Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-06-20
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Exciting Arizona News.

The Florence Enterprise of June l4th
has the following account of high hand
ed outrage that is destined to lead to
blood-shed or change in the rotten way
of managing Indian reservations. Ameri-
can citizens seem to have less rights than
Apaches. Many of our citizens are in
terested in this mining region aud will
read the statement from the ERtilprise
with hot-blood and flushed checks:
"On last Thursday, without mo-
ment's warning, Capt. Crawford, presum-
cd to be acting under orders from the
hero of the Sierra Madre surrender, came
down to the San Carlos copper group
with two companies of soldiers and com
PEELED the large force Of men nc work
there to leave pOst-haste and abandon
the property and costly improvements.
Tfis is one of the dirtiest pieces OF
villaines yet perpetrated by the worth
less military. Three times the western
line of the reservation has been run by
competent surveyors, and each time it
was found that the San Carlos Copper
group lay at least two miles outside the
reservation. Upon the strength of these
.surveys, aud without any protest from
the Indian agents or the government, an
eastern company, composed OF honora-
BILE citizens, paid $50, GOO cash for these
mines and have expended many thou
sands more in developing the property,
in erecting buildings, and in purchasing
smelters and machinery for the reduc-
ton Of the ore, while MIR. Tweed has
expended $l5, 900 in building road into
the mines and bridging the ella. Alto
gether at least 500, 900 has been ex.
pended on this enterprise, and had it
not been disturbed the company would
have disbursed in this aud ella county,
during the next twelve monrhs, over
$500, 900.
The cause of this highhanded military
proceeding is well understood. Upon
his escape from the Sierra Madre and re.
turn to Arizona. with glowing accounts
OF victory, Crook was made mill.
tary dictator Of San Carlos, and
his heroic deeds we've her
aided abroad with tinkling cymbals
and sounding brnss-Crook furnishing
the brass. But the people of Southern
Arizona soon learned of his capture by,
and cowartlly concessions to the red.
handed Chiricahuas, and We're loud in
their condemnation oil his course and the
lying dispatches he sent out during and
after his inglorious raid into Sonora, In
his position as dictator at San Carlos he
saw an oppoit NIFTY to get revenge upon
at least few of the people who had re.
fused to endorse his false claims to vic.
tory, and the plan he adopted was to
run new line ON the west side of the
reservation, taking in half the town of
McMillen, the San Carlos group and sew
eral hundred valuable mines besides
theneject the people and rob them OF
their hard.earued property. He was
stopped in the work by an order from
the Department before the line was
completed, but he had gone, far
enough to take in n million dollars
worth of property and now has com
menced the dirty work Of dispossessing
| the owners. The motive we have assigned
is plain, for not foot OF the land taken
in is claimed by the Indians, nor is there
foot of it that they could utilize. IL is
all mineral land, rugged and devoid of
vegetation or timber IN most places, and
could not possibly have amy value to the
| Apaches.
This piece of raseality will drive hun.
dreds of thousands of dollars from the
Territory, throw hundreds of poor men
out of employment and deprive us of
some of the best copper, gold aud silver
districts in Arizona.
Ii this state of affairs is to continue,
we must either abandon Arizona or rise
up, en- masse, and fight for our rights.