The weekly Arizona miner., 1873-01-25
THE MODOCS.
of General Crooks Cam
 paigns up North.

ilbl1 1ttltI Nhltu t'llcG liAO tbc MINER llvA recent nnmLct of Inc San Francisco Bulletin: .'
 There has been good deal printed Ui late re- sHdiuE the prrvduibs unpictsduincss between
 IS MudOc Indians and tue wuitg sciticrs und uil. tIty 70 sVutbcru Oregon. l. Was the pleasure of Inc ~ritcr Of thIs Co have accompanied General Crook iu bis important Cawpalsu Of b1, against llc combined remnants Ot the Flutes, Snakcs, BlunOck,, rit Rivers, aud perhlp. some oi the MOdOc Indians, who are swinging around the uui. yrr,e circle tu Northern Nevada and Cahiuruia, 1Id southern Idaho and Oregon, to the great dis. tress Of travellers within these bounds What know about that campaign and subsequent treaty in consequence, may Ice worthy Ui the sPAcc t may OCCupy In your columns. In November 'O7, | gu,I you an account Uf the biz fight that Crook , Lad "itu thc concentrated -aNa.Cs iu rocky 1 place on thc west hIuA of tue South FOrh Oi fA ! River. lby the way, please spell Pil riScr ~itu one [; ibC n5iy comes from tue pits dug hy the | Indians Tor trapp6E cic.l lu tlLt deadly bght | Oi tutrc dals aud niglts We iUst one ball ot onr { little command Of soldiers, but thv very audlcity Ot Crooks attack, aud Inc stuDbornness with which ue held outthc spirit tor morale, as it may
 Oe callcd), oi the enemy vas uttcriy broken; and few skifinishes the next Yin CT satisfied thc saV
 dscs that peace at any price Vas their Ltst ditch
 Inc people Ot Idaho thought all tuis woe Na> iu- cideht tU the remnant Oi Snakes, but the more
 comprehensive miiii oi jrvuA traced tine cnivi
 source Oi t a,l clear over into this Statc. He std Il Was nothing for an Indian tO go three hundred
 miles on foot. tt he Vas sure OI riding back on
 somebody eises horse but nos 10 di.,rcss further, | f the head despcradOes or chiefs of these Indian allies nOisted tbe whine flag in tue vicinity Ot Camp l llrncy during tbe spring Oi ioGs. In the mean
 tune, CtUuk (y tue death of General Ste, cl com handed tnc Department Ui Columbia with Head quarters at Portland. His subOrdnutcs at Ilttney "cic nUt permitted tO make Hnal terms ~i,b the indsu- but awaited the arrival Ui the General
 himself lt Was iu Juiy before Ice got around aud cObcluded tue arrangement, resulting Go one Uf the most economical reservations ever kuown iu
 sac history Oi tbe country He refused tO hsten
 10 He ONcrturcs O the cnIUis ii he Was iully con vtuccd oi their good faith. The gist of tnc dii. lOgug was tnIs: Iic Indians beg srd to bu alONcd tO Icualn alive and make thelr own living oil tLc spontaneous productions, their chiefs agreeing tO
 bc personally responsible for any white hliiud
 or bnri or property stolen The General asked
 them II they had as many warriors lcit when
 they began the war, and whether there we're any
 less soldiers in the country. They replied, not
 near 90 many warriors and more soldiers. lie then told them tbat would ty the way oI Il till
 they (ihc lndEiusl al dead, unless they quit
 Fighting. Ask thc honest scttcTs Oi all that great
 teTrii, ry how well that peace las been kept for over four ycsrs NOi single disturbance occurred or threat, ~th One exception until Of late Gen. eral Crook remained in COiumdud oi the Depart inenL for -onlc iinc-abOut two years--bVIore any Indian aguHt tried tu Interfere with his treaty aI any point oi tie aforesaid circle. The superscr- yiccTOie Christian tor wOuld-bc distributor O. rotten ellIcOrs and cheap grw-gaws and tbe like | tractsl, attempted 10 force the Modocs rcser- yatiUn nelr the Klamath. AS soon CrOOE got | out there he put stop to the unnecessary pro- | ecedings, and, perhaps, only postponed the pres | ent Tei-n Of terror. say per haps, fUr not being
 o0 the ground yOnr special cOrrespOndent,'
 etc, should not feel loo sure u IL; but ibcrc Is I scarcely doubt in my nilnd that as soon as Gen
 erat Crook ks back ls turned, the work Oi feeding | the Indians on beef bpos and keeping the meat
 inside the suters' and agents guaftcrs, reroui- | menced as Was attempted, after ihe manner of be
 system in vogue in Arizona for years before bis ! advent He had barder hghtins with the whites
 than with Ihe Indians Oi the north, and that VAS bad enough. To his treaty up there he never
 pFoInised tue Indians anything as he had nothing I to give except lew old OvercOats, ,tc; bus what
 cyer he did agree 10, he fuihed tS the last degree
 No man has a keener sense of Justice, and no man
 deals it uOrc certainly than General Crook and no man livcs who hasa kinder heart than he. He knows the country over which the Indians were
 allowed 10 roam that Il was riCn iB the spOnta-
 ueous productions, game, fish roots, fine sI nus,
 lakcs, IoTt sts and cllIDate-and that lt woud be | worse than cruelty to herd tue poor remnants of sIyages Un some dusOlatc rtncu like cattle, and ! exposed tO all the vices Oi ihc whites. It tor.
 tur" 10 do sO-slo" murder. There would not be I
 one white settler 10 ten -quare WIl-s 1f that vast region for ten years, and all hands knew this - ! but now comes the sunday scbUOimarrus, and we | see the fatal results of thc second attempt tO make
 game of Inc plucky MOdocs The gentle savage
 not being able to get hold OI the hair Of the agent goes for Ihs next man; like Pat al the fair, when ever he sccs a head gives it lick. Tbe inferior race sometimes called white for short-grabs up
 the pappOOses from the mothers brelst and Uses them for breaking sIonr. The military under
 Major Blue lnOt Greene, our special has itl, proposes tO move UB tEe enemy's works-uat-
 uTally very strong, as have lad the most sgb-
 stanlial reasons Tor believing To propose 70
 move and to actually move on ihc part Ul s0Hts
 military officers iu an IndiaB country are two dli-
 ierent things. Major Blue tells our special" or
 some other man who told somebody else, tbat 'all
 be wants Is A snOwstorin and plenty ol pToyis-
 ions know the Major too veil 10 know that
 lfsH klan Ttfz in
 q campaign, l. a barrel of whskey and plenty of provisions. No, that isnt it either; he don't want ! any provisions. It is lie Indian that wants the | grub II EC don't want tO cat it they'll force him ! 10 do t, you know. know the Major like a [ took, and all his kind. Alter the TebciioH and : the reorganization of the army, there Was a large
 vacuum tO fil, and hundreds of dead-b.ats got | easy positions. When they sent 10 the iron. | ter they Knew nothing about the ways of the ID. | dians. aud cared nothing about the interests Of | the whites. All they cared fOr was their little l buttons and their brief authority. Thanks 10 the recommendations Of the old tried officers, such uuisances are rapidly thinning out of tbe reg.
 ular army. If the MOdOcs must have war, would
 like to hear Of certain officer mentioned up there getting full cOIumand-AaJor David Perry l could relate little Of his snow storm" eXpe- rience lighting Indians successfully, which would show concusiyey whether "he knows how il i., etc. do wish our "spccal' would give us fight, or say at once that there is not going 10 be any
 ail on account of thc scarceiiy Oi snow aud pro- hE4'iAts lN tl2kts ueIfOus Ieduiu1 ihcst re- port. 'irom the front" you know. But will | take final sing at tLe Indian ageucy buslne,s, ! and fall tack "-fOr provisions. If there is ever tD be such thing civil service reform in truth,
 let it m th- name of suffering humanity, csm- mrnce wIth the Indian Department; let Govern fDent select n.en, and women too, f need be, who can tell an Indian in the flesh from one in the books or iB front Of the cigar-siauds. Then de- eide upon some plan and not have change Of agents and scbOOltnarms every two 10 four years l -as our Presidential terms haplSen. As it has been ever since Gen. Jackson said that Co the vie tors belongs the spells, 70 the poor savage has been the victim from fret 10 last. No does
 he get tO know o one great Father in the dim, dm distance than another comes on with
 train Of smaller pareDts--or would-be ones among
 the savage fair Oar Indian man and brother Is subjected 10 a god head that for nunierousness
 would discount any race on earth. Ills great fathers cOiues in % many questionable shap [, thai Lave no donbt he is in constant state ol anxiety, distrBst and expectation, and would rather die bghtng in the rocks and forests, than