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Show 46 REPORT OF THE BOARD OF INDIAN COMMISSIONERS. their story ; knew how happy they were here in peace, up to the time of the massacre ; knew all about that massacre ; knew how he had returned after it ; knew how he had been fired upon by the White Mountain soldiers. After that he wished to confess he had gone on a raid against the Papagos to recover his children. He liked Lieutenant Whitman, but he was so unhappy that if he had not heard that the commissioner was coming, he never would have come in. Commissioner Colyer told them that " they must not fight the Papagos or white peo-ple any more. He had already sent for the ' children, and when he got back to Wash-ington he would ask the President to request the government of Mexico to return their children." Ls- ciin- en- zeen said, " It seems to him now as if he had his children in his own hands. God had certainly put it in my heart. He was very happy." Commissioner Colyer said that he would ride up the valley with them this morning to see the place of the massacre and hear their story. Es- cim- en- zeen. A long time ago they took off a wife of his, and he believed she now is- at Fort McDowell. " Na- zen- i- clee" is her name. She is living in the house of one of the captains of the soldiers. September 19, 1871. Captain Chiquito, of the Aravapa. The commissioner told him he was glad that he had seen him before he left for Washington. Captain CHIQUITO : " He has nothing more to say than the other chiefs had said ; he confirms all that they have said. He had heard that his father and mother had come and he asked to see him. The same God who rules the sun, he believes, had s^ ut me here to see them. Ever since the other Indians had told him that I was here he wished to see me, and for that reason he had hurried in from the hills. It must have been God who had put it into both of our hearts to hurry to see each other. He thanks us for having sent him out food and clothing last night." Two Final Indians came with Ex- cim- eu- zeeu. Says that yesterday he sent a boy named Un- pin- al- kay to the Finals, and about noon he saw a smoke on his trail, and he don't know what it means unless he saw his people. He was to return in four days. He will bring in all the people he can. He thought that all the Finals would come into this reservation as soon as they heard of the treatment he was receiving. I visited the scene of the massacre on Sunday morning, September 17 ; some of the skulls of the Indians, with their temple- bones beaten in, lay exposed by the washing ot the run and the feeding of the wolves. I overtook Es- cim- en- zeen, who had ridden before us, and found him wiping the tears from his eyes when he saw them. By referring to accompanying papers, ( Appendix A &, No. 2,) it will be seen that the ac-count of this horrible massacre as given by Lieutenant Royal E. Whitman, Third Cavalry United States Army, the officer in charge of the camp at the time, is amply sustained by his brother officers and citizens then present. Some of these affidavits make the affair even more horrible than Lieutenant Whitman described it to be. Dr. C. B. Briesly, the post surgeon who was sent out to the bloody field to minister to the wounded on the day of the outrage, says : " On my arrival I found that I should have but little use for a \\ agon or medicines. The work had been too thoroughly done. The camp had been fired, and the dead bodies of some twenty- one women and children were lying scat-tered over the ground; those who had been wounded in the first instance had their brains beaten out with stones. Two of the best- looking of the squaws were lying in such a position, and from the appearance of the genital organs, and of their wounds, there can be no doubt that they were first ravished, and then shot dead. Nearly all of the dead were mutilated. One infant, of some ten months, was shot twice, and one leg hacked nearly off." OPPOSITION TO THE INDIAN PEACE POLICY. The Arizona Citizen, a professedly republican paper, published at Tucson, and the Arizona Miner, democratic paper from Prescott, have been excessive in their abuse of Lieutenant Whitman, Colonel Green, and all other officers of the Army who have shown the least sympathy for the Apaches, charging them with many crimes. The editors seem to fear the damaging effect produced on the public mind by the state-ments made officially by these Army officers of the general good conduct of the Apaches whenever they have been allowed an opportunity to display it, and of the hor-rible brutalities committed by the people of Arizona upon them at the Camp Grant massacre. Their statements that the Indians left that reservation and went on raiding parties against the citizens is denied by every officer arid citizen at the post. Oscar Hutton, an old pioneer, who has the reputation of having personally killed more Indians than any man in Arizona, testifies under oath ( see Appendix A ft. No. 3,) " not only that the statement of Lieutenant Whitman is correct, but that he had never seen Indians on a reservation or at peace about a military post under so good subjec-tion, so well satisfied , oid happy, or more teachable and obedient, than were these. I was repeatedly requested to watch every indication of anything like treachery on their part, and I will give it as my deliberate judgment that no raiding party was ever |