Bisbee daily review., 1903-02-19
SAN CARLOS
 APACHE INDIANS A LETTER FROM SUPERINTEND- ENT GEO. D. GROUSE TO Eo-
 ITOR HAMIL. Gives information About the Preva. fence of Small Pox.-Says That All Helpless Indians Receive
 Rations.-Many On The
 Pay Roll.
Pay Roll.

Jos. H Hammil last week wrote a letter to Agent Corson, of the San Carlos Indian Agency, informing him that it was reported in Globe that some twenty-five or thirty Indians were in Globe in destitute conditions and that the people of that town had subscribed S30 in money and SIP in provisions for their relief The re- port in Globe was that the Indians had fled from a small poX epidemic and that the agent at San Carlos had de nied them the privilege of 'returnins. Agent Corson replied at some length to MT. Hamil's letter, which is given below:
 II have the honor to acknowledge receipt of your favor of the 10th inst, calling attention to the condition of certain Indians camped near Globe, and also referring to the fact of the Indians on the reservation having smallpox.
 There are about twenty cases C varioloid on the reservation. All are under strict quarantine, together with those who have been exposed. A number of eases are already so fa- advanced as to be able to be up and about their camps. Nearly all are of very light form. The Indian police are stationed wherever quarantine is es- tabIished. and are in charge of white man. No attempt is made by those quarartined to leave their camps or az sOciate with Indians who have not been exposed. I have furnished all Indians under quarantine with rations, consisting of beef, four, coffee, sugar and salt, also with bedding.
 There is no reason for the report that I have kept the Indians from coming to the agency. On the other hand, I have had the police out day and night to compel them to come to the agency so that they should all be revaccinated. and to supply them with the necessities of life.
 All the Indians on this reservation have been vaccinated and an eXamina- tion will reveal from one to three vac cination scars on a l except possibly a few Of the younger children. The pres ent are the first cases on this reserva- ton for many years, and there have frequently been cases in the vicinity.
 Since the cases now here were dis covered from ten to fifty families have been rationed daily. On Friday a general issue of rations will be made 10 all Indians on the reservation on account of so many of them having gone into the hills to escape possible contagion. This has made it difficult for them to maintain themselves.
 The Indians, whom you refer to as being camped near Globe, are, think, Indians who have been working in Globe for years earning their own living. They, as well as the rest, have been notified to come to the agency where they will be supplied with the necessities of life. I think there is no doubt they will come.
 Tt is the intention of the govern ment that all really needy Indians should be cared for, and surely shall not refuse assistance where I see and know it is needed.
 Work is given to all Indians who desire it, and nearly three hundred heads of families have been on the pay roll each month since the rations were cut, off. This is in addition to the ratiors issued weekly to the old and infirm
 The work is progressing rapidly and in few days all the Indians will have been vaccinated. The source of every one of the first cases was traced to some point off the reservation, and If people off were vaccinated as thor oughly as the Indians, small pox would soon be thing of the past in Arizona"