The Weekly Arizonian., 1871-03-18

A treaty, we are relisb ly informed, has just
 been concluded at Camp Grant, between .he
 Chiefs of the Pinal and Arivapa tribes of Apa.
 shss on one siis and tho commanding officer
 of the post on the other. This officer who but
 lately came to Arizona and who, consequently,
 hss yet to learn much regarding the character
 of the Apache deabtlsSs thinks he has achiev-
 cd something wonderful ; we'll, perhap psi he has,
 but we saw the same thing achieved three
 times within 8 period of less than fifteen
 months, with these Gams .Indians-which fact
 would imply, on their part, feeling of strange
 indifference toward the stipulatons of treaty
 to which thsy always uncerenoniously efix their mark It is the same old dodge which
 has been in successful operation ever since
 United States troops first set foot in Arizona
 the Winter has bsen spent in murdering men,
 women and children and plundering the set dement's Their supplies have become exhaust ed and they are obliged to make "peace" in order to procure the necessaries of life. They will Sn part retain friendly relations with the military until the sesson shall have arrived ] when nsescdI must be gathered and prepared for use in other words they will depredste at pleasure upon the highways and procure provisions ct the military posts where they are Ion treaty until their harvest has been secured, when they will boldly cast aside | their written obligations and start forth for an-
 other season ofundisguised hostility. So com
 pletey has this systematic treachery become
 B part ofIndian character from it's successful
 operation year after year, that the periods st
 which treaties must bs made and again aban>
 doued are as we'll understood ss that at which
 nssscaL must be gathered in and stored. To
 store up provisions for Winter during the
 months of September and October is one A.
 pachs industry; to murder settlers and travel
 lers to piuuder sett dement's, to destroy mails and capture trains at all seasons, but particu-
 la rlv dnr1a the winter Aonths are acts that i constitute another Apache lnuusLry. Iu1y r1- gard the faithful prosecution of these duties { as necessary to their existence aud by no i act on the part of government are they taught ( to regard their course Rs otherwise than lawful They may 20 at any time from their reserva-
 ton and capture train On and public high { way and returning again, with the blood of the s murdered teamsters yetfresh upon their lances s can claim, and will receive, the protection of t th. military post at which their reservation is t located, or Whersat they are on treaty. Under . such circumstances we must continue to sx~ T pect outrages at their hands. If the com q lnanding officer now at Camp Grant were to b perform signal act of justice and humanity c he would muster together those treacherous D isnds, while they are yet in his power, and t with one grand stroke rid the Territory forever E ,f 200 murderous sayages. Such act would q not punish the innocent to catch the guilty o here being no innocence involved But the c commanding officer will not do it and this il fact will not occasion surprise. The perform Il lnce of on act worthy, in the face ofQuaksr
 anatics who would lose no time in placing thA e whole matter in it's worst light before the De- T, 'artment would occasion his dismissal from n he Army, in disgrace. They are they who sc lave lived longest in Arizona that can best 4 ppreciate the sbsusdity of the existing Indian
 olicy, but alas that they ara powerless to ap. in 'ly remedy to