Arizona citizen., 1877-03-10
TIE CITIZEN.
SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1877.

S1IORDA !, M1RCH lO, 1877.
 ITIs reported that the Indians who have left the San Carlos Reservation in Arizona and gone to the mountains spreading terror through the territory, have been forced tO this by the action of the agents of the reservation. It Is said that the rations- had been reduc- ed to quantity insufficient to support life, and that the Indians preferred tO go to the mountains where they could support themselves on roots and game. It is, also rumored that there is a big steal in lhe bill passed by the Terriio rial Legislature to send out volunteers against these starving Indians. Thus we go. The taint of corruption is everywhere cropping out.-LoS Ange- les Express.
 Every report and rfmor referred 10 by the Express is wholly and entirely false in fact, false Tn inference and as black in intent and purpose as the heart of the instIgator thereof. The hardest part of it is that after a foul wretch, with malice in intent and murder in his heart, has thrown his vitriol, through the columns of some paper, ever some pure man or institution, the latter must first prove they were or iginally uns,ained before any punish ment is meted out to the perpetrator of the outrage.
 Not an Indian has left the San Car los and gone 10 the mountains or else where spreading terror, but on the contrary forty-five brave scouts from the San Carlos Indians, under Captain Buford, are now in the Chiricahua mountains to bring to justice renegade Indians left in those mountains by the military inelficiency of General A. V. kautZ. And because these scouts have gone out, an unprincipled tool of the military at Prescott has started the re- ports winch the Express and other papers help circulate.
 As to the starving of the Indians,- we have the weekly testimony of dIs- interested mining men who cume from California and elsewhere and who pass through from the great mining dis tricts northwest of San Carlos and visit the latter, and the testimony is unanimous that the Indians are well fed and are contented and happy; that many of them have saved from the superabundance of their rations until they were entitled to a whole beef and have thus, and by trading, accumulated live stock, one Indian having eighteen COWS; that the implied lie about is- suing small Sonora beeves to the In dianS instead of large American beeves is based on the fact that the Indians wanted COWS and that COWS are smaller than steers, but the animals were fur nished the Indians by weight and nol by number
 As 10 the steal in the Legislative volunteer bill,-the Legislature voted Sl0,000 for a company of volunteers 10 protect the settlers from renegade Indians left in the mountains by KuutZ, while the latter is occupied in fiddling and dancing and thealricals at Prescott. There was no money in the treasury and our merchants have had to ad- vance the S1O,000, taking Territorial warrants al par in exchange and wait ing without interest for their money.
 And now Mir. Los Angeles Express, if your vicinity were threatened with 8 horde of ruthless savages and you were exerting your every effort to pro tect the lives of your people, and if you had portion of the threatening evil well under control, and We should cOolly lend our newspaper to help break that security and turn the savages loose on your households, we should be doing just what you are doing when you publish the quotation. You may have been ignorant in the mat ter, but if the wretch who started the statements ought to be imprisoned for life, the publisher who ignorantly helps circulate the lies ought 10 be hung.