The weekly Arizona miner., 1873-09-13
The following item appears in the Wash ington telegrams of the 27th of August:

ingtOn telegrams of the 2Ith of August:
 According to information received from gen. tleuan of high character in Arizona, recent de. velopments in that Territory have shown that there has been great msmauagement aud proba- bie fraud in the conduct of Indian afflirs there It is not alleged that the agents have all been dis honest, but It Is claimed that through outside pressure they being forced 10 receive supplies of an inferior quality at ruinous prices, the ap propriations being exhausted before the year Is halt gone. There IS great probability that many of the Indians wiil be compelled 10 leave their reservations, and Gen. Crooks year of hard work be undone.
 Commenting on the above item, our con- temporaries seem to see another Indian war in Arizona in the near future, and seem to believe that the Indians are being starved and i'll treated while the agents and con tractors are getting rich at their expense. That there may be some truth in these state ments we will not undertake to deny, but having been at much pains to learn the ex- act state of affairs on the largest reservations in Arizona, we are convinced that the Indi- ans have plenty to eat everywhere, and are as quiet and contented on their reservations as could be expected of set of sayages never before placed under any restraint, and if they leave the reservations and take to the war-path again, we do not belieye it will in any instance be from lack of food.
 That the appropriation gave out before the close of the year was mainly owing to the fact that the estimates for the appropriation 1 for Arizona Indians was made before Gen. Crook had forced the Indians 10 eat Govern ment food, and thousands of Indians have been fed for whose subsistence no provision had been made.
 Although there are no funds for payment, the contractors for the past year are now furnishing the Indian Department in Ari. zona with all needed supplies, at last years rates, on the assurances of the Secretary oi the Interior that the next Congress will pay for them. Uuder these circumstances it i. probable that the Indians do not get the same supply of coffee, sugar, and other lux uries, that they did while there was money to buy those articles with. The contractor, haVv heavy load Co carry to furnish beef flour and beans, and keep up the expensei incident to the transportation of such sup Pics tO tHO tAhtiShb hBehCiesi nunuTeub O miles apart, and equally long distances iron the base of supplies.
 The feeding of such an army of savages or credit as has been done for months past, and must be done for months to come in Arizona has most depressing effect on all the busi ness of the country From the contractor who furnishing 100000 pounds of flour
 beef or beans, to the teamster who is haul. ing the same to the Indian agency, every one feels the burden. Through one channel or another all the loose money of the Territory seems to be drawn into the vortex, and every ] body IS complaining of hard times. Never before has money been so scarce in the Ter , ritory as to-day, and believing this feeding . the Indians to be the principal cause of th, scarcity, we cannot hope for any easier time in the money market until after the meeting of the next Congress, the making of appro
 priations and subsequent disbursment 0 , funds to enable contractors to pay up. 5 Thus outsiders can see that though th, , Apaches are nearly all on reservations, ou
 troubles on their account are not over, tha
 lis Arizonans and not the Government wht :. are feeding them, and may believe that ",
 prefer this afiiiction to the depreciation anC
 carnage of years past, though we pray to b, spared another year of short Indian appro
 priat.ons. .... -..a {: F-.