Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-09-18
FROM THE FRONT.
Affairs as They Appear at Camp Thomas Move ment Of Troops Plan Of Hcssiles-A Hale EoTmon.

Affairs as They Appear at Camp Thomas Move
 ment Of Troops Plan Of Hcssiles A Hal
 Eormon.
 IFroul our Special Correspondent in the Field.
 CAMP TEoMAs, September 9.-On m! arrival at this post I expected to see i alive with all thepomp and circumstance of war, but imagine my surorise when saw that peace reigned supreme, ehil dren were playing on the parade ground ladies promenading, officers In neghgie soldiers lOunging around and the suttle doing a good business.
 In the town of Maxey, a quarter of ; mile of. business k going on as usual supply teams passing, drawn by the les tive mule and the sluggish OK, on theil way to San Carlos and other points O danger @. At the Quartermaster's oific, l found a number ol staff officers anC line officers discussing recent event: with the greatest sang frOid. It seemed to be a gO-as-you-please day with then and they were iu graceful neghgle, Wlti and without uniform, with and without shCuidsr-straPs, with coats and Ill shiTt sleeves, in fact taking the hot weather SS ,,..., ., las possible. Still, this was il '5 1oollf to.rast with the other day I5a9 i5'SIir RI;cIey io-e ie& and other veraciou' Nlell -,llo1e5 .l5 ,C came in announcing f6e '5e',I InaEsaere s' and sc5fIng whole settle ments. -,
 Capt. Heutig, who was killed, Is great ly regretted, as he was beloved by all and We believe his associates in arms would meet their fate as bravely.
 IL is reported that Major Tuppe-, witl Compaty c, of the Sixth Calalry, leaves for the Eeld tomorrow. Lieut.. Cheevei accomuauies him.
 Capt. Eiven, late Post Commander has been ordered t0 the field to repair the road between Apache and Thomas
 Capt Smith, of Company !, EightL Infantry succeedS ham.
 CAMP TuosIAs, September llth, 1881 There is very little change since l wrote you yesterday. This afternoon Major Tupber's company was out to repair the road between here and Apache. Col Riddle has arrived tu-day to command the troops in the field. Capt. Craig, wItl his company of Indian scouts, IS at th, post. Capt Rafiefty and Lieut.. Crais have also arrived. Frank Bennett has enlisted company of thirty-iiye Indian scouts at San Carlos and are .campeC near the port There are twenty of then Yumas and NOhaves, the remaIng fifteeI being Agency and Ionto Apaches Tiput Guilfoy!s SeiH arrive tonight ana the scouts will then start to New Mex co. Capt ,jefiu-ds euvits tO raise ( company of 5hiricahuas were unsuc cessful. tho, showing decided dlsin. cliuatio'. co take part with the troops.
 TE,- citizens who left here last Wednesday for Eagle Creek, re- turned to-day, but saw no Indians Eagle Creek is about sixty miles northeast of here. and in tne vicinity oI the recent Gepredutions. They found C. II. Stevens. who was looking after hi. sheep, all right and brought him in witt their They also iodnd eight cattle-mei at that place, for whom they dug ell treuchmeuts before they left. The mel report seeing six Indians pus-- a teE days ago, bat they do not know whethci they were hostiles or not, as they made DO demonstrations The volunteer party of citizens numbered eight, headed hy r. J. B1lan as Captain. Mir. BOlan k well posted on Indians, and thinks the hossiles are headed towards the Sierra Anches and I6ntO Basin, and that il beaten will divide into small parties and strike for Sonora and Chihuahua killing and plundering all small parties they meet and avoiding the troops. Mr Newlaud, who accompanied the party, was left out there t. aid the cattle men in bringing in their stock.
 Everything IS BOW quiet, but 1t IS feared we will soon hear of some new outbreak in different direction. Hunt ing Indians is like hunting coyotes, they keep running until the chase IS reiin- guished and then return to plunder.
 As to the. employment of Indians as scouts, it is very unpopular here, and we believe future events VIII show t to be disastrous. IL is an impossibility that these men will fight earnestly against their own race, sometimes being call d to fight against their own tribe.
 r. French, a stock raDcheT, living iS miles above Fort Apache, Is here. Al the time of the outbreak he was at Will COX with band of cattle, which he was selling. The reports at first he did not believe, but finally the truth of the mat. ter was forced on him, and be began tc be very anxious for his wife and six chil. dren. On his arrival here he telegraphed to Apache, but his family was not there Late at night he heard they were al Cooley's ranch, near Apache, and that the Indians had stolen GOO head of cat tie and GO horses from his place. His horses were Of Lexington stock and quite valuable. At one stroke Mir French is rendered a poor man, the la. Dor of years being swept away by the sayages.
 THE MORaONs-
 Joseph Matthews, 9 venerable relic oi Mormonism, as represented at Smith. vile, was in the city yesterday. Mir Matthews was one of the first to settle at Salt Lake in lSiI. He came here last December and settled ten miles above here. He is a hale and hearty specimen of humanity seventy-two years old, and boasts of three wives, the oldest seventy years and the youngest, who was witl him, twenty-five years old. He says il they have only one wife, they all believe in polygamy as 1t k ordained by Gcd Almighty. There are over 200 people in Smithville. only about a dozen of whom have over one wife. The colony be- licve in the proxy wife abOmination, and when 8 man dies if he leaves a young and attractive wife, she Is married to an- other Mormon, as it Is called, by proxy and ii children are born to her they take the name Of the dead husband and not that of the living. He informed me that during the recent raid at Smithville Mr. Hawkins lost five horses and the Riggs boys five horses. The latter are from Dos Cabezas and at present across the rIver looking after their cattle, not being able to recross on account of high water. The Indians belong to Jun and JeronimO's band from the sub-agency Mr. Hoag's department, or as the excited Irish ierryman reported 1t when he came ln, Hugh Donahue's band"
 We are liable to have exciting news al any moment, when 1 will immediately telegraph you.
 Georges band, numbering 60 or d bucks and 201 squaws and children, are coming into the sub-sgency on Tues day. This is the band who are charged with killing the citizens lately mastered and they will come in and receive abso- luton from the Indian Department.
 TIE Cosmopolitan Hotel is undergo ing a series of improvements that wlll transform 1t into one of the finest and most pleasant hoyels in the Territory The work has been commenced and will be rapidly prosecuted.I