Arizona republican., 1921-07-05
TUESDAY MORNING. JULY 5. 1921
Look to your health, and # you hace tt, praise God, and value tt meet to good conscience.
 -Isddk Walton.
The MeDowsII Reservation

We have received copy of pamphlet "The Rape Of Mcdowell Reservation" compiled by Joseph W. 1.asimer. representing Citizen Friends of the In- dian organization which is opposing an allot- ment to the Mohave Apache Indians of acres each os rrigable along Verde river about eleven miles from Mcdowell.
 The order made in the administration of those self elected protectors the Indians April of this year. Since then the friends ians have maintained barrage of protests ind let the department the interior and the Indian bureau.
 The order for allotment does not include the roval of the Indians McDowell The gov ernment offers them these five -alotments and agrees to furnish water for them They may they please about accepting the allomens if they their removal from Mcdowell. Though that is a condition of acceptance, removal would probably fol- tow. because of the long distance of the allotments from the residence of the Indians
 We have not either the time or inclination to wade through the of correspondence with which the friends of the Indians have bombarded the au- shories. but have been led to occasional perusa by the impertinent character of it have dis covered glaring inaccuracies and transformation facts with which less familiar.
 One would gather from the letters and protests that the Mohave Apaches highly civilized tribe; extremely industrious and bound by sentiment to their ancestral home. where 1t is stated they valued service to the whites in the warfare against the Apaches beginning in the early sixties.
 There is an alleged conspiracy the part of the bureau the water under the Salt project and the city of Phoenix to deprive Indians of their ancient water rights which greatly i'm pinged upon by the Kent decree in of Hurley Abbot ct al- Phoenix gets into the conspiracy by trying to its water supply from the Here MT Latimer has somewhat rnisnformed and is led to believe that it is souess public uti- ties corporation that trying to steal water and sell it to the citizens of Phoenix. In letter to Com missioner of Indian Affairs Burke on May Mr. Latimer wrote:
 If the official facts were known even majority of the twenty thousand citizens Phoenix would not support their public utility corporation busting these Indians without proper compensation, alone virtually kicking them of their they may under and almost hopeless condi- tions"
 What the Citizen Friends of the Indians want is the restoration and maintenance of the old govern ditch which put through the McDowell reservation when it a military and, before it was Indian reservation It will be recalled that not many years ago white settlers who had located there and established homes after the abandonment of the busted for the of the Indians to their ancestral home"
 While the white probably could have made something that region the Indians have been unable do
 The Indian Rights Association and kindred self appointed bodies have no doubt been well meaning But their activities from the very beginning have usually produced sinister results. embarrassing alike to the government and the Indians. and hateful to the white pioneers.