Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-08-29
TIE pulpit is the center of gravity.
Rourks and liatewood Corrected.

(Globs Silver Belt,1
 The oyerweening desire of Captain John c. Bourke, 3d Cavalry, to pull General Crook out of the slough of ob-
 liquity into which be has fallen by reason of mismaDRgement of Indian Af- fairs, which resulted Tn the murder of SO many citizens, has led him to make statements not true. Captain Bourke Is credited by correspondent Of the Missouri Republican As saying in letter published Tn the August number of Outing) that the Apache outbreak Of 1883 was the result dlsHtiectiOn m con- sequence of a difference of opinion be- tween the Indians and the Agent "As to what constituted ration, the wicked Indians lAboring under the deluslOD that 1t was enough food to keep the re- cipient from starving to death, and ob- jecting to sn issue of supplies based up- on the principle according to winch gTumbling jack tRrs used to say that prize money was formerly bpportIoned
 that is by being thrown through the rungs of a lsdder-whRt stuck being
 the share of the Indian, and what fell
 to the ground being the share of the
 Agent" Taking it for granted that the Republicans correspondent Is correct | m attributing the above quotation to CaptaIn Bourke, we will say, and em- phasiZe it, that there Is not s shadow of | truth in 1t, nor can We believe that Captain Bourke made the statement | through ignorance of the facts. The
 same correspondent places Lieutenant Gstewood as saying "that Victoria had tried hard to live on the reservation,
 and for two successive years planted | fine crop of corn. The first year, when
 the corn was knee high, an order came | from Washington directing the removal of Victoria and his band to another | to another point at once. He complain | ed it was not fair to make him lose his | crop, but the order was imperative and | had to be obeyed. The following year be again planted a large field of corn | and when it was waist high Victoria said to the Lieutenant under whose | charge he was, If the great father could
 see this corn he would know how anx- | ious I am to live on the reservation. He | compelled me to lose my crop last year, but hope he will not disturb me this | time The Lieutenant in report which he was making to Washington
 soon after spoke of Victories fine crop and of his hope that he would not be | uAA bA-
 der transferring Victoria back to San Carlos, and the result was that awful
 outbreak, the horrors of which will con. | tinue to be told in the southwest for gen
 erations to come" This statement Is
 upon a par with that of Bourke's, but
 no doubt inrocently mads by GatewOOd,
 he having been stuffed with 1t by some | chrouicler of Indian events which only
 had existence i1 cratic braIns. For the
 information of Lieut. GatewOod We wlll
 state that Victoria has not been on the San Carlos reservation for ten years.
 He was brought there by Agent J. r. Cum at the time the Chincahua reser-
 vstion was broken up and Nlctorio,
 with several of his band. ran away from the San Carlos reservation the same
 summer, and never returned to it. Con
 sequently the story of the fine crop of
 corn and the pathetic appeal to be bl-
 lowed to remain on ihe reservation Is
 simply a concoction without a shadow
 of truth and probably designedly made
 by Gatewood's informant for base and
 ulterior object The statement, how
 ever. with that of Bourke's, has gone
 abroad and has had Q misleading effect
 in regard to Arizona Apaches.