Arizona weekly miner., 1876-10-13
FRIDAY, OCTOBER ls, 1876.
THE TROUBLE ON THE OLD CHIRICAHUA
 RESERVATION,

Having heard, incidentally, that one Dr
 King had made charges against Genera
 Kautz and sent them to the War Depart
 ment, we made inquiries at Headquarter
 this week, and were politely shown the pa
 pers relating to the matter by Major Will
 helm.
 1t seems that two men, named Johnson
 and Mowery, were killed some time since
 near the old Chiricahua Reservation, in the
 southeast part of Pima county, under cir.
 cumstances that led to the belief that it wa:
 the work of renegade Indians that had not
 been removed to San Carlos,-Or if they had
 been removed, had returned to their old
 haunts. Acting upon this belief, the Gov
 ernor, several Territorial officers and many
 citizens of Tucson and the vicinity of the
 murders, signed petition to General Kautz
 as Commander of the Department, asking
 him to scout that country and free it from
 renegades.
 The General, as appears from his orders
 on file, immediately complied with the re-
 quest and set about putting such force in
 the field as he deemed necessary, and so
 wrote to the petitioners.
 In the meantime, and before it was pos
 sible for troops to reach the ground, this
 man who signs himself G. KING, M. D., pro-
 cures copy of the petition and encloses it
 with an application, signed by himself, to the War Department at Washington, asking for the immediate removal of General Kautz.
 because his cavalry did not instantly spring up out of the ground and avenge the death of these men.
 Captain Tupper was sent with sufficient force to capture any number of Indians that might be found there, and after marching 1855 miles, returned to his post and reported that arriving at the place where Johnson and Mowery were killed, he made strict investi- gation of such facts as he could obtain, and from the tenor of his written report on file, We conclude that he became satisfied that the murders were committed not by Indians, but by white men or Mexicans.
 The men had gone out with wagon to work on a road, and were killed; the bodies were neither stripped, scalped nor other wise mutillated. Johnson's gun was left standing against the wagon, the horses were not taken; nothing was disturbed at Dr. Englan's place, near by, nor at Lewis ranch, two miles distant; cornfield of roasting Q yraS 1tcfu .n Ca connected with the murder was so entirely | different from the Indian rule in such cases, | that the Captain evidently became convert | to MT. Clum's doctrine, that, in this case at | least the Indians have not been so bad as | represented, but that others have con- mitted the outrage, knowing it would be charged upon the Indians.
 In the meantime, Lieutenant Henley had reported to the commanding General that a majority of the warriors of the Chiricahuas were still on their old reservation. The General at once sent him with a command to hunt them out, and after thorough scout he did not find an Indian,-showing that he had reckoned without his host, or in other words, that he had taken the word of some one who pretended to know and didn't.
 Captain Tupper is again sent out with troops and Indian scouts, with orders to SCOUT the whole country for renegades thor 'ughly, and if they are there they will sure y be bagged and brought in. What object Dr. King could have in at- 'empting to compass the removal of the is not apparent, unless he has something to sell, and the General has not S 1ept troops enough in his neighborhood to ( 'uy it. There can be nothing in the pre-. ! ence that the prayer of the petitioners was isregarded, because the application for the emoval is dated only few days after the g late of the petition, and before an answer ould possibly have reached them in due l purse of mail. Then the means by which D 0 sought to bring the removal about are ertainly of a very questionable character. a he petition addressed to General Kautz, | gned by many gentlemen, who certainly ever intended it for any such purpose, is . mt to the War Department as part ofhis c and falsely represented to have Ii cen disregarded by the Commander.
 Itreally looks as if there were those in lat end of the Territory who, not content ol ith the Capital, the U. S. Depository, and 9 'erything else of public character that b IS any value, including the feeding of the cl ldians, excepting only the Headquarters fr the Army, would like to rig some pur- lase by which that too, with the few re- 5, aiming troops in Central and Northern rizona might be transferred to the Sonora 1T ,e.
 That General Kautz is doing everything at can be done to protect all the people of .n, n Department, with the limited number of '" ops and scanty means the retrenchment S. S ngress has left at hi. command. every one @ 10 knows him is convinced. This effort " his removal, let us hope, is but the , lzy whim of some one who has taken this q, thod of bringing himself into notice. ~
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