Arizona citizen., 1877-03-24

c
 Sheridan's staff, and who built tn,
 the celebrated Sherman house at Chi
 cago, was on the San Pedro looking for lands for a Chicago colony, ant
 in THE CITIZEN of November II, ap pears letter written by hlm in which he gives his view of the thorough scouting General Kaulz was doing, a.
 follows.
 It is simply farce, the manner IT
 which a company of cavalry hunt Indians Leaving their headquarter, } from two weeks to q month after inc Q depredatiOns have been committed they march in column with an ambu
 lance and two six mule teams to haul
 ratiOns and comforts for the officers ,, over the most conspicuous part of the country, where their movements can bC
 observed for a distance anywhere from
 ten to twenty miles No attempt is made to cover them from the hOstIleS
 Arrived at some convenient place with.
 in fifteen or twenty miles of where the Indians are supposed to be, the officer
 Tn command goes into camp, pitches his tents, displays his ambulance and
 army wagons 10 best advantage for
 warning the enemy of his close prOx- unity, and then solemnly moves out
 in the broad sunlight of day, with two
 thirds of his men and proceeds 10 hunt for Lo by passing over the highest
 ridges to the neigh boring hills. striking
 terror into the heart of the willy foe.
 who sits on a convenient crag of rock watching the approach of the daring invader Twenty-four hours, some l times fOrty-eight, under some daring and enduring commander, do these sons of Mars hunt for the wards of the nation. Then with the same show of military discipline, they march back again to theIr camp, to report no h. dians found or sIgns of them, or that the depredatiOns were pepetra'ed by expectations white men. Is it any
 wonder after such futile military pro lection, immigrants already here are deterred from settling in your valleys, and those intending 10 come are dis cOuraged from the attempt?'
 I luC dUDNt NdS NllblEl diltl Ndi tlul- ly witnessing in person some of Gen
 eral Kautz thorough scouting. The
 gentleman was a stranger Tn the coun-
 try, and it is not reasonable To suppose
 that the capital question biased his
 judgment, and as he desired to bring a colony here it is not suppOsablc that he desired to protract the war for speculative purposes. All this kind eff scouting pleased the department com mander, especially if the officer in. command reported that there were no. Indlans. But when Lieutenant Henely cameIu and reported that he had seen numerous Indian trails, with his horses well worn down with fatigue and hard marching, General kauiz says, " the result was very unsatisfactory 10. the commanding officer at Bowie, who reported severely on the broken down condition of Lieutenant Hencly's com maud when it reached the Post" Of course it was; he had displeased the commmdcr of the post and the depart meni commander particularly; h. had left the beaten roads and tried no doubt to do a 3oldier's duty, and, in doing so, he had discovered Indian trails and established the fact that the ambulance brigades. backed and supported by
 General Kautz, had idled away their time, and tat General Kautz and his indolent officers did not care how much the poor fronti rsman suffered If their time could be spent in ease and luxury.
 General Kautz lays great stress upon the fact that reports which I sent him of Indian depredations were in some instances Overstated. l have in every. instance reported to him ot the depre- dations committed just as 1 have re. ceivcd them, and Ia every instance from sources I deemed to be reliable. These reports were generally sent to mel while hostiliiies were going on and of course the exact result could !. not be given. As for instance in thci recent attack on the Sonoita, Mir. , Thomas Hughes wrote me while the Indians were yet at their bloody work, ! that at least ten had been mdrdered m that valley. The Indians killed two at the white house ranch and went in the direction of eight men who were burning mescal near by; as none of them came into the settlement, and as they were unarmed, il was reasonableI to suppose they had been murdered. But it subsequently transpiIed that they saw the Indians in time and ran toward Santa Cruz, which place theyI reached in safety. But the General raises another question of yeracIty, and says that if 1 know of eight men killed Tn the last raid, know more than he does: that the latest informg- tion he was able to obtain as to the amount of damage perpetrated by the Indians in the early par of February last, is as follows: Two McXicanS killed and one wounded, in the Soaoi- la valley, and three killed and one wounded near the Yellow Jacket mine EIghtv-fivc head of horses, mules and cattle composes the loss of stock To show that in this instance l do. know more than the department com and that his latest information is not as reliable as my statement, l will say that instead of there beng eiobt as 1 previously reported, there