Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-12-04

Detroit, Philadelphia, New York an,
Boston- The franchises Of hofh ~,
bonaio and Providence teams srs ~
~ zee nanos OF the league, and no 9th
ers will be issued. The schednIs -,
zoe season Will consist Of loo games
each eiuo playing 20 games With III,
osoers, ana the program will De 50 ar
ranged that the 30 games PLAYED ir
each league city will be PLAYED in sn
Rageme1ts OF two week. durAiisn a,
intervals of two weeks.
The Union Pacific Going 4. u.,.,.
FARso Oak. }, Dec. 3 General Bear
OF mississippi. and Union Pacific ca.
glneef' went vest on the Northern Pa.
enc today, II is learned, 10 arrapee 70,
extending the Utah Northern system
from Butte 70 Helena, TO anticipate the
northern Pacific broad gage line tc
batte. General Beam Is said to have
the Union Pacific contract.
Arrest Of a Prominent Citizen.
DENVER. Dec. 3 -Papers were made
oui this Afternoon for the arrest of q
d. Scott, Clerk of Arrapshoe county
ana one OF the not prominent citizens
II Colorado, for forgery for SIS 600. 1,
u ella med that Scott forged the name OF
W Q. Lathrop on bonds amounting 10
x6bUO, part OF which was NEG oiiat. d Nv
the banSs. He also by forged bill OF
sale transferred a set af abstract books
from Lathrop to himself, upon which he
gave a chs,tel mortgage of $500. The
money IL supposed TO have been used in
election expenses during last falls cam
paign. SCOTS friends claim that he il
persecuted by political enemies, among
whom IL Lathrop, and that he IL not
guilty OF the crime, and are offering
money to 9 tile the claims.
Annual Report or General Crook.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.-Brigadier Gen
eral Crook, commanding the Depart
ment OF Arizona, in his annual report
describes at considerable length the cir.
cumstances which attended the out
break OF the CHR ,cahuss uuder Gero-
nimo, Mangus and other chiefs las.
spring. and declares substantially that
the want of harmony between the
agents of the Interior Department and
the military makes such Outbreaks pos.
sible. be says that upon returning to
the Department of Arizona IN 1882 he
found the Apaches huddled abost the
agency. There was no land for them to
OuitNdtt. uc Auulhus CDtHpiAluSu OF
this, and the Agent, Mr.. Wilcsx, ac
knowledRed the justice of their com
plant, but said be was acting in strict
compliance with his orders in keeping
them there. He said, however. that II
General Crook would take the whole re-
spoRsibilIty Of their management, be
wilcox would make no objection to
their removal to other localities within
o 49,
then cat, and it was agreed on all hands
that II was best to bring In all that
could not be killed. This whole mat
ter" writes General Crook. was fully
anders God before l started for the
Sierra Madres. Imagine my surprise
when ] reached the border on my re-
turn from the Sierra Madres with a
portion of the Chiracahuas as captives
to learn that the Agent had telegraphed
to Washington protesting against their
being brought on the reservation"
Soon afterward General Crook was
ordered to Washington for oonsulta-
ton. and in his presence, after full dis
cussion, q memorandum was signed by
the Secretaries of War and the Interior
by which she police control of the en-
tire reservation was vested in the War
DrRfEtIuCdt. u6 SCODt Oh bub CDu-
troll" he says, was thoroughly dis
cussed and az thoroughly understood.
not only by myself but by the other
persons present-viz the Secretary of
War, the Secretary of the Interior and
the Commissioner of Indian Affairs.
The idea that the authority which / had
already exercised on the reservation,
| simply as a matter of necessity. was in
Los 80 m iaaaarnA
was never even limited at. On the con
trary, my duties and powers were by
| agreement expressly recognized and
made of record, aud were exercised and
enforced without any objsction for
nearly two years. Upon this express
understanding | made myself RESPONSE.
bic for the peace and quietude of the
Indians. For more than two years
there was not single depreciation by
the Apaches. Ii was the first time in
the memory Of VII ite men that so long
an interval of peace had been eni Iyed
In Arizona and New Mexico. As have
said before. mp to this time the Indian
Department seemed only too willing to
have me manage the entire Indian
business, giving me most hearty CO.
operation, and l certainly could not
conceive that with the added danger of
the Chirieahuas there would be any less
degree of cooperation.
Months afterward IL appears that on
the very day the above agreement was
entered into, the Secretary of the Int
rior wrote 20 Agent Wilcox 10 terms
| which must have convinced him that
| neither he nor the Commissioner of In
dian Affairs was 10 accordance with my
views as to Indian management, and 1t
the same time saying that the agree
ment WAS a makeshift to relieve them
from any responsibility and transfer il
to my shoulders, also limiting that an
expression of views adverse to the
method of settlement would be agree
| able 10 the Department. The result WAS
inevitable, and on the 18th of Septem-
Der found that Agent Wilcox was com.
planning to the Interior Department
with reference TO the agreement that II
deprived him of his power of govern
msnt of the Indians and left little to
sustain bis authority, and recommend
ing its termination
| have 20 knowledge of the contents
| OF the confidential communi cations be-
tween the Indian Department and ID
agent, bat as sequel find that early
In the December following. in less than
fifteen months, the Commissioner oil
Indian Affairs. in a letter to the Score
tary of the Interior, takes the ground
that she agreement Was with the under
standing shat the military Off sers were
co have supervision of the police reRu
Iations on the reservation. under the d.
rection aud with the approval of tbs
Iudlsu agent. With this action OF thu
Interior Department officials at Wash
incton, 10 IL not 10 be wondered thai
the dangers of a divided control anc
want of 90 operation should becom'
IN suifest.
In December, 1884. Agent Wilcox val
relieved and Ford vas appointed 10 his
place. The new agent at first worked
in harmony with me, but by the middl,
of January be took another course.
reported the matter, and asked that ms
administration be sustained or that
be relieved Of responsibility. | was IN
stru.ted. pending conference betweer
the too Departments at Washington
not 10 interfere with the farming oper-
atious of the Indians, Who were no
considered a. prisoners. and Informed
that the question of relieving me mus
ia the public interest be held IN abey
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