Arizona weekly miner., 1875-06-04
THE WHITE .uOUyTALy INDIANS.

sented to be letter which, we are assuref
 by the editor, comes from a reliable source
 It reads as follows:
 receipt of the following letter from reliabl,
 source, relative to the late count by Agent J. r
 Cum, Of The White Mountain Apaches:
 CAMP APACHE, April 2i, 1875. Editor Citizen All is quiet here EoS under tue new agent, Mir. J. r. Chm, who st present has charge of both san Carlos and this agency ! Mir. Cum arrived here about the 18th Of this 1 month, to relieve eXagrnt Roberts who had late
 ly been displaced by the military authorities and 1 J. W. Michley put in bis place. On rhe lalh the
 Agent called all the Indians together and succeed | ed in making the first count ever made al this i agency by an agent. He did this without any
 assistance from the military, and says he never | made a more peaceabe or orderly count at San Carlos. There were l1s4 indians drawn up in 1 line, and Mir. Clum informed them that there would be a count made every five days and that | as he was their agent he proposed being agent and they need not go 10 the post hereafter 10 be counted. The Indians seemed very we'll pleased at this and said they were glad 10 have an agent
 who will have sole charge of their interests, and | look after them himself. IS they never had m agent io do SO. On the following day the militia " authorities attempted 10 count Ihe Indians as of old, but the latter refused to go 10 the post and no count could be made and the attempt WAS given up.
 In q common sense view this is tue natural and correct position. If these Indians are 10 be un- der civil rule while at peace. the agent should have full control over them; the business of the military with the Indians only commences when The latter break away from the control of the agency. This is the theoretical order of their
 government, and until 1t is practically carried
 out as we have every reason to believe it will
 now bc here. there will and can be no successful
 management Of agency.
 To gain respect of ana command over Indians,
 there are certain qualifications which experience
 has shown an agent must possess. He must have
 force of character and tirmness; there must be
 the personal appearance, or power of voice or
 counIcnance 10 impress the Indians with sense
 of his superiority or ability 10 command. MT.
 Cum undoubtedly possesses these qualities with
 others, and Is exactly the right man in The right
 place. The people and government may rest as-
 surrd that nothing will be Jeff undone 10 advance
 and civliZc these Indians, and unless some un-
 foreseen obstacle shall arise predict that the success with which Agent Cum has met at San
 Carlos, will be repeated here. The many changes and, as believe, lae bad management of this agency, have discouraged the Indians 10 eX- tent in planting. but Mir Cum will and is urging them 10 put iu their crops.
 We have nothing to do with the above let ter, so far as concerns the everyday buncomb contained in it. and the highly fattering al- lusons to the simply ideal of an Indian Agent perlectionists but We cannot help no- ticing how seriously in trouble is this same reliable cotributGr, when he wishes to state facts, and we respectfully tender him our as- sistance. We will try, for the benefit of the public at large, to preserve these facts in their unvarnshed truthfulness.
 The simple announcement is made that the military authorities at Camp Apache displac- ed Indian Agent Roberts The reasons growing out of fearfully sad necessity for taking temporary military possession of the agency, March Sd, 1875, and displacing Rob- erts, are strangely omitted. In case of an all the reasons will more fully appear. and no doubt very satisfactory to the mind of both the editor of the Citi- 1 zen and his 'reliable" contributor. It will further appear why, under the circumstances, the Rev. J. NJ. Mickly, wLo IS the represen- tativc of tue board of missions of the Re- | formed Church, was requested and kindly | to act temporarily as agent.
 The statement, in substance, that the count ! claimed to have been held April 18th, when, as represented, all the Indians were success fully called together, needs considerable cor 1 rection. At the general counts previously | held by the military, on the last day of each | month, all the Indians-men, women and | leld every five days, the men only are pres mt. On the day above referred to, we do | not think that any such general count was leld at the agency, when all were success ully called together; and further, the num- per, l1o4 Indians, represented in line there md then on that date, is the number pre- erved in such beautiful and exact likeness which was obtained already in the general 'ount held at the post March Slst, and which vas thereafter handed over by Rev. J. NJ. dicky, with other papers, to the agents Jerk, Mir. Jenkins.
 It is farther stated, that on the following lay, April 20th, the Indians refused to go to he post, and in consequence of this the mil tary authorities failed in securing their usual ) days') count. Quite the contrary is the ase. Most all of the Indians on the post ide of the river, and also many from the 'ther side, to the number of nearly one half, ame there, as usual, to be counted. The re- nainder absented themselves only from the act that they were prevented by the agent one being tu. ned back by his employees vhen far advanced on the way.
 In reply to an interrogatory from those rho were at the post, after being counted, rhether or not they should return to the gency, they were told 10 go over and be ounted. They acted accordingly. Many f those who were prevented from coming 0 the post, after the count at the agency, ame, and very earnestly enquired why it ias they were forbidden. on this occasion, to ome as usual to be counted2 They said the gent told them they must not come, but hey could not understand this, as they had . cen in the habit of coming for this purpose 'illingly, ard for several years back.
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