| Show the apaches tur tue arizona airier speaking of the late treaty made by general crook with tho the apaches has lids the following in conversation with major brown ca captain in randall bandall lieuten 1 ants michler 1 schuyler and the other officers of crooks conquering army wo we learn that in coming from mcdowell Me Dovell the tilo troops were scattered over overa a wide belt of country lying hy by in i the tho day and trav elkie cl hig at night 0 on foot for the tho purpose of surrounding rauch erias las which the tile scouts had llad discovered and of making day dawn attacks the tile horses of the tile cavalry were ve very ry seldom beldom used the nights being cold men and officers ceis cels suffered much as fires could not bo be made for fear of warning the indians before taking leave of this treaty and its side issues we will repeat the belief once before expressed that it will prove a permanent treaty for t his this belief we have the following good and sufficient reasons we believe it was in 1870 tha that tavo tAve we were present at a council held at camp apache in the eastern part of the territory ferriton Ter riton general george stoneman the then commander of this department lepart ment talked to the confederate conf edem te bands of the apaches for government and its citizens the tile chiefs then denied that their people had warred spoil the tilo whites and put on airs of injured innocence they also demanded powder and lead with which to kill legame game at a later date they and other otiler apaches pursued a similar course in dealing with peace commissioner colyer Colye ir still later they pressed these points eints upon peace commissioner uen gen en 0 0 howard and won all points played for at camp grant Es kim in zin a big chief demanded horses and a carriage in which to ride more still he demanded indian children who had been captured by soldiers and tenderly raised by citizens c of tucson and shame shame lasting disgrace upon gen howard these civilized children were rudely pulled away by savage red men from the dear friends who had bad raised them up in christian civilization to be inducted into a life lire of drudgery and barbarism we were not there to witness the harrowing scene but men who did witness it say blat that there was many a tear shed by whites while others too full of emotion to cry clenched their teeth and clutched their weapons yet all bore this unchristian act of the christian soi soldier dier dien howard out of respect for the government of which he claimed to be a special agent did peace follow these treaties not by any means as we can amply prove by lists of of slain citizens and by accounts c of robberies how different the attitude of the apaches who have havo recently submitted to general crook they had nothing toasa to ask for they acknowledged that he had done what no other peace commissioner com M missioner iss ioner loner hod had done made it to their interest to come to him and beg for peace food and raiment this too in the spring of the year when the wild fruits of the country are growing P when grain and vegetables are forming when game is plentiful and when domestic animals are not scarce in the territory these reader are our reasons for believing that this latest submission of the most lna ina corrigible orri orrl gible apa apaches ches means peace to prove that this state of affairs would long since have been brought about by general crook but for the of peace we will proceed to relate his career since coming to the territory and assuming command a little over one year and a half ago at that date ho he found the troops bottled up in numerous garrisons at qt which places garrison n duty was all nil they were able to perform resting at Ti tucson teson beson lie called about him men who were likely to ai give ve him information concerning tile the num numbers bers haunts etc of the A apaches p ches and in a short time was vs w well weil el ai posted concerning these matters during durin this time lie was or eran gan izing p to arouse men and officers from the bhe lethargy into which gen stone man and inactive rule had thrown them horses had to bo be furnished pack animals ditto and a great many other things so that it was not until august 1871 that his little army of about moved out of tuc tue gon this force led b by crook matched through cochise Cochi ses 8 country the Pinal final ariva pai tonto and apache mohave countries without seeing many in dian sand crook arrived at it prescott with much knowledge of the indians deans and saud their haunts then followed some scouting with little success on the part of the troops until crook again took the field went to camp apache and organized a force of friendly Indians who with the troops did some good service until fhe the buzzard colyer colyor came along with peremptory order for the cessation of hostilities hostilities ceased crook left the tilo field and returned to his licad headquarters quarters a piece of table land between prescott and fort whipple temporary shelters were thrown up for himself and stall which barely enabled them to get in out of the draft while this was being bezug done col yer was embracing squaws squads at callips canlas apache grant and alid mcdowell and with the aid of presents and toady off omm meers officers and citizen employed emp loyes of the government kept busil busily e employed m firing tile tilo the indian ke heart a rt by lying to them about the white ite ito citizens of the territory IN nor or was this all nil he hired men to swear falsely regarding the treatment of indians by citizens corrupted some traders and tried to corrupt others by pa paying lug them two prices for goods whick which he presented to the indians worse still he pointed out to the indians the injustice of having any whites save those the indian bureau would send here with presents for them in the tile country and in sermons to the soldiers told them that their bayonets would soon be turned upon white trespassers instead of the indians after this he came to prescott and hypocrite as he was lied outrageously to all who approached him now it is not to bo be wondered at that colkers Col course made the indians i worse than they had ev ever er been beon before his coming here and the way they did commit murdel murd eibe eite t and robberies can be seen by the record buethe but the peace policy was sn trial and crooks forces more especially those who were commanded by cowardly Coly erite officers could not go out to avenge any crime dudley and curtis at mcdowell were confirmed colyer colser ites lies whitman at grant was worse yet greene at apache was wag a standoff stand off for whitman a and n d grover at verde permitted L his s own soldiers diers to be murdered within rifle ran range 0 of f il his is 1 three company post without witto witte out having the manhood to lead his men against the savages this was a period of great depression pre assion citizens were grief stricken and discouraged if colyer here during this time it would have taken a goodly force to have protected him from a just ajust doom that crook chafed chafee under this state of affairs is not to be wondered at but it continued until general howard ai rother another peace commissioner came among us yes and long iong a after aften with him came a mr smith h who had dealings with minnesota savages and who consequently saw at a glance that the apaches needed whipping before being petted and fed ho howard alward pretended to see matters in the 0 same light and after anner his fal fai failure lura to coax the savages into being good word was given crook to up and at them ho he commena commenced ed organizing reorganizing re for the work voik with serious misgivings of again being stopped but nevertheless tl th eless kept at it until he organized several bands of friendly indiana worked his officers and men up to something like a fichti 11 9 standard when he sailed into apaches and has ever since binco them medicine medi cine cina that has acted well part cart of an antidote to the poison instilled by the peace flitters flirters flir in january last he be with 13 companies of cavalry and friendly indians was within striking distance of cachine and his hundreds of cut throats ready to force them to abandon their murderous forays upon citizens of mexico and to disarm them but hut the tile wily cochiso fell back upon the treaty he had made with howard which according to cachine Ca chise for not a sin single ae copy of the tile treaty cou could I 1 d he be bounan found in the territory gave himself and rob mexicans and to retain their arms upon the tho reservation so two months of preparation two of the best months of the year for scouting were lost to crook all through gen howards criminal blunders or desire desiro to play into the hands of the tile murderers of that race to which unfortunately Gen howard belongs but for this delay and second blocking of the war wheels peace would have been declared several months ago the tile lives of 50 white pe persons esons and over yoo indians would chave nave been saved and the great amount of property taken by i apaches would still be in possession of its rightful owners 4 but thanks to president grant who regardless of tho the pleadings and threats of eastern thieves and fanatics ha hag permitted crook to save ua us from our ap apache enemies in his own good way a signal vietor victor victory y over our foes is now nov won this too at a trifling cost in money at atthe the sacrifice of but few lives and with a less force than that which former commanders here have had llad at their disposal all ai of which is glory enough for all concerned |
