Arizona citizen., 1873-11-29
ON BOTH SIDES THE LINE.


 President and General Towards
 Agreement with Cachise a Per-
 version of it--ReIerence to Gen.
 eral Towards Sympathy with the
 Poor and Afflicted.
 November l5, THE CITIZEN published that four persons were killed and thirty three horses stolen and some killed in So- nora by Apaches, and names, dates and localities were also given. Monday of this week, Santiago Redondo, brother of J. NJ. Redondo of Yuma, came to Tucson from the Altar district of Sonora. He came in pursuit of thirteen of his horses and mules stolen by the Apaches on the 5th instant from his own ranch. He says the trail leads directly towards the Ca chise reserve, and that he brought letter from the prefect of his district to the commanding officer at Camp Grant, re- questing assistance in the recapture of the stock. A few days prior to his loss, a neighbor-Diego Granillo had sixteen animals stolen and taken by the.Apaches in the same direction. On Tuesday of this week, Conrrado Aguirre got into Tue son from Magdalena, in company with Encarnacion Figueroa, in pursuit of ami mals stolen by the Apaches. He says just after this, the Apaches stole as fol- lows: Ten horses from Francisco Mon treal at San Ignacio; on the 18th, at the same place, seven more from Prefect Es- pinosa; on the 18th, fifteen more from Juan Jose Salgado; on the 18th, about daylight, twenty savages came right into the town of San Ignacio and stole fine horse belonging to Mir. Aguirre and one from Marcelo Bonillas and killed an OK belonging to the latter; also stole six horses of the Papago Indians The Papa gos followed but did not overtake them. Figueroa lost seven horses last July and Francisco EspinOsa says he afterwards saw some of them on the Cachise reservation in possession of the Apaches, and Figue- roa brought certificate from the Pre- feet of Magdalena, setting forth these facts and asking the assistance of the civil authorities in recovering the stock. In every instance where the people have had means and time and did follow the assas- sins and thieves, they found the trail lead ing to the Chiricahua or Cachise reserve.
 It is now about fourteen months since Cachise and his Indians were treated with by General Howard and such divine assis- tance as he uses in emergencies, and since that time, there have been almost constant walls coming from Sonora in consequence of the butchery of Mexican men, women and children and thefts of their stock and destruction of their crops and other prop erty. It is not denied by those in author ity over them that Indians rationed on the Chiricahua reserve have made a busi- ness of raiding into Mexico. Cachise told Gen. Vandever that ne would take no steps to prevent this raiding and denied the right of government under the agree ment-by divine aid-by and with General Howard, to use troops to stop it. Agent Jeffords told the proprietor of this paper, in April last, that he did not care how many Mexicans This people" Gas he pa- ternally called them) killed in Mexico; that for acts of treachery with those Indians, the Mexicans deserved killing, etc., etc. We then told him Gin Congress HalD, that such talk was discreditable to the country he was serving that such utter ances were not prompted by good heart; that the Mexicans then being murdered were probably guilty of no treachery to Cachise nor to bis Indians; that we had no special love for bad people of any race; that it was not practice of this govern ment to harbor and feed anybody to murder others on or of our soil, or whether good or bad people formerly 1; that it was inhuman to in any manner permit such state of things which might be prevented; and much more in a similar strain. The agent afterwards said he spoke in his private and not public capac- ity, an explanation which in the eXpres- sive phrase of the country, we then re- garded as "too thin." Except when'talk ing upon such points, our communications with Mr. Jeffords were always pleasant and so far as we are disposed, would be