Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-01-24


 not consent to such au arrangement ard havIng so stated prUceeied to appease MT. W heeleT's wrath by little desserta. lion on tie mutability of all that Is earthly, which had the desired effects as may be here seen.
 WHAT MIR. WHEELER SAYS.
 MT. Wheeler sad that he had notified the Commissioner of Indian affairs of ,be facts ln tue case of tTespassers on the re- seryailOD, be the commissioner. rscom- mended that the war department place soldiers at hIs, Wheeler command. This recommendation was api rOvei by the secretary of the interiur who reouested the War department to act m conjunction with him. Berger had made himself ob- nOxlOUs to the Indians and complaints having been made To him to that effect. he determined on his expulsion. With that end in view, he on Monday last. drove to the reservation and was in the neighborhoOd Of Berger's house and saw Berger working In the fields, but made DO statement to him as tO his porpo,es on the morrow. Yesterday accompa1ied by Lieut. Mason and twenty soldiers. he drove to the reservation and went direct Iy to Berger's house and ordered him 10 vacate tue premises at once. This Der ger refused to do. He then ordered the Papagos of whom he had also sum- moned force, to cle the house of its contents and take pn session of it. This they aid aud subsequently carried the things of of the reservation. When ask ed why he did not notify Mir Berger when ut the reservation on the day pre- vlOus. Mir. Wheeler said: "I was under no obligations tn do SD and considering the circumstances it would not have been propsr for me to have done so, and furthermore l had no right tO make known the orders of the department" Against Berger Mir. Wheeler WAS espe- cially bitter and rOundly den puEred h ID for not having gone to him sud sought his permission tO remain on the reservA- tion. He had on the contrary made him self sO. sO.OhjsctiOuable that he would uot have permits, hIm to have remained on the reservation, mot even if he had e deed to tue property claimed" Berger bad usei the water to tue detriment of the Indians and had made improve ments on tue land contrary to tue urders gwen him. My attention" said Mr.
 
 manner tLat could not do otherwise than 1 have done, you have got to be harsh with these people, Utherwlse you cannot get along with them" Here Mir. Wheeler exhibited a note from a Jner- asking that he. Berger, would and h (mersha1t) would settle for it. NTG,..f.-. L. al. formed taat Berger had used paddock 0n the Gi;ch gate and WAS generally ex- ercising control O. the water to which be had no right. Continuing be said, 1T there is no; force enough To hold the reservation l will see that su-h force is uut there" He had by the depart meut been instructed to allow Berger to remain cn the re re-sTvation penJipg ac- ten on the title by which he claimed the land, but be was not m the mean time to make any improvements. After everything had been removed from the hou~e Mrs. Berger, despite bis requests for her tp leave, persisted m remaining, he therefore ordered two PapaRos to take her by tbe hands md forcibly re- move her This they did, and she then came to town in his buggy, accompanied by Dr. Hart. In conclusion, MT. Wheeler intimated that the character of ex-Sur- veyor-General Was,on was not above reproach for having recommended the department to approve the Berger title, and finally concluded by saying that any one who said aueht tO the contrary of W hat IS here given were d-d liars.
 WHAT J. M. BERGER SAYS.
 MT. Berger stated that he was blowing in his field at the time the soldiers mhae their appearauce near the old church, and, haviUg heard Of certain expulsl0 ns to be made auI for which force had been threatened, on the Gila reserya- tion, be suspected that something Was wrong, and so went and notified hiS wife. Wheeler shortly afterwards drove up in his buggy and, Tn very perempt- ory tone, shouted 10 him, "Get out ot brrpW This he refused to do, and stated that he proposed gong so Tucson 90 invoke the law m his behalf. Wheeler then ordered him placed under ar rest and instructed a let Of fapaGos 10 clear everything ont Cf the house and expel Mrs. Berger from the building. this they did scattering the things outside and iiualy carrying such as tuey did not appropriate to the Arsvaca road one and half miles dis tant, scattering and breaking them as they went along. Tsey ransacked the bureau drawers. stole Ms. Bergers watch and jewelry aud finally under the expr,ss orders Of Wheeler two armed papagos seized Mrs Bergeraud forcibly , iected her fiOm. what but n sEort hall q l. T. h.sr nnnuanmePU home. No resistance what ever was made to the orders of Wheeler which were rough and boisterous m the ey.renne. and that bis arrest and de'en- iiop was 10 prevent him coming to Tue son to apulv to courts for redress. He vas upder guard for fully sn hour while the destruction of his property was go- ing on. The laud be said he claimed under a title given to his wife's fStner 3S Nears ago, fully 20 years before the PapagO reservation was created or even thought of. John WaSson had, when surveyor general Of Arizona. recom- mended that the government approve and ratify the Martinez claim to 4O acres on the reservation and that papers t0 that effect were now m Washington ana had been for the past several years Wslt, IuE the lriruNaA or AAlc HuAAoAAtAeF' ''A'- It was pending the action these papers that Wheeler was instructed not to mo isst Ber,er Tn his possession of the land ID question, although he had en feaT0red to do so prior 10 his arrest and trial here soma two years since. Acting under the b.lief that his title to the land was good and that he would not be disturbed m the lawful possession of II, he improvei | and made the place valuable. He had within the past two years expended obout S4OO0 on the property; had | c c'ea-ed i, off: fenced 1t in, has under 5000 vines and 4OO trult trees and has built good, comfortable house. His removal now, the partial destruction If bus property and the turning over ot b;s bonse and lands to the Indians be lttrioutes to personal spite on the part of Wheeler, who has been seeking to en- 1 c,r,nass tbis end ever since his appoint | ment ss agent. He intended to apply to tbe courts for an injunction, winch