The weekly Arizona miner., 1873-01-18
ICOMMUNICATED.
The Indian War in Oregon.

Many citizens of Arizona were residents of northern California and southern Oregon in years past, and feel lively and peculiar in- ,crest in the Modoc war. Here are men who fought Indians all the way from Yreka to the Wallamct valley; who have had experience with Pitt riycr Klamath and Rogue river redskins, and, after assisting to pacity them, wandered along the outskirts of civilization, through Idaho, Nevada and Montana to settle finally in Arizona, living all the time among
 hostile Indians, and they naturally feel curi- . ously surprised to learn, after years of peace in their old homes, while the attention of the 1 public has been directed to the Apachcs and | the war in Arizona, that the old sore has
 broken out afrc,ll, and the Mndocs are on the
 rampage. "A fellow feeling makes us won drous kind'', and the old pioneers, who, ff
 teen to eighteen years ago, hunted Indians in
 Josephine and Jackson counties, Oregon, in
 Klamath, S>kiyou and Del Nortc counties,
 California, are not the only AIzonans who
 felt more rapid pul,ations of their hearts on
 reading the accounts of the murder of the
 settlers on Tue Lake.
 Such outrages have been offrequcnt occur
 renee in Arizona-the war has been unremit- tent for wears, and when the Apachrs have
 taken a ranch they have violated the women
 and then killed them and their children, or
 carried them away to a captivity worse than
 death while the more tender hearted Modocs
 have only killed the men. But, though from
 repetition, the story of Indian massacrcs is
 not strange in Arizona, and is looked for in
 the columns of the Arizona papers as a DOT tion of the weekly news, our hearts are not
 callouScd, and we who have been accustomed for years to carry our lives in our hands, anl
 to start at moments notice in pursuit of
 the savage Apaches who have gobbled up f freight train, captured L. $. mail coach,
 assassinatcd solitary traveller, or swooped
 down on farm, in either case murdcring
 scalping and mutiating the bodies of from one
 to dozen unfortunate victims; We who have SD often assisted at burial on the ranch, at
 the mines, by the roadside or in the cemetery, of the bodies of our friends, half eaten by ! coyotes, after being manglcd by their mnr- derers, have perhaps more tender sympathy
 for the relatives of those killed recently by l the MOdocs, than is felt for them by the cit izens of New York or the members of the In- dian ring at Washington. S,ih there arc other reflections aroused, and many queries . suggested by the Modoc outbreak. Will the l people and the press who have been favoring and supporting the reservation Indian agency system learn anything by this Will the
 humantarians clamor for a fresh issue of presents to other tribes who may become res tive, in order to keep them quiet Win they realize the horrors of Indian warfare ] more keenly when settlers are murdered, fam
 lilies broken up, and farms plundered within
 three or four days ride of the largest cities on
 the Pacific coast, than when they read the
 news, fortnight old, of similar transactions
 in Arizona
 Does it seem as strange to others as to us that, when three-score of Modocs kill a dozen ! men, the U. $. troops and State Militia are called out and hurried to the seat of war , That volunteers are allowed to join with the troops 10 ayenge the blood of the murdered men, when three thousand Apachcs have for long years been suffered to prey upon the scattered, dcfenccless settlers of Arizona, where Government has refused to allow vol f untecr companies of citizens to redress their own wrongs, has refused to arm, equip and muster into service one thousand Arizonans, who years ago were ready and anxious to take the field and end the Apache War
 A few Modocs, true to the iiendish indian | character, have, us q last expiring effort of [ the tribe, gorged themselves with the blood , of their nearest white neighbers, and the
 newspapers of tue Pacific devote columns to s the narration of the murders, and the subse- , quent state of affairs, while the notice of sim- , liar events in Arizona occupies in the same , papers hardly dozen lines. Is it because 2 the blood of Orcgoniaus is more precious than . that of Arizonans, or because the frightiul own iircsides, that their interest therein ia n greater
 l The masterly inactivity of the military on the Modoc frontier is commented upon iii
 terms anything but complimentary to the Q brave commanders, and they are censured foi pSihi'hHS thc hIciCHeS tO iht loI tNu , whole weeks, when the troops are camped r. close to their uncheria; while in Arizona for l. years the military posts in one section of the country fed, armed and clothed the Apaches
 who made raids into other portions of the Territory where the troops made pretence
 of fighting them. To show a parallel state n of affairs, detachment of L. s. troops ought
 to be located opposite to Major Greene's C camp, on the other side of the ''lava fields" and furnish the Modocs with food, arms and V ammunition.
 il So, also, it is remarkable that such desire |, to have the armed force in the field clean out s the Modocs, should be expressed.