Arizona citizen., 1877-06-23

took one man and twenty women and children prisoners. June s, 1876, they took thirty-nine men, women and chil- dren prisoners. September, 1876, they killed four men and took twenty eight women and children prisoners. Jan uary, 1877, they took four bucks pris- oners, April, 1877, they took seventeen bucks prisoners. They killed on other occasions three men. Total killed, 16t and and 3, making 23; total captured, 27 and 2l and 39 and 2S and f and F, making 136; total killed and captured, l59 renegades. This total refers only to work done among renegades in the mountains and has nothing to do with the agency government and the admin istralion of affairs on the reservation. My Police have on several occasions captured renegade Indians Is soon as. discovered. These parties Of course had not been reported out as had no previous knowledge of them, and after they had been captured there was no occasion for such report. The sixty eight Indians reported killed and cap tured under General Kau,z Tn 1875 were aifhar rara.raJ.o Fr,,,, tI,a Tio NarIa Reserve or else they had never been on the reservation. Iknow nothing about them and never hjd anything 10 do with them. If General Kautz would SCOUT the Rio Verde country he might find few more of them.
 One fact brought out by this review
 is that Major Brayton and his Indian scouts have done all the work that has been done since General Kautz came into the country. T. is rue that Capt.
 Porter appears on the boards once but he Is from Major Brayton's post All
 the other effective scouting from June,
 1875, to June. 1877, has been done by
 Mayor Brayton. l have volunteered
 to mention the services of Lieut. Ruck.
 CT last Dccem CT, although General
 Kautz has not reported them. Now l
 know Major Brayton and like him
 well, and his record in Arizona shows
 him to be a brave, efficient and ener.
 getic officer. Ishall always take pleas
 ure I speaking of his successes-Camp
 Verde has done we'll. But alas! for
 the other posts. Where IS their record
 What work have they done? Here
 are Camps Lowell, Wallen, Bowie
 Grant, Thomas, Apache, Mcdowell
 Mohave and Fort Whipple with theil
 corps of officers and armed men. Wha
 have they done to protect the lives ant
 property of our citizens, to capture the
 renegades and secure peace? To thi: the blood of our murdered citizens
 cries from the ground and answers
 " Nolhiag," and the tenaniless wall.
 of their plundered homes echo Moth
 ing" The last three Indian depreda
 tions were committed within four mile.
 of Camp Bowie. Two men have jus
 been murdered there, and yet what ha;
 been done?
 The work done by my Indian Police . belonged to the military and should r have been done by them, but it was 6 choice with us to do it ourselves ol leave it undone. My total of the kill ed and captured by the scouts under General Kautz IS l2O, and most of Uni.
 was done by Indian scouts from Sar ) Carlos. You see that my Indian Pc [ lice have killed and captured 159 ol 39 more than these taken by the scouts under the Department Commander ] Or to put it in other words, our littl, 7 squad of Indian Pohce have done nor, ! effective scouting, outside the reserva ! ton than General kaUtZ has done with . all of his troops and -four com ' panies of Indian scouts The prison I CTS taken by my PolIce include some ' of the worst renegades in the country ? among them are such men as " Pionse I nay" EronemO," "Gordo and son ] " POnCa." ,Sc.. while the scouts under ; General Kautz have not taken d singl. ' noted outlaw. Another significant fac is that during two years of desperate } fighting with Apaches, under Genera Kaulz, not a sIngIe white soldier ha: 2 been wounded.
 9 Submitting these notes for the infor , nation and consideration of the pub : lie, 1 remain, yours truly,
 ] JOHN P. CLUM, U. 5. Ind. Agent