Arizona silver belt., 1893-06-03
ERECTION or CATTLE FROM THE
 RESERVATION.

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 } Both the Prescott Courier and tn : st Johns Herald, Of recent dates, pull fish complaints against Lieut. Johr l son, of San Carlos,r for employin
 unnecessary harsh measures in enforc ing the law for the removal Of citizen cattle from the White Mountain Res eryation.
 The Prescott Courier charges tha
 oattle, belonging to citizens living neu
 the reservation, which stray onto th, reservation are, by order of the Indian
 Agent, driven to the post by Indiar
 police, and then driven east off tho reservation, a distance Of sbout fifty
 miles into broken country from which they are rarely recovered. This in oontravention of the law which i directs that stray stock shall be driven of the reservation at the nearest point. The Courier also says The Indian police are said to make pastime of gougiug out the eyes of calves, riding down stocltmen's horses and doing other superfine deviltry peculiar to the Apache and Satan"
 The St, Johns Herald makes two specific charges, as follows
 ''The Twenty-four Cattle Company are gathering beef steers on the White Mountains, just outside the boundary line of the reservation. A few days ago a band of about thirty armed h. dians made theirappearance and drove off ll3 head of steers they had gath cred. The Indian in charge telling the cowboys they had instructions to fight If they were resisted, from Lieut. Johnson, at San Carlos.n
 ''The White Mountain Apaehes, so we are reliably informed, have been gathering cattle on the outskirts of their reservation and driving them on to the lower portion of Black river, killing what they wanted en route. It IS not at all likely the owners will ever recover one-fourth of the five or six hundred, the number which a soldier from Fort Apache informed ns they had gathered and driven offp
 The above charges are of so serious Q character that we determined to in- yestigate the matter and telegraphed . to Capt Lewis Johnson, acting Indian Agent at San Carlos, to know ii cattle . had been driven off the reservation by Indians acting upon his instructions. snd at the same time giving him cur. .eiled statement of the newspaper made Knowing that stock nen in this vicinity had uniformly 'eeu treated with Tairu6sz aud cousid- ration by Capt. Johnson We do moi .redit the reports published in our 
 ln reply to our inquiry Capt, John on te,egraphed the following:
 SAN CARLOS, May 3l, 1893. JUDGE HACKNEY: Thanks. The ar- | icles evidently refer, no5 to me. but ' Q my namesake, Lieut. Arthur John on. Huh Infantry, who is in control of he White Mountain Apaehes at Fort .pache under a military detail, and .bc has recently been making some ( jeoti0ns Of trespassing stock from the i orthern part of the reservation. While the Lieutenant is not detailed ( n duty in the Interior Department. e is to 8 certain extent under my ( irection. He was personally fn charge { ltely when some cattle were driven IT. and cannot think Shat he permit 'd his men to act as alleged, in the } eculiw method mentioned by the pa- | CTS. His reports to me simply men, { on the fact of election T In my instructions to employees as to imoyal of cattle, l have never autho- zed any action not strictly in accord nee with the requirements of law, and hile endeavoring to do my bounden aty, have yet tried not to have the il @s executed harshly and also have t Ter done my best to avert collision | tween citizens and Indians in all alters where their interests unfor- p .nately clashed s have Frequently specially request E my men not to treat trespassiug [, linals so as to cause injury.
 l.. JOHNSON