Year: 1875

Every test applied to MT. Cum as ar

 Indian agent, has shown him not only

 equal to all emergencies, but discovers .his

 superior fitness for that place.

 The bringing of the Verde Indians tc

 San Carlos was a circumstance which, oc

 curing with an ordinary agent, would

 have resulted in difficulty, and very likely

 in the most serious difficulty, embracing

 loss of life, property and a general scatter

 ing ot the Apaches. But Mr. Clum's firm

 ness, determination to ask and exact

 only proper obedience, made him master

 Of the situation. When the Verde Apa-

 ches arrived at San Carlos, they said they

 would not give up their arms on MT.

 Clum's demand; but after more or less

 barley, the TOntos walked up and surren-

 dered their arms on the 27th of March, and

 within a day or two after, the Apache Yu-

 mas and Apache-Mohaves yielded and

 handed in theirs. The greatness of this

 victory is above ordinary comprehension,

 when it is known that they never had

 been without arms; that but a couple of

 years ago, they were using their arms to

 kill travellers, teamsters, miners, and farm CTS. It took the sharp and continued war or Gen. Crook to make them afraid to go on the war-path, but it was left to Agent Gum to disarm them right in face of at tempts to defeat a peaceful removal and set tiement of them at San Carlos, and also the Well-known fact that their conquerer was then ordered far away from them. Having

 been Intellectually fought many years by the military, and Crook coming and doing the job for them In about two years after he got full swing, they might naturally enough have thought they could safely defy MT. Gum, and successfully go to war again. But Agent Cum made well con sidered demands and so impressed the Indians with the power at his disposal for good or harm, that they yielded, and have gone to work, and each day al a. m. walk up and are counted. Citizens who have lately returned from there and witnessed this morning count of 25OO Apaches. say it is most interesting scene, not the least interesting part of which is the peaceful. orderly men and women who so short time ago, were subsisting by theft and amusing themselves by indiscriminately numbering the people of this Territory Many of these same Indians now offer to sleep near and around his agency to give needed protection, and stand by him in all emergencies. The old San Carlos Ind lans and the TontoS are settled on the north side of the Gila river and the Apa- and Apache MOhaveS on the south side. The crops look well, and work on the agency buildings goes on as pub liShed in THE CITIZEN of March 20. Ex- cept what a couple of white men do, all 1 the work is done by the Apaches The | farm and agency grounds are kept clean and everything about in order

 Lieut.. Ward, Fifth Cavalry, is in com mand of the troops there, and it is with | no ordinary pleasure that we may truly | say that he manifeSts the right spirit in | connection with Agent Cum, and that both get on well together We are sure that our adviceS, coming as they do from | diverse sources and we may almost say from diverse interests, are reliable.

 Agent Clum is no more to us than any other man would be similarly placed and | equally well diSchargng his duties. It can do no harm to state that strong efforts were made more than a year ago to get us to disparage and oppose MT. Cum before he arrived in the Territory, and we have Inc record to show that we indignantly replied that Mir. Cum would be received kindly by us; that warm and not cold reception would be rendered him, as we had given others who preceded him; and after he proved himself unfit for his posi- ion, then, and not before, would we give Jim unkind words in and out of print. He now successfully fills most difficult 1lace-a place number of others failed to Ill to their own satisfaction, and also to hat of the government and people, Judg- d by all reports we have from San Carlos, Agent John P. Cum is a most valuable officer for the people, government, and Indians.

 THE Surveyor-General, by mail of We'd