The weekly Arizona miner., 1873-02-15
WHAT CROOK HAS DONE.

It is now just about one year and a-half since Gen. Crook arrived in the Territory ! and assumed command thereof.
 According to good authority, Crook found 1 "the forces bottled up here ana there, in small posts, at which places, "garrson duty" was all they were able to perform. Resting at Tucson, he called about him men who were likely to give him information concern ing the numbers, haunts, etc, of the Apaches, and, in a short time was well posted concern ing these things. During this time, he wa, organizing companies and endeayOrng 10 arouse them from the lethargy into which Gen. Stoneman's long and inactive reign had thrown them. Horses had to be furnished pack animals, ditto and great many other things, so that it was not until August, Is7l, tha, his little army moved out of Tucson. And it was not so little, either, as counting every head, " it, we believe, numbered near ly 100. Rather large force for Arizona.
 At this time Crook was laboring uu,'er what We knew and said was delusi%n- namely, that there were not in the Territory more than 5OO Apache warriors capable of bearing arms. We knew this from the fact that, at one una and another. we had seen more than 5o0&tfsfnn6wYaax x,Assx s,.,slsg, ex-Indan pris4lfBs s'sa eslfx v lsysesss stnek to it, and Crook taIjfSc c4~.~~ ss tss,le gvg
 Well, his large axesditiou marched through Cachise's country; the Pinai, coyoterc, -Aril vsps, Tonto and Apache Mohave countries, without seeing many Indians, and Crook arrived at Prescott firmly believing that our bad Indians were few and far between. Then followed some scouting, with little success on the part of the troops, until Crook again took the field, went to Camp Apache and Or- ganiZed force of friendly Indians, who, with the troops, did some good service, until the buzzard Colyer came along with percmptory orders for Che cessation of hostilities. Hos Utilities ceased Crook left the field, and, returning to his headquarters piece of table land between Prescott and Fort Whip plc-temporary shelters were thrown up for himself and his staff, which barely enabled them to get in " out of the draft
 While this was being done, Colycr was embracing squaws at Camps Apache, Gran, and McDoWell, and with the aid of tOady officers and citizen employees of the govern ment, kept busily employed, firing the Indian heart, by lying 10 them about the white citi- zens of the Territory. Nor was this all; he hired men to swear falsely regarding the treatment of Indians by citizens corrupted some traders and tried to corrupt others by paying them two prices for goods which be presented to the Indians. Worse still, he pointed out to the Indians the injustice of having any whites save those the Indian Bureau would send here with presents for them, in the country and, in " sermons" to the soldiers told them that their bayOnets would soon be turned upon white tresspas sers instead of the Indians After this, he came to Prescott, and, hypoerite as be was, lied, outrageously, to all who approached him.
 Now, it is not to be wondered at that Colyer's course made the Indians worse than they had ever been before his coming herr ul hn .gav hav trla and robberies can be seen by the record. But, the 'peace policy" was on trial, and Crooks forces more especially those who were commanded by cowardly Colyerite off cers, could not go out to ayenge any crime. Dudley and Curtis, at Mcdowell, were con frmed COlyerites; Whitman, at Grant, was worse yet: Greene, at Apache, was a stand off for Whitman, and Grover, at Verde, permitted his own soldiers to be murdered within gun-shot of his three company post. without having the manhood to lead his men against the sayages
 This was period of great depression; cit izens were wild with conflicting emotions, and if Colyer had been here during this time, 1t would have taken goody force to have protected him from a just doom.
 That Crook chafed under this state of af- fairs is not to be wondered at, but it cuniin- ued until Gen. Howard, another peace com missioner came among us, yes, and long after. With him came Mr. Smith, who had had dealings with Minnesota savages, and who, consequently saw at a glance that the Ap- sches needed whipping before being petted and fed. Howard pFetended to see the mat ter in the same light, and after his failure to coax the sayages into being good word was given Crook to up and at them. He com menccd re organizing for the work, with se- rlous misgiviDgs of again being stopped but, nevertheless, kept at 1t until he organized several bands of friendly Indians; worked his officers and men up to something like a fighting standard, when he sailed into the Apaches, and has ever since been giglng tLeni good medicine, until now majority of the tribe say that Crooks mode of treatment i. about the only mode they cannot resist.
 Before closing this article, it is well enough to record the fact, that during the long ar nistice time that followed Colyer's visit here many citizens weakened" on Crook and cast around for excuses 10 support their "weakness," :" one was found in the lie that was started by some hirelings of the "peacC commissioners" to the effect that the Presi dents order did not mean to keep Crook from chas,ising bad Indians whenever sucl were caught off their reservations. But. this order did prevent him from scouting, and, i lt did not, all the scouting he could hay, done would not have amounted to 'shucks, as the Indians were smart enough to have got back on their reservations before tb, troops could have caught up with them. An other excuse for losing confidence ir Crooks ability to whip the fight; was h
 first starting out with so large a force bot m doing this, he had an object, the wisdom of which all our citizens now see and admire
 As in all like misunderstanding bctweer our citizens and the military, the MINER, al tAough pressed to pitch into them during ,h tune oi last bloody armistce, took pains |, sit the true from the false. and continued i, light on tLe side Of Crook and white suprem Gcy. ".
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