Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-08-11
GENERAL CROOKS REPORT

immediately after his return from the
 Sierra Madre campaign, with some sddi- tions, one of which will be found below
 The ChIricahua will present no diff culty whatever in the work of subject ing him tJ peaceful restraint and good dlsclphne. They were not deprived of
 their arms for the best of reasons. It is not advisable to let an Indian think you are afraid of him even when fully armed.
 Show hlm that at best he is powerless ID ycur hands, and he will become your best friend and cheerfully obey all he may be instructed to do. It Is unfair, t1u, tO deprive h m ot the means of pro tectlng hls home and property against
 white scOuudrels, who, armed to the teeth, infest the border, and would con sider rOtbIng so worthy Of their prow- ess as tD plunder ponies or other prop erty from uuermed Indians, just begIn-
 mug to plant or raise stock. So long as
 whIie horse and cattle thieves roam the country, so long should the Indians at
 San Carlos be allowed to carry arms for
 their own protection. Further, 1t Is not
 practicable to disarm the Indians. Their
 arms caI never be taken from them un-
 less they are taken prisoners with their
 arms Tn thelr hands, while engaged in
 lighting, by sudden surprise or by dis
 ibIug wounds. When Indians first sur
 render or come upon the reservation,
 they antlcipat being disarmed and
 make their arrangements in advance,
 coucealing most of their best weapons
 and delivering up only the surplus and
 iurervlceable. The disarming of In
 .iians has in almost every instance on
 record been a farcial failure
 l may add that the fact that the h.
 dIgns left behind have not come in is a
 matter of no significance. The Indians
 nave no idea of the value Of tin e. The
 members of Locos band who came into
 San Carlos last May were si1ty-two days lu making the journey, though they had
 fnIty or fifty miles less distance to travel
 than those whom I left in the Sierra
 Nadre
 The ahove are the closing paragraphs of General Crooks report and will ioubtless prove interesting to the peo-
 ple of Arizona. In this report he says hat ''it Is unfair to deprive him the
 lrsche Of the means of protecting his
 rome and property against white -couDdrels who armed to the teeth in- fest the border and who would consider nothing so worthy of their prowess as 70 plunder ponies or other property rom unarmed Indians just beginning to plant or raise stock" This, to say the least is very high estimate of the character of the men who reside in Ari- zoua, "wbite scoundrels' IS the word he 1sesi 4 very mild expression from the nan who fought the 'bloodless battle of Sierra Mgdrer' He did not lose a man, 30 he says That is what the Mexican 'aptIves said. And more, they say he 1 id not kill single Indian" But they l lsd no hand in writing General Crooks | port, and are not responsible for any | inaccuracies 1t may coatsin. Neither | i'd Al Sieber the faitful scout and Cook |
 he packer of the expedition have any | Hend in furnishing material for that re- port, though they do know of some i'm portant facts which should have been |
 mbodied in the report. We have heard l hat on one bright morning during that .mpus campaign, that 235 Apache -routs were sent out to parity with the | -enegade savages, each one of whom vas furnished with 200 rounds of fixed
 mmUnition, and that when they return 7d ID the evening they had but l5 rounds ,piecel Now we do not know that the cOuts did this thing-we do not make be charge against General Crook that -ither be or his scouts gave 43,475 cart -ages to the renegade savages, BUT THAT Is WHAT THE REPORTS SAY. If ihe scouts ,rovrd tTeacherous to General Crook he ,ould not helpit. But if they did prove 'al=e, and did give the renegades over i3G00 rounds If fixed umunition, Gen dz terms with the renegades, for under -uch conditions both he and the hand 'nl o' soldiers under his command were Q danger Of annihilation. If these sto- les that are circulated about General Crook are true, the War Department, as we'll as the people, should know some hing about them.
 With the estimate General Crook 'laces upon the people of Arizona white scoundrels" is not to be won tered at, that he advocates arming the indians and furnishing them with fixed , mmuniiion. The lives of our people, | rcordiDg to his idea, are not worth much. and be IS in favor of placing the ndians in a condition to kill them off as ist as possible. The people of Arizona, 7hum General Crook Is pleased to des- ynate as worthless white scoUndrels," . HOW something about his Indians who re armed to the teeth, ,aud with the army Q back them, We have no doubt they Till be able to defend themselves | Sainsr all corners, and occasionally go a n aa independent expedition of their a VII. r. is clear We are Tn the hands of ieneral Crook for the time being. What :. III be the outcome it is hard to tell. here IS one thing. however, which is !, ear to our mind; the Indians will fare | ell. But it IS not SO clear as to the white scoundrels." General Crook :, nee said, "I would gladly see the last T; Eiricahua under the sod," but General = rock has changed since then, or be :, ated what he did not believe. He now :, -idently thinks more of the Chiraca- T las than he does of the whites. He = tai ed his reputation that the rene h negades would come in, ., Id that they would remain ;t } the reservatioD; but it now looks very ., uch as though he had previously ., talked his reputation to the Indians ..
 such strong terms as to render his ., cond "stsked reputation to the whites ., the "W. $. S.'-worthless.
 Tn our opinion, General Crook has al- |, ady proven himself unworthy of the - .siton he assumes to till, and 1t is our L, lief that we have nothing to hope for =, pm man who looks upon the people = Arizona as white scoundrels."
 " V" THELE years ago people would not ID rak their uecks to see the ex-collectOr hi the port of New York, but now that ni r Arthur, the same individual, is Pres 'n ant of the United States, they tumble m CT each other at the little railroad sta nc lus in order to catch glimpse of him. na the stations along the line of rail ID al over which be travelled from Louis le to Chicago, the other day, were