Arizona citizen., 1872-06-22
General Hazen's Letter.

from 8 letter written by General Ha- zen, dated Sioux City, Iowa, May 21. If our space permitted, we should be glad to publish it in full. The Gen. erals bravery and high sense of honor is proverbial. He served two years before the war on the Texas border, and had civil control of the Kiowa and Comanche Indians in 1868 and 1869. The brave old soldier speaks the truth-he can be charged with no ulterior motives and his experience enables him to speak knowingly. He says:
 I inaugurated the peaceful side of the Indian policy at Fort Sill, but as I was ready to commence the con- joint and equally necessary policy, that of force, 1 was recalled, and the latter has never been carried out. Until 1t is, Merritt's story of How ards Wells and that of the Fort Grif- fin supply-train, last May, will be often repeated The Staked Plain Comanches, only few hundred war riors, now in full cooperation with the Indians on the Reservation, and a small party of Apaches have always been in the habit of crossing into Mexico along the trail by Howard s Wells, and until their haunts are broken up by military force, will con- tinue to do it, drawing off the young men from the Reservation. A gentle man of the utmost trustworthiness, writing on the 1st instant from the Reservation, says: 'The Kiowas and Comanches are depredating in Texas worse than ever.' I will repeat that these depredators are always known, or with the least care might be, both when they depart and when they re- turn, and that the Indians leave for these massacres with the full knowl- edge of the Government officers at the Reservation, that these raids extend back over 8 period of twenty years, and that every grown man in the Comanche and Kiowa tribes, to whom we issue rations, is @ murderer of many men, women and children, and is still carrying on this murderous life. Until there is a competent military surveillance of these Indians, or they are disarmed and dismounted, the present policy with them is co-partner- ship in murder.
 Time out of number, the people of this Territory have in anguish made the same complaints. They have plead, prayed and supplicated for re- lief, and how nave their groans of agony, their tales of desolated fields, tortures and murders been met ? AL most invariably the agents in charge of the reservations, their affidavit men, and others who delight in mak- ing money out of the blood and mis- cry of their countrymen, have re- sponded with a satanic smile that these reports were not true and were made in the interest of contractors, speculators, etc.; and their false re- ports have been needed and the poor farmers and miners, with no influence or voice to counteract these islanders, have suffered by the knavery and greed of these polluted agents and affidavit men, as the silent graves, broken walls and deserted fields give sad testimony on every hand. We hope for better things. So far, since the advent of General Howard, a marked improvement has been effected in the management of the Indians on reservations. MT. Jacobs, now in charge of the Grant reservation, we believe to be an honest, sober man, and we do not believe, for the sake of aggrandizement or money, he will at tempt to shield the Indians if they go off the reservation to murder and rob; and for this change and these favors we are truly thankful.
 The latter part of the extract of the letter we publish above, shows in quite as strong language as we are