Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-30
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INDIAN NEWS.

- at daylight this morning. lie Tepor striking a hostile trail on Ask Creek ia The trail was very large and about tw ' days old, leading m the direction , Eagle Greek. Geo. Stevens with a part of ten citizens Ieit,here yesterday evenin
 for Eagle Creek to look after the me and stock in that vicinity. Hays, wh lefi Stafford three days ago for the sam place 10 warn settlers should, If no,hin
 happens, return tonight. Everything ]
 quIet here and an easier feeling exists a
 the agency and sub-agency in regard [,
 the White Mountains. Ten or twelv,
 teams delayed here for the last thre'
 days, Jeff for Globe this morning.
 LoRDSBURG, April 2S-l, IS rumoreC
 here that the Clifton stage was taken 1T
 and the driver and four passengers killed
 This report needs confirmation. A banC
 of about ten Indians crossed the tracI
 twenty miles west of here last night anc
 kIlle6 one track walker. The Shakes
 peare Guards, Capt. Black, are under arm, awaiting marching orders. Lively time.
 are anticipated soon.
 CANT THOMAS, April 24-A courier
 from Clifton this morning reached here
 this evening. The dispatch reads thai sixteen were killed two and a half miles | F-o,, (tI,F o,, ,,,, Er,..av- o,-ayfp, rrl,a,
 took in Smiths train of one hundred
 mules and ten teamsters, and on Situr
 day attacked an OK train on the upper
 Gila and killed all of the teamsters. They
 took the road up the Gila. God knows
 how many more they have killed. Wheu
 last seen they were within few miles
 of Mrs York's house, who was by herself l Carr < Jordan's train IS on the road
 from Lordsburg to Clifton and It is sup-
 posed will be killed. They are likell
 going out by way of Lordsburg and
 Doubtful Canyon.
 NEW YORK, April 24-The Tribune's
 Washington special says: Teller said to
 a correspondent yesterday that he should
 proceed cautiously in the management
 of Indian affairs and not attempt any
 abrupt changes of policy. He does no;
 favor an immediate disruption of tribal
 relations, even if 1t were possible to se- cure it. He believes in the settle
 ment upon farm lands in seveialty and when the IndIans are suf-
 iciently advanced to render the success of such a plan probable. Bui this, he says, is not yet the only thing which he hopes to see accomplished during his administration, and which he believes promises good results. He wishes to have the reservation system supplanted by a system of patentine lands to Indians by tribes, SO that while possessing lands in common they may have the same title to them as would be secured to community of white men who should purchase and pay for lands in common. Under the present system Indian tribes are moved about for one reason or another, and this, the Secreta- " thinks, is not only cruelty to the h. dians, but productive of mischief to their neighbors. Tribes which are far enough advanced, he thinks, shodld he taught the rudiments Of agriculture and be made self-supp rting as soon as possible. Nomads should be supplied with cattle that they may become herders. Referring to the outbreak of Apaches the Secretary said they, as well ] as all other wild tribes, should be 1 lisarmed. If there is no law by which | this can be done one should be passed. 1 "Of what use are fire arms to them<" l He asked. There k no game for them | to hunt. We feed them and We must 1 continue to do SO until they eau support l themselves, Why should We allow them | to ride about with their repeating and | br eech loading carbines? They only | furnish means and temptation to mur- der. We disarmed and dismounted two . thousand Sioux some time ago, and they | have been ten fold more progressive | since that time than in the same length | of time before.
 THOMAS, A. T., April 24.-Nothing has been received from Stevens party, nor from Eagle Creek cup to noon. The White Mountain Indians at the sub agency wished permission to go north to plant, which under the present was very properly re- fused. It IS thought however, they may go, and the acting agent has notified them through Sub-Agent Hoag that if they do go, they will be considered hostile and treated accordingly. Five more horses were stolen from the cattle camp last night. Three were recovered to-day. The San Carlos Indians were the thieves.
 Special to the CITIz-S.
 FoRr THOMAS, April 24-The follow ing is verbatim copy of letter ad- dressed to Isidore Solomon, and for warded by courier from Clifton dated the twenty-secOnd. "We have our fire at last. The Indians killed six men at Gold Gulch yesterday, about two and half miles from the LongfelIow mine, among whom are $. D. Packard, Jno r. Risque, Captain Jno. Slosson, S. H. L. Prescott. They then attacked aD OK train Of 0. K Smyth, of Shakespeare, near camp about one and half miles from Clifton and killed five teamsters and took about one hundred mules. Last Saturday morning they attacked some OK teams near Walls ranch, killing about F men. They then took the road and God knows where they have gone. They will most likely take in Carrs and train, which were near York's rsnche when last seen. The letter IS signed by Frendenthall.
 Special to the CITIZEN.
 LoaDsBURG. April 2L-A fight took place yesterday afternoon at Horseshoe canyon, between the Indians and the Indian scouts and troops, in which tIe latter were victorious. Four Indian scouts and three soldiers were killed and four soldiers wounded. Three In- iians were seen ar Leitendort Wells, eight miles south of here, evidently re- for water. Other small bands were seen going south over the San Simon flat, betweet9Leitendorf and Stein's peak. A band of twenty or thirty Indians crossed the Southern Pacific railroad track at this point early this going north towards the Burro They left some broten