Arizona citizen., 1872-06-08

eral told Eskevanzin that there were
 many around yesterday who said that
 he did not intend to make peace lon
 ger than to get the children back and
 then wouldssgo to war. What Eske-
 vanzin said the day before in this ccn-
 nection did not justify the last part of
 this statement what he said was, as
 interpreted, that the sole object of
 making the treaty was to get the chil-
 dren back.
 Eskevanzin wanted to see the men
 who said 1t. General Howard re-
 piled that Jose Maria Estes the in
 terpreter said so. (The man who had
 been out for Dal-che came in at this
 point). Eskevanzin had Agent Jacobs
 and clerk sit down before him. He
 said that Jose Maria was here to make
 disturbance he had told these gentle
 men (Mr. Jacobs and clerk, that Jose
 Maria was one of the worst of men
 that he would come here and listen,
 then go out and make wrong trans
 lation and bad impression; that Jose didn't like to see a general peace, he
 liked to see them out killing all
 the time. He had put the stone there
 to make @ lasting peace. He had
 been asking his children last nightl how Jose Maria would make living now. He had told these two men
 before him that there was a good strong peace made-a legal peace, heA was afraid Jose Maria would mako disturbance. General Howard said that Eskevan-
 zin had given him a promise twenty five days before that he would be
 here yesterday, when the sun was up/ there, (about o'clock A. M. ), and hd\ had kept his promise. He had prom ised yesterday, to come back to day when the sun was there, @ A. M.
 and he had had come. Now wouldj he promise that he would be at pea4 with the Americans and Mexicane,
 with the Pimas and Papagos, and an l others as long as he lived! as longz 4 I(General Howard looked around dh the floor, when 1t was found that tke stone was missing; fortunately howl Never there were some stones on tab4 Ynear by-employed as paper weight( One of these was procured, and thel lconference proceeded without seriou5 interruption). Having placed tht stone on the floor, the General comA pleted his question; and Eskevanzin Unanswered |" Yes,7 and gave his hand Von it.
 General Howard said that some( hdoubt had been thrown upon Eskevan- /zin's promises, but before God, he believed he would keep his word ;I Diff he does not" said the General, '" my life is at your service" He be- lieved he would keep his word, be- cause he had been truthful to him. ~ General Howard then read from
 paper, his decision in reference to theN children. This decision had evidently
 teen made up the night before-as hef had certainly not written 1t i'll the conf ference, and as he said he had pro( cured a governess for them when1 placed at the agency, etc.; so that theI hearing of the arguments from th4 citizens, and from the Pima Chief against giving up the children waSN merely matter of form. Gen. ! Howard prefaced his decision by sayE ping that he thought Mir. McCaffry had Ymistaken what he meant to say in re-i gard to the children who had no pa rents what he had meant to say was, ( that he thought arrangements couldf be made where the children had nd parents. for the persons who now had them to keep them. He had said yes7' Aterday (in the evening" that Colyet had promised on behalf the U. SN 1Government, that these childre4 Ashould be returned; that was a matt |ter of record. He himself had re- peated the promise, and had said h9 would use every effort to carry 1t out An appeal had been taken by U. S. officer, who doubtless knew the lawI better than he did. It had been said the night before, that Colyer and him-N self might have exceeded their au- thority. Listening to his appeal from/ the promise he had made, he decided that the children should remain at the Agency on the Reservation, and that they be furnished with an Amer ican governess, until the case could bel brought before the President. and he decided upon it. The General said he had procured a good woman, Cathf