The weekly Arizona miner., 1873-04-12

Dr. Williams, will do his best to help yoG | along on the reservation, where you must ! start at once, in the business of cul,iyating . the soil so that, should the people who pay taxes for your support, grow tired of doing . so, you will b. able to provide for yourselves.
 Again, there are bad whites, but they will ! not be permitted to trouble you; the law . will prevent them from doing SO; you, too, must prepare yourselves for self-goycrument, by putting down the unruly among you must raise horses, cattle and other useful am finals, to the end that you may become pos. scssed of property, rights of citizenship, etc. l This language tickled the barbarians, and | pleased the whites. Crook then drew a con trast between the condition of the happy, | hilarious and well fed Apache soldiers and l that of the crow-bait reds who had just | come in: thanked the former for the good ! service they had performed, advised them to | take care of the money they had earned to | buy mares and cows with it, and finally con cuded by reminding them that they should set good example to such of their breth ren as had not yet cast aside all hatred of the whites, and prejudccs against civilization.
 After this the vanquished Apaches went up the river, to the old post, where their hun ger was appeased. The General mustered his officers around him, and in presence sf | Dr. Williams, Indian agent for the Verde ] reservation, gave his views in relation to the
 way in which they should treat all Indians
 on and off reservations. That these views
 were sound and to the point, not one person
 who is at all acquainted with General Crook,
 will, for one moment, doubt They pleased ! Dr. Williams, of the Indian Department also ol military officers who heard them ex-
 pressed They were to treat the Indians as human beings to make them no promises
 which could and would not be fulfilled; to
 maintain order among them; to instruct them in their simple duties to their God, the
 government and it's citizens, and to prove to
 them that peace was better than war.
 Before taking leave of this treaty and its side issues, we will repeat the belief once be- fore expressed, that, it will prove a perma nent treaty. For this belief, we have the 1 following good and sufficient reasons: We believe it was in 1870 that we were present at council held at Camp Apache, in the eastern part of the Territory. Gen. Geo, Stoneman, the then commander of this de- partinent, talked to the confederate bands of the Coyotero Apaches, for government and its citizens. Tue chiefs then denied that their people had warred upon the whites and put on airs of injured innocence They also demanded powder and lead, with which to kill game"
 At a later date, they and other Apaches pursued a similar course in dealing with peace commissioner Colyer.
 Still later, they pressed these points upon peace commissioner Gen. o. O. Howard, and won all points played for At camp Grant, Es kim-in-zin, big chief demanded horses and a carriage in which to ride more still, he demanded Indian children who had been captured by soldiers, and tenderly raised by ri pf fIunSnn nd sha la. disgrace upon Gen. Howard, these civilized l children were rudely pulled away by savage | red men, (from the dear friends who had | raised them up in Christian civiliZation), to | be inducted into life of drudgery and bar barism. We were not there to witness the l narrowing scene, but men who did witness | 1t say that there was many tear shed by | whites, while others-too full of emotion to | cry, clenched their teeth and clutched their | weapons. Yet, all bore this unchristian act | of the christian" soldier Howard, out of re- spect for the government of which he claimed | to be special agent Did peace follow these treates2 Not by any means, as we can amply prove by lists of slain citizens, and by accounts of robberies How different the attitude of the Apaches who have recently submitted to Gen. Crook. They had noth- ing to ask for. They acknowledged that he | had done what no other "peace commission CT" had done, " made it to their interest to . come to him and beg for peace, food and raj ment This, too. in the spring of the year, when the wild fruits of the country are growing; when grain and vegetables are forming; when game is plentiful, and when domestic animals are not scarce in the Terri tory These, reader are our reasons for be- lieving that this latest submission of the most incorrgible Apaches means peace.
 al. IA. f long since have been brought about by Gen. Crook, but for the interference of quack peace doctors we will proceed to relate his career since coming to the Territory and as- suming command, little over one year and a half ago.
 At that date he found the troops "bottled up" in numerous garrisons at which places. garrison duty" was all they were able to perform Resting at Tucson, he called about him men who were likely to give him infor- nation concerning the numbers, haunts, etc. of the Apaches, and, in a short time was well posted concerning these matters. During thls time he was organizing companies and endeayoring to arouse men and officers from the lethargy into which Gen. Stonemans long and inactive rule had thrown them. Horses had to be furnished pack animals, ditto and . great many other things, so that it was not until August, 1871, that his little.army 0f about POO moved out of Tucson. This | force led by Crook, marched through Ca chises country; the Pinal, Coyotero, Ariva- pal, Tonto and Apache Mohaye countries, without seeing many Indians, and Crook ar, rived at Prescott, with much knowledge | of the Indians and their haunts. Then | followed some scouting, with little success on | the part of the troops, until Crook again took | the field, went to Camp Apache and organ ized a force of friendly Indians, who with the | troops, did some good service, until the bug gard Colyer came along with peremptory or- | ders for the cessation of hostilities Hostii- | ties ceased; Crook left the field and returned | to his headquarters-a piece of table land be- tween Prescott and Fort Whipple-tempo rary shelters were thrown up for himself and | staff, which barely enabled them to get in out of "the draft"
 While this was being done, Colyer was em-