Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1901-05-15

ixth Year. Price Five cents.
 I give his father two horses. In get ting the plunder or spells of war 1t was gathered up and taken out to the mesa where the cremation of this ln- dian took place. It was near noon when they started for camp. The lieutenant said that while the scouts were cremating the dead scout, he went over the battle ground and esti- mated that at least three hundred dead Indians were scattered around. Some were in the burning camp fires, as the whole camp of about two hun dred hastily constructed huts were burning and the stench was awful.
 The next day they started for Whip pie and only rested one day, when the Wallapai scouts were started Oack to Camp Beal Spring. Gen. Crook, next day, went to Camp Date Creek and found about four hundred, m y young Indians that had escaped the camp where the Wallapais nd jumped them. The young Indians that were spry had gotten away from the Wallapai scouts. Some were wounded, and almost all were nearly naked, without shoes ormoccasins and were badly used up, as they mad to travel over one hundred miles to reach Camp Date Creek over very rough country. Their feet were sore and they were thoroughly whipped and conquered, good Indians. He enlisted 120 of these Yavapais and then went for the Tonto Apaches with about the same result, and he soon enlisted the Tontos and setthem against the Pinal- Apaches, and soon Crook had all the different tribes of Apaches at war with each other and check mated.
 General Crook said that he could enlist from one tribe and they would fight and kill the adjoining tribe. They were always ready for murder. OLeary told me that the same trick was played on the Tontos, but not so many Indians were killed.
 Within three months after General Crook got started he had the Indians of Arizona checkmated. Instead of the Indians watching the whites, they watched their neighbors. have been told that in the campaign that Crook made that he never reported killing any great number of Indians. Gen. Miles succeeded Crook, and Miles got the credit of conquering the Indians, when in fact Crook got the Indians to do this work. The San Carlos h. dians, or the band that Geronimo was chief of, was left and not whipped, as the powers that be had ordered line surveyed around these Indians, and they were not removed, and that is why they made so much trouble. They never had been conquered.
 The policy of the powers that be- and this power, as officials come from the eastern states, know but little about the Apaches. The Wallapa,s are tribe of mountain Indians and properly belong to the Apaches. The policy of this power seems to be to thoroughly amalgamate or cross these noble red men with the white race, but if that power that be would only investigate they would find this to be a failure, for the reason that as soon as half breed child is born it is at once killed and cremated.
 From 1857 to 1875 there were r. ] one to three companies of U. 5. sOl- diers at the several forts in Arizona. Many of these soldiers took to them selves squaws as wives. Some of these men when mustered out of the service remained in the territory, but nearly all soon died of strange disea got fighty and finally derangeC
 So as far as Arizona is conc the crossing of a human with the l.
 human or Apache race has been q real failure, for the Apache is and d vs has been a wild murderous, thie, 2 being of human form. Instea-. I locating Indian schools near citieS Jr settlements or mining camps y should be located on regular ln> m reservations and the Indians kept cn the reservation. But how jiffeceo' in this countvl A tract of the rC lgL' t barren country, enough in squf miles to make a state, the lndlans cannot live on this reservation for there is not fifty acres of that land that could be cultivated in wet sea sons, like the five years past, there s not drinking water, except in the deep canyons. This is inaccessible. It 's true there are few bighorn or noun tain sheep in the rough mountains, very few jack rabbits and lizards, but i a man may climb over these noun tains for months and not see live animal or reptile. But it is an Indian reservation and if COW or horse hap pens to stray of and get in among these rough mountains there IS q cranky man or woman reports the fact to Washington and then there Is a fuss. It is the purest kind of dog in-the- manager policy that now han | dies the different forest reserves. 1t now takes an army of men to try to keep the fire from burning and de stroying the timber. They will not allow stock on these reserves hence the grass and leaves accumulate and It is A fact that in all the high mountain country there is great deal of cleo tricity and it is very common to tinc many trees struck by lightning. IL strikes tree and sets the grass on fire. If the parties having these re- serves in charge would pay the owr- CTS of sheep to herd them on these timber reserves, and thus feed the grass, there would be no food for the | fires and it would be to the interest ot of the herders to prevent the burning over, as this would destroy the grass so sheep could not live.
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