The St. Johns herald., 1893-06-08
Where Are We Att

1SCIluS Iu0 SdtbIe duu ouCOP lhCOl ests of this county, the foregoing emphatic, if ungramatical, inquiry seems pertinent.
 To understand it's pertinencE il is necessary to understand those recent happenings.
 During the last days of May, with out any notice or warning to any one, Lieut.. Arthur Johnson, Assis- tant Indian Agent at Fort Apache, directed the Indian police to gather such cattle as they might find tres passing on the reservation, and it is stated offered inducements to the Indians to make the number as large as possible, which offer result ed in cattle being driven on to the reservation from the outside.
 However that may be, about 700 head of cattle belonging to about twenty-five different owners, were collected on the north and east boundary of the reservation and under whip and spur. as only an h. dian would drive, they were hurried and rushed away about fifty miles in direction further on the reser- vatioa, and away from their well known ranges.
 Not satisfied with this outrage on their owners some species of refined cruelty to the dumb brute was sought and the fertile genius of the Indian promptly furnished it. The Indian police were directed by the Lieute- nant to bring these cattle back. Mark you, no. effort was made to drive them off, but they were per sistently driven on to the reserva- ton. Weii, the Indian police de ciined to act. Other Indians under Chief George were instructed to drive them back, and with poles with knives attached to the end, they rushed them back about forty miles as fast as the poor brutes could be made to travel. The result was inevitable. Of the 700 head of cat tie in good condition there were re- turned about 230 poor, jaded ami mals, many of them in a dying con- dition. At least fifty per cent of the 470 head will be lost to their owners. Mark you again, these cat tie are driven at least ninety miles, all of the time on the reservation, and when the drive is over they are abandoned and left, under said Lieutenant's institutions and orders, still on the reservation within six miles of the line.
 If true, it was not only a piece of wanton brutality upon the dumb creatures, but a grievous outrage upon the taxpayers and property owners of this county, and one that is just as certain to be rebuked se- verely and in due course as is the night to follow the day.
 It is said that Chief George de- manded money, ($20) with the knowledge ot Lieut.. Johnson. from one of the owners of said cattle for having driven his cattle back forty of the ninety miles which they were forced to travel. This seemed to be putting the cap on the climax of this extraordinary act.
 It is suggested, that by his mach ination, some "squaw man," resid- ing by grace on the reservation, in order to vent his personal spite against some of the cattle owners, has consistently sought in this cow ardly way to impress the Lieutenant in charge with the idea that all cat tie owners are intentional trespass- CTS by their stock on the reserva- ton.
 Whatever may be the cause, if correctly informed, it seems to us that Lieut.. Johnson's conduct in the matter is unexplainable and inde- fensible, for We are positive there can be no law which authorized it