Arizona republican., 1915-05-29
THIS RESERVATION
TOO BIG FOR INDIANS
Why Mr.. Baker Wants Half of White
Mountain Cut Off

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county. who introduced the joint me-
mortal to congress urging the throw
ing open to settlement of that part
of the White Mountain Indian reser-
walton living south of the Salt and
/ Black rivers, will prosecute the OBJ
| ject of it and VIII bring the matter
at once before the senators and rep
| resentatiNes of this state.
! Speaking yesterday of that part of
| the reservation, he said that it en-
braces more than a million and a
! half acres of land, which, if thrown
open to settlement, would quickly
add 51O.0G0.00O to the tax roll of the
state. There is very little arabic
land but good deal of good grazing
land. But the most valuable part
of the reservation is the great mineral
! deposits. There is one. said Mr.. Ba
ker that promises. with development
a greater future than any of the
large mines in the vicinity of Globe
There are only 1860 Indians living
on this part of the reservation, and
! they make little use of its resources.
1 They have some live stock. but not
| enough to roam over more than a
| small part of the reservation. Many
| of the Indians supposed to live on
! the reservation actually live else
where. where they can find employ
ment, for there Is none for them on
I the reservation.
The government receives from cat
tlemen Tor leasing permits on the
| reservation about 100000 annually.
! That is supposed to be devoted to
the Improvement of the livestock Of
! the Indians. but little of the money
has so far been expended for that
purpose. and the money cannot be
! given directly to the Indians.
The reservation. it is said, affords
| a source of private revenue to the
line riders, consisting of mounted
police white and Indians Every
now and then herds of cattle are
rounded up by them on the reserva-
ton ana the owners of cattle who
have no permits are notified to take
! them and pay the penalty of 81
head. The police decline to receive
checks in payment, but insist upon
the cash.
1t is claimed by many of the cat
tlemen who have been thus victim
lied that the cattle have been gath
cred off the adjacent ranges and
| driven TO the reservation.
rors, Yesterdays score should have
been Phoenix 3, Albuquerque ,. This
shows how strongly the locals errors
figured in the Albuquerque score. In
deed, it was enough To have discour-
aged even an excellent pitching gentle
! man like McCreery.
Time after time Phoenix got folks
on base, only to lose out due to inabil-
| ity to hit. stevens portside Volleying
was too much for the Senators during
many long and trying inning. Be
! tween 5Ooting the ball the visiting in
| field quartet worked the double play
racket-in fact. during three plays of
this sort. exactly every man except
Stevens took part. For instance:
Shorty French engineered the first
one. when he took Lynn's grounder.
tagged Mutt On the line ard hJrIed to
| first. HUMPHREYS. French and HerNott
worked the second one in the fifth.
| when Hester hit into nice snappy
double to short But the star spang-
led play occurred in the tenth. a tense
! NONE mt, fan folk. so get all ready to
! hear about it. Scanlon had walked,
stolen and advanced To third on Halls
hit. Demaggio then walked. Every
body came in to tell Raedell how TO
handle the situation, and diplomatic
answers had been given to all the
| notes. With one down, it looked
very much like a double steal, only
Hester fooled the opposition by trying
to cave in shorty Davis. Davis took
the ball and eliminated Scanlon at the
plate and Raedel expunged Hester at
first. Which is funny course for a
| ball t. take even in this odd series.
Ri around and % bacI. II,
| the first inning. Might as wen start
| this thing over again.
Albuquerque followed its habit oC
getting a pitcher in bad right at the
| start. Murphy singled and went down
! on HUMPHREYS bunt. Huelsman felt
| the wind Of a fast inshoot suck al the
sleeve Of his shirt and there was a high
! Odor all over the park when he got his
base on it, Carman then singled.
| French forced Murphy at the plate,
| Davis singled to left and Demaggio
| played true to form when he recIined
in front Of the ball trying to get it.
| Huelsman scored on the hit and Car
man and French on the error. Here
was a deep pit dug for the footses of
McCreery.
| Albuquerque added another in the
fourth, on Davis triple and Herriott's
| sacrifice fly, making the second earned
! run for the visitors. In the fifth, Davis
! began making trouble by causing Scan
| Ion to throw wild. letting him down TO
| second. DoWling's muff let HUMPHREYS
! on, ana when Huelsman rolled an easy
one to Bowling, and McArdle didn't
hold the throw. Davis climbed home
having made the entire circuit on mis-
plays.
Then it began to sound like poor old
| Phoenix. Mrs. OPP, guardian, angeles
to the Arizona Reds was about the only
! loyal one in the stand. when Stevens
began moving 'em down, inning af-
! ter inning. 1t was not until the eighth
| had ripened into two runs and the
| Shut-out scare was over that hone be-