Arizona citizen., 1877-03-24
THE PEOPLES SIDE.
Governor SaGTOrd's Reply tO Gener- al Kautz-SOme Plain Facts and Interesting Reading.

l oANSA Niat tli' lCAEtIS lCtLCT NTlttcI by General Kautz, and published il
 the Arizona Miner, March 9, needed
 any reply from me, were It not that { | question of veracity is raised. Fol
 while he covers much space and show.
 that troops have been marched and
 countenmarched. still the facts cannot
 be conToverted that few Indians have
 kept Southeastern Arlzona in a fer
 ment during eight months and that
 many lives have been lost and much property has been stolen, and that the ' department commander has accom- ! plished nothing towards giving pro
 lection to life and property.
 The first question of veracity raised by the General is that when I sent my
 message to the Legislature, l had in
 my possession a telegram from him in
 which he had ordered certain troops
 into the field The telegram in ques- ton l did not receive until about two hours after l had sens my message to the Legislature. But even if il had been m my possession prior to that time, I cannot see how by any possibility could be charged with misrepresenta- ton. l have never stated that troops have not been ordered into the field l; that has been done many times. But what l have stated and do state IS that there has been no effective, energetic scouting; that the troops have been sent out and have followed well beaten roads and sought and obtained we'll known and comfortable camps; and when their ratlOns have been exhaust cd they have returned to their respect i've posts. And this is what the Geuer- al calls Indian scouting;" and this Is why l state in my message that if the same system of warfare is continued Tn the future. the whole army of the United States and all the Indian scouts in the employment of the Government would not subdue this Ittle band of hostile Indians during the next twenty. years. And the only error l made ir. thIs statement is that 1 should have put down one hundred years instead of twenty To show a system Of scoutingI which lhe General claims was exhaust ing his resources, 1 here give Q correct report of one of his scouts, which may be taken as a fair sample of all the rest, as follows:
 X detachment consisting of forty en-I listed men, three officers, one guide
 one packer, six mules, one ambulance. drawn by fourmulcs, under command of Major Whuside, left Camp Lowell April l3; followed wagon road an l ar
 uycd at Critttndcn l4th; remained inI camp al Crittendcn 10th and 18th; 11th marched by wagon road 10 San Rafael
 18th by wagon road lo McGeary'si ranch; 18th back same road 10 San Rafael 2Olh returned towards Critten- den same road went cut and camped atI Mowry mine; 2lst followed same wag- on road to CrittendeL; 22d remained in camp; 23d, followed wagon road to. near Wallen, 24th camped Tn same place; 25th marched back same road to Crittenden; 26th, 27th; 2Sth, 20th and 3Olh remained Tn camp; May 1stl started for Lowell, same wagon road went out and camped al Fish's ranch :; 2d followed same road and made dry camp ten miles from Lowell; Sd reach cd Lowell.
 The command followed the wagon road the whole time and was kept to- gether constantly. Noelfort was made to scout on either side of the road to find Indian tracks or trails. Now thisI is what General Kautz calls thoroughly. scouting the country, and is as ener- getic a scout as has been made in eight months in Southern Arizona, except. the scout made by Lieutenants Fucker and Henely, and the latter was severely because, m trying to do some thing. he wore down his horses.
 Major Tuppcr, the General says, 1. was ordered to the place where John son and Mowrey were killed, and could find nothing except their death to prove that Indians killed them; all other facts went to show that theI murderers were not Indians" Now .hlS Major Tupper, no doubt, performed his scouting in a manner highly satis- factory to the department commander; he followed the well beaten road at the rate of six to ten miles per day, he took his cue undoubtedly from his superior officer, and declared there were no In iians in the country. while young Johnson, the son of one of the murder ed men, told him that when he found lIs father the moccasin tracks were fresh and plenty, and if he would go with hlm a short distance he would show hlm the Indian trail. To this re quest Major Tupper replied that he would not go, and that they were all jars. In addition to this, his detach- nent of soldiers appropriated q large part of the vegetables belonging to the place. for which the rightful owner -eccived no pay This IS the story as old to me by young Johnson and believe fl Is true. And this is the pro
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