Arizona citizen., 1874-01-10

idly OpGIdl1OuS III UIlG OGpdIbIIlGilG OI <AII
 ZOna.
 The withdrawal of five companies of the
 1St Cavalry from the department, necesSi
 tated the breaking up of the posts of Date
 Creek, Crittenden and Hualapai, the gar.
 risOns thereof being moved to other sta tionS overlooking Indian reservations. The remainder of the troops, since the termination of hostilitieS, have performed
 arduOuS and important service in addition to their military duties, in building tele- graph line and laying out and building new roads. The present organization,
 with the aid of the friendly Indian scouts retained in service, will be sufficient to
 preserve peace.
 An appropriation is asked for to build good roads from Camp Mcdowell, near the
 center of Arizona to Prescott, and to
 Camp Verde.
 Rigid economy having been practiced in l the various supply departments, great Sa-
 wings have been effected, and, from pres
 ent appearances, Arizona will soon be
 able to fully compete with outside sec
 tions in furnishing supplies at reduced cost.
 The report earnestly recommends ap- propriations for completing good barracks | and quarters at all the posts. Says the experiment of making government wag-
 onS at Yuma depot from lumber seasoned in this climate, has been attended with complete success; remarks that freight contractors have generally been very pb III IOIh SupplitS uuIiItS Iit year; speaks in high terms of experience
 and energy shown by Major Dana, chief Quartermaster, Captain Small, chief com
 missary, and Surgeon Baily, medical di- rector, in the administration of their re- SpectiVe bureaus Owing to their efforts, the character of the various supplies fuTn- ished the troops, has materially imprOv- ed.
 Arizona has now better corps of medi- cal officers tran ever before.
 
 port says the stationing of paymasters within the department has been a great advantage, and the officers of the pay de- partment have kept the troops promptly paid. The establishment of depository is recommended at Prescott as well as Tucson.
 Inspectors department. Captain w. H. Brown, 5th Cavalry, performed important and delicate services as department in- spector general, in carrying out Gen. SchO- fields order about verifying the presence of Indians on the different reserves, en- countering oblOQuy from those who wish ed to throw obstacles in the way of con trolling Indians in Arizona. Such re- breaches only redOunded to Maj. Browns credit.
 Indian campaigns commenced Septem- Der 9, 1872, with the attack made by Ma sons battalion of 9th Cavalry on large band of Apache MOjaves strongly posted 1 in the Santa Maria mountains, and was a very gratifying success. Early in NOvem- | Der, Gen. Crook started for Camps Verde, l Apache and Grant, to send out eXpedi- l tionS from those points, while Capt. Nick | ersOn, Adjutant-General, Superintended | in northern Arizona, Major | Randall commanded the expedition from | Camp Apache, that from Grant being led | by Major Brown, with whom were sent | Gen. Crooks two aidS-Lieuts. Ross and | Bourke. The command from Grant soon | gained brilliant victory over large band of ApacheS occupying natural for in the canyon of Salt river. The entire band was killed or captured. The | services performed by the troops in the l were Of the SeVereSt nature. Ev- cry ten miles of the country secuted has | some terrible lava bed or gloomy canyon, so that our men could only advance upon their hands and knees. Our Indian allies invaluable assistance. Without them our success would have been doubt ful and have cost us immensely in blood and treasure.
 The examples of personal daring on part of the officers and men, if given in detail, would ill volume. The hostile Indians commenced to weaken in Febru lry, and surrendered in great numbers in March and April-at which time cOun- number including some of the principal chiefs. The Indians were made to know hat while government did not desire war, t was by no means anxious for peace. If Indians wanted more war, let them Say 70, but if they craved peace, it must be orever and not for a day or a year; must lot harbOr bad Indians; must submit to uch regulations as might be imposed up ,n them; further they must assist in put ing down the bad Indians who refuse to % upon reservations. No promises were made, except that the government would each them how to earn their own living.
 Gen. Crooks report then speaks in grate- ul terms of the services of the Indian .uideS and white scouts serving with the roops; says the country can never know he amount of hard work performed by of icerS and men in late campaigns. Opera ions have since been kept up without in- emission against those ApacheS who nave refused to come in or to remain up- m reserves, and many have been killed md captured by the troops. The report avs that troubles must from time to time 'e expected from Indians as savage and turbulent as the ApacheS, and also from he fact that the reservations are Surround-I d by t1ocks of human vultures Wrangling yer the patronage to be bestowed, and in heir greed, hesitating at nothing to ac- omplish their selfish ends. Out Of such complication, Lieut.. Jacob Amy, 5th 'avalry, one of our best young officers, Ost his life. This affair was fully inveSti- ated by the grand jury last fall. At Beale pringS, a court of inquiry developed a system of corruption and fraud n the part of employees of the Indian apartment, by whom our allies, the friendly HualapaiS, were plundered. Incl ndian agent openly sold large quantities f stores intrusted to his charge. Beef cat le weighing but little over three hundred Ounds were issued to the Hualapais at thirteen hundred and odd. Had it not cen for the interference., of the military uthoritieS. another and more terrible hn l