20145, 20146. Daily Alta California, San Francisco, California, Saturday Morning, November 16th, 1872. Arizona. Universal Faith in General Crook... (article)

Daily Alta California San Francisco, California Saturday Morning, November 16th, 1872 ARIZONA. - Universal Faith in General Crook— The Loring Massacre- Indians Dying. By Telegraph. SAN DIEGO, November 15th.— Major Royall, Fifth Cavalry, arrived here today, en route to San Francisco to attend the Tompkins Court—martial. He leaves by the first steamer. He reports that the Superintendent of Indian Affairs in Arizona has discovered that fifty or more Apache-Yuma Indians lately escaped from Camp Date Creek Reservation, and have taken refuge with friendly Indians on the Colorado river. All Arizonians now here protest against the changing of Arizona to the Department of New Mexico, and the assignment of General Howard, or any one else, tà command in place of Gen. Crook, who has taken great pains to acquaint himself with Indian affairs, and is now putting into execution most important movements in the direct interests of peace and humanity. The Arizona “Citizen,” received to—day, says: “Let the Reservation be solely entrusted to General Crook, and it will soon be made respectable and as advantageous to citizens as Indians; in fact, would be made to promote the best interests of humanity, in the most just and merciful manner. Our belief is that General Crook is the best adapted officer in or out of the Army to manage the Indians, in their transition from war to peace. He has, for years, been fixed and verified by his works. His command in Arizona has been so interf ered with, that any judgement of it by results is very unfair to him. Let him have unrestricted control of the Indians on the Reservations, while operating against those off, and ere long his success will be manifest and satisfactory to all just and reasonable people.” Universal Faith in General Crook- Continued. The same paper says of the participants in the Loring massacre: “It is estimated beyond question that at least thirty—four Indians were engaged in that massa cre. Thirteen of them are known to have drawn rations at Camp Date Creek Reservation, on November 1st, 1871, and on the 5th of that month the massacre was committed. Of these thirteen, six were known to have been on the Date Creek Reserve on and before September 7th, 1872.”