Arizona citizen., 1875-05-22

committed the depFedati0nS com nplalned
 Of by MT. Howard, as well as the others complained of from time 10 time. Capt.
 Jeffords informs me that there are now on
 the reservation about one thousand Of all
 sexes and ages, including the Cachise
 band, & portion Of the southern Chirica-
 hua's and others, and that he Is sure that since the Howard treaty, not one of them
 has ever killed an American or Mexi- can. He admits that some Of the yoNng men may have stolen horses from Sonora,
 wherewith to purchase wife according to their custom. but Of this he Is not sure. That portion of tho old Cachise band with other rowing and renegade Indians who commit the depredations, no doubt come upon this reservation when hard pushed, and this cannot be very easily remedied as the reservation ts over fifty miles square. and adjoins the Sonora portion.
 Many portions of the reservation consist of lofty mountains and extensive canyons, affording a safe retreat, where 1t is next to impossible to follow them, and from whence they return to Sonora when pur- suit ceases. These renegades no doubt sell and trade their stolen property 10 the Ind. ians of this and other reservations and no power can stop 1t. Yet the agent here al- ways makes his Indians give up all the horses and other property they purchase from the rowing bands when claimed, either by Americans or Mexicans. With out knowing all these facts my friend Howard and others, think hastily and unjustly give the Chiricahua reservation Indians credit for all the trouble in Sono- ra. of which they, believe. are entirely gpiluess. Again, bands Of Indians from other reservations come with permits from different agents in companies of three to fifteen, and they go and come no one kRows where. Many of them pass through the reservation into Sonora on raids, and returning cross this reservation, and the Indians of this agency get the credl. Of the raid when entirely innocent. Capt. Jetfords has tried long and faithful ly to stop this, but he cannot do 1t so long as other agents give permits to the Ind lans under their charge to leave their sev- eral reservations. The practice Of giving permits should be stopped entirely and completely. Capt. Jeffords informs me that he has never given but one such per init, and thinks he will never give anoth- CT one, and his rule if adopted by all oth- CT agents would be productive of much good. Without desiring to eulogize or praise, I am free to say that after thor Ough study of the subject, believe that the aOpnt harn ic 6ninU nI hoe nII that man could do in his agency, and that the perfect security to life and property for the last two years attest to the success of his eXertions, and to the faithfulness of the treaty obligations of his Indians. From him 1 learn that within the past three months his Indians have informed him when too late to take any action, of four different bands of Indians from Oth- CT agencies that have passed through to- wards Sonora to steal horses, some one of which no doubt was the band spoken of by MT. Howard, whose trail he saw, and yet those who do not know the facts will no douht give the Indians on this reserva- tion the full credit of the raid, though en- tirely innocent.
 Knowing all the foregoing facts, gather ed from many and different sources, I have felt it q duty to the public, to the Indians of this agency, and to the untir ing and indefatigable agent himself to write this long article In the interest of truth and justice. H. c. H.
 P. S.-1 add a postscript, not to palliate any wrong, even if the charges made against these Indians were true, which I do not believe, we'll knowing that two wrongs never make right. It is well known that Sonora is now, and has long been a safe refuge for robbers, thieves, murderers and ruffians of every degree who may commit crimes here in Arizona, and that they are protected from harm, admitted 10 citizenship and treated with respect by the authorities and people. IL is also well known that all along our from tier from the Gulf of California to the Rio Grande, horse and cattle stealing, and oft times murder, is the sole occupation of large numbers of the Mexican people, who cross upon our soil for that purpose, and that the property thus stolen is look ed upon as legitimate plunder and bought and sold by all classes in the Mexican States even when they know how it was obtained.
 Does it not come with bad grace for them and those who sympathise with them, to make the complaints they do when they know that the beam and not the mote obScures their own mental vIs- ion. The right way is for the people and authorities on both sides ts try and reme- dy all these evils by the punishment of the bad, both whites and Indians whenev- CT caught. H. c. HODGE.
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