The weekly Arizona miner., 1873-01-18
GENERAL TOWARDS LATEST
 REPORT.

from the Secretary of the Interior, rn the '' 10th of Jnly last, -ct out for New Mexico and Arizona taking with me the Apache DOT tion of ,hc Indian delegation. At your request l will make this prelimn- ary report, containing usinly my rerommcn. da,iOns and the necesSary explanations. :, On reaching Fort Winga,e, hy a pre ar rungemcnt the Navajo Chiefs and sub chiefs met the Apache captains in council, and made peace fos thoir respective people with each ' other.
 As the reservation for the NaYajrc, Was very large. and it will hr impossible ,o keep any considerable proportion of them near ,l" . headquarters of Fort Defiance, concuTFluI with your superintendent, Coouel Pope, l established sub agency located near the only practicable planting grounds on the res ervatiUn: appointed, subject to proper approv- al Robert Keims. then acting agent, to the sub-sgency, and encouraged Colonel Pope to make the experiinen; of small police force in charge of Manucllia, tue war chief The object of the latter is te siege and restore the stolen property, .aid to be brough; upon the reservation
 The peace with the Apaches and other changes gave great satisfaction to the Maya joes, and l recommend that my action be confirmed
 There are other changes, such as the dis charge of employees given 10 licentiousncs.. drunkenness, profanity. and other vilcnc,., which called upon your superintendent to carry into effect. Upon these matters, the new agent, since arrived, n man of ability and character, will doubtless report.
 At Camp Apache, Arizona, on my arrival, found an order frola the War Department cutting off all issues of supplies. I made provision for sixty days and reported to your superintendent all the facts. To bring every thing into harmony with the law and order, from Washington, the military agent, Major Dallas, was relieved and Dr. Milan Soule app pointed special agent.
 The War Department order was suhse- quently counternanded or modified, yet deemed it best to let things remain under the new administration, already in active opera ton. Dr. Soule is a man of the highest char acter and intelligence, has had considerable experience with the Indians a- a physician, and found that they loved and trusted him. 1 recommend that his services be retained a, long as possible. No religious body could do better than to nominate him.
 At Camp Grant matters were not as sati,- factory as I had hoped. The rccommenIa- ton to move the Indians to the Gila had not been carried out. Sickness was prevailing t0 an alarming extent Some Indians had been fired on by the guard, resulting in the loss to the reservation of some two hundred Tonto Apaches. About lj0 Rio BOuito Apaches were ordered of. the reservation. The agent had called guard to the agency, and there had been much strong drink used by the em- ployes in the presence of the Indians.
 Your agent, MTr Jacobs, believe to be man of integrity; but his health was broken by the climate there, and he seemed to inc to be inimIcal in spirit to his own wards. Find ing further, that there were threats against his life among the Indians, I deemed it wise sseo se ccSaalge Cd his post immediately, and l order ed him 10 rerort to Dr. Bendell, supcfintcn. dent of rndmaA 2Efa7rs for Arizona sent Mir. Geo. II. Stevens, who is friend of the Indians. and highly commended by all the officers at Camp Apache, in formal recom- mendations, to take the special agency at Grant. From information that have since received, recommend that immediate steps be taken fQE q full and fair investigation ot everything pertaining to the agency at Camp Grant the San Carlos division of the White Mountain reservation.
 remained at TularOsa eight days The Indians seemed to be generally discOntented with their reservation; hundreds had left to get their living in the old nonadic way {; they complained of sickness and death among the children; the impurity of the water, cold ness of the climate, the crops failing from early frost and the complaints were aggra-
 
 past races had been consumed by floods and other couses. Every death became a source of alarm and the cause of quick abandon ment of camping grounds. They all begged for Canada Alamosa, near which, most of them have been born, and where they al- lege, Lieut.. Drew promised them they should have their reservation when they first gath cred hom the mountains. promised them In council to submit the question of their re- turning to Canada Alamosa or Bot to the president for his decision. asked them to send delegation with me to inspect the pro posed reservation thorouglsy They did so. and had been able to prevail upon Cachse and his Indians to go to Canada, should have recommended strongly reservation there, the Government buying mp all the NE. aa "DErIF nenis. It is a fine country. I..tt tn- 70 Indians, and the difference .' ,.-t %. portation of supplies be. '"'en .r nd TularOsa would ip four trtr '"el l' purchase of the improve u-nt. !a. 'H ans at Tular0sa numbered i- ''aH '4.er lIndred when was there. EnD.H .n' 2 justified, with 90 small a nnu. p f- 70. r the proposed reservation {; ,a- ..Ui now. Ince my visit, the Indians rs ,H to Tularosa. recommend .', alteration of this subject, and ..H Hr. official decision
 'tt '~~ communicate Nith Cachise tlr'E 'gers, but had thus far failed. H'r' ake one mors effort, hoping to Itn I.n' here 'n the Territory of New ,i'f "" 'yo Indians Mr. Thomas j. '.'..p' 'ff in whom the Indians had -i~e.-' '.- and Captain i. 4. Slalen. r' ."'-'' '..'''' aidde-camp, finally suc. '''i 2. '". i; his rancheras in ,bc heart '' '.. li" fountains. We remained "'' h..' '.'- her eleven daya t0 enable i.'G 2" Hr',e |" captains for q council. His F' -" ".'" '~'r much scattered, he said. @'''. H'' E' z. In fact the first ot hi. f'",t''..' <. tered WAS in New Mexico, over HHt .u.'i.t miles from him. Cachisr h."'.'i rrD.-a ,.3 Canada reservation, but. hn'" 'ts'apt't- ne ascendeucy ho has gain. ~' ''. .nt ia- az ' be was not able toIakc 'l.,G a'; 'b.-t nd confessed .int it ronI,i nr-.- = L. A--.l 1. -. |, -. :. '. "