Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-11-01
FROM GLOBE.
THE CHIEF TOPICS OF INTEREST
 THERE.
Mark smith on the stump---The District Court---Indian TriaIs---Their Statements to the
 Court.
G1opr. Arizona. October 29th

EDITOR ENTERPRIsE:-S Since my last letter Mark Smith made speech in Globe to the unterrifed His audience was large and respectable; more than four hundred people met at the rink to hear his account of his stewardship. Mark made good speech in the lawyers style; was more on the defensive than aggres- sive; he went over his course in Congress in a brief way, but satisfactory. lie shows in his talk that a member from territory is nearly no member at all; he dwelt upon the good of statehood, and the amount of tedious work and routine it takes before Congress to get hearing or to be admitted, and for that reason urged the people to work for statehood, for we need not expect 1t to come to us; we can be admitted only by an united ef- fort.
 District court closed yesterday and Judge Kibbey and W. l.. Pinney, the short hand reporter, left for Florence. The term was quite busy one and Judge | Kibbey gave general satisfaction. Four l Indians were tried for the murder of Ed Baker on the 18th of last July, and after two days of hard work the jury returned a verdict of guilty as charged in the in dictment, and the court sentenced them to life in the territorial prison at Yuma The verdict was complete surprise to many persons who heard the evidence and especially to the attorneys. No white man would ever had even been brought to trial on such flimsy evidence, let alone being convicted. The fact of the business
 is that the Apaches have plundered anC
 murdered the people of Gila county SC
 much and so long that they see in every
 Indian a murderer, and all that IS neces
 sary is to read an indictment to a jury
 and the Indian is found guilty.
 Lupe, the old chief, made a touching
 appeal to the court through the interpre
 ter, when called upon to show cause wh.
 sentence should not be passed on him
 he said that he was innocent of the charg'
 as well as his boys; that he had been a
 peace with the whites ever since the Sal
 Carlos reservation had been created; tha
 he was in the secret service of the govern
 ment and had been for many years past
 that it was his business to hunt up baI Indians, and if he knew who murdere' Ed. Baker he would have arrested them
 that there was a just God and that 9 certain as fate the murderers of Ed. Ba ker would be discovered, and he indlcat ed that 1t all was suspicion and preIudlc
 against him. He said that his oldes ! DOHs Dul-ulSu, NdS ldhGh HUH lllS HUH a mere boy by the whites, and raised a Silver City, N. NJ, and had only returne r home a few years ago, and was now l
 the secret service of the government; tha
 the other boy, his young son, Nat-tsir Dandy Jim) had been raised by the whit
 people; that he was taken from him whe
 a small boy and kept in the service of tn government, and was with Crook Tn a l tho orro.,,-4 Wia4oriO and Nan and wound up with his last work afte Geronimo, and Is now in the secret SCI } vice of the government.
 Back-el-cle then spoke through the II terpreter and said that he was innOcen
 of this murder; that he was brother C } the dead chief Nanasky; that he neve was engaged in the killing of a whit
 man; that white people were his friends
 that when the whites took him he had n clothes to wear or anything to eat an l covered himself with grass; now he ha , good clothes. horse and plenty to cal that he had no knowledge of who kille Edward Baker. After the sentence the and the squaws took on at desperat
 rate and seemed to lDe m great distres
 over tho csrviction .--ss..-ss.----==- i, iI FPirses ars3 l;salts--;as. rffnba-erc4 ssery tlasIix .niov1ng. Candidates are an absC llute nuisancein this community; the ; won't give 3 man rest long enough | : write a letter.
 1 forgot to say that Roscoe Griffith,
 San Carlos Indian. was convicted of a , aggravated assault with knife on h squaw He is an educated boy, eightee { years old, and when called on as to whi he had to say why sentence should nc
 be passed on him, said that he wanted go to Yuma; that he had rather go Yuma than to be at San Carlos. So u
 judge accommodated him and gave hi
 the full benefit of the law-two year We first thought the boy was crazy, bl
 when he made an explanation we agree . with him that Yuma was the most nor I place. GLOBE.