Arizona citizen., 1874-03-14
THE INDIAN BUSINESS.
The Financial and Other Phases of 1t Bearing upon Arizona via Wash ingtOn.

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 be reported at the first opportunity. It
 provides for appropriations amounting to | about S4 ,S00000, about S2,000,000 less than l the estimates of the Interior Department. All the SuperintenQencieS, except those Of
 Indian Territory, are abolished. Since the
 appointment of Inspectors, the Superin- | tendentS are not required by the service. | Forty-five thousand dollars is appropria- | ted for the subsistence of the ApacheS on l the reservations in Arizona and New Mex | ico; for the confederated tribes of middle Oregon, 13,000; Klamath and ModOcs, IT, | 100; appropriations for incidental expenses
 in Arizona, $50,0O0; California, $4O,OO0; Da-
 kota, S20,000; Idaho, $l0,0O0; Montana, $2O,- 900; Nevada, $lO,O0O; New Mexico, 10000;
 Arizona, 40,OOO; Washington Territory, S25,OO0; Wyoming, 5000; Utah, S300O0; | travelling expenses of five Inspectors, 10,- 900. The bill provides that for the pur- pose of inducing the Indians to labor and become self-supporting, the Indian agents shall require all able-bOdied male Indians between the ages of IS and 45, to do an amount of work daily equal to the value of the food distributed to them. The Sec retary of the Interior is authorized to eX- cept from this provision all ungOvernable and dangerous Indians, and, by written order, may except any ungovernable tribe. The bill provides that no appropriation shall be used for any tribe while portion of that tribe is at war with the whites. The Board of Indian Commissioners is cOntin-
 
 accounts in the city of Washington.
 We find the following cheerful item in a late number of The Republican at Wash ington:
 The agent in charge of the Cachise res ervation writes to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, under date of January 3l, and reports condition of peace and i'm proved order on his reservation. He says that he has succeeded without trouble, as was anticipated, in driving off all the Ind ians who did not belong to Cachise's band, and they have gone to their own reserva- tiOnS. These were the Indians who have been charged with depredatiOns into So- nora. The agent concludes as follows: "I am happy to inform the department that it has been now over two months since any complaints whatever have been made against these Indians (CachiSe's band) either by the citizens of this Terri tory or by the people living on the other side of the Mexican line, and 1 have strong hopes that we have heard the last of this raiding in Sonora. The Indians here finding that all the raiding into that country was imputed to them, have been more earnest in their efforts to prevent it, and are using every endeaVor To prevent other parties from crossing the reservation with that intention, and apparently not without good results. The Indians here have also appeared more settled and satis fled during the last two months than at any other time since peace was made"
 The same paper of date February 20, gives the following of interest in Arizona:
 Gen. Crook recently sent a dispatch to the Commissioner of Indian Affairs say ing that the Apaches at Camp Verde ought to be employed in making ditch, so that they might raise and irrigate crops. The Commissioner immediately respond ed by asking how much money would be required. General Crook answers as fol- lows:
 HDQRS. DEPARTMENT OF ARIZONA
 PRESCOTT, February l6. ]
 Hon. E. P. Smith, Washington, D. C.: Sir: It will take S25,000 to eventually com- plete the ditch at Verde, but 5000, if work is commenced at once, will carry ditch sufficiently far to irrigate all the lands that the Indians can cultivate the coming year. When these Indians raise their own supplies it will be an annual saving of over fifty thousand dollars.
 GEORGE CROOK, Brigadier General.
 Commissioner Smith says that he has desired Congress to appropriate money enough to cover the actual necessities of each fiscal year, and enough to permit the to make such improvements as are necessary to make the Indians self but each year the apprOpria- tions fall short, and the department is obliged to go in debt for supplies which are necessary to keep the Indians on the 
 He cannot get any money for such things as Gen. Crook recommends, though he is very deSirous of getting it. The Ind ianS could be made to work, but money is required for tools, and white men to super wise the work. DitcheS at Camp Verde, 1 San Carlos and other reservations would 1 save the government hundreds of thou 1 sands of dollars annually.
 Washington dispatches of February 27, say the report that the agency of the l Verde reservation will be changed to San Carlos is officially contradicted, and also
 Advices have been received by telegraph | at the Indian Bureau that the Indians have been leaving the San Carlos reserva- ton in Arizona on account of a misunder- l with the military, and the de- | partment is advised that they can be all | in by any one acting under au- | thority of the civil department, provided | 1t can be done independently of the mili- Jary.
 Another Washington dispatch of Feb ruary 20 reads:
 Dr. J. A. Tonner, special Commissioner of the Indian Department. has written a letter from Prescott to Commissioner Smith, giving d doubtful account of the | condition of the Apaches on Verde Res ervation, Arizona. From his account, it | seems that the military officers are mak- ing good Indians very fast, and that the Apaches are travelling to the happy hunt ng grounds as fast as diseases and bullets :an send them. He reports that in July last there were 1900 Indians on the reserva- ion: now there are only 800 left, all the others having died or fled to the noun atns, preferring death there by warfare to