The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-03-02
THE INDIANS.

rooDers, since leaving the reservations, on and previous to the l5th ult., and,I if the so- called humanitarians of the Vincent Colyer stripe, are at all open to conviction upon the Indian question, we expect soon to hear of their having had an entire change of heart and opinion.
 From the accounts already published in this paper, of heartless butcheres of White mer by the Apachcs; of desperate but un- successful attempts to butcher others, and oi successful robbcries, the hearts of the mem bers of the Indian Ring must, indeed, be very flinty, if softening thereof, in favor of the persecuted of their own race, does not speed fly take place.
 Soon will they have read our account of the recent attack upon a freight train, near Wickenburg, and the wounding, by Indians, of one of the teamsters; of the Indian break near the Fulture Mine, where another White man, while attending to his business, was shot down by the red assassins; of the at tack upon Messrs. Saunders and McCloud and of their narrow escape from death or cap tivity; of the butchery of S. T. Cullumber and Thomas Harris, in their own house, near Camp Date Creek, within very short dis tance ofa military post where, for a long time past, Indians have been fed and treated in manner every way calculated to allay the savage hatred they are known to enter tain for their White neighbors. And later still we have news of the shooting down of another White man, near Camp Verde, of which a correspondent of this paper writes as follows:
 The Work of Death Begun
 CAMP VERDE, A. T., Feb. P, 1872. Editor cf die Arizonn Miner:
 A few days ago two Indians came in and said that their head chief wished to return with his band, and remain on the reservation, in peace. They were retained as prisoners and word was despatched to General Crook for instructions. This was on Monday. On Tuesday morning, at o'clock, the work of death was begun. As James LeRoy was quietly travelling the trail from Robert Bells to this place, about three miles east, he was attacked by six Indians. The first indica- tion he had of the presence of Indians was vollev of arrows, two of which took effect in his back, one near the kidneys and ono in his shoulder. Fortunately he was not so dis abled that he could not use his gun; and 1 judge he did this right we'll. He is confident that he killed two of them and wounded third. He recognized two of them as Apache Yumas who had been living at Peter Arnolds rancho last summer, where he became well acquainted with them. But they have been running for some time wiih the Apache-Mo- hayes. The attack was made at o'clock a. m., and the wounded man lay there until the morning next, about ten o'clock. What theme for thought for the humane-Lying wounded and alone on solitary path, sel dom traveled-tor twenty four hours without food, water, or fire; or any one to do the least kind office At any moment the cruel fiends might return in large numbers, then death would be certain-perhaps by cruel torture. And should he be spared this death, would anyone pass over shc trail for the next week The night he lay ont was so cold as to freeze ice :; if neither friend nor foe should pass, then death were certain, by the slow process of hunger, thirst and cold And af- ter death had done its sad office to be de: voured by wolves, which, after completing their feast, would howl mcurnfal requiem
  hllls-al this the work of the merciess, cruel Apaches.
 Robert Bell brought him to the post Hos pital, where Dr. Pindell is doing all he can for his comfort and recovery-and the pros pect is that he will recover but whether to | be crippled or otherwise is the question. He was soldier in company F, 12th Infantry, and was discharged little over a year ago 1 at Fort WhiPple. -
 What pitiful tale, and yet an undoubted truth, is the foregoing and how, if such deed were enacted by white men, in any of the states, Government and people would cry for vengeance, and pursue the perpetrat- ors until they should be caught and properly punished. Yet hundreds of such cases of h. dian barbarity have been enacted in this Ter ritory, since 1863, with very little effort on the part of the Government or the people of the States to punish the perpetrators; and these late crimes, be it recOllected, were com mitted immediately after the Indians had learned that it was the earnest desire of the " Great Father at Washington" that they all-should reside upon reservations, close to military posts, where, so long as their con duct would be fautless they would be fed and otherwise provided for at the expense of the White taxpayers. But this arrange ment they scorned, do now scorn and never will observe until they shall be taught such a lesson as was taught the hostile Indians in California, Oregon, Nevada and elsewhere and such lesson, we think, General Crook will teach them, if another Indian Ring fire brand be'not thrown across his path.
 To this, then, has the late foolish policy brought Whites and Indians: The savagcs are better prepared for war than ever before, because of their having, while living on the reservations, collected a great many arms, ammunition, and goodly store of provisions But, now,- that the experi- ment of feeding and coaxing them has had :air trial, at several points, we do hope that no vile office -secker-who wishes to become an Indian Agenf-will arain nrate abott fhc