The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-02-24
CAMP GRANT MASSACRE AGAIN.

I We ask those of our readers who ar not particularly interested in our Indian troubles and who may think enough ha been said in our columns concerning tn Camp Grant affair, to consider this as sort of general wind up, on our side o the massacre.
 In December last, in the town of Tue son, Arizona, the parties who mad tn attack on the Indians at Camp Grant oI the morning of April 30tb, were tried Il the l.. $. District Court, for murder The Weekly Alta Calitornia of San Francisco in the issue of February 3, 1872, publish cs certified copy of the testimony IT Court, and the charge of Judge Titus tc the Jury, the whole occupying eleven col umns of that paper, with the following preface:
 1 "NorE OF ExPLAXATIoN.-Att the October term of the Court, 1871, an indictment ioI murder was found Gin one joint indictment against 100 men. At the arraignment there, five of the defendants appeared in person, pleaded "Not guilty" and gave bail in the sum of ten thousand dollars (SlO,OOO) for their appearance at the December term. The rest of the 100 men appeared by proxy l. C., to the satisfaction of the Court.
 At the December term, ninety nine of the defendants actually appeared in Court Tn person 10 answer the charge. Only one man (out of the loo indicted) was absent, and he unintentionally so.
 "The testimony concluded on the llth, arguments of counsel before the Jury on the l2th and up to noon on the 18th of Decem- ber Tue Judge then charged the Jury. In nineteen minutes, verdict rendered of Not guilty"
 We wish that every member of Con- gross, and every friend and sympathizer with the Colyer Indian Peace Policy could be forced to carefully read every word in the eleven columns referred to, in order that they might learn from statements made under oath, something of the char acter of the Apaches, and the manner in which, for years past, they have been fed and armed at Government posts, and then turned loose to prey upon the white settlers and peaceable Indians of Arizona.
 Further, we wish that every man living in any portion of the United States and Territories, who has been, or now is, ex- posed to depredations and attacks of hos tile Indians, might read it in order that he could appreciate, as we do, the disinter- estedness of the Alta in placing before the public such an amount of matter concern ing our affairs, which so clearly proves the charges often made in newspapers of Ari- 1ona, of the cOmplicity of certain military officers with the Apaches, and their moral, if not legal, responsibility for many mur- ders and acts of spoiliation committed by these savages.
 The testimony of Lieut.. R. F. Whit man of the Third U. s. Cavalry, who had the Apaches at Camp Grant; under his charge at the time they were attacked fills more than two columns of the Alh and, though evidently given reluctantly and cautiously, shows that before the kill ing on April 3Oth, he had been issuing rations of one pound of flour or corn, and one pound of meat to each, of between 400 and 800 Indians at Camp Grant; that the Indians were present in the propor- tions of men, women and children, that would naturally exist in their family re- lations, and that the rations were issued at intervals of from ono to four days, that no restriction was placed on the Indians, and that he was in the habit of giving them permission to leave their camp when they applied to him, that those Indians who came on the reservation professed that they came there for peace, yet, that they were not required to give up their arms, And further, that the Indians did not live on the Camp Grant Reservation but at distance of five miles from the post or at least four miles from the rcser. vation, which is one mile square.
 The testimony of others, connected with Camp Grant and other military posts shows that the Indians went and came as they saw fit, that it was customary fol the officers at those posts to trade cart ridges to the Indians, giving as high al ten copper cartridges, or half pound o powder for turkey; also, to trade ammu milton for buckskins, moccasins, or Indian works of art of any kind. That ammuni ton was issued to Indians at those post, under an order of Gen. Stoneman in 1870 Other parties testified to having lost oxen mules and horses, and also to having fol lowed their trails to the Indian rancheria near Camp Grant; to seeing animals and arms in possession of Indians at Camy Grant, which they recognized as thei own, or as having been the property O their murdered and plundered neighbors and in short, fully substantiatcd the char ges against the Indians who have been fet at Camps Goodwin, Apache and Grant 1 for wears past, that they used those post.