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Given Q detachment of troops at New
 York and another at Montreal re,
 quired to catch an enemy moving from
 Albany to Pittsbnrg, with the possi,
 biEty of finding water twlee between
 New York and Albany mini l say
 the possibility, not the ctrtainty
 or even the probability, Ana then
 when you catch up with the Indians
 they just scatter and there is al end
 of it so far as striking any serious
 blow is concerned
 There was time when Arizona was
 considered an arid desert. Lieu enant
 Davis discgedits the intelllgeu ,e oi
 The Tribunes readers and tho people
 of this country when he tries this
 late day to breathe hfe into chat dead
 libel. There is not a part of Arizona,
 south of the thirty fifth parallel and
 east of tho Pima Villages, where there
 are not settlements and mining camps
 by the dozen within tho distances he cites.
 The latter part of the above quota tion, about watching up with the In dians' is Ipdierons, frhallenge Lieu. tenant Davis to give an instance of the sort When General Carr retreat ed from the Gibicu, in 1881, the White Mountain Indians caught up with him and gave hlm battle beneath the walls of Fort Apache, Iu the same year the Chiricahuas broke from the reserva. ton and went into Mexico, killing as they went. There were only seventy four bucks, hapapered with women and children and plunder, and there were five companies of soldiers after them, and they did not 'catchup.' General Wilcox could and did see them from Cedar Springs, snd they could have oyertakeu them within three hours he did not try. The Indians killed scores of people, and the troops cap tured squaw. Before the Cbirica- huas made their raid a couple of years ago from Mexico into Arizona, Gener. al Crook did not catch up." He did not even reach the Southern Pacific Railroad from Whipple Post until after the Indians had had a surfeit of killing aud were back into Mexico. This was all the more repreheRsiblc in view of the fact that the President, Mr, Arthur, the Secretary Of the Interior, Mr. Teller, and the Secretary of War, MI. Lincoln, were warned of thc probabil, ity of the raid six weeks before :t oc- cured, and asked to use their best an leavors to protect the settlers. The papeIs are, or ought to be, on file in Washington.
 He says; "The only way anything ,an be accomplished is to take along some friendly Indians and talk the thing up over the camp fire, and lay for them" Laying for them is what the soldiers were doing last month in the Guadalupe Pass, but the Indians killed them and passed on. 1 I don't know what Lieutenant Davis means by friendly" Inaihus Under bis command, and acting as asergeant of the Indian scouts, a few weeks ago, was Chatto, tbs iend who commanded .he raiding party that killed the Me- Jomas family. Bonito, implicated in the Cibicu efair, in which eleven men were killett and three wounded, was also sco,t, Natchez, another we'll known murderer, now with the hos- tiles, wa> scout a year ago, There are siiendly Indians on tho White Mountain Reservation. Yumas, Mo. layes and Tontos, hut no Chiricahua ,an be friendly, and 10 White Moun- .ain is safe to trust The two tribes are inter-married with each other, and have been guilty of repeated acts of hostility since 1881,
 He says: "These fellows who ire caring up and down Arizona are lot of roughs that came up from Mex co." He knows that General Crook s responsible for their coming. He insisted upon tbeir return, with abso- ute immunity from punishment, al- though the Indian agent at San Car los, the people of Arizona and tue Sec retary of tho Interior, Mir Teller, pro tested.
 He speaks of the "l6,000 Apaches in Arizona This is an inexcusabIe ig- norance there are only 4,752 Apaches in the Territory.
 He says; five known q detachment of troops to go seventy-two hours without water" This is only explain. lblo upon the ground that tho troops were after the Indians, md the latter very slowly
 He says; "The settlers there are either a lot of desperadoss, or they arc easily stampededn Tho settlers whol have shown their hospitality to this man, and who have oystlookcd many of bis shortcomings, will be gratifed