Arizona weekly miner., 1877-05-11
RESERVATIONS BROKEN UT.

The coolness with which the Citizen tries to bolster up Governor Safford's Indian policy is really refreshing. The Citizen oi the 5th inst, is particularly so in this re- report. It goes to show how he broke up the Chiricahua reservativn, and how he has now broken up the Warm Springs reserva- ton in New Mexico, the Indians of the two Reservations making up the present numoer belonging to the San Carlos reservation : "and for this thorough work, the primary and most of the subsequent credit Is que tn Gov. X. r. K. Safford and Agent John r. Clum." -
 Sunpose this to be SO, what of It We fail to see any good in that If inc Indians are not controlled on the reservations. me breaking up of the Chiricahua reservation did not stop dcprcdations. On the contrary, the Governor has been directly charged and had if proven on him that he greatly eN- auperatcd the dcprcdations, and he certainly has been the most active in showing that the breaking up of the Chiricahua reserva- tion rather increased the depredations m the Southern portion of the Territory than diminished them then where k the bcneht Does it now follow, that because the NaEm Strings reservation is broken up, that dcpre- dationS are going to cease If they do' we shall acknowledge that some good las been done. but not before IL does not make any particular difference what Reservations the Indians are on if they are not conroiieu' If they arc properly diSarmcd and kept upon the Reservations, some So"d Will ht done. But the diSarming must hc no sham, like the disarnlng of the Verde Indians, two years ago.
 II will not do for the Citizen to say that Mr. Cum is such an efficient ant honest Accent. Even if this was So, although a Saint. he i, not immortal, and cant Toe wiih Us always. He might die, or he might finally succeed in pcrSuading the CommS- Sioner of Indian Afrairs to accept his rc>ig- nation. the acceptance of which he would have us believe has been so long withheld from him. ,o much against his will. Should any unforeseen event take him from uS, where could VIC get another Cum to do the duties of Agent: Who would then con trol the Indians for Us Without him, we should he at their mercy, for hc has told IL that he has done it all, and the military are of no earthly use in the matter.
 But some things come up to our mlnd. It seems to us that the matter ot breaking up the Warm Springs Agency was not thought of until the Department Com mandcr sent Lieut.. Icncley's dispatch to the Governor, and knocked out the basis oi his accusations against Gcnl kautL; for II showed that the Indians which the Governor claimed had not been removed, were at large, and which the General would not catch and punish, really made their home at the Warm Springs In his wroth, the Governor bounced the Warm Springs Agent. How long would the matter have continued as heretofore if General Kautz had not cN- posed these facts. which we believe to have been known to the Agents all the time.
 Three weeks ago VIC gave some "t our views on these subjects. NIT. Cum, in his letter to the Citizen. giving an account of hls doing> at the Warm SpringS. comes to our relief admirably and shows that all the rcncgadc> from the Chiricahua which the Governor claimed were at large, made their homes at the Warm Springs. He has an wered our inquiry in Saturdays issue as ,o who were absent during April, that proha- bly made the last raid in the Sonuita alley. He tells us that it is PionScnay and Nol- gee. Now we should like to know who k responsible for this sort of thing if it k not the Agent. Did they notify the military commanders and give them any clnc to the movements of these raidcrs They have not heard of il if they did. Will NIT. Clum arrest them when they return and join their people at the san Carlos, and will he take measures to prevent their going away a> they have done heretofore These are con undrumS we should like to have answered. The San Carlos Indians will he increased in number hy about four hundred, and the pcrqui>toS also proportionately decreased by this change, which may he some advan- tagc to Tucson. But it is bad element and will increase the difficulties ot the man agemcnt of that Agency. NIT. Cum never has kept the Indians on the Reservation, and will not he enabled by this change to restrain them any better than heretofore. One thing we shall bc able to guess at pretty we'll, in case of raids in the future, and that i>, where the raiders come from. san Carlos hcrcaftar will get all the credit, and we predict that their ficld of operations will l'c mainly in new Mexico in the future.