Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-09-18
WHATA SUFFERER SAYS.
Interview with III. Hooker on the Cap
 Iure of the Indians.
Ins An.ales ierald-l

Q-os Angeles Herald.)
 "I consider thIs Indian business said Mir. Hooker, settled for all time and ! regard the campaign of Gene TO Miles from start to finish, .,G .ae mos, brilliant In the history of Indian war fare. His work could Lnot have been commenced under more untavorabl, circumstances. The whole policy oi Crook had to be exactly reversed and the resultant chaotic condition of thing. was enough to dampen the ardor of any man save General Miles.
 -'immediately upon the opening ot his campaign l saw the General and took occasion to express my opinion oi the magnitude of the work he was jus, undertaking. His reply to my some what dIscouraging gdmonItions va, characteristic Of the man T am here to stop the depredations of these mar auding murderers aad I am determined to do 1t. l propose to close out the ssvsges and settle the whole business n one year."
 1.-The cOnduc. of the campaign and its successful termination shows how the heroic General has more than kep; his word. General Miles deserves all the pralse which IS now being bestowed upon hIm all over the United States Rud l am glad of the opportunity to add my voice to the general lsudstions of his heroic deeds
 Speaking of the policy of Crook, iu conira-listinctlon to that of Gen. Niles Mir. Hooker ssid:
 Tine policies of the two General. we're as different as the men themselves That of Crook was one Of shiitless cow ardice, which never ct any time gave promise of the accom- plishment of any desirable cad. It was a polcy which made 1t apparent to sll that be possessed no more ability to devise than to exe- cute and which made him the target for the seornful contempt Of the whole pep pie of the Territory, to say nothing of the country at large. The very officers under the blundering General grew heartily disgusted with the foolish reck- lessness of his mOdus opersndI and re. peatedly openly rebelled against 1t.
 Think Ot his foolhardy act m '73 of giving over two hundred stands of arms and SIX thousand rounds of ammunition to the red devils on the San Carlos res eTvstion, who rewarded his considera,e C AAbhANE5 httCA NhAA AAAA denng the Besnet and Buck train, mur- dering Tn cold blood every man, woman aud child In the outfit, and then passing z on tO the San Pedro river and butcher ing forty more white people, It strikes me that after the perpetration of these and numerous other outrages Of a slml- lar character the inhumsD policy of fur nlsbing the enemy with means for their accomplishment might have been Rban- donsd for better one. Crook did not so consider, however, and nothing iRuuted by the awful results which fol- loN ed the prosecution of his peculiar theories, he kept is up till the time of hls retirement from the field"
 How does the policy of General Miles compare with thIs?"
 Brave, fearless End undsunted be Sc. about the work m hand. in no degree unmindful of its importance, but none the less resolved upon pushing IL to R successful termination. His very first act Was to make It death penalty to RIye.s slngle cartridge into the nauds of the enemy; and the result was that within one mCnth the sayages were without their principal means of hell raising. Then begg" the persistent pur- sui, by Gen. Miles, Captain Layton and t1eir galiant followers. kept up iu the midst of the most distressing surround lngs. In the midst of the hottest sum meg months, beset by hunger, thirst physical wesriDess and all the ImpedI- meuts which delay progress through the rugged Sierra Madres, the chase was kept up, until the Durderous Apaches were forced to an uncOuiItiOn- al surrender.
 "Whiie praises are being bestowed so generously upon Gen. Miles and Capt Layton, Ouartermsster KimbBll should not be forgotton. Too high an estimate cannot be placed upon his aid and coun- sel during the campaign.
 ''Gen. Miles and hIs brave men &C., complIshed in four months what Crook failed to scoompi in ten years. 1h- De pc of Arizona are jubilAnE over the successful termination of the campaign. and the people all over the west are to ba congratulated upon the Tid1ance ot the greatest nuisance which WAS eve. permitted 10 harrsss the government and disgrace the nation
 Mir. Hooker IS the owner Ctt the Sierra B nito ranch, GU. of Tucson. He has been a resident Of Arizona for twenty years, during which time he has had foriy-seven men murdered by the IndI- ans aud countless numbers of horses and cattle killed snd stolen. He says that during his long residence Tn Arizona he has never experienced a moments ease of mind regarding the safety of hls pos sessions, until since the capture of the Apaches. MT. Hooker has decided to make Los Angeles his future home. His wife and daughter, who are now in San Francisco, will soon join hIm here.