Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-12-13
OF PIN AL COUNTY.
Isduention ef the Indian 2 Failure.

silver Belt.
 The preiudicial influence of cooper ative societies in religious and secular in struction of the Indians has recently be- come so apparent as to be the subject of general remark. and to call fer armed sup pression of their advanced idea that the Indian Is the ideal race and so regarded by the osmnipotent Pinte at Walker Lake, Nevada And now, in consequence of this advanced civilization, war is im- minent. 1t behooves those religious societies to interpose in behalf of their wards, petition the government in ad- dition to the improved Winchester already in tlAeir hands, that they be supplied with Gatling guns, in order that they may be enabled to more effectively pump 1t into'' the troops when endeavOring to suppress the excitable ghost dance so prevalent in every Indian community. 1 Hiram Price, Commissioner of Indian ! Affairs in 1853, in his report to the De ] partment of the Interior. said: "The l aggregate Of $252,0l6 by no means ex- l presses the valne Of the assistance thus given to Indian education and civiliza- ] ton. The influence of men and women whose lives are devoted to the uplifting ! of the degraded and ignorant cannot be ] measured by dollars and cents. More ! | great religious denominations, that christian communities are their con i stituency, and that the funds which come into their hands have been cOnsecrated by prayer and seif-denial. gives to man a moral force and momentum which govern ment patronage does not impart. In ny opinion the best hope for the Indians lies i'll bringing him into the closest possible relation with the various religious societies | whose sole business consists in working for the elevation of humanity. and who, from iong experience, are presumably best informed as 10 the methods and men and means to be employed in such work." "
 While not questioning the sincerity of Commissioner Price, nevertheless, if such views as he advanced are to pre- vail, we would suggest that a reservation be set apart for the whites and that they be protected in their homes from lncursive Indians. At the date of Prices utterance, llc,53l ChaJjO. ;t '55A Carlos reservation Indian. who had experienced the "elevat- ing influence mentioned by Mir. Price, at the head of fifty bucks, raided Ari- zona and killed many persons. Among the victims were Judge NcComas and wife; and thair youthful son was carried into | Sonora. and subsequently, murdered. NOI was Ch6tto alone in t6rrorlZing southwest ern New Mexico and southeastern Ari- zona. Geronimo, Nacha, Juh, and Loco also under the benign influence, were up on the war path, and now we are having another evidence that Price claimed toe much for the men and women whose lives are devoted to inc reclamation of the In dians. The lord of naisrule in the person of buck Indian, has turned the heads oi Western tribes away with the belief that he is the veritable Christ. The religious infatuaton so prevalent among norJherr Indians has invaded Arizona and taken possession of the MOquis, who are report ed as indulging in the ghost dance.
 Prices ideal paeiication E being eX emplified where the ghost danee prevails in Southern Dakota. Educated Indians among the Cherry Creek h0stiles. are every day busily engaged in securing newspapers containing accounts of the fear that their orgies create among theil pale brethren, and which upon being rea6 and rendered into the Indian vernaculal by the graduates afford the untutOred sons Of the forest great amusement, and thus they are informed of the movements of troops.
 Miss CIendenin's Skating and Dancing School.
 l Skating Monday, Wednesday, anl ? Saturday evenings. Dancing class -THes
 day and Thursday evening. Juvenil'
 class-Wednesday and Saturday after