Arizona citizen., 1872-08-31
THE CITIZEN.
PIMA COUNTY, ARIZONA
August 31. 1872.
Camp Grant Items.

l /CAMP ORANT, A. l. August ~, 1O|S. l/ On Saturday morning, August 24, INT. F. s. Moore, who lives at Grant,
 caring for the buckboards and horses
 there belonging to the Mail Company,
 was up at the Suffers store, arrang-
 ing for some hay. While absent, it
 seems, that his (adode) house was
 broken open and the following articles
 taken, 1t is believed by Indians, as
 plenty of moccasin tracks were seen
 inside and outside of the house: 60
 needle-gun cartridges, 34 rubies, 2
 prs. drawers, ? shirts, silver watch
 chain, 1 hair watch-chain, l powder
 flask, pair scissors, butcher knife,
 1 ax. Not long since MT. Moore had
 some blankets and other articles stolen
 out of his house by Indians. He this
 time at once reported 1t to Captain
 James Thompson, (then in command
 of post), and he referred the matter
 where it more properly belonged, to
 MT. E. c. Jacobs, the Agent for the
 Grant Apaches, who immediately set to work to trace up the theft and dis cover, if possible the guilty ones. On Monday last, he found reason to be- heve that certain young Indian on his reservation was the real trans gressor or at least knowing of the
 burglary. He had Lieutenant Taylor (with his guard up there) to arrest him, and Colonel Leib (having re- turned from meeting General Howard on the San Carlos) ordered Lieu tenant Julius H. Pardee, Twenty third Infantry, to proceed with twenty men, to the Agency and bring the defendant to the post and place him in the guard-house to await further investigation; all of which was promptly done. The Indians seemed to be much exercised and excited at this (for the first time at Grant, deci- sive step on the part of Colonel Leib, who, 1t seems, has inaugurated a new system of dealing with the Indians there -justness with firmness. Old Santo," the chief, was down at the post in jiffy, and told Col. Leib that " he had the wrong man in prison to which the former responded {: " Then, get me the right one." An extra force of soldiers would doubt less be placed at the Agency during the Indians incarceration.
 Colonel Leib, commanding at Grant, returned to that post on Sunday even- ing last, from conference with Gen. eral Howard, on the San Carlos. Just where the proposed new reservation for the Grant Apaches will be, seems as yet not definitely settled, General Howard, as we learn, IS in favor of the Agency being where @ company of the Fifth Cavalry is now, on the to have Indians plant and farm along the Gila or San Car los, coming to the Arivipai Agency to draw their rations, etc.
 One night last week Es-ke-van-zin made an attempt to climb over the fence around the Agency. In this he was stopped by Lieutenant Taylor. Es-ke-van-zin wanted to bring in all his wives into the yard. Lieutenant Taylor gave him to understand that if he repeated the attempt, he would the sentinel to fire upon him. Eskevanzin replied (sarcas- tically): Better come out kill an Indian and eat him
 It appears that Eskevanzin, with all his twists and turns was frank enough to tell General Howard, when he recently went over to Apache to meet him on his return from Wash ngton, that it was just a matter of !oubt whether the Indians at Grant would kill their Agent, MT. Jacobs, or not; that half were in favor of it, and half not :"