Arizona weekly miner., 1874-04-24
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 rrir,,ns AHA: Knowing your dr,irc Co hc sppfis,d cf vV,rythln. tending Co ciucidatc thc pt,s,ui management ul ludiau affairs, aud hrng ,jout Au expose ot tbc many unblushing frauds ',,fts,tratr,l tu ilc uaiuc ui Humanity upon the uIllun aud N- saVagc ward, pill aNtil uiNsri "i ihc hr>, moment to comm,ui upon dispatch aitlV appearing m your column, tcl"cirs upon Che sJmtu ,strttiou hN utmN uniCst, "i iho hr' srfVt, rom timc to tlbs temporarily mTlNtcd t0 ihr,r care, and notably critilising thc cNiFaNi- gHuct alleged To have 'vcu detected ln lhr di-- lur., mcuts vt one with thc responsibility uI whose selection General Crook is charged. The a.couutS ui tli, sctluE agent it Is affirmed, were di,lliowud hy Che Treasury Department as cNcc-- siNc, and the iuiimltiuu follows this excess was prcpcrly attributable Co iucompctcncy ol fraud.
 The truth iu ihis matter Is thii the only army officer m Arizona, whose vouchers were returned, since General Crooks assignment to command, WAS appointed to his agency not by Gen. CfoJk, but by Gen. Howard, and the circumstances con. ucctcd with his disnpprovl, if stated fully and fairly, would have cNOncratcd the officer rom the slightest impuiii.Ou oi crimullity u the pur- cIA,cs criticised. The emlssarlcs of thc Indian ring hy disingcnous pcrvcrsiun Of facts and CoutCamcut of phases of the case, hope Tor trau>itory success in binding the people Of the country. lt Is some pleasure tO thc friends ui thc army on our burdcrs to learn that the only shafts malice and venom can Hing against tue officers arc hirhcd with downright iRls hood General O. O. Howard, upon leaving Arizona at inc termination of his first visit m June, lst2 dcputjzed the officer referred to to act as agent until the arrival of one duly nominated from some uf the Christian societies tn the East. The officer at once entered upon the discharge oi hts new duties, and fOund that the supply oi bcci Tor his Indians almost entirely consum"d. IL may not be generally understood that the hscA yenr, during which the Government requires all contracts made with it to be executed, commence on the first of each July. General Howard uou fled the officer Of the existence of a contract Co commence win the ensuing month, and the agent of the contractor, with a large band oi cattle, Nas already near the post, but not having, as he IS. scricd been officially informed of the acceptance of his employers bid, aud he fiscal year for which he was Co furnish supplies not having commenced, declined to furnish cattle for less price than six cents ,cr pound gross on inc hOuf The officer finding himself suddenly placed iu control of nearly 5000 starving s1yagcs, with no other herd oi hscyes within 2JO miles, was forced to acccde to thc exorbitant demand of the drover, Vhose conduct, however, was promptly repudIaicd by his employer, who agreed to abate the charge 10 the value stipulated in his contract, viz: five cents per pound.
 A word here about the relative prices paid by the Army and Indian Bureau for supplies: Mlli- tary posts arc supplied with beef, on the block, at l2S7 cents per pound; the butcher Is required not only To kill, but to dress aud prepare the meat the same as in a public market. Horns hides, necks, sbanks and tilloW are excluded whereas, the cheap meat furnished Indians In
 
 on the hoof The animal is weighed just it stands, Government paying for bones, entrails, hoofs, horns, tail, neck and ofal. Any good butcher or California raneAerO will sec, al a glance that the army beef Is the los est in price and compares with the Indian a about l2 s7 to l6 cenis per pound. Then the Indian beeves arc Iaid for weighing from two 10 three times iheiE actual average, so the poor savage is tbS victim of q second swindle.
 The blame, if any, in the transaction spoken of rests with Bureau negleciing 10 forward neces sary supplies, at time. too, when it's appropria ton wns being diverted to paying for the trans portation of saiut-like Commissioners throUgh various parts of the country; neglect SO fragrant and threatening such disaster as it's consequence that the Army had to cud its supplies 10 aid tbS incompetent philantbropists, and this to great m extent, that our soldiers, in Arizona in 1872 had to live frequently on half rations. When tho | Indian Bureau was called upon 10 return these ! supplies, -four was purchased at the cost of th, | Interior department by army officers In opcr market, the price paid for best quality being 7-' | cents per pound, the Indian Ring charging tb' | Government for lower grade over i3 cents. | l Is to be hoped the Alta may not grow weary iI ] fbe prosecution of thc task already commenced | and so ably carried on. fnycstigatc Vic fndiaf | Ring, and the fraud and peeulatioD discovered will send many sham phiianthrcpists 10 a com panion cell with Boss Tweed. The charges and i iDsinuatiOn nov being disseminated against armi officers are published with the hope Of their ina bility to confnte them, owing to the inacccssibil ity of their station on the frontier, and that Con gress, preiudiced by these malicious attacks, vii 1 continue In power the buZzards now guawing a the yilals of our depleted treasury.
 N. FULASo.