Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-06-19
Letter from Harshaw.
HARsHAW- A IT Juna I4th 1S

l AooH' S'S'SAoHo bob ute BnQ was tickled. Now while all this banouetiur biting and tickling is going on, do they ever think of us poor wretches in this country, .being harassed by those ten little lniuns as reported by General Sheridan to the department at Wash ington? By the way those ten little fellows must be mormous or how else could they increase in such numbers in SO short whileS For We are told by the officers at the reservation that none of them have left their dear homes there and also that none Ct the ex-scouts are on the wsrpstb. Would it not be we'll to bring the Edmunds' act to bear on them? As regards those in the moun- tains It would be as feasible as the Cat alma Island scheme. In either case 1t Is "hrst catch your rabbit before cooking 1t. No sir; they probably never think Of us. A government represen- tln< more that sixty millions of people and having millions Ill money in its treasury, and claiming to stand on the upper step of the ladder of civilization. allows Chef Geronimo and his band of | probably not more than one hundred followers to reap harvest of blood and rapIne, destroying thousands of dollars worth Of property and spreading desc. | latlon over section of country that would o.herwIse be prosperous.
 How long We will be compelled 10 sub mil to such depredations remains for ihe future 10 reveal, Rs the government Is taking no steps whatever to remove the red tiends from their place of retreat and protection-lhe reservation. If the gOverGment does not want to chastise ! them or Is not able to do so, surely it would not be any more disgraced by making a treaty with them that would kesp them m princely style during theIr natural lives, therehy saving many val uable lives and much suffering of its own peopls.
 Would 70 God thBt some of those | praying fgnGtics in the east, who claim that poor Lo Is badly treated by the out lRTed citizens of the west, were compel led t0 share our sufferILgs. for s while at least, caused by those bloody raids, as It would probably bring sudden change over the spirit of their pious dreams.
 How long will the good people of Ari- Zons and New MexIcO, who have been patient and long suffering these many years, submit to those depredstions Is R matter of uncertainty. Several in stances could be cited where patience ceased to be s virtue under similar CIT cumsisnces. One was when the Indians were brought down from Humboldt Bay, California, n the spring of 1859, to Ihe Moo reservation at MedocinO. They were taken on board the brig, "Calos" and sailed around on the ocean out of sight of land for four days to make them believe that they had crnss- ed "hesp big water" when Tn reality they landed them within one hundred miles of where they captured them. The result that In one year they were back to their old home, committing more murders. Their residence then be- ing on Indian Island, ID the bay, oppo- site Eureka, people were being killed in | the lumGer woods and on ranches, the officers claiming all the while that there We're none but good Indians on the Is land. But, however, patience ceased l tO be c virtue, and on a Saturday night several boats left Eureka with a posse of well armed men, who proceeded to the island, and since that eventful night DO more murders have been committed Tn that country by Indians.
 Another instance is that of the Pitt River Indians In the autumn of 1859. Immigrants, teamsters, lumbermen and FancheTs were being murdered without mercy, the Indians claiming protection from Fort Crook and, of course. in this case also. none but good Indians were allowed that protection. But again pA- tieuce ceased to Do a virtue, and when they murdered their last victims, Me ElrOy and Wells. your correspondent was one of the party of cItizeus who started on their trail. The result of that campaign Of citizens agaiOst poor 10 IS well known in thR. sectIOn oi country, and IL Is also well known that the Pitt River Indian war was brought to speedy termination and no more murders committed by them since.
 The military in inc field are censured for not Capturing them, but while ad- mlt:irg that some of them have not done their duty, still any person of sound judgment, familiar with the facts, knows that the present forces Tn tbe field cannot capture or eXtermlnate them, as soldiers and horses are com ple,ely worn out by those long and al- most unprecedented marches !n the boiling hot sun, and one of the toughest countries ever trod by man, not men tiunng the advantage that the pursued nave over the pursuers Tn such r.aEtry. There are other advantages, and one IS that the soldiers have no change of horses, while the Indians have msny, riding a horse until he IS worn out then drop him and start another. Hna r-.l lIHn.. near this place on the 9th, probably came from the Whetstones by way of Red Rock district, as the party ot cltl- gems went from here on the Sth to see If the miners had been mOlested, found they had killed two beeves on the sum nit, near the trail, and when about one fourth of a mile from A. E. Sorrells' house their tracks show that they had dismounted and crept up near the house, but there was no victim for them, as the family were Tn town. Some of tbe plun- der which they carried away from the house was afterwards found one mile beyond, where they killed Hunt, show ing conclusIvely that they were the same parties. Every indication goes 10 show that Hunt was sleeping on hIs cot when the fatal shot WAS fired at him. The mOCChslu tThChb buON bAnt tANJ crept up to cluster of bushes about twelve feet from the head of his cot. where he was lying, the Dall taking ef- feet On the left side of the head, midway between the temple snd top of the head, and passed out below the right ear. After the killing they crossed over the Patagonias and that evening crossed the Santa Cruz river, heading for Sonora.
 A wonderful change has taken place since these raids h this section of the country. few months ago We were prospering and considered the outlook for the future promising, but alas, We have been disappointed. The chloriders have come into the towns and little or no ore is being hauled or shipped, and all business is at a standstill, and peo- pie generally demoraliZed, and as they all truthfully say, We know not when 1t will end. A, B.
 Our Worst Enemies,
 Next to our vices, are our follies. Among them is the imperilling of future bodily comfort, aud the average tenure of life to which persons of moderately good