Arizona citizen., 1874-05-16
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Especial Dispatches to THE CITIZEN PRESCOTT AND VICINITY.

PRESCOTT, May 12.-The following nam ed officers arrived here on the 9th: MaJO | Chandler, Lieut.. King, 9th Cavalry, acting
 assistant surgeon Lightburne and Ideut
 Bishop; Col. Chandler was accomp par9io< 1.by his clerks MeSsrs. Higgins and Pen
 shaw. A large party of ladies caIile n from Camp Verde escorted by Capt. Good
 ale and others to-day. Capt. Wilson aHs l Lieut.. Cowles left for Verde this mornH5E Lieut.. King and DE Lightburne leave 18
 same point tomorrow. gAs# Col. Chandler assumed the dutles V'
 chief quartermaster yesterday, relieT5pe Gen. Small. who has been acting in th41
 capacity for some months. aW y l Very satisfactory news has been recf.E; | ed from the Verde reservation that an'<{|-
 ditional band of sixty eight Tonto Ins>i1zz1 1 has surrendered, making total nurleeE o! the Indians over there nearly l6o0: .4Ht l new arrivals came from the Superst11oi<
 mountains and were very squalid f1i5a{z, pearance. They affirmed the troops, had given them no rest. The men of the pariy were confined in the guard-hOuSe. All inc Indians at the Verde reservation are kept
 at work under direction of army Officers, nearly two hundred cut hay and firewo0d. the remainder are employed digging al1
 irrigating canal, of which a mile has ssl-
 ready been completed without costingfhe government'a penny.
 Capt. A. H. Nickerson, aid-de-camp on
 the staff of Gen. Crook, now on sick leaxe,
 VIII ICIlIA IlCISS<DOub GIlC lOJl
 A social hop was given at Fort Whippfe
 last night. An amateur theatrical trOupo composed of soldiers belonging 10 the gar riSon will give an entertainment at the post this evening lSsf15
 Accounts frosn the Hualpai Indians are of very encouraging tone. They seem each day better contented to remainyat La PaZ, seeing that they are not to be fa]<7 en from under the care of the officers yhR have had charge of them so long. azHif
 hn, I,or ic-n I hoe hnli ioll for some days. Nights still quite cold skyI clear and blue, thermometer about 5o. &l}fs
 PRESCOTT. May 13.-Orders publisHeQ from department headquarters yesteroa53 relieve Capt. A. F. Rockwell from dut5 af, Yuma depot, and assign Capt. w. &x Hughes to that station. Under Capt. R0c1l-' wells administration the Yuma depotih9S. been made one of the finest in the cot1sfr try. Cept. Rockwell will take charge o7' the Arizona military telegraph line, wz{hl his office in San Diego. etA1 y Prisoners surrendering at San Carries represent the morale of the renegade Apu~l ches as completely destroyed. The moves ments Of our scouting parties were so rap<' id, their blows so powerful and the knoWl-l edge Of the country possessed by our troops apparently so unlimited that the outbreak had hardly commenced at tl7e5 San Carlos before the Indians conceredI in it were crushed. 1gie|
 PRESCOTT. May 14.-Chaplain Gilnior'e1 left Fort Whipple yesterday to solemnizel the m arriage of Lieut.. CowleS, 23d Infafl<1 try, and Miss Mary Hitchcock.
 Gen. Crook left early this morning for Camp Verde and the Verde Indian reSer- vation, to be gone two or three days. Coli Evans, 3d Cavalry, inspector general de-l partment of Arizona, arrived at Whippiej last evening from Mojave, having cOn1-1 pleted very laborious inspection of all the military posts ia Arizona, which haS1 nipd his fina Sinpn the hnOinninu of January.
 Lieut.. King, 5th Cavalry, and Dr. Light-l burr, left for Camp Verde to-day.
 Lieut.. Schuyler, 5th Cavalry, since leay-i ing san Carlos, has been carefully scout-i ing the Pinal mountains and the moun-l tainS between SalG river and the Gila. Ori the 23d of April he struck a band of Toni | tOs near the Gila, killed twelve and cap-3 tured fourteen, also found the dead bodies of sixteen TontoS killed by the Pima Ind-d still very deep and swift, so that to effect u 1 crossing he was obliged to move down to ! Whitaow's ferry, where his command arSi rived this morning. Lieut.. Schuyler wii1i tions and then return to Camp Verde,l scouting on the way through the Supersu- ton and MaSSiSSal mountains. it3a{
 Maj. Randall, 23d Infantry, will send an I expedition into the Santa Catarina moun-i tainS to drive out the few hostile Apachesi believed 10 be lurking there. 4
 PRESCOTT, May 15.-Chaplain Gilmorel to Fort Whipple last evening, hel came by the Big Bug trail. Col. Wilsonl will return to Prescott tomorrow. Lieut. l and Mrs. Cowles arrived at Camp Verdef last evening. rft
 The steamer Cocopah with Lient. Hursf,j I2th Infantry, and small detachmentofj soldiers arrived at Ehrenburg on the 9tll+l bringing military supplies from Camp Mol laVe Tor the new camp at Lapaz. 543
 U. $. Military Superintendent's ofiice,{ Prescott, May If. On and after to-morrDHi the 18th inst, the tariff for 10 words to anE { part of the eastern States, will be S36Diu3 currency; to any part of the Pacific Coast reached by the Western Union lines, S8 ind currency. J. w. STRA UCHo1a 4
 The notorious bandit VasQuez has been captured near Los Angeles.