Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-08-01
Troops yersus Indlsus in arizOns.
Douald Robb in .sex.Y.Treuasl

(Douaid BObb in tAe S. I. Treu1sl
 Sir: One one ot your reporters kss mad a talk with Lieutenant Davis. rs ceutly returned from AriZOna n Shicn he letter I5 credited wlih statements
 O paipably untrue that they call for uotlce. I'll taAe them m their order. II he sees this reply he will know thsf the writer is as competent to give ah opinion ID the premises as he ls-
 He says the people III Arizona are "howilng about the ineficieEey Of troops That is true. l challenge any man to give me single instanc- Oi their efficiency during the last eight years, except when Major Chsree whipped some Waite Mountains m the IontO Basin.
 lie gives what Is tO be considered an illustration ol the difficulties under which the troops labor as fOilo-s: Given a detachment of trosps st Nes York and another st Montreal. required to catch an enemy moving rem AlbanS to PIttsbu-g, wlth the possibility of finding water twice between NeS York aud Albany-mInd l say the possibility, not the certainty or even probability And then when you catch up with the Indians they just scatter and that IS the end of It SO far Gs striking any ser iuus blow Is coDcCrEeG. There Sa- a tune when AnZOnR was s.sfl~licEe,l an arid desert. lien'sns-as Davl~ Osscrs- dts the intelligence If ths IE.D1Les readers and tine people of this country when he trIes ht thIs late day t0 bf-sths hf,. iuto that dead hhei ln<re I- lot S part of Arizona suufh Of tDe thlrtS -flftk parallel ani east os the Ptrla villages. where there sIe Ttt stt;.t T-si.-- and minin. camps by ;Le dozen wisaiG the distances Ee c.tes.
 The latter part of the above quota tiOn, about "caIchlDg uP SIJn thc In dian" Is luiicrOus. | chailer xe Lieut. Davis to give an instance Of the sort When General Carr retreated from the Cibicu, in 1881, the White Mountain In dIaus caug Et up NItn hlnl ana gave hin battle beneath the walls "' Fort Apsc1e- In the same year the IhiricShuas nroke from the TeseTvatlOu and went into Mexico. kiluny Es thSy Neat. lhsTe were only seveaty-five bucks, kSmpersc with women and children and P.andsf, and there were five com 1srivs of sol- dIers after them, and th-y dlJ uo; catch Up.' General Wilcox cugll and dIG see them from Cedar Springs, and they could have Oyer.aken them viii,n ihre. hOurs-he Gld not try ta. Il,. lUiiRns killed scores of people. and the troops captured g squaw. Before the Chirics- huas made their rand a coaple of y6srs ago from Mexico into Arizona. General Crook dId not catch up." He sId nat even reach the Southern Pacific Rail- road from Whipple Post until after the Indiaus had a suri,It Of AliiaE and were back into Mexico. This was all the more reprehens;BiS n yiev uf the fact that the Presiien,. air. Arthur. tns Secretary of the Interior, Mir. Ieis-y, anu the Secretary of War, NIT. Lincoln. were warnej of the probability oi the raid six weeks before II occurred. aud asked to use thsIg b, st snGrayOrs to pro feet the settlers. The pa;ers are. cr ought Co be, on ii.e m Washington
 He say. "Ihe only way any thing can be accomplished Is tO take along some friendly Indian and talk ine thing up over the camp tre, and iay for them "Laying for then" IS what the scldiers were doing last month n the tiuada- lupe Pass. but the Indians killed them aud passed on. l don't kuoV what Lieut.. Dayis means by friendly IatisHs- Under his command, and acting ss A sergeant of the Indian scouts. c few
 weeks ago vas ChRttc, the heud uno commanded the ralding party that klll- ed the McCOmas family. BOnite, i'm plicatsd in the Cibicv lsifair. m Shich eleven mci Wa-c tsl-3 and thEse
 wounded, was also scout. Nstchsz. anOlhe. well-knOwn murderer, now with
 the hOstiles, was a scUut a year ago.
 There are friendly Indians on the
 White Mountain kesesvsiioo- Yanas. MOiaves and Ioutos, i.ut no Chirica-
 hua can b- friendly, s1d no White Mountain is safe to trust. The two
 tribes are inter-marriei with esch
 other, and have been gul.iy of repeated
 acts Of hostility since lsSl.
 He ssyS: These feli TVS who srr tearing up and down ArIZoaz ore 6 loo of roughs that came up from Mexico He knows that C., neral Crook i- respon- l sIbie for their coming. He insisted on l their return, vIth absolute immunity from punishment. although the Indian agent at San Carlos, the IeOpie os ArIz | ouR and the Secretary oi the IntefIcr Mir. Teller. protested
 He speaks of the "i6.eCO Apsches in
 Arizona" That ls an IrsXcGs4bie ig- | nOrance-tEere are only i.152 Apaeees
 ID the Territory.
 He says: live known a de;achmeut of truops 90 g0 seVen'y-iS1 hours Eltii- | out water {! nat Is o'liy exylainAhl. ! IpOu the groGBu that tae tr,luTs were | after tue Indians, and tne 'l;.eE IaOs -,l
 very slowly.
 He say~. "The -ctt!ef= iheT- are
 either h l'- of desPsraa1ss. or they sre
 easily s;.mPeded.' Tee s~ttlers zhs have shown their hos, iisiity to this man. | and who have overlooked many If hls
 shortcomings. will be gratifed with hI- \ iIppant estimate Of them. I hes ll
 paste this little paragraph m th-,r hst. | for hlm- It is suiiicI- ut answer to sap | .ha; the ma erisl wealth Of Arizona hAs | increased since lS>i more than i(0 per | cent, and that outside of the punsshzr-r | lf MsIJT Cdah-e vIsIfci ug.L toe D. | iians, no effective blow has been strucA | except l.y the whites who fell upon Es- | siuIuO Jeu's band On ths ArsuVsi | and nearly wiped them out Lieu | tenant Davis cannot glve an in- | stance when Rn innocent say | age has been kiils,i. [ can givs hun ' instances when red murfsrers have been | shielded hy hIm and his superiors and lifted above the lsw.
 f The people os ArlzOna have sufficient : | reason Co complain Of the InefficieDcy oi me troOp-. or more strictly speskinE. | rhe men who command them. snd the | proof that they ere Int ficienI is m the | .act that then co uoi pr. ,ect the settles-- | Let me add that ths- iueisr;eucy ot Gen.
 Crook is tls so'e cause of the murdegs L.. .. e