THE ARIZONA CITIZEN

TUCSON, PIMA COUNTY, ARIZONA, SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1871, PAGE 2 , Col. 1.

THE WHITE MOUNTAIN APACHES;

   Under the management of Major Randall and Agent Roberts, these Apaches have become the most faithful and best behaved Apaches in Arizona.  They cheerfully cooperate with our soldiers and give valuable aid in bringing to terms the hostile Apaches.  Our enemies are their enemies and our friends are their friends.  They cheerfully obey every order, and if stolen property is brought on their reserve they instantly report it.  They are planting and raising stock, and are striving to become self-sustaining.  This is a striking contrast with their conduct before Major Randall and Agent Roberts were placed in charge of them.  Then men were murdered in camp and the murderers secreted and kept from justice.  Raids were often made and stock stolen to that reserve but none of it was ever reclaimed again.  They came and went at pleasure and were insolent to the extreme.  The condition of these Apaches then and now is all the endorsement Major Randall and Agent Roberts require.  It is the practical result to which we must look for efficiency, and judged by this test, no higher praise can be given to these officers.

THE WEEKLY NEW MEXICAN

SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO, SEPTEMBER 26, 1871

   Our old townsman C.E. Cooley, Esq., for some time past Indian Interpreter at Camp Apache, is now engaged, under authority from General Crook commanding the District of Arizona, in raising a company of Apaches to serve as scouts in the campaign now being made against Cochise and his followers.  The Apaches located on the reservation near Camp Apache are reported as being very hostile to Cochise and his tribe, and have already been very serviceably to the military through their knowledge of the country and by bringing in information as to the movements of the hostile tribes.

THE WEEKLY NEW MEXICAN
SANTA FE, NEW MEXICO,    SEPTEMBER 26, 1871     PAGE 1
THE APACHE CAMPAIGN IN ARIZONA

     Our latest advices from Arizona, telegraphed from San Francisco, report that General Crook has made a treaty with Miguel, Chief of the Coyotero Apaches, by which, the latter agrees to collect and organize his warriors and join the whites in the campaign now being carried on against the hostile Apaches. Rumor says that Cochise has died from the effects of a wound received in a recent fight with a body of Mexican troops in the state of Sonora. General Crook professes his ability to effectually subdue all the hostile Apaches if let alone by the Peace Commissioners. The Apaches have driven all the miners and prospectors from Turkey Creek into Prescott, and killed a herder in Chino Valley. A party of miners has arrived at San Francisco who had been prospecting the San Francisco Mountains north of Prescott, where they found rich placer diggings, but soon after making the discovery they were driven off by the Apaches. They brought considerable gold with them, and express a desire to return provided they can get up a sufficiently large body to enable them to resist the Indians.

From Jack Becker's research collection.