Year: 1872

II D1lUHxs


Artsons-A Specimen OF the Results %


the Indian "Peace Policy"


A man whose business it is to look over ex-
changes. to scan the pages of thousand or
two newspapers weekly, soon arranges them in
his mind according to their peculiar local
tinge Rther than according to their mere poll
tics he knows where to look for troubles be-
tween Americans and Mexicans, between Nor
mons and Gentiles, between whites and blacks,
between whites and reds, and in certain rich
journalistic lodes he is always sure of finding
the extract he seeks. There are three weekly
newspapers published in Arizona Territory.
From one years end to the other the peculiar
local tinge is one of blood-white mans blood
very often and red mans blood occasionally.
1t is the murder in . lonely canyon of set
tier; the robbery Of stage coach with the
same murder accompaniment; the burning
OF homestead; the running of of live stock
and murder of the ranchero, with unheard- of
outrages upon his family; cattle herder is
murdered and the cattle stolen. In every page
it is murder, murder. murder, and the Indi-
ans, with whom civilization dallies, are the
fendish, implacable, cunning and treacherous
perpetrators. BY times there is sudden leap
for revenge and few blood-stained savages
have bullet and bayonet justice meted out to
them, but it is very rare. A policy which is
neither peace nor war, although avowedly one
of peace triaes with the lives Of white settlers
and makes Arizona the best Territory in the
Union to live out of. A constant reading of
the Arizona papers, with their endless cata-
logues of Indian outrages, brings the follow
ing editorial extract from the arizona Miner of
the 21st ult, published at Prescott, out of the
realm of exaggeration into that of stern
reality aes


1t will soon be ten years since we FIRST arrived in
this Territory. and in looking back over our long
residence here memory fails to point out one week
murdered by Indians, and in which valuable prop
erty has not been stolen or destroyed by the same
editor OF this paper has compelled us to record most
OF the bloody deeds that have been enacted as well
as to note and comment upon the losses that
1t has fallen to our lot to view the mangled remains
Of many Of the victims Of savage ferocty: to feel
taken from them; to lose property Of our own; to
be made target of by Apaches; to be on the watch
and to stand, ride and walk in fear and trembling
OF lurking savages. Need we say, then, that we
are tired Of this state OF aflairs tired OF the un.
pleasant duty 1t has forced US to perform
Scarcely.


'within the past few weeks" which exhibit
ten men killed and about hundred cattle,
eight mules and several horses stolen The
melancholy part Of all this is that pet
theory at Washington condemns those who
have the temerity to live in and open up
this Territory to be robbed and mur-
dered by the ruthless brutes for whom the
'peace policy was inaugurated. The Indians
on reservation start out and murder and rob
right and left. Instead of swift punishment
being dealt out literally the savages are coaxed
and besought by the agents, with tears in their
eyes, to come in and be fed out of the public
crib. ea


The stage robbery on the road from Wicken-
burg, in November last, by which six persons
were murdered, was stated at first to be the
work of Mexicans. This view was supported,
we learn, by those interested in proving the
Apaches wingless angels. An inNstigation,
baked at first by the peace policy authorities,
has now been carried out by that stanch
Indian fighter, General Crook which fixes
the guilt on the Apache-Mohaves. A
stratagem was resorted to for the pur-
pose of capturing the offenders, which
did not completely succeed, as the
Indians suspected the ruse, and, at the at
tempt to arrest one of their number, showed
fight. The result was seven Indians killed
and soldier mortally wounded. Since then
one hundred Apache Yumas have returned to
the reservation, 'anxious to live at peace with
the whites, but determined to kill Iratraba,'
an Indian who gave information about the
Wickenburg massacre to General Crook. These
red gentlemen are to be fed, and have been
mildly requested not to kill Iratraba. Is it
not time all this child s play with human tigers
should cease? Vast territories are rendered
worse than wildernesses by this policy. In o
wilderness men may perish struggling against
the odds Of nature; but in addition to these
difficulties we have q premium put upon MUIR
der through this policy, which the cunning
Indians themselves laugh at. Indians who
will adopt no other life but one of murder and
rapine should be exterminated, on the same
principle that city vagrant is sent to prison.
We want Phil Sheridan's policy for this kind
Of Indian, and then, when the well-disposed
red man will settle down, let him be treated in
all kindness and with view to making him at
some time worthy of the fellowship of civiliza-
ton.


The COLLAPSE OF THE LATEST SPANISH In
sunnEcnoN. N.-According to one of our latest
cable dispatches the insurrecion which took