Arizona citizen., 1876-11-04
lCOmmunicaied.l To my Friends and Fellow Citizens of Arizona.

40 my ErEenuS and Fellow Citizen
 of Arizona.
 Agreeably 10 your request l hav
 given copy of the petition that va
 sent to General KautZ; also of the lel
 ter l wrote to the Honorable Secretarl of War, to THE ARIZONA CITIZEN fo publication and 1 herewith invite yol to examine them and see for yOurselve
 whether that was not a well directed effort on my part t0 save the lives O the settlers on the upper San Pedro and prevent the settlement from bein.
 broken up. Look al the date of th, petition, and nay letter to the Secretarl of War, and compare the dates O them with the date of the murder O MessTs. Johnson & MOwrey, which oc cured on the 18th Of September anl D. the consequent abandonment Of thu settlement Was there not time fol General Kautz 10 have done something with s telegraph office in his building that connects the forts of Southern ! Arizona? Ask yourselves what VOL would have done under similar cir !cumstances, if you had had certain ! knowledge that considerable number of Indians were prowling around tn, settlements watching an opportunity to murder Would you have be,akeI ! yourselves to place of safety gnt kept silent for fear Of offending som, one, or wOnld you have done as 1 did hasten Co Tucson, though just then out of a sick bed, and with the assistance ! of the Governor, wnO was greatly alarmed for the safety of the people ou ! the San Pedro river, sent the petition : to General kautz?
 And believing then. as fac,S have since verified. that it woull need ajdI. tional Stimuiant 60 put the troops in motion, l took up myself the respon. sjbIlity 10 write Co the Honorable Sec 'retary of War, and inclp-e to him a certified copy of the petition to Gcner al kau.Z, with my letter published in this issue If iJ was right and proper for that petition 10 go to General kaulz it could not have been improper for the Secretrrv of War to see it. And the Hon J. D. Cameron is fully com potent to judge of the consistency or inconsistency of my letter without any advice from the editor of the Prescott Miner.
 Respectfully submitting the subioin- cd documents to your consideration, remain, Yours Very Truly,
 C. KING.
 TUcsoN, ARIZONA, August 21, 1876.
 To GENERAL A Y. KAUrz, CJm- manaing Department of Arizoua:-
 SIR. The undersigned citizens of Arizona most respectfully inform you that at the removal of the Chi,icahua Indians, some vf the most refractory and desperate of that band reyolted against the removal and are sfIll roam iu- over lhe old reserve and harraS5in- tue uci yh5aril- settlements X mum Der of prospec'o-~ and travellers are known to have ben murdered, and a sIIl larger number are missing who are supposed 10 nave fallen by thc hands of thc s.vares The sPar-ely populated settlements Of southeastern Arizona are in constant state of alarm, not knowing at what moment they may foe attacked.
 h view of this condition pt affairs, ,he rucI most respectfully a-k that you will cause tue country on and about the reservation To be thoroughly secuted, tor the purpose of destroying Jr compelling these savages tO live at peace ou the reservation.
 Signed by every United States, Ter ritorial and County officer and by all the principal business men, in Tucson.
 TRES ALANos, August 23, 1876.
 HoN. J. D. CAMERON, Secretary of War. Washington, D. C..
 SR-I herewith inclosc ioayou copy of a petition signed by the officers uf this Territory and Pima county and the merchants of Tucson, requesting Gen eral kautZ to send troops 10 scout the Chiricahua reservation. from which the recent removal was partially effected.
 As a citizen of Arizona and living. adjacent to the Chiricahua reservation, near the scenes of ma>Sacres, 1 am able to speak from personal knowledge of. the helpless condition of thc settlers of southeastern Arizona They are scat tered along the rivers and streams. wherever they can find water enough to irriGate the hand, at great distances apart, which subjects them as easy prev for the marauIiug savage. These settlements extend along the San Pedro rlver some 200 miles in length, and from JO lo 100 miles in width which are thus exposed. These people came with th ir families, and all their earth. lv possessions. when the Indians were living at peace on thcir reservation, 1. and invested their last dollar in build. ing themselves homes, and turning the wild lands into productive farms Many of them have large families of children, and cannot for the want of means abandon their homes and go to a place of safety; and yet they cannot. very we'll afford tO be killed in Orie'. to convince the War Department that. it is necessary to send out few troops, who are doing nothing aj the different forts of the Territory, to hunt out the. Indians who are murdcriEg all whom they meet and will ere long, underline present management of this military department devastate the fairest DOT .ion of southern ArlZ u8
 Iti7 positively S,a a-t ; persons who have lived for years ou the reservation, ! and have seen raiiOu- served out Co tleI Indians. that there are about one hundred well equipped fighting men ,ut who did not surrender to he moved. ! This small band of Indians is a more enemy than at first sight. might appear They inAabit,he noun ains bordering on sonora, Mexico, ! which are in places SO rough aS to be ilma,t inaccessible. and these lead inro