Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-05-29


 has gone to Tres Alamos. L.. Johnson, with the remaining troop ot Gsyairy ana .the Mexican volunteers, has gone ID pursuit of the Indians in this vicinity.
 WILCOX. May 25.-Generai Niles ard staff arrived here yesterday afternoon and will make this the headquarters for the time being. A troop of cavalry ar rived by special tram at 5:3O. and at 6:3O
 were en route to Tres Alamos to head off the band of hostiles moving north in the Drasoon mountains. By seven o'clock the general had company of
 Mexican and white citizens enlisted and on the road after the band of Indians
 who killed a Mormon on Sunday near Ft. Thomas. To-day, another company
 of citizens is being organized and by dark will be en route for the mountains.
 The general offers a reward of $50 each
 for the Indians or their heads and
 g 900 for Geronimo or his head. There IS great enthusiasm among the people
 who are more hopeful than ever before O: a speedy termination of the war,
 which is only a question of q very short time. as each band of E0stDles IS now be- ing harassed by the troops and citizens.
 Will keep you posted.
 TIE war departm, does not seem
 to approve of the course of General
 Miles III offering rewards for the hostile Apache Indians, and does not consider such course to be civilized warfare.
 That effste and yet rather dndish de-
 pertinent has attempted to conduct R civilized warfare against these outlaws and it has been done solely at the ex-
 pense of the lives and property Of the
 people of ArIzoDs. Ina: higher form Of civilization, the civil law, recogn Zes the prime pie of offering rewards for the ap-
 pTehensicn of criminals as among the most honorable methods of reaching the fugltiv,s, and the attempt of the scc;- dental fragment Of the administration to carp at any means for reaching these
 red handed devils is far more nice than
 wise. The patience of the people of Arizona Is well nigh exhausted ID the feeble efforts Of the War Department to protect their lives, and it requires only a slight skoG of dalliauce to start them upon 6 bloody, averaging finale. They are brought to the almost ire sisiable conclusion that the sen- timent governing the policy of the War Department has made the mili- ta.y arm, in a measure. the abettors of the hostile Indians, and until General Miles assumed command and changed this policy, the hOstiles were deriving their supplies almost directly from those furnished by the government. Geronimo and hIs band are the worst character Of outlaws, and there are DO means by which he cau be.decoyed or entrapred which csn be termed dishoDorsble, and only an administration which allows it's brave aud honorable officers to be mur- dered in a foreign soil without protest would be guilty of smiling ID holy hor- TOT at the mere offer of a reward for s band of criminals.
 SAN FRAScIsco. May 26.-At 12:15 to- day s severe shock of earthquake was felt in this city. The vibration lasted about five seconds and vas from north eas: to southwest.
 REDWOOD CTY, May 26 This place was vigorously shook up by sn earth quake today, at l2:20. IL lasted about three seconds, the vibrations apparently travelled north and south.
 CESTREvILLE, May 26.-Several sharp shocks of earthquake were felt here at l2:l5 to-day. Some damage was done to crockery and window-panes.
 SAS FRANCISCO, May 26-Senator Le- land Stanford has written letter to E.. F. Lennon. Secretary of the Citizens Anti Coulie League of Red Bluff. ID re- sponse to resolut on adopted by that body, in which he says: "rhe employ ment of Chinese among farmers has been, I think, fairly a necessity. and It IS AO CtIAluuC SNt btNhNEO kt0A borers can very soon, m the vast unoc- I cupied resources of our state, find en- ployment ID something that offers a bet 1 ter reward than common farm labor Con- | seQuently good white labor is difficult to | be had I believe the sentiment of the | people of California is largely hostile tu more Chine, coming i0to our country; | d 'so that most of our people sincerely I wish the Chinese now ID the country | were out of it, and in obedierce to that will, and in harmony with my own judg- ment, shall do here in my pubho duty | whatever can, justly, to restrict Chr nese immigration"
 SAS FRASCIsCo. May 26.-By order of Gen. Howard, Major NJ. Morgan, chief , lmmissary of subsistence of this left the Presicio for Arizona md New Mexico to-day on official bus mess. The principal forts to be visited ire Bowie aud Whipple Barracks, Ari- iona, and Santa Fe, NM.
 WASHINGTON, May 26.-Nothing is Inown at the War Department in regard o the reported action of Gen. Miles in ,ffering rewards for the capture of rene ,sde Apsches dead or alive. The secre- ary states that If such IS the case It IS m act for which Gen. Miles alone is re- IpOnsIble. snd that 1t will not be ssnc- toned by the War Department. There Ire DO funds available for such purposes md he said further that such a course Eould not be considered civilized war are even against bloodthirsty ssvsges.
 MILWAUKEE, Wis. May 36-A dis 'stch has been received from Rhiuelsn- Ter, in the northern part of the state, hat house of Ill fame about a mile rom that village was. together with our inmates, destroyed by fire at an srly hour this morning. The fifth es- sped alive, but so badly burned his fe is dispsred of. The dead are A. J. mith, keeper of the place; Maggie Car nll, Dan Doyle and a vonsn reported ) be Doyle's wife. Wn. Clsrk IS fatal ! burned. The fire is thought to be the . ork of an incendisry and two persons l ho escaped from the buruIng building c ere arrested. but dismissed for lack of