Arizona weekly miner., 1877-03-09

maNUinS Vflcer of foNle. tor a report, an his answer Was tutse Cffoc. th..t at the tim
 the man applied. lro>pectorS and mmsr were thwnEing thc Chiricahua Reservation
 and all wanting csc crviS. Tho two men ha,
 only been absent thrcc days, and his ans wcr was, that if they did no; relurn in a fsy
 days. he would send out few men go looi
 tor them. AS Van never returned to al
 for the meu, he supposed ,he missing mlI had returned. IL Wa> rather late howcNe
 for the Governor Co send nae in Oct, the la
 formation of an event that had occurred !i July.
 Referring back Co the removal. was sat
 isted in my own mind t'at Gvrouimof
 party was very small, and thought thai
 the principal cause ot his flight was ,h,
 hostility between hi, and f8hEa'S band
 which had culmiu3ted ia fight on the lth
 tn which seven Indians were reported (,
 have been killed. Resides the uneNpected concentration of So many troops had cx,
 haus.ed a'l the bacon at Bowie and Grant
 and ], became noce>Snry to procure more
 bacon, or ordor the troops to their respcc-
 tive posts. ! did the last about the l-;h ol
 June, ia view of the fact also. of the small
 number ot Indians that believed to be out
 and that they would probably go Co the
 Warm Spring Reservation, for rdtions. The GCvernor dwcllS upon the matter ol
 the we'll known murderers of RcggerS ani
 spence, returning to Camp Bowie. ..With
 their hands vet red with the blood of their
 victims" who ''With lordlv stride loaicd
 around the post, drew their r1tionS and
 made pur,h1Se> with their ill--ottcn gains % and >o words hs letter, that the iu erenco may be drawn hv the uniuiormcd, that it was tha duty of the Post Commander Ia mske the arrest of the Indians. and that he wilmllv failed to do it. | regard these in>inuationS aS maliciouSlv unfair. The
 Governor should know that the Indians are not under the control Of the Military, the Agents are hv law their proper cu>todians.
 and it was clearly the duty of Agent Jetlor,i>
 to make the arrcS, ii be knew who the mur-
 derers were. and he should call upon the
 Military Commander 10 aid him if he was not able to de ig without. have always
 doub c3 whether the murdererS were welt
 known, for when arrived at Camp Bowie, on the 5ih of Jane, made some inquiries
 with regard Co the matter. and was iuioruel
 by Agent lellordS, that there were only two
 Indians concernei in the killing. aui what was very singular these two lad had
 been killed the evening be.orc bv tle h.
 iiau> themselves, and their names Were
 Eskna and PiaaSinN. it turned out hoN- ever in a day or two that Piau>iuv was not
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 brought him into the Agency. dan-crouslN
 wounded in tho breast and shoulder. He was therefore taken in charge a> a prisoner.
 Just here l may mention the Governors zeal in the matter. Hearing that Pian~inv was a prisoner. he caused a warrant to ,c issued tor him and sent two Deputy Sherill> to the Point oi the mounta n, where they intercepted the moving ChiricahuaS Cn their way to Camp Goodwin. presented their warrant 10 Agent Cum, and received their man, and started wi h him for Tucson. Be. fore they had gotten Co the next station they missed their prisoner; this very severely wounded Indian had craWled out Of the back part of the wagon and ma le his escape and as was afterwards ascor,aiuCl made his way back Co the Point or tho mountain. ob;ainei some horses and taking his women and children with him. went to swell the number Of the two hundred Indians that he states With sa much positive neSS m h.> mC>Sa-e> Co the Ie-gi>l ltuye were not moved, In the re-caPUre of tb.s ln- dian. confess took but lit,ie interest, and the roqUc>i for Scouts @ hunt him was "a, lv eValej hy ,hc fact that they were well on their way to their stations. l have heard "I, or seen m the papers. I believe ou the authority ol Mir. Clum, tha, P.an>iuy was a, s e Warm spring Reservation, getting cured of his wounds
 This removal ofthc Chiricahnes a> I stated waS highly appreciated aS ] pas ci through Tucson, on my return Co Prescott ! do not thc GoVcruor's request abou, Scouts, but had but two compauie> and they were of the first importance for con- trolling the country nor,h and west of san tailos. but fully recognized the impor ,ance of a company Co bC stationed in the southeast to keep this new element which . hal been added tp thc san Carlos Re-crNa- lion, from running away. and according . iy immediately on my return to Prescott. lnt about thc 24h of June, applied t' the . War Department, for another cualpluv ni Indian scouts for the purpose. Al the ime lapl lhcd tho number allowed for the whole Army was three hundred. and th.> apartment hal eighty or them. which was lcvmv a fair proportion of the whole and at authority was not ob.ained lo enlist an ,thgr company until the last of August, \ hen at the close 0f session, Congress auth 'riZel the employment of one thousand scouts Au attcmpt w1s afterwards made 70 recall tdc authority given on account of hc demand for Scouts in the Sioux country, put insisted upon their importance m this Territory, which WAS recognized. They We're u0; ready for the field before October.
 Orders were given to IGe commanding nicer of Bowie. to keep scouts, or patrols u, 60 ascertain whether any of the Indians eturncd. About this time .he trial Ot Capi Iarpcr, occupied the attention of many oi- Iccrs aS members and wiine>Scs on the 'ouri, and Camp Bowie was left with bul ne oticer for time, and the Scouts were cnt out gnier command ot SergeantS, and rohablv were not very thorough. Al this inc loo the killing of keho and Iodcnworth, ccured. and the Sergeant in charge, afler [ blowing the trail ot five Indians, as he be- eved. to the sonora line, abandoned it.
 About this time Lieut.. Henley, iemTorar- , " in command of Camp Bowie, NolIn,ccr- u the opinion that the women and children uly had been moved, and that he bclieVei d he majority oi the men had noJ removed : nd recommended au energetic campaign E his opinion was unsupported by any rea q pms or evidence. On jhc contrary all tic f, videnCc possessed tended Co the contrary N nd thinking tha, Lieut.. Henley would bt q lost interested m verifying his opinion e e was ordered t5 take charge or the cam - sigu. He dij not gel of un,Il the S0,h oi ! ugusi and wa> gone un,il she 2lsi oI sep S mber, and found no Indians bat claims n have seau many trails. He staried a, @ al>ton, in New Mexico. and lei south into 3. onora. then west. and thence north by h ulc Pass ,o Bowie. The r,sult was very u nSatiS actory to the commanding officer, V ho rcIor,od severely on the broken down n 'ndition of Lieut.. lI,uley's comm md u hen it reached the post. his k the same S oung officer who k referred Co by the Gov 7, nor aS having exchanged a few shots wi,h a ie murdcrers of Roggers and Spence, and s nom rpfurpstl fp fha pD>f buf latpr k gnu- l -