The weekly Arizona miner., 1873-08-30
Indian Items.

! for years past to wstch for Indians, to work
 with our armor on, and to sleep with one eye
 open, can enjoy ourselves now that the i Apachcs are quiet, and the Modocs are in quod, in reading what the newspapers East and West have to say on the Indian ques-
 ton at large, and we sec some curious items. | See this;
 l Washington, Angus, I2.--A telegram was ceivcd by General sherman yesterday forwarded ! itom an army post on tbc upper Missouri river, stating that the coinmandant Of that post, while on board an annuity boat chartered by Govern. mcnt especially to carry annuity and Indian goods | to the Sioux Nation, discovered numerous boxes atnOng the cargo without any mark, but labeled axes, hardware, etc, which created suspicion to degree which caused bim to open them, when they were found to contain 1000 stands of Sbarp's brcech.loadiDg rifles, with fixed ammunition to match for loading, and addressed 10 prominent trader. The dispatch forwarded. with a characteristic endorsement by Gen. Sheridan, re- garding tbc folly Of attempting to keep Indians quiet it Peace Commissioners boats to be used by spectators for the purpose Of smuggling arms of superior pattern, for sale to those tribes most inclined Co be hostile, while settlers are un. able to obtain even common muZZle-loadiDg pieces.
 Nothing so bad has ever occurred in Ari zona, but to-day the thousands of Apaches who are on the reservation retain the arms they have taken from the victims they have murdered, or bought from the unpnncpled M-xicans on our borders. In contests be- tween civilized people, when one party is
 vanquished the victor requires the disarming
 of his foe in order to prevent hostile move
 ments in the future; but when the L. 5.
 Government whips an Indian tribe and forces
 its surviving numbers to go on a reservation,
 it allows them to keep their arms, and when
 they feel disposed to take the warpath again
 all they have to do is to fling their banners to
 the breeze and invite their late guardians to
 the fray. The recent Modoc war is fair illus
 tration of the results of this policy, aud
 another similar one may be offered any day
 by the Apaehes.
 It appears also that even under the Quaker
 or peace policy of the present administra-
 tion, the pious agents who handle the funds to be disbursed for the benefit of peacable Indians, cannot refrain from pilfering. ! The report of the Committee on Indian Affairs to the last Congress shows that J. II . B. Lathrop S O., J. E. Luce, Perry Fuller ]. J. G. Blunt, and D. II. Cooper, stole frou e the Choctaws, and Quapsws, secs, ,730, and
 statements are going the rounds of the press l. that a U. $. Senator has been concerned witt IS Indian agents and others in stealing tmbe r. in Wisconsin from the pine lands belonging a to the Indians of that State.
 It From Mexico vail of anguish, constant s, y increasing in tone, reaches our ears in con r. sequence of the raids made by Cachise'
 armed band which is located on reserva tion laid out on the Mexican border by th h saintly Indian agent O. o. Howard witl ,e malice aforethought and intent to kill, as i
 appears to our Mexican neighbors.
 ed After perusing scores of such items it Iv not encouraging to note that one of the grca mn newspapers of the day frankly admits tha in the "Indian Ring" at Washington is so pow ;s erful that it is useless to expect that Govern .r ment will attempt any thorough inyestiga
 tion in Indian Affairs or to inaugurate an ed beneficial changes in the pres ent policy. Tor The views of the most intelligent resident ed on the frontier, whose life for years hs id brought them in daily contact with Indian A. l ,;a divers ways been expressed and urged upo re. our Government, and have been constant no disregarded, and the agents, peace commi ,I, sioners, and treaty makers are selected fro ,., the old Statesmen who never saw an Ii od dian-and sent out here to take care of Il d. nations wards" Is it any wonder tn ,, blunders are made, that both Indians al ,ho the pioneers of civilization are dissatisf .. and disgusted with the prevalent nal -admi
 istration of business by the Indian Burea
 While the border men have been hop
 that the Modoc war would cause the Go .l ernment Co change its course, and give { -, charge of reservation Indians to the militia
 who are responsible for their acts, it is T very enliyeniDg to notice the report tt VI what little authority military commanders Indian countries have had, or now have,
 Indian matters, is to be taken from the
 and the entire control placed in the hands
 the Quaker agents, who cannot be cou " msrtialed, who, if dishonest, incompetent, ''., mischief makers, are only responsible '' their superiors in civil service, and are rar 'e'y punished for their misdeeds, and never ul 5 '" their crimes become so frightful that Il mus attract the notice of the nation.
 ''S The MINER will continue to protest sgai T, the foolish, imbecle, wicked conduct of
 r. Indian business, from time to time, evel own such protests have no other effect than | , anu of keeping it straight on the record. '"e' "The Arizona Indians are regarded as on widest and most refractory of Southwest good tribes. it appears, however, that som' niles them who have never been visited by trad .,, or missionaries are more civilized and hosl '''- able than the average whites of that Te
 tory. A party of explorers recently trsve .ynx in a northeast direction from Ccrbat, Ar his ma, Tor seventy miles to Cataract creek, hem ss..ea ss. oeca'se ss " t. s,sn Tr ia,'s U
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