Daily Republican., 1882-04-28
TheIuAiau Trouble.

tits in Arizona this time that the In
dian trouble has broken out, and from
the aggressiveness with which the muir
derous redskins carry on their work OF
butchery and blood the goverDmen
would be remiss in its duty did it not
use every means in its power to check
the lawlessness of the Indians and pun
ish the offenders. On Tuesday last the
little town of Galeyville was the scene
of the massacre of th;rty-fve white in
habitants. The band which Inaugural
tsd hostilities in the present case de
clare that they have taken up the hatch
ct to avenge the death of the three In
dams recently executed at Fort Grant,
Arizona. Their first overt act of war
in che present campaign appears to
have been committed last Friday in
the murder of five tea msters near Cliff
ton, New Mexico. Captain Gordon
started from Fort Grant in pursuit and
Col. Forsyth was stationed at Stems
Peak, to intercept the Indians who were
then thought to be on their way tc
Mexico. heirnumber seemed to have
increased to about three hundred as
they continued their raid, so that when
Col. Forsyth attacked them a day or
two after the murder of the first team
ster, they weresfound to be able to main,
tain and defend themselves. In sec.
lions like New Mexico and Arizona,
which have been settled SO recently,
aud where civilization limited as i. is,
has arisen amid so many difficulties,
hostile Indians find comparatively
little difficulty in pursuing their PUN.
dering and murderous raids. The six
Apache tribes are all hostile and in a
memorial presented to Congress in 49, /,
the Territorial Legislature furnished
sworn evidence that in two years pre-
vious 166 persons had been murdered
and 2437 cattle killed or stolen by these
tribes. Besides these Apaches there
are number of other tribes in the Ter
ritory, including the Pimas, who main
tain pea cetul relations with the whites,
and some of whose young chiefs are
now among the sch GLARS at Hampton
Normal school. In 1870 there were
1902 Indians in Arizona sustaining
tribal relations, of whom 1852 were on
reservations or in villages and about
q 200 were nomatic. The government
should in the first place put down this
sudden uprising Of the Indians and
then turn its attention toward the ques.
ton, in order to treat it with that con-
sideration which is due. Indians are
Indians aud with the greatest diff
Guilty can be made to adopt our civil
lied mode Of life. They cannot under
stand our system Of Furnishing crime,
and hence they looked upon the hang
ing of their three comrades at Fort
Grant as nothing short of murder and
it is only natural that they would feel
desire in their breasts to avenge the
death of their friends.
Our great difficulty in the way of
civilizing the Indians is that many
Indian agents and traders are grossl Y
immoral In their lives and dishonest III
their dealings, of course it is hard to
reconcile uAtutored Indians who are
noted for honesty and justice to the
dishonest habits of white traders fla
few of the latter were Lung instead of
the Indians much of the trouble would
cease. We hope our government will
look after these dishonest agents a.
well as after the Indian mauraders and
murderers.