The Coconino weekly sun., 1892-10-13

! rock foundation to keep the cold out The out-houses also require some i'm provement.
 D. BRINKERHoFF, w. H. ANDERSON, JAMES WILBER, To tho Foreman of the Grand Jury: 1 We, your committee appointed to in, vestigate the office of the Clerk of the Corrt. beg leave to submit the follow. ing: That we find the office and the books of the said officer in neat, tidy condition. The records of same arc kept in an exemplary style.
 ED GALE,
 W. II. DECLoss. We, the Grand Jury, would recom- mend the honorable Board of Super visors to see to the officer whose duty it is to look after the sanitary district of Flagstaff and Williams, regarding filth, garbage, offal and whatever is in. furious to the public health be removed from these respective districts, and to that end if such officer will not fulfill his or their respective duties according to this act as provided for, and to the injury of the public health, we would recommend the resignation of such officer, and filled by one whose pride will be clean, tidy city.
 We also investigated the jail delivery and found that through the cunning ness of the inmates to lure, and through certain weakness of the warden to accept, the inmates escaped, and therefore we would recommend in the future that the Sheriff appoint more competent officers to have charge of the jail and prisoners.
 We have investigated the case of an orphan boy named Johnny Pathway, and would recommend that the Pro- bate Judge appoint proper guardian, who will give him a good home, proper schooling and lead him 2 Christian life,
 We would also remind those in power and the government and guard ian of the Navajo Indians of the immi- nent danger that is pending all the time and which may be precipitated at any moment upon the defenselcss whites at Tuber City and along the western boundary of that reservation, Our investigation discloses the fact that these whites have settled at the above places, some of them many years. That they have expended much money and labor and have been sub jected to all the hardships incident to a new country. They have established for themselves and their families com fortable homes; that they arc not in- truders upon the Indians, but upon the country; are of their reservation. and exert themselves to induce the Indians to adopt the ways of civilization of the white man, That if tho Indians are In any way wronged, it is not by these settlers. They own large herds of sheep and horses, and although the citizens of Tuba City have only about three hundred acres of the public lands under fence and cultivation, still these fences are torn down and the h. dians drive their horses and sheep into their pastures, corn and wheat fields, destroying their grasses and crops. They ride their horses reeklessly over their lands, withoat permission of the settlers, and in many different ways are making the lives and homes of these defenseless people unhappy and unsettled We are of the belief that the conditions existing between the whites and this tribe of Indians Is such that the least infection of punishment or resentment by the whites upon these Indians would result In the burning of their homes, and perhaps in the massa- creing of the entire community. We would therefore most respectfully ask the Governor of this Territory, in his next annual report to the authorities at Washington, to call their attention to this unsettled and dangerous condition of affairs,
 It is also true that during certain seasons of the year they grazc upon the public lands and off their reserva- tion large herds of sheep and horses. They receive the protection of our civil and criminal laws, and we would respectfully recommend lo the officers of this county whose duty 1t is to col lect taxes, to investigate the law and ascertain if they are subject to taxa ton. We believe, as a matter of jus tice and right, that they should be made to share the burdens of taxation, receiving, as they do, the benefits of the law,
 The Grand Jury hereby returns it's sincere thanks to the judge and the officers for their kindness and courteous treatment during this session, and for the dispatch with which they have assisted the Grand Jury in the per-