit
 tenden and Stonemau-all good oficers--have
 utterly failed The cowardly but trouble
 some Apache Yumas, Apache Mohaves, llual-
 apais and different Apaches (Tontos Finale
 nos, Sierra Blancas, CoyOtcros, &c), have
 lived on and of reservations, easily held for
 awhile--again marauding.
 "Thc head devil of the country is Cachis. The army reports for many years and expe- glences Of many army officers show that he has been unrelenting in his hostility to the
 whites and MeXicans; he will listen to no terms of peace; the depopulated villages of northern Sonora and many grave in Arizona bear witness tO his murders. General Crook
 has often declined this command when offer cd to him by General lialleck it is no enyia-
 blc post, no bed of roses. l am sure that z much against his wish notwithstanding the
 importance of the command) he has taken it. / He has at great labor organized this ex- : petition against Cachis It must be borne in mind that in that country to find Indians involves the travel of many hundreds of miles z over rough and desert country, k it to be wondered at that he hardly brooks interler- ence at the moment his plans have ripened His conduct will be the most effective toward
 subduing Cachis, hitherto SO scornful of all peace overtures, made by us. His tenn Y aptapalaYt. A Ipt al,xtr ind