The weekly Arizona miner., 1872-03-23
MORE MISMANAGEMENT po,
 ARIZONA.
[rrsn tn, San ru.seisco Alta March s,,

Froun the San frzncasco Alta March sAi
 Our Eastern telegram published ys<,..a morning included an announcemen, Washington that General 0. O. HowaI der orders from the Secretary of the lpts--. will start from Washington on Thursd,v for Arizona, as Special Indian Agent ~as large discretion to take any action in ths terest of peace. In other words, the h,.s of General Crook are again to be tied, .-, the notification of the Apaches is ,o h 11 layed for another year. The Coiyer f,,.ss to be succeeded by the Howari Erce ,, time when the people of this coast are temper for any more buifoonery Our na,;.a.s IS exhausted. We have been wait;n, s~ years for the punishment of the savages wA, have dcsolated Arizona, who within ,-~ years, according to the statement of Vince, Colyer in his last repor, have slain tbo,. and American citizens and who have sho,, no disposition to abandon their hostility The design of the Colyer policy was nouncei by the Press of California as sr... less. as soon as it was made public; and ,S. result proved that the denunciation -. right. This fellow, who run through Ar,s. as fast as his horse could travel, made ps,c. that lasted just as long as the savagrs eosn get presents and do as they pleased. Hi. peace was one that satisfied the Apaches I, gave them much and cost them nothis, ] Colyer's mission was like Towards. He xs. 1 instructed to preserve the peace, and had la. thority to demand the support of the mii,, ". He gave the Apaches presents, inyit,s them to come upon the Reservations, uhs,, they should be fed, left them in possession of their arms, subjected them to no proper supervision, and retired. They went 10 ih. Reservations for food. and left at their pleas ure when they wanted to murder or plumber civilians. That management would no, do, and General Schofield, about the 9Oth Of Nc vember last, issued an order that the Apachcs must not leave the Reservations, that eyery man must attend roll-call every day, and that all who should absent themselves after day to be fixed by the Department Commander should be treated as enemies, About ,hs middle of December. General Crook issued
 his order fixing the 18th of February as ,hs day when there should be no peace for those
 Indians of tue Reservations.
 These orders gave general satisfaction. Ths people of ArizO0a and their friends consider
 ed them as seryiccaole to deprive the adyo- cates of the Colyer policy of any pretext for
 demanding any more cringing to the Apaches.
 Abundant time was given to the Indians Ne
 have heard no complaint about the manner
 in which they were fed. They could not ua
 der any circumstances have expected greater
 favor than they received. Everything tha.
 their friends could wish was done. Yet ,hs
 result is that, though the Indians went to
 the Reservations in the early part of tke
 Winter, in large numbers, and obtained fcod,
 clothing and other presents, before the mid.
 dle of February all who had previously goas to Mcdowell and Verde Reservations kn, and some went from Grant and Apache Res.
 crvations, with the full understanding ths.
 their departure meant an intention to continue
 hostilities. It was declaration of war with
 out any Irovocation. After some of then
 left, severe snow storm came on, and they
 returned to the Reservations, and General . Crook offered to receive them if they would
 surrender their firearms which they had prr.
 viously retained and for which they would
 have no use on the Reservation but they refused, and went off thus for second time
 declaring their hostile purposes.
 These are a few of the facts on which
 Towards mission of cowardice is based. A
 war between savages and American citizew
 raging for ten years, resulting in the massacre
 of 900 white men, with military manage ment so incompetent that not one soldier was
 killed for twenty civilians then foolish sf tempt to bribe the murderous sayages b 7 keep the peace; their refusal to do so; and now when General Crook is preparing sec end time to punish the red devils as they de serve, a second time his hands are tied and another humiliating, costly, useless, dsgrscs- r ful attempt is to he made to induce tlsso !. fiends to cease their inhunan crnelties. We
 trust that the Legislature of California and the people of San Francisco will tell Gen 5 Howard, the Secretary of the Interior, and 7 the Californian Delegation in Congress, in ; the plainest possible language, that this non e sense ought to stop right here. It is an out
 rage upon humanity, m injury to this coast
 an insult to common sense and disgrace 10