Arizona citizen., 1871-10-07

liding with Cachise, we find hin
 in a war of words with the Indian Agent. He was transferred and Crook assigned to his Department.
 The Apache's ravages continued
 The whole West cried to Washington
 for help, and the President sent troops
 and the Indian Bureau sent Vincent
 Colyer.
 Colyer and Crook have met. Crook
 is vanquished. Meanwhile Cachise
 remains master of the situation, aud
 the people of Arizona and New Mex
 ico are witnesses of a spectacle that
 reflects little credit on whoever Is re-
 sponsible for the folly of its creation.
 Crook organized an expedition to
 SCOUT the mountains and drive the
 hostile Indians back to the reservation. Before his party had left Tucson, news came there that Vincent Colyer had sent forth paid Mexican scouts to gather in the families and cripples of Cachise's band, and thus leave the able warriors free to elude their armed pursuers. Colyer's invitation was gladly accepted by the fugitives, and while Crook sent in his audited bills of thousands of dollars expended in getting his men ready for the conflict, Vincent Colyer sent on his bills for preventing Crooks expedition from accomplishing anything.
 There Is something wrong in this self-contradictory system. The h. dian agents in the West have been in command long enough to prove that they cannot wholly prevent murder ous outbreaks; and when a state of war has been produced, despite their efforts to the contrary, they have no business to interfere with the efforts to reduce the rebels to subjection. As the matter stands now, Cachise, chief of the Apaches, has superseded both Crook and Colyer in the Department of the Southwest.
 The Grand Army Journal of Sep tember g, published in Washington, has this say on the subject:
 General Crooks campaign against the Apaches, 1t is now announced, has been rendered failure by the inter ferences of the Peace Commissioners. These well-meaning but inpracticable gentlemen have succeeded in playing into the hands of the savages in a manner that must be highly satisfac- tory to the warlike red men. The campaign of the bloody Apaches against the detenseless white settle ments is prosecuted with sanguinary success. The frontier people and jour nals assert that while the Government is feeding the non-conbatants on their reservations, the fighting Indians are on the war-path. Nothing could be more acceptable to the Indians than this convenient arrangement, and the action of the Government in affording him such unusual facilities for going to war ought to inspire in the savage breast feelings of the liveliest grati- tude. "Ugh!"
 For the present, we turn from the expressions of we'll informed journalists to those of men whose knowledge is the result of practical life and official business among the Indians.
 It may be we'll to here introduce the testimony of the world renowned Won Humboldt, who made his researches on the subject in 1903. The following is from his "Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain. In speaking of the savages of Ari- zora, then in Sonora, Baron Humboldt says:
 The villages de la Pimeria Alta are from the banks of the Rio Gila by region inhabited by inde- pendent Indians, of which neither the soldiers stationed in the presidios, nor he monks posted in the neighbouring missions, have been hitherto able to make the conquest. /,
 There is not an intelligent man in { he world that will deny the self-sacri- , icing devotion of the Catholic clergy ] o conquer the Indians by pious teach ngs and humane treatment. Here we f nave unquestionable testimony that ( neither the soldiers in the presidios ,