Arizona citizen., 1871-11-11

I
 Apaches to accept peace. Robbers or murderers always prefer rewards in- stead of punishment for their crimes, and also prefer to accepr, without lahPr or danger, food and clething that they would otherwise steal and often ae- company the theft with murder. Fdr these reasons few ,Apaches weSe "eager to accept offers of peace" /
 Third, that wheneva the ApacA les went to government posts, they we're hunted by scouts and shot Except in a single instance, we. are quite sure the true history of Arizbna will show this statement t3 be most shameful falsehood and hat whlo the murder ing Apaches were teo i Camps Good win, Apache, Date Creek and other places, they were never so hunted and shot, but that on the contrary while being nurtured at those posts, 1t was the Apaches' practice to send out scouts to hunt and rob and shoot citizens, mail carriers, travellers and teamsters generally, and right here we will in troduce an affidavit because it is fresh to the point, and true
 Marcario Romero, aged 20 years, born in Tucson, being duly sworn, deposes and says, that on or about the 2Sth day of October lS7l, he arrived at Camp Grant, and that on or about the 3Oth day of October 1871, in the morning, h. left Camp Grant; that he went to amp Grant as driver of the carriago of the Rev. Bishop Sal pointe, from Tucson; that while at Camp Grant, he saw two horses, of light dun color, which two horses are the property of Pedro Burruel of San Xavier, and that he has known the two horses for two years as the prop erty of Pedro Burruel, and krsws that they were stolen from him at San Xavier; also, that he saw at Camp Grant 8 whitish gray mare that said mare Is the property of @ man named Miguel Ortiz who carries the mail from Tucson to Sasabe Flat, and that he loaned the mare to T. Sotelo who made trip in his place on or about the 10th or 11th day of September 1871, and was killed about five miles south of Tucson while re- turning with the UIited States mail from Zazabe Flat oE he 18th day of Septem Der 1871, at V ch time he had said whitish gray mare and was rid ing her; also saw at the same time, at Camp Grant, 8 piece of striped blanket, which he knows the mur- dered man had when he left with the mail for Zazabe Flat, on or about the 10th or 11th of September 1871; also that all the above mentioned property the two horses, the whitish gray mare and the piece of striped blanket, at tLe time he saw them, was in the pos session of the Apache Indians at Camp Grant, Arizona Territory.
 (Signed): MARCARIo ROMERO.
 Subscribed and sworn to before me this Sd day of November 1871.
 CHARLES HI. MEYERS,
 Justice of the Peace, Pima county.
 Since the above affidavit was taken,( the identical saddle used by Sotello when killed, has been brought from Camp Grant and proven by afidavits( of the lawful owner; also, @ gray mare stolen from the Papago IndianS about the same time of Sotello's murN der; and both saddle and mare wereI bought from an Apache at Grant by a written permission of Lieutenant R. l E. Whitman-which see elsewhere. T
 Leopoldo Carrillo, of Tucson, has ! now in his possession a mule which | was stolen with other animals near this town, and but two weeks ago re- covered directly of the Apaches fed and fostered at Camp Grant. A hun dred reputable citizens can testify to this statement.
 The late United States Grand Jury found absolute evidence that tho Apa-