Arizona citizen., 1873-02-22
PIETY AND MENDACITY.

PIETY AND MENDACITY.
 The Christian World is published at Cincinnati, Ohio, in the interest of the Dutch Reformed Church, which or ganization has the selection of Indian Agents for Arizona. We are informed that paper is edited by as truly good men as human creatures can be :; therefore we call its attention to the following taken from the Washington Republicans report of meeting of . that exalted body known as peace { commissioners convened in parlor 150, Arlington House, on January 15. ] Here is the matter;
 Rev. Dr. Ferris, of the Dutch Reformed church, said they have had five agencies, all in Arizona. The Tinos had suffered considerably from depredations upon them by the whites, their horses having been stolen and they driven from their reserva- tion over towards the Salt River to raise their crops for sustenance.
 This tribe is running down, and would like to be transferred to the Indian Terri tory, being wiling to go at any time.
 The Indians in the Colorado river agency have begun to earn their own support, and are in fair way to be self sustaining. | He said that there was hean of ahnSe ] s8n"rred au .Ttuafat Howard g head ay tho . Arizona papers baeaase he 8vcrted aa Lu- dian war. and saved 70 tLe Government 1 between 0.0UU.000 and t.U00, ,0e0, more l than j1e entire Indian appropriation for year wou.. lmo4u- to-.
 T. is not presumed that .Ais holy man made suel pr-paster0usir false statements on his own motion or knowledge; but that he made them seems true and that they are essen- tiaily false is equally true. If the agents in charge gave such informa- tion, they should at once be discharged; and 1t is due to the reverend man who uttered them so publicly no less than 10 this people that he give tho -.'hlic  the source of his information.
 4 few facts are iu order here. The Pimas have not suffered consider ably nor even 8 little or any from dopredadons by the whites" Their . horses have not been stolen by the whites, but have been time after time by the Apaches which the reverend man is hardly excusable for not knowing and so declaring. The Pi- mas have never been driven from their reservation to Salt River or any where else; but have continuously re- sided upon it except a few rowing --5- who % to Selt Rive to plun1er and for otAa- vile purposes and there grow taeir crops. On tle contrary, the Pimas have ofton stolen and killed stock for the whites, but as they a5- stain from killing the whites and oiti- zens, DO retaliation was eyer made they have oftentimes destroyed grow ing crops of citizens in the settlements along the Salt and Gila rivers, and were never punished in any manner therefor by whites, citizens or gov ernment.
 Another surprise in this connection is tha+ Go,,r~91 N n Howard heard ' these rc4s-ks. after them, rose and . said he listened to all with much in l terest but without in the least correct ] ing the statements he must have | known to be false. for on the 18th of October. 1872, the PinIas made one of ] thelr ralus, and very destructive one, too, through the growing crops about Florence. It so occurred that one or two days thereafter, Gen. Howard, Hon. R. c. Mccormick and Super lntendent Dr. Bendell met at the Pima agency, and there citizens Brady, Thompson and others appealed to them for protection from the Pimas. III these high officials joined in inc earnest request of local agent Stout