The National tribune., 1903-09-03

who would he satisfied with nothing but
the determination of the Indians.
Under this state of affairs the citi-
zens saw no relief, except to take the
matter in their own hands. and the camp
Grant massacre" was the result of tie
Governments neglect and the long and pa
tient suffering of a body of pioneers who
tried to bring civilization into heretofore
wild country.
To give a mere recital of the act Of
killing a few more or less of bloOdthrsty
savages. without the details of the causes
and proyOcations which drew long suf-
fering and patient people to the adoption
of remedial measures so apparently cruel
in their results, would be a great wrong
and injustice to those of our friends and
neighbOrS who in various ways gave sane
ton and aid to the undertaking, and would
fall far short of the object and aim of the
writer to give fair and impartial history.
In the year 1870. in accordance with
the peace policy which had been decided
upon by the Government, the Pinal and
Yayapai bands of Apache Indians were
| collected together and placed upon reSer-
walton around old Camp Grant, at the
junction of the San Pedro and Yavapai
Creeks, about 80 miles from Tucson, I'M
der the supervision of military stationed
| at that post. One or two agents for them
had been taken from civil life, but in n
short time, their management proving I'M
satisfactory, one Royal Il. Whitman, a
Lieutenant of the Sd Cav, q. S. A.. was
| assigned to duty as their agent. Being
what is termed a sharp man and of a
| thrifty turn, he soon saw there was
money in the Apache, and lost no time in
| the practical application Of that knowl-
edge, to do which successfully required
outside partners, who were soon found in
Tucson. A suffers store was first started
followed by a blacksmith and a butcher
shop and number of strikers chosen in
various capacities, ostcnsibly for the ben
eft of poor LO, really ''afiidavy" and easy
conscious witness men-fOr the boss
and, as trite saying goes, hell was fully
| inaugurated.
SETTLERS ORGANIZE TO PROTECT THEM
| SELVES.
The Indians soon commenced plumber
ing and numbering the citizens of Tucson,
San Xavier, Tubac, Sonoita, San Pedro
and every other settlement within a "a
dius of 100 miles of old Camp Grant, in
! the confidence that if they escaped to
| their reservation, they reached secure
haven. During the Winter of 1S70-'71
these murders and depredatiOns were so
| numerous as to threaten the abandonment
Of nearly all the settlements outside of
Tucson, especially that of San Pedro. the
| ilosL anu VI I'LL, III
the meantime the citizens of Tucson were
aroused; meetings were held upon the oc-
| currence of each new murder and Outrag e
representations We're made to the Lieut.
Royal Whitman that his Indians were
plundering and numbering our people
which he denied, and stood ready to prove
by every striker in the reservation that his
Indians never left the reservation. Mean
while the work Of death and destruction
was kept up with ever increasing force
until the slaughter of Leslie B. Wooster
my former partner. and his wife, on the
Santa Cruz, above Tucson, so inflamed the
people that an Indignation meeting wa.
held at Tucson, great amount of resolut
ing and speechifying INDUCED in, and il
was determined to raise a military com
pany at once, for which paper wa.
drawn up and sisners called for, to which
80 Americans signed their names. l wa!
one Of them, and all hands were to eat uE
blood-raw every Apache in the land i'm
mediatey upon the recurrence Of new
outrage.
Go be continued)