The weekly Arizona miner., 1871-10-21
THAT EXAMINATION AND INvES.
 TIGATI0N.

acts of that political blood-hound, vincent Colyer, during his tour through this Terri tory and having shown most of the results of his infamous hypocrisy (which he is pleas ed to refer to as bis ''policy,') we now pro pose to show the policy itself, in opera ton. In the first place, then, MT. Colyer came To Arizona 10 bring Cachs 10 Wash ngton. With this object in view, or sup posed to be in view, he arrived at Canada Asmosa, in New Mexico, p t up at military stronghold, and employed a dozen or more Mexican and Indian runners to visit the hid ing place of the Apache Prince and make known his wish. As already known through out the whole country, the effort proved an abortion, and three thousand or four thous- and dollars of the public money werc use lessly Xpended-which, added to the four thousand or five thousand that Colyer will probably steal, and account for as expended in this sbortive effort will make some seven thousand or eight thousand dollars squsnder- cd and stolen.
 We'll, having thus disposed of fS000 and Cachls, we find the swindler ana hypocrite still at large. Meanwhile, be it known that when h- left Washington he gave the most complete assurance, in words, of his ability to accomplish the object of his mission. but he failed. He must however, accomplish something IL would never to return to Washington thus thwarted and disgraced. His cherished hope of succeeding Parker, AS Commissioner of Indian Affairs, would be blasted forever. It was the pursuit of this phantom hope which brought him to Arizona in the capacity of a dictator. From New Mexico he wrote to President Grant to confer upon him certain powers which would enable him to settle the Indian difficulty in Arizona, and through means of unpardonable ignorance or indifference as to the result, the powers were conferred. So the thwarted scoundIcd left the scene of his first defeat dictator in fact. He Is now commissioned to examine into the condition of the Apache. to suspend military operations throughout the Department of Arizona, to establish res ervations and in fact to do almost everything else that envy, caprice, cowardice or preju- dice may suggest, if we may be permitted to 1 judge from his conduct at Camp Grant. His | examination of the condition of the Apaches resulted in the establishment of three reser- vations: One at Camp Verde, one at Camp Grant and one to the eastward, known as the Bonito. That his course in designating these
 might not appear too evidently an ofiort to crush the settlers, he felt constrained to es- tablsh one in the eastern section of the Ter ritory; but the other two-those at Verde and Grant-were 50 marked of as to enclose
 within their limits the farms and improve
 ments of some twenty settlers. In both
 eases, VIC believe, the farmcr. have been noti.
 fled to leave within specified time, but, it
 IS hardly necessary to add, they do not feel
 disposed to bow calmly to the outrage, and without an adequate remuneration, surrender
 their homes to the sayages, for no other pur.
 pose than to forward the selfish aims of the blatant thiei whose highest mission, de Iacto is the prostitution of the ministry of God Such, in brief, is the result of the examina- tion," and having disposed of this portion o our article, we will now examine the manne, in which he conducted his investigation ol the "Camp Grant Massacre"
 Arriving at Camp Grant on the 18th oi September, he at once set about the work o procuring evidence--not the whole evidence but whatever portion of the whole might bt made to appear in the favor of the Indian either as a means of establishing his inho cense or the guilt of the attacking party The citizens were arraigned before MT Col yer to answer only such questions as b, might ask, and to make no statement beyond direct replies to his questions. The exami nation, then proceeded somewhat as follows , ColyeT.-Were you at this post when th. atrocious butchery was perpetrated by citizens of Tucson upon the friendly Indians last Spring
 Witness-I was here when party of cit
 izens from Tucson, following upon the trai
 of certain Indians who had stolen property Colyer.-You will please confne yoursel to the limits of the question proposed. An
 swer "yes" or "no"
 Witness--The question will not, in justice
 admit of an answer so brief.
 Colyer.-You may go.
 Witness after witness was brought forward
 and examined as shown, and whenever ia
 vorable answer was obtained it was promptly
 recorded and then, to "top off" the pro
 ceeding, the post affidayit-man swore to
 statement made out by Colyer, or at his die 1 Al Al Al T 4