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American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-11-16

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philos ,phy and natural oblivion of veX-
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The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-09-21
A Sickening Sight.

The horrors of military prisons have been descanted upon until mention of the names of Libby, Andersonville, Camps Douglass and Chase have unstrung the nerves of tender hearted people and fired the hearts of men of iron nerve, yet, since the days of sectional cruelty, scenes have been enacted in the h. dian country, parallels to which cannot be found in the history of the late war between the sections, one of which was the ho-rid scenes enacted at Fort Sill, in the Indian Territory, where, at council between Qua ker agents and Kiowa Indians, several white females, captives of the savages, were brought into that post, lashed upon the hacks of h. dian ponies, with strips of raw-hide, which strips were drawn so tightly around the na- ked bodies and limbs of the poor women as to cut into their flesh, and this torture lasted nearly all of one day, in the open air, under a fierce sun, in the presence of numerous sol diers and several officers, most of whom boiled over with rage at being compelled to witness such a scene.
 Finally, sufficient money to ransom the poor, suffering white ladies was raised, and the ln- dians, the Quaker agent and the commanding officer permitted the poor creatures to be un- bound.
 Brave men, we are told, were there, but the fear of being charged with mutiny kept them from performing the acts which no humane man should have shrunk from, no matter what punishment might have follow ed. In our own unfortunate Territory, men, women aud children have been roasted to death; impaled upon thorny plants and trees, but the Fort Sill affair is one of the most hor- rid we have ever heard described.
The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-09-21
The End of the Quaker Policy.

President Grant has said that the best way to make bad law odious is to enforce it. These are not his exact words, but they are to the point, and convey his meaning. Well, then, the Quaker law or policy, of dealing with hostile Indians, which we believe the President was forced to adopt, by many de- signing knaves and some phlanthropc gen. tlemen of the old States, has been strictly enforced, for several years past, and is now as odious, in the eyes of all honest men and women who have seen and suffered from its enfor cement, as the most tyranous edict of the most infamous ruler of ancient or mod ern times.
 The people of this Territory, who have suffered most from this law, will rejoice to learn that it has had its day has been tried and found wanting, and is now superseded by policy, the enforcement of which will be beneficial to both Whites and Indians. We mean the policy of opposing force to force, and of making hostile Indians sue for peace, instead of begging them to eat the bread of peace, out of hands red with the blood of those who had contributed of their means to feed the murderers.
 General Crook, who, while knowing, all along, what the Colyer policy would result in, is now free to act his will, and his brave officers and soldiers, whose hands have been tied by the now defunct obnoxious policy, while their brethren were being murdered and robbed by Government-fed Indians, are mastering for the work of chastising the foe, under commander in whose judgment, hon. or, bravery, and fairness they have the ut most confidence Friendly Indians, too, are coming to join Crooks standard, and, unless some unforeseen event should come to pass, the day is not far distant when earnest war will be commenced and waged against the savages; a war which has the sanction of President Grant, who short time ago, in formed Gov Mccormick that he (the Presi- dent) was satisfied that the Quaker policy had failed in Arizona, a conclusion, We are happy to be able to state, to which Mir. Welch of Philadelphia, Gen. o. O. Howard, and other well-known Peace men have ar rived at.
 Really, this is more than we had expected, and from the bottom of our heart, we thank Generals Crook and Howard, Gov. McCor- mick, Gov. Stafford, Dr, Bendell, and all other gentlemen who have stood by us and worked for the right, regardless of the threats and tempting offers of Colyer $ Co.
The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-09-21
Railroad Talk.

Tom Scott and other Texas and Pacific Railroad magnatcs have gone East.
 Several parties are surveying along the pro- posed line of the road
 San Francisco people are ccning to their senses on railroad matters, and may yet combine to build an independent, forked line of road, to the Colorado, to connect, in time, with both the Atlantic and Pacific and Texas Pacific roads.
 They ought to have done this long ago. Her people are opposed to granting subsidies, but they are eager to subscribe for stock in any respectable, bona fds company.
 St. Louis is not idle. A recent despatch from her Mayor states that the Atlantic and Pacific road will soon be pushed forward.
 The offices of the Company have been re- moved from Boston to New York, and new life seems to have entered into its officers.
 The Southwest" is rich and extensive country. capable of supporting several rail roads.
 A San Diego Company is courting Los An geles for dowry of S40O,O00 with which to connect both cities by rail, but Madam Los Angeles don't respond in the right strain.
The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-09-21
Pima County Matters.

The Citizen of the 7th does not place much faith in the justness of the Regulations of the Interior Department, concerning the way in which evidence of losses by Indians is to be carried to paying issue, by citizens of this Territory; nor do we, yet we advise all who have lost by the savages in the past three years, and who may hereafter lose, to furnish the evidence in as good shape as pos sble, as Congress will-sooner or later-have to audit and pay our losses.
 August gave Tucson 614 inches of rain. The same month gave Prescott fully inches.
 Governor Stafford, Wm. s. Oury, Dr. J. c. Handy and other gentlemen had got back from visiting silver mines on the Sonora line. They saw several pieces of pure silver.
 A. c. Benedict had been appointed mount ed Instector of Customs. MT. B. was re- gently wounded by Apaches, and this ap- pointment will enable him to support him. self and family.
 A. Lazard (Frencby) was about to remove to San Diego, Cal.
 We learn, by private letter, that Governor Stafford was not meeting with much success in getting men to volunteer as privates, al- though the Governor himself was willing to go as a private Several men would go as captains
The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-09-21
The Ball Opened in Montana.

Peace has had her victories, but peace has never yet, to our knowledge, secured victory over uncivilized Indians, and all the efforts of her self-constituted commissioners. among the red men, have ended in smoke, robbery and slaughter.
 The latest case of this kind comes from Montana, where, but short time ago, hun dreds of thousands of dollars were lavished upon Indians, and peace commissioners made themselves sick smoking killickinick out of strong pipes, in vain attempts to befog the red man, so that he might be unable or un- willing to follow the trail to his Fate--exter- were set apart for the Teton Sioux, and commission of white persons high in authority in the Government, and of fair standing in the Republic. talked "Great Father" Chris tianitv, &c., to the petrified savages until, exhausted with such efforts, they returned to Washington to report "the good results of their visit' to President who claims to be the father of the present well-knOwn Indian laughing stock policy.
 And now, after all this expenditure of the hard earnings of taxpayers; after cords of eloquence have been exploded by white and red orators, the smoke of battle between In- dians and whites interminges with the air of Montana; brave soldiers, while toiing in the performance of their duty, for small pay, are cut down in the prime of life and it be- comes necessary, in the face of opposing red forces, to send along with a party of railroad surveyors, a force of 12 companies of soldiers !
 After this after the "peace" fiascos in Texas, New Mexico and in our own bleeding Territory, insult not the intelligence of the American people by telling them that the Peace policy and Peace commissioners have performed wonders in the way of pacfying and civilzing race of savages whose very dreams are disturbed by their evil propensity to slay white men and steal or destroy their property.
 Bnt, the farce is now likely to come to an end, sooner than we have dared to hope, for, even Quaker agents are crying out for sol diers to chastse unruly Indians.
The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-09-21
The Camp Date Creek Affair.

We last week gave an account of the mas sacre of stage passengers, by Indians, near Wickenburg, several months ago, and of the successful efforts of General Crook to ferret out the murderers and robbers, which efforts, we explained, led the General to Camp Date Creek, for the purpose of arresting such of the guilty savages as might there be found, and of turning them over to the civil au- tborities for trial. We.also stated how the Indians resisted arrest, by stabbiDg the first soldier who, according to orders, attempted to make an arrest, which action of theirs was immediately followed by indiscriminate shooting between Whites and Indians.
 We'll, Gen. Crook returned to Fort Whip pie, but had scarcely arrived when despatch from Dr. Williams, Indian Agent at Date Creek, was received by him, the tenor of Apache Yumas, with between so and 100 of his people, had returned to the reservation, professing friendship for the Whites and a desire for peace.
 Away WeHt STOOk tO I'alc STteh. pun arriving there, the Indians were not then prepared to talk, owing to the fact that the wife of one of their principal chiefs was sick The morning of the third day after his arri- val, council was held, the Indians agreeing to stay upon the reserve; to report the fact to their Agent whenever bad Indians came among them; to help the Whites chastise bad Indians, should they be called upon to do so. and to aid the authorities in bringing those Indians who had murdered the stage passengers to justice.
 This being all the General desired the Apache Yumas to do, he promised, on the part of the Government, to do everything necessary for their welfare, so long as they would live up to their agreement, and assured them that their past misdeeds should be for given. Having heard that they intended to take the life of the friendly Mohave chief Irataba-he warned them not to do so, and explained that Irataba was not the first per son who had informed upon the murderers, after which Crook started for this place, and is now organizing force of soldiers and friendly Indians to operate against the Apache -Mohaves and all other bad Indians.
The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-09-21
POLITICAL.

Maine has gone Republican by about 15, 900 majority.
 On his way to Prescott, k. c. Mccormick, candidate for reelection to Congress from this Territory, was serenaded at San Der uardino, California, and made speech which greatly pleased his audience.
 At Ehrenberg, in thls Territory, ball was given in honor of his arrival, and, at the so- licitation of the people, he made short speech.
 Although his health is very poor, he has mode up his mind to start, Monday next, for Williamson Valley, Camp Haulpai, Fort Rock, Cerbat, Mineral Park and other points. He will then return to Prescott, address the people here, and start for Wickenburg, Phe- nix, Maricopa Wells, Sanford, Florence, Tue son and other points, on or about the first of October.
 Since writing the above, We learn that Mir. Mccormick is suffering from a nervous affec- tion of the eye, which may prevent his go- ing to Wallapai, as expected.
 The ticket and manifesto of the Peoples party will be found in our advertising col umns.
 There is some talk of nominating straight Republican ticket
The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-09-21
Pertaining to the Town-site.

Col. H. A. Bigelow, U. S. Assessor, in July last, addressed letter to the Commis- sioner of Internal Revenue, asking whether deeds to town lots on Prescott town-site should be stamped or not, and has received the following reply, which will be interesting to those who have received deeds to town lots from the Probate Judge:
 TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
 OFFICE OF INTERNAL REVENUE, !
 WASHINGTON, August 26th, 1872 SrR:--Your letter of the 29h ultmo relative to stamp duty on deeds issued by Probate Judge under the laws Of Congress conveying title to United States lands d. vded into town lots streets &c. has been received Your opinion considered correct that the Probate Judge is acting the agent officer of the United States this matter the deeds are exempt (Act of June 90 1864 Section l54, amended.
 VI Very respectfuliy B. J. SWEET
 Acting Commissioner H. A. BIGELow. Eso-,
 Assessor Int. Rev., Prescott, Arizona
The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-09-21
Yuma County.

The Sentinel of September :, is at hand. '
 Two and one-fifth inches of rain fell in August. Weather moderately warm.
 A chain-gang had been started.
 The Gila river had flooded some ranches.
 John Wasson, of the Tucson Citizen, had passed through, on his way home.
 We regret the fact that our old and very good friend, Geo. Martin, had resigned his Supervisorship, but are pleased with the ac- tion of the Board, in having rendered Mir. Martin vote of thanks for his past services.
 The Colorado Steam Navigation Compa- ny's river steamer Mohare had passed up, from the mouth of the river, with passen- gers and freight for Ehrenberg. The Coco pal was making regular trips to Hardyville.
The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-09-21
Another Man Shot.

w. B. HeIlings and E. w. Grover, two old citizens of Maricopa county, and who have been intimate friends for many years past, came here, from East Phoenix, several weeks ago, and were on the best of terms-sleeping under the same roof and eating at the same table-until few days ago, when Hellings heard that Grover had made some remarks about Ed. W. Hellings, brother of Wm. B., which so enraged the latter that he sought Grover in the street, struck him, and draw ing pistol, told Grover to defend himself. Grover was not armed, and everybody was of the opinion that nothing more would grow out of the affair, but, as bad luck would have it, Hellings, while coming up Montezuma street, on the night in question, met Grover, who was accompanied by c. H. Grubb. Words followed; Hellings asked Grover to take back what he had said about his brother Ed. Grover refused to do so, when, it is said, Hellings drew a large pistol and fired; the ball hit Grover below the right shoulder blade, passed through the upper portion of the right lung, and coming out, made a slight wound on his left arm, above the wrist. He was carried to Cal. Jackson's. where medical and every oth- CT aid was afforded him; and, at this writing, F o'clock Nj. Friday, hopes arc entertained of his recovery.
 Hellings went immediately, and surrender cd himself to Deputy Sheriff. He is now in jail. His version of the affair is, that il was understood that the difficulty between himself and Grover was to be settled the first time they met after the street row. and that upon Growers refusing to take back wfia' he he'd said, and after he had stepped baci and moved both his hands towards his back he (Hellings) coscluded that Grover was go ing to draw tis pistol,- which conclusion le' him to commit tho rash act
The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-09-21

NEW YORK, Sept. 9.-A correspondent from the Indian Investigation Commission says that the peace policy has proved failure, even the Quak- CTS arc calling for troops.
 Nothing new about that, for haven't Quak- CT agents always called for escorts, and re- fused to move step without sufficient force to guard then2
 Our Superintendent of Indian Affairs, who is not Quaker, or believer in the Quaker policy, has travelled more among the Indians with less escort, and done more for said Ind ians than any broad -brim in the land.
The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-09-21
How is This?

One day recently, while looking over our New Mexico exchanges, we saw in the Santa Fe Gazette, statement to the effect that three gentlemen of Washington, who were visiting Santa Fe, examining the accounts of the U. S. Depository at that place, expressed themselves satisfied with said accounts. Then the paper says:
 Santa Fe has the distinguished honor of having the only such Treasury among the Territories. The Repositories in Arizona and Washington Ter ritories are discontinued on account of the mal- feasauce of their officers.
 This is news to us, and we await an ex- planatiou from those who ought to know whether or not Dr. Lord, U. S. Depository at Tucsons has been guilty of malfeasance. LATEs-This explanation has come. There I is no truth in the Gase,tsss statement.
The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-09-21
Good Reading.

Excellent letters from correspondents ot the MINER at Los Angeles, California; Ger bat, Mohave county, and Phoenix, Maricopa county, Arizona, appear on the first page.
 The statement furnished by the officers of the Prescott Land Office, and for which those officers will please accept our thanks, will show, at a glance, that some Arzonans are, as those officers say, here for other and nobler purposes than ''robbing the poor lndi- ans," or living off of Government.
The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-09-21

Indian agent Jacobs, now of Camp Grant Reservation, has been ordered to report to Superintendent Bendell, of this place, for assignment. He is said to have lost the con- fidence of the savages, but they doated on him until after he informed them that they had to stay upon the reserves and not go forth to murder and rob.
 His recent action, in refusing to surrender one Ssto, marauding red, to the civil au- thorities, for trial for murder and robbery, has lost him some citizen friends.
The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-09-21
THE SAME OLD STORY.

It will soon be 10 years since we first arrived in this Territory, and, in looking back over our long residence here, memory fails to point out one week in which one or more white men have not been murdered by Indians. and, in which, valuable property has not been stolen or destroyed by the same people, For five years of this time, our duty, as editor of this paper, has compelled US to record most of the bloody deeds that have been enacted, as well as to note and comment upon them and the losses that have been sustained by our citizens. And, again, it has fallen to OUT lot to view the maDgled remains of many of the victims of savage ferocity; to feel for those whose last dollars worth of property was taken from them to lose prop erty of our own; to be made target of by Apacbes; to be on the watch against sur prise, and to have our hair erect itself, and to stand, ride and walk, in fear and trem- bling, of lurking savages.
 Need we say, then, that we are tired of this state of affairs; tired of the unpleasant duty it has forced us to perform Scarcely.
 But, the end is not yet, and, no matter how repugnant the labor, it must be perform ed, as the red workmen are still as busily en- gagged as ever, following the business for which they appear to have been created murder and robbery. This duty compelled us to labor far into last Thursday night, and, This Thursday night, something impels us to continue our
 Account Of Murders and Robberies That have been committed within the past few weeks. First, then, on the bloody list, comes the murder of Lieutenant Stewart and Corporal Black, of the United States Army, who were murdered, and hacked to pieces in Davis Canon.
 Then, four Mexicans - Ysidore Telles, Manuel Ramos, Felipe Espinosa and Martin Lopez, who were murdered on the Santa Cruz river, while they were proceeding to Sonora to visit their families. c
 Then, on August 27, in Davis Canon, three Mexicans, whose names are unknown to us, were killed.
 AhSh ppS'osic"'S oO i"i eS WI have learned, are as follows:
 Thirty head of cattle and one horse, the property of Vim. B. Hooper Co.,; eight mules, belonging to Jesus Montana; attacked the herd of Mexican named Passo, killed the herder (n-r,a unknown to us) and drove off the herd-25 animals and, a few days after stole lot of horses from the Papagos. All of the foregoing in Pima county.
 They have recently stolen several head of animals from citizens at Camp Mcdowell and, also, from persons residing near PhGuix, in Maricopa county.
 At home, in Yavapai county, they have not, to our knowledge, taken life since date of last issue of this paper, but they have stolen two good horses and some cattle from Adam Scott, of Willow Valley, which place is within one half mile of Fort Whipple and about one mile from Prescott
 Then, they have been seen in strong force near Peoples Valley; in the woods back of Prescott, and at other points, and soldiers and citizens are in hourly expectation of hearing some dreadful news.
 So, the old, old story of Indian malicious ness, treachery and vindctiveness, comes up, every week, for treatment and a hearing.
The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-09-21
Mining Items.

Several ounces of gold dust were brought to town this week, from Lynx, Hassayampa and other auriferous creeks.
 The arastras at Weaver are running; rock paying over Sl00 to the ton.
 R. w. Groom has discovered very rich silver lode, near Camp Beale Springs, Moha- ve county. The ore is chloride. easily worked and very rich.
 Very little light has been thrown upon the diamond question, since the date of the last MINER, but the belief that diamonds do ex- ist in Arizona, appears to be we'll founded.
The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-09-21
The Pinos Altos Country.

Our fellow townsman, John Raible, has re- gently received a letter from D. F. Kruse, formerly of this place, but now of Pinos AL tos, New Mexico, which letter states that the several mining camps of that gold and silver region were yielding considerable bullion, all of which news is pleasing to us, as in said camps arc many old Arizonans and Califor- nians who merit success.
 Then, Pinos Altos has had just such draw backs as our people have had, in contending with Indians, sulphurets and other frontier abominations.
 The place is about 300 miles to the east ward of Prescott, in a country that IS, like this, we'll timbered and watered
The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-09-21
Death of an Aged Apache.

That certain Apache female of over 100 summers whom many soldiers and citizens have seen at Camp Mcdowell, died there on the l1th inst, and was, the next day, buried with military honors for which piece of in formation we are indebted to Mir. A. J. Tom linsOn.
The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-09-21
Incorrect.

We have very lengthy communication from citizen Charles A. Franklin, regarding the late massacres of soldiers and citizens, by Indians in Davis Canyon. Mir. Franklin was with the escort, and says some of the sol diers thereof showed enough white feathers to make a decent sized pillow, and that the account furnished the Tucson Citizen was far from being a correct account.
The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-09-21
General Mcclellan.

Next to Professor Agassiz, Gen. Mcclellan has recently occupied place in the hearts of mercuria! San Franciscans, who have wined dined, sercnaded and shook Little Mac pretty nearly out of his boots.
 To Democratic crowd, the General made known his preference for Greeley for the Pres idency, and couEseled all Democrats to unite for the philosopher.
The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-09-21
Tom. Fitch.

This eloquent profane missionary is strong for Greeley and Brown.
 Recently, while emitting eloquence at San Francisco, Thomas expressed his willingness to plank down $500 towards raising monu- ment to Col. E. D. Baker, who fell at Balls Bluff.
The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-09-21

Wm. B. Hooper & Go. are Government contractors for transporting freight in South ern Arizona. Rate-2t cents per hundred miles, all of which they say they will give to freighters, custom they have always fol- lowed whenever they have been compelled to take contracts at low figures.