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ARIZONA MINER Supplement.
l'rcscott, Arizona, Fobruary C, 1S74.
TELEGRAPHIC.
Special Dispatches to the Arizona Minor, '
By Western, Union and U, 8. j
Military Lines. 1
Foreign and Domestic. !
San Diego, January 29. The Union von-1
tains a Washington letter, two and a half ;
columns long, with relcictleo to Howard's j
treaty with Cachise, guying correspondence ,
between Hon E. P. Smith, CommissioiKr of
Indian Affairs, Ocn Howard ami other ofll-1
ciali. The correspondence saysi i
Many demand have been made for the
publication of the treaty between Cachi?, (
and the establishment ol the Chiricahua ms- j
ervatiun. Your correspondent called upon
Commissioner Smith, und requested the
privilege of examining such paper as n.r r
tained to tho (subject, which request wa
promptly granted. The principal tacts die-1
lied being, that no formal treaty hid been i
entered into: concspondence will show that !
n ft . 1 . . . -
ucn uowaru maue repon nor. mu, io-,
which Wis published, and that ubcqucitly
tho authorities of Sonora begun to complain
of Indian depredations, ami accuse Gen How
ard of having left the back door of the reiser
ration open into Mexico, etc
Gov Pcsquiera, of Bonora, wrote to tho
Department, and was answered by Commis
sioner Smith, who stated that Caihiao hud
not been given permission, to raid into Mex
ico, and that Gorcrnment had uot supplied
tho Apaches with citizens' clothes, arms, etc.
Soon afterwards, Major Price wrote a let
ter which caused the following correspon
dence to pass on the subject. A letter Irwni
Smith to Howard says: On Gen Crook's com
ing, with force, before Oachiae, to enforce a
compliance with daily roll-call, Cachi u claim
ed that, under bis stipulations with Howard,
troops could not coiuo on his reservation, ex
cept to travel on roads to and front military
posts; also, mado no concealment of raid by
his tribe into Sonora, and said that Ins treaty
with Howard did uot furbiJ it. Gun Crook,
having no copy of the treaty, retired.
In your report to the Department of the
Interior, as commissioner to the Apaches, uo
mention of any kind -is made of u tieaty wuu
Cachise. You have reported your uction as
having persuaded him to remain in tho Chi
ricahua country, and to agree to rvfr.Ju Irom
marauding if Government would furnish sub
sistence for himself ami his band. if any
other stipulations were made, or tieaty of
any kind entered into with Cachise, ItU very
important that a copy ho lurnished thUolllce.
Howard replies, substantially, as follow:
1st Nq formal treaty with Cachise and hi
band was made. Tho reservation was set
npart subject to approval by the President,
and had tho same conditions as the White
Mountain, Tulcroa and other reservations.
No more and no less. The reservation priv
ileges promised by tho President and Secre
tary of tho Interior to Apache Indian to
visit Washington, wcro extended to Cachise
and his band.
In a letter to Gen Crook, from Cacbtse's
,if,,i at 11 187 1 sav: Thev
(meaning the Indians) all agree that if I will
give thera tho Chiricahua mountains tor a
reservation, they will cease iron. rmm uo
contented. They promise, emphatically, to
seize upon any stock taken from citizen, or
other property stolen, and lo give it up to
their agent, at once.
In conclusion, Gen Howard recipituutc:
I Bet apart as a reservation not the oiio I pre
ferred, but the only one I could get the In
dians to agree to. I promised Government
wpuld furnish tho usual supplies food and
clothing j promised t would present the Indi
ans' request for diminution of tioups on their
reservation to the President : promised they
should have Thomas J. Jeilerds as their
agent, and I promised their agency headquar
ters should be at Sulphur Spring, and to
keep the Indians and soldiers apart. Qn
thoir part, tho Indians, through Cachise and
captains, promised t,o refrain from all unlaw,
ful war, marauding, jumping train, killing
and rohbing inhabitants j to keep road
their vicinity open, apprehend Indium who
como upon their reservation with booty, and
.....,. tlw, oirnn tn their nueilt.
i ft ri.i a (Whig!! lukutJ. during tuo
J lively, but they cannot overturn one grand
tact, viz: that the wildest Apache may be
met ami conquered without arms, by God'!
help. Let Son urn sund a man with authority
to that Chirieahua reservation and he can ar
range as I dni and with more ease, for he and
Cacbiee can talk the Spinuli language to
gether. Thi, in my judgment, will Ihj wiser
limn to shoot Indian, or to call a daily ros
ter. If you kn v the Tulorosa Indians you
would nut believe they were much corrupted
by Indians thiee hundred miles off. Let every
thing be duiie to promote virtue and proper
living on both tesoivutiotx. Your fuithtul
inspector will soon lind the truth and, I hope,
the remedy lor many ills.
Her. Clum, acting commissioner, writes to
the Secretary of thu Interior, enclosing this
correspondence, and adds : So far a this of
lire has information, Carhuu bo, hitherto,
v. till great luleiity, kept li.s promise Ut re
to govern well on tho Indian reservation on
hich Caehixo is placed. The Indians aru
under charge of an agent whose reputation
ha been seriously impugned, und who is not
willing; to supprve? their savage tendencies.
Gen Howard says Cachisc's band have long
known Jvfierd's, and have full confidence in
him
Gen Crook answers that mch acquaintance,
made and continued during a course of hos
tilities which brought torture and death to
scores of poor fiwiitierMiien. will strongly
militate against Ge.il Howard's endorsement
of this agent. ,
The (jeneral's rule U that tho only men
who can maintain friendly relations with
hostile Indians are tic ingpncral tralllcand
fricndliip with them, whereby Indians are
funnelled with moan to carry on warfare.
It not an Indication ol great
personal
lirjiVHPv. in fti nmu ti. 1iv ronftnrfiMl f:,i,i
f.aii. from iiiaur.uding, notwithstanding the iiWttnl to the raiicberia of the savage who
promise i.t rtims and as.utance made hima wftU.d Mlivu a gllai f H.aCl! wi,,
iMf urn nun jiu u.n nui ijcgu luiiiiieu uy me
Government, for wttit of funds. The conn try
is rewrtiil i-aferfivm Indian at tacks than it
has been (or many years Iwfure. Cachise lias
by positive couiMaud forbidden hts men to(lm.lt!y
raid in M cxico, an! ha turn til back other' tvtiiiu
Ulkt concerning l UtytW$rwtn?
Mexicans, or crossing tho south lino of the r
r..tHrtftlnn into Mexico. I answered that it
i, ,.,,!,! nnt i.n nllowod as we were at peace
with thu Mexicans. He wished to knqw If
Mexicans crossed tho border and created dis
turbances upon t'c'r reservation wuv
Indians should do ? I ansyvered, report the
Ma or Sumner. This,
ho atul his captaiiif agreed to do bogging of
Malur ouinnef iw privilege f m-""
back any such raiders. I do not guarantee,
the moral character of the Aiachetn6r of
Indian agents, hut I do believe in the Presi
dent's peaco policy, uavo nstvu
ti. .lHiuonstrata it. under his and the fsecre-
tary' orders, and by tho "lvno MP orao
tiling was uunu. mv.v, , .
etousness, rovenge and falsohoou aro vory
Indians who were coming wjth kjotr from
Mexico ujNiti his rvu'rvatmu, and in other in
stuuee h'." lakeaauuy the cut lie wl.i.-h they
brought, and ilelivcred them up to be return
ed to their OA-tier. When due .-dluwjince is
made for thu open and cruel hontii.'ly hith
erto existing between Cachise and thi white
K-ople, and the deep rxs-eiiiment he i.- known
to hat clurttlied formally urs, the present
peaceful di-sitioii and rondu. t on hi part,
and the ntp-rwiie safely ( the omtury
from mauramlin b;iiiilot Indiin.-, show u
sutifncluiy rmult of the pvacc ucy t tun
reaMiiiably be ixpected uii(icr lliu eircuiu
stances. Tht- L'nion's cone-jjndent udd : Agent
Jeilerds write an aunui r In miiii of th-
..f.ntl .it.t tiiiil kn lli-it I ' ili .I.4I1!. ttinfl
he hii( an uii'Uil.itMlliig with Ilmvanl which
would iK-rmil bjm to cuutn.Utf his laid into
M'-xlio.
Whd General Van lever, Indian Inspector,
was makiiig a tour of Arizona, the State De
partment receive. I. fiirther coinphiiuis from
the City of Mexieo, through ciirrriqmndciicv
with tin1 U, S. Minuter. Secretary Fish nt
to I he 1. .tenor Department reqtH lug inf.ii-
matioii on the m ) j eel. j he i orro'pundence
whs referred to G. neral Vsndcver, with in-
Striulloiu to iiiveatigatu tli-. whole u.attir
and rejHirt hs Min as x-sib)e. Gen Van
dever at once visual the Chinciiliu.i n-in-i va-
tion, examined witnesj-c, nti'l Irotu Mexican
testimonv lound that the renorls weiu Irue,
and that imU alt were occiuioncd by India, s
from lularofca and other uuinur places, who
made headqua itefs at Chlraeslnia when not
annoyed by military fore. Thou Lilians
cainu upon Jell'uriU ia t-neli n-imbers that
they cons.uned provi'ions iinemled lor fa
cjiiso's band. Gen Vandewr blauus Jeirerds
for harlxring Tulanaa Indium. Ilu had a
talk with Curhisc, and the i rally chief said
he would nut raid into Mexico; yet, aid he,
"ivlieii I nisde h treaty with the U. S., 1 did
not make one with Mexiro." Gen Vaudevcr
came to the ronrluion that Cachisu'is land
ought to ln remoed to New MeM-iifliut the
Depirtinent do not think that this is po.ii
bio or jiracticnble. Gen On ok, however, sas
that there would be no dilllculty in accomp
lishing it. Tin' danger apprehended is not
so much that Indians will continue raiding
into Mexico, m that, whenever Cachise be
. ' i .t n . i.
comes Ulssaiisiieu wiih our uoveniiueui ue
may cro over with his whole lund into
Mexico and make a compact with one or
more nf the Mexican frontier town?, as has
formerly been done. He may change Jiis base
of operation and cgiii to raid across the
frontier into Arizona, and New Mexico. This
question is not an easy one to handle and the
Department find it ai elephant,
Ncvv has been received that Jcfferds lias
resigned. Commissioner Smith, undoubtedly
influenced by the rejiort of Gen Howard,
thinks Jeffurd's is the only , man for thu place.
n..n Vanduver rcnorU that se viral more com
petent for the tusition can bo named. One of
ii in W-iitfip litia fnrtnl fnfltii'lira fiVer
Cachise than Jeilerds,
It i probable that, with good mnnagement
ut the rcservntioii, reports of raids across the
border would, for the most part, ccast. Per
haps this is tho remedy, but it must not be
oxiiected that all tho wunderjng desperados
of the Territory can at once bo squelched.
To-day's Union's Wosjiingto.n special ys
that a copy oi Geti Howard's letter to the
Indian Commissioner was forwarded to Gen
Crook in Arizona, and the Wr Department
is in receipt of a letter from Genera! Crook
commenting freely and with great length
upon dlflerent propositions of the latter. In
answer to Gen Howard's statement that
there has lccn no formal treaty between him
self and Cachise, he says: In my opinion
there should have bcenafortnsl agreement,
In writing, embodying the terms of tho con.
vention: any other proceduro was wrong.
Gen Crook says strict disclphno Is required
tlie Americsn Uf-oti the Apaches' own ternu.
Gun Crook further says : It is immaterial
whether the Indians committing the depre
dations belong to Cjirliisu's roer-tat'ion or are
harbored there- There U abundant
iiony that Cachuc's hand is rapidly ac-
etiiniiUting Mock, and that Sonora and
Chihuahua are rapidly loosing it.
Gen Howard nid, in his letter, that the
wildest A pa ki may be met and conquered
wit Lout force tut by God's help, and hcadvlsia
Mcxin) to send an embassador of peace to
treat with C.tcbue.
Gen Cruuk nas that Gen Howard intends
In convey the impn-nsion that the treaty with
Cichi.c wa made by the grace of God and
that it was mote likely to be kept than one
ecun-l by force arid the compelling of Indi
an to submit to the check of daily roll-call,
and tuat iii method should betollouedin
uther cawr. - . .
It is shown that Howard made the ame
pcne J"li itiier tnoe oi npeiiis. wUo
oon aftirweiit pu the war path, and who
wi-re made to keep jieace ty the soldiers lat
wilder. Cachise then said to the Aparhes
whom Cnnk had conquernl: Nov that you
have jiulded like degs and have no placu to
gu to, and eannot make war on the Ameri
can, I must behat e mywlf as far as they are
(one rued.
(ieu Crunk Kiys that, although the joplo
of Mexico will not make a treaty with any
of our ludisnk, yet they tent, tub tmi, &
deputation oi re8Hniblu ofiirer to Cachise,
who treated llleir overtures with disduiu ami
them-elve with iiuult.
He coutiuuc: The only way, in my judg
ment, that thu President's policy can be car
ried out on ivervatliiH", is to have the In
dians plared under the control of comiHtcnt
and responsible tiersons.
Several important documents are appended
to the Juitcr in support of General Crook's
theory.
Several prominent officers of the Interior
Department ay that Gen Howard does not
undeiFtand the law governing treating with
Indian and whites, and the diflerence be
tween the two.
In a letter to the Aitant A-jutant-Gen-eral
of the Division of the Pacific, General
Crook complains that he has no supervision
over Cachue' reeenation, and says it ia
charged that more rations are given out on
that ivM-rvatiou than are authorized.
He makes a pertinent inquiry, as follows:
" would remind the Commissary-General
that for a long tune I have labored hard by
crronul exertion to preserve our friendly re
lations. wih Mexico, at least on this lMirder
in retaliation for. Apache raids, which the
Mexican alllrm were effectually protected by
us; but how am I to do this now-, with Col
MiKenzies action in n similar case before
them 7 And in case of armed Mexicans cros
ing the border and attacking Cachise on his
rcrervai ion, what action shall I take? How
ran I reasonably object if the Governor ol
Sonora marches his troops across. our border
to punish Cachise for his raid on Sonora?"
-st-ctiiveja..
Yuma. January' 31.--Tuesday night, about
midnight, h bnltul murder was committed by
a party of Rio Grande Mexican teamster?, in
this place. During a drunken spree they
sloped in front of tho house of n Mexican,
on Gila street, and made so much disturb
ance that he camo and ordered them away.
They ct upon him with their knives and cut
him many time?, finishing their fiendish
work by cutting Ills throat and dancing m
his body. Deforo dying the murdered man
shot one of the party, and It Is believed that
the vound will prove fatal. Two more of tho
party were arrested yesterday, hut tho other
escaped to Sonora, An examination will bo
held tn-day.
Steamer from the mouth of tho nvcr ex
pec ted to-morrow.
Host connecting with steamer for San
FratlcUco leaves Yuma February ICth.
Senator Morton finds, that Pjnchlwck bus
iness quite nasty and disgraceful "to tho
party."