The weekly Arizona miner., 1871-05-06

the authorities" " in such cases always made l it point to pursue and punish perpetrators of atrocious barbarites committed upon the persons of the subjects and citizens of their 1 governments, nations, kingdoms, or princi- | palitesl
 In Arizona are congregated natives of ev- cry State and Territory in the Union, who came here not to sell few tons f forage, l few cords of wood or a few cattle to the |. $. Quartermasters and Commissaries at the posts, but because of their firm and well founded belief in the mineral and other wealth of Arizona They have been brave, enduring, lCng suffering hard laboring, hope full set of men ts ever settled any portion of the domain of the United States. More of their number proportionately have been killed, wounded or reduced from comfort to poverty by the action of hostile Indians than in any other section of O. s. territory dur ing fifteen years past and these men have fathers, mothers, wives and children scattered over the whole country, none of whom read a newspaper without fear that they may
 read that a loved one has been killed by In- dians in Arizona, yet the Colonel approaches
 the topic with mo little reluctance" He need not fear that our relatives will be sur. | feited or wearied with its consideration. Does he imagine he was placed in command of the | Department of Arizona to ascertain how
 cheaply given number of soldiers, and gov
 ernment horses and mules can be fed here for
 six months or a year The statistics of the
 Agricultural Bureau at Washington will
 show that it can be done cheaper in Illinois.
 We hoped that when the Colonel came
 here to command the Department, with head
 quarters located in the heart of the Indian
 country, a new system of business would be
 established, that war would be carried to the
 homes of the Apaches, that settlers would
 be encouraged to till the soil, develop the
 mines and make permanent homes instead,
 we see only complaints and growlings at tho
 cost of sundry articles, without a word in
 the Colonel's report in explanation of the
 cause. IL is strange that corn, wheat or bar
 ley is six or seven cents per pound, beef 10
 or l2 cents per pound, or hay $30 per ton,
 when the men who produce and furnish those l articles do their work with one hand carry 1 ing a weapon of defence in the other when | no man can deliver a load of grain, hay, or
 fuel, at military post, without leaving men
 at his house on guard, without taking men
 with his team well armed to protect it against
 attack from Indians Let the Colonel quiet | the Indians and troops be called from Arizona,
 and in two years time, we will show him that beef, hay and grain can be produced in Ari-
 zona as cheap as in Missouri But he aston
 ishes us by stating that since the organiza.
 ton of the Department, the Mojaves, Hual-
 pals, Yavapai and Coyotero Apaches have
 become quiet, and are fast becoming domcs-
 ticated! Careful inquiry will show him that
 the Mojaves q tribe have been peaceable
 and quiet for years, that the truce of the ] Iual pals was never trusted in for momen,
 by any white man who has lived in this sec
 ton of Arizona five years, nor by military
 officers, when moving among their haunts,
 and that the Iavapais are fed at Date Creek
 on government rations, while depredations constantly occur through their country in which all the settlers are confident they are
 concerned. The reports of Col. Van Vliet,
 commanding at Camp Hualpai, will. by this
 time, have informed Col Stoneman, that the
 Hualpai tribe has just again taken the war
 path, and if the Colonel himself had remain
 ed in the Territory, and known of the depre-
 dstions and murders committed since the first
 day of December last, he might have changed
 his opinion in regard to the above ment iooed
 tribes. No doubt he will approach the topic
 again with reluctance, when reporting such
 disastrous military expeditions to the aatbC<-
 ities, as that of Lieutenant Cradlebaush of Camp Verde, in which Dr. Stigers was sbo.
 by an Indian and lost his arm, soldier was
 wounded, the command of 20 men and several citizens besieged by the Apaches all might. 27 of the 34 U. $. horses and mules taken !. and the camp equipage burned next incoming to prevent the Indians from taking the same -because such reports show that the Ersians are no respecters of persons, and are still hos , tile.
 l In conclusion, the Col. expresses his paeas- l ure at being able to state that the Indian affairs in the Department were in as satr,i.e- B tory a condition as could be reasonably expected. We, the people, feel as thoagh there is nothing to be congratulated upon in that line, and the records of Indian atrocities $ published in the columns of the Citizen at Tucson. and the MINER at Prescott, do not P for the past three months seem more sa,r.
 toctory than those for the three years pre-. s vious to the organization of the Department The reluctance of Col. Stoneman ,o refer to s our Indian troubles, is fearfuly cutting joke . on every citizen of Arizona, and bis economi |. cal programme of hostilities must prove to u. l not to bring in its train profuse expenditur, a of life and bloodshed before Arzonans will e approve it. H. GENERAL PARKER, the Indian Chief of the "Six Nations" and President Grants Com | snfT Tnl, a..