Arizona citizen., 1877-06-23

that Major Brayton has just made an other scout and has killed eighteen and captured twenty renegade Indians :; of the eighteen killed 1 judge not more than six were men. This scout is the text ot General Kautz's letter toI the Adjutant General of the army, dated February 12, 1877, in which
 General Kautz lays great stress on hIsI statement that "instead of six Indians Captain Brayton found thirty-eight" After a recapItulation of the number
 killed and captured by the military
 since June 1, 1875, I will give some
 attention to the Generals statement
 On summing up the reports that
 have been sent to me by military au-
 thorities since General Kautz took
 command of this Department, find that the Indian scouts enlisted from
 San Carlos, unaided by the troops, killed ten men and captured thirteen
 women and children. The sane h. dian scouts under Major Bray ton aided | by a small detachment of troops have
 killed forty-eight Indians and taken
 thirly.five women and children pris-
 oners. The same scouts under Capt.
 Porter have killed seven Indians '"
 and taken seven women and children
 prisoners. Making summary of
 killed sixty-liYe, prisoners fifty-five
 total 120.
 Or making the summary according
 10 the respective years during which
 the scouts were made, we find the fnl-
 lowing table:-For 1875: Killed, 6
 bucks and f bucks and 30 Indians,
 total 40: Captured, women and chil-
 dren, 10 and and 15, total 2S: Total
 killed and captured 6S. For 1876
 Killed ' Indians: Captured ' women
 and children: Total killed and cap
 tured H. For 1677: Killed, Is In
 dians: Captured, 20 women and chil-
 dren; Total killed and captured, 3S. . Grand total since June l, 1875, 120.
 Of this grand total only twenty-nine
 were men, and it is noticeable that . only on the first two scouts, when no
 officers or troops were present, only bucks were killed. On all subsequent
 scouts, with officers present they re-
 port so and 80 many Indians" killed,
 thus including women and children,
 and yet the department commander
 says that "It is only through the pres
 "ence of officers that women and chil-
 "dren a'e spared"
 ,I Now I will consider for moment the following statements by General ;, Kautz, to-wit: Ut will be observed
 "that instead of six Indians, Captain r " Brayton found lhirty.eight." And further on in his letter, the General says: Since the agent occasionally "reports lhe absence of Indians to ], "mIlitary authorities and requests pur- l, "suit and punishment, it Is supposed
 "he does so whenever he knows of "their absence, and yet when the "scouts go out they find a great many more"
 r That part of the Generals statement which says 1 report the whereabouts of , renegade Indians whenever l have any . knowledge of such, Is true. But his concluding words, that "when the scouts go out they find great many , "more," are not true and 1 shall now . proceed to show that General kautz had in his possession facts winch directly disprove his statement.
 ' By reference to the records l find ? the following, to-wit: On March l6, } 1876, (see my letter of March ', pub ? lished in THE CITIZEN of March r., lS77.) I reported the following facts f to military authorities: Guide Beau ford, with fifteen Indian police from f San Carlos Agency. made scout west ? from the reservation into Tonlo Basin land killed sixteen Indians and captui' l ed twenty.one; ail of which were rene 1 padps and not "absenteeS as Gener 7 al Kautz intimates. Eighteen more l renegades were reported Tn the yicin , ity of the Camp captured by Guide l Beauford. and also seventeen bucks . and a number of women and children :. northwest of Camp Verde. The pro
 portion of men To women and children , on my reservation is about one 10 five r Then allowing one 10 four, we will ] have with these seventeen bucks al ! least sixyy-eight Indians. So that the g total number of renegades reported I out in this one letter is one hundred l and twenty-three. Of these Guide , Beauford with a detachment of Sar l Carlos police killed l6, and captured e 2l. total 37. So that in March 1876 v my police under Guide Beauford kill 5 ed and captured S1 renegades and re l. ported to military authoriies S6 rene 2 gades still out. These Indians hal l. never been on my reservation nor or |. any other and hence were not lab y sentees but real live renegades. Or l June 8, 1876, I reported to the depart 0 ment commander that Who" "Eron Q emo," Nolgee" and their families
 had left the Chiucahua reservation l These renegades numbered at leas ,. sixty. perhnps one hundred. We thel