Arizona silver belt. [volume] (Globe City, Pinal County, Ariz.) 1878-19??, 1883-10-06


half minute to wait, and | devoted
that to study of DR.. Mary Walker,
who was in>the reception room, and
sat, statue in dress-coat and panta-
looms, "like patience on monument,
smiling at grief Invert that, please:
grief on chair, frowning at patience.
Mary's halcyon days are past; her
features are growing more sharp; her
coat hangs as limp as if it were on
hook in her wardrobe; her pants are
not Elusive enough to hide the angu-
lar points in her lower limbs; back
view of her shows one-third shirt col
lar-that much of her appearance |
had noticed when-"De Seketry will
see you, sah," sounded in my ears, and
the next instant l was in the presence
of small man, with good face, a
plentiful crop of beard, and a mass of
hair that would have made glad the
heart of scalp.loving Indian. Sec
retary Teller is comparatively young
man, good listener, quick to grasp
an idea, a direct talker, he has much
intellectual strength-his face shows
that he is kind, without being effusive,
and very determined. think he is
the ablest member of the government.
My mission to him was in connection
with the Deer Creek coal fields; stu
ated, SO Mr.. Robbins survey says, on
the San Carlos reservation. We
talked some of Crooks campaign-an
ignominious failure and a national
disgrace--some about Indian matters
generally; some about the resurrec-
tion of two year old order upon
| which Crook and his fielding, Craw-
ford, have been acting, and in accor-
dance with which truer and better
men than either of them have been
: driven from their property some about
! the extent of the coal fields, not word
! about Agent Wilcox, and good deal
about the rights of the locators to the
coal fields at Deer Creek. The Secre.
tary told me that the order upon
which Crook acted was not hist
was Kirkwood's. I think he has had
r a bad counsellor in Wilcox, because il
must have been through advice giver
r by him that the military were EN-
: ployed to annoy the coal field men ani
q other whites who have to pass across
r the reservation. The Secretary sayl
i that the rights of these men will no
be impaired by the action Of the mill
= tary; and that no sale, lease or othel
y disposition of the property shall taxi
: place that does not recognize thos'
q rights. pointed out to him tina
y every man, woman and child on th'
n San Carlos reservation represent ovel
+ 300 acres of land, while white MAJ
e could only get 100 acres. He sale
g that he intended to advise Congress
h at its next session, to curtail this ant
t other large reservations; to hold tn,
n Indians more compactly together; II
r make them wholly, if possible, if not
k partially self-sustaining, and to Civ
n every acre of land not absolutely nee
C cssary, back to the public demain
:, The programme is good one, and th'
:. sound public sentiment of the country
= will sustain him. He assured MI
that his recommendation to Congress
r would be backed by his influence. 1
o will certainly be done, and the ques
C ton of boundary settled to the salts
: faction of the people on the western
, edge of the reservation as well as tt
k the locators of the Deer Greek Goa
7. fields. He says that the system o
IS making treaties with Indians is wrong
~ and that he will treat them, not as j
!, they had equal powers with the gov
Il ernment' but as subjects. In tina
n last idea lies the germ of successful
Is Indian policy at last; that Mr.. Telle
v will carry it out, | am certain; but h
y needs honester and less sensual mel
, than P. P. Wilcox to help him, AM
T. better fighters than Crook to max
% the Indians take their medicine
1t Mr.. Teller referred to an editoria
6 written by me, in which / charged
- . the evidence l had seemed to warran
u it-that he wanted, in conjunction
n with others, to steal the coal fields;
y am free to admit, now, that do no
h believe it; and though he did not asl
- it, take as public way of withdraw
y ing the charge, as did of making il
u He says that he was subjected to pres
J. sure, almost every day, by people VIII
10 wanted these coal lands, and that h
% invariably refused. His programme
:, as given above, is the best proof. S
n my interview ended, and | left tn
70 building pleased to think that the mel
n whose ambassador l was would ge
Il justice. ID. R.
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