Arizona weekly miner., 1877-05-25
Colonel Sth Infantry, Brevet Major General Commanding Department
Juvenile Cum in the Citizen May 10.

! The only fact stated in the Generals let ter is that concerning the scout made by Major Brayton. and how the scout found the thirty-cight Indians, was explained in my letter of March ith.
 The remainder of the letter consists only of infcrcnces and insinuations, speaking of possible saving Of rations,' popular ex- panatiou T" "rcputed criminality," etc If General Kautz had the faintcst shadow of evidence to prove what he insinuates, he would have made the charges at once, but having no evidence he has done what he has done.
 Webster says: An insinuation consists in artfully winding into the mind imputations of an injurious nature without making any direct charge, and is therefore justly regard ed as one of the basest resorts of malice and falsehood
 Is General Kautz honorable, just, or truth ful! Is he worthy to be called man!
 JoHN r. CIUM."
 The foregoing letter is evidently the one referred to in our Daily of last Monday, which NIT. Cum regards as "a cloud of base insinuaiions" If anything was needed to convince any one of Mr. Cs youthfulness the publication by him of General K $ com munication to the War Department. ought to remove all doubt. We now think NIT. C. must be stll in his infancy.
 We think that the ghost of old Noah will be somewhat amazed at the definition at tributcd to him. Mir C. certainly thinks that inSinuation is the proper thing, for he uses it himself most freely We should like to know whether he uses them against Gen cral K on the definition which he has fur nishcd. The. absence of all explanation leads Us to the opinion that he has Why does he not tell us wherein General K. Is not honor able. truthful or just.
 The reference to his letter in the Citizen of March Eth N7th ? furnishes no explanation whatever why Major Brayton found thirty eight Indians instead of six, in January last The letter referred to states eighteen In dians that Beauford failed to get, and seven teen bucks and some women and children northwest of Verde, as being there nearly one year before. We explained in a former edition of our paper that on account of the Chiricahua troubles last year, Major B. did not go after these Indians until last August, which Mr. C. admits We showed how he killed seven and captured seven, and during September and to the 18th of October, thir- teen more were killed and seventeen more captured, making twenty Killed and twenty four captured, and still the party northwest of Verde has not been disturbed, for that is Miraha's band. numbering about thirty, and when last heard from were with the Supais on Cataract creek. Our authority Is Dan O'Leary.
 Will MT Cum please give us plain, can did statement, that will convince honest men, who are disposed to do him justice, how it is that since he wrote Major Brayton, March 1Gth, 1876, that there were eighteen Indians in the Tonto Basin, and seventeen bucks and some women and children north west of Verde. the Major has killed forty and captured forty two, and still the party northwest of Verde lives. These are not base insiuuations-theya are facts, and we should like 10 have facts in explanation.