Arizona weekly miner., 1874-02-06
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month of January, Lieut. Schuyler attacked | a band of hostile Apaches near the head of Cave Creek, about 90 miles from Camp Nc | Dowcll, routing the sayages with heavy less, including among the slain tLeir chief, who | previously had been regarded by his tribe as inviucibe. These Indians, it seems, were | Tonto Apaches who, with few exceptions. | had never gone on reservations and had been sO successful in plunderlng the people living on the Salado and Gila and in cluding the search of the troops, that they became satis- iied of their ability to cope with the whites under all circumstances. This conceit was very badly shaken by the results of their n-
 terview with Lieut. Schuyer's command, a.
 the remnant of their band, to the number of
 ,Orty, has now surrendered internationally
 at Camp Verde, where the men have been l accommodated with quarters in the guard house and the women and children turned over to the care of Dr Williams, the Indian
 agent
 Eskminzn, formerly head chief of the
 Apaches at San Carlos, has, it Is reported,
 gone to join Cachise He was accompanied
 by one other Apache. This Eskminzn was
 formerly regarded as a very influential
 Apache, and so considered himself, but tbis
 fact will do much to show he was not ot
 much consequence.
 General Crook returned to Department
 Headquarters last evening, after an absence
 of ten days at Camp Beale's Springs. WAsurNGToS January 20.-A statement has been prepared by the Indian Office, showing the
 outstanding indebtedness for and on account of
 the Indian service prior to July l lSi3 to be SO93
 s;Is caused principally by inadequacy of appro-
 priations heretofore made, and on account ot col
 lecting upon reservations and subsisting of Apa- , che Indians in Arizona and New Mexico. The Commissioner says the policy regarding those , Apaches has been to bring them peaceaDly or by force upon reservations, and, by feeding them,
 and properly providing for their wants and neces- sities, keeping them quiet as much us possible E from depredatng on citizens. Whenever they leave their reservations they are hunted down by , the military and either killed or captured and
 brought back to the reservations. IL not fed,
 therefore, by the Government, they must either starve on their reservations or be killed oil The ' Department has endeavored to keep them on the
 reservations and do all in Its power to make them Q industrious and selisustaining.
 s We discover no lie or mistake in the fore s going, and wonder why Congress dilly dallies about appropriatiOg sufficient money to pay V citizens of this Territory, who, by having fur c nished Indian supplies for long time past have 1T cramped themselves, and so aided in prescrv- II ing the very remarkable peace that has ex- ', isted here during the past year. Indeed, had lI e supplying Indians, they (the lndians) could - not have been been kept peaceable on the B. reservations.
 z We see by the San Francisco Mining and O Scientific Press that the Cochran Self-Feed-
 CTS" are now used by many quartz mills in e California The superintendent of the St u Patrick mill favors their employment for the h following reasons:
 v lst. They save us in labor alone, s6 per day, u aside from the annoyance and expense of getting a- good men to feed the battery.
 of 2d The gain over batteries fed by men Is two in tons per 24 hours. We formerly crushed Is tons
 and now crush 20 tons per day.
 3d. They keep the pulp more regular In the
 batteries, and the screens and plates always Tree e. thereby ensuring good battery amalgamation. of 4th. Being automatical they can Je so nicely ad
 usted that the shoe rarely If ever. strikes the die
 The saving by this of wear and tear of shoes anc dies aione will repay tbe cost of the machines II ], less than l2 months. No quartz mill should b' - without them.
 ce Having heretofore commented fully anc
 freely upon the Cachise treaty and the dis
 cussion between Generals Crook and Howard ,o to which it has given rise, we now deem I " unnecessary to add more than this. The cor 'n respondence, in full, will be found in our tel 'n egraphic dispatches and perusal thereo III cannot fail to satisfy every unprejudiced req '' der of the truth and convincing reasons o ne Crooks language and logic. Furthermore, i .et' is significant fact that his position upol li- this important matter is sustained by Gen ,o Vandever, one of the five Indian Inspector ae recently appointed by President Grant whic ~ officer was here recently and visited ever. ii 4" Indian reservation in the Territory. l" General Crook has been confirmed as Brig er. adler General, by Congress. We have n do better military officer in the army, and tn al- President, in making the promotion, gain we the good wishes of all law abiding people ( or Arizona General Crook has probably don to more to establish safety in that Territory in than all the other commanders combined at, He believed in whipping the Apaches int 're submission.-I Argus, San Bernardino, Cal. eiI The San Francisco Chronicle of late dat zee says that Major NJ. A. Baldwin, Deputy ey S. Commissioner of Mining Statistics, an
 the head of the recent Baldwin exploring el ri- petition into Southern Utah, had arrived In- that city, and that he would probably pay GIT visit to Arizona and Southern California. IT. shall be pleased should he come here ar ut make no rash promises.
 h. N. V. Bennett, editor of the Borderer, L' ,n- Cruces, New Mexico, has attracted attentiC ri from Apsches, by being the owner of son Id. cattle which the thieves recently tried ng confiscate.
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 ,lI A recent dispatch to the Los Angeles p he pers states that Marshal Martin was hangt VII at Martinez on the 23d ult., for the murd of of man named Eiser.
 The telegraph erred in asserting that Il ma crew of the ship Panther, recently wreck
 on the Northern coast, were all lost. Th'
 reached port in Washington Territory. ed
 by Near Silver City, N. M., one Mexican T nd gently murdered another for the small i icy ducement of ten dollars.