The Arizona sentinel., 1893-06-03
Ex-Chief Miguel.

Ex-chief Miguel of the Yuma Indians, has been getting up a hip podrome, if one is to judge long winded document, which he sent on to Washington, D. O. some time since, in regard to himself. He seems to think, judging from his lengthy mes sage to the Commissioner of Indian affairs, that he is absolutely <the only being, or animal, that ever heard of Yuma, the Yuma Indian, or the dis missed, deposed Miguel, Ex. Chief of the Yuma tribe of Indians. Formerly, he did have 100 followers, cut of the ll6O Indians, on and about the reser- vation, which number we are inform ed has dwindled down to 40, and now since his brass buttons, blue coat, cane and shoes, have gone, and he plods about like any other member of the tribe, this would be usurper, pitches into the managers and teachers of the Indian school, into the res dent physician, the special inspector,
 and into the editor of the SENTINEL, with all of his claws out at full length
 He even employs lawyer to present his case. His desire seems to be, to turn out the present teachers of the school, the physician, and the editor of the SENTINEL. Now if Mir. Miguel, only at present a common Yuma Indian, does not know, we can tell him, that some of those accused in his statements, which have been sent back to Yuma from Washington, are well posted on his course as to murdering those who are accused of being witches; on hls action and advice, in the case of the cruel murders, of the five poor Cocopah Indians at the Lerdo Colony four years ago, when he sympathised with, and wanted to protect the murderers, and how he told the writer that 1t was none of the business of the United States, or Mexican Governments, in regard to how many witches, he or they killed
 Miguel may as well clearly understand that the authorities in Washington, are well posted as to his character and career, and that no Indian school on the Pacific Coast, stands higher in the estimation of the United States Government officials, than the Ft
 Yuma school, that every good Indian, and every citizen of the United States, here, and in this vicinity, has the ful- lest confidence in the Mother Superior and her able assistants, while on the other hand, their confidence in him has been lost, since the double tra- gedies at the west end of the railroad bridge, which he is believed, to have ordered or directed; the lurid flames oi the funeral pyres of which. still finger In the memories, of more than oae ot 
 our people. The trial of Miguel's son and his partner in crime, and with which Miguel is believed to have been mixed up, is still fresh in the mem ories of some of those, whom he now accuses. Oh, no Miguel, retire to your lair, repent, reform, and come forth , new Indian, with a new dress, a re- constructed heart. with no brass but tons, but cane if you wish, no "G
 string or furs, and then We may lister to your tale of woe It is not quit time for you to assume to run tn general government. Just at presen Washington is too well posted ol your case, to more than eourteousl, listen to what you have to say. Youl assault upon the press, because it pub fishes the facts in-your case, and whicl could have said much more, and truth fully; your attack upon the manage ment of the school, upon the worth,
 Mother Superior and her able as