The Arizona sentinel., 1876-04-22
THE CHIRICAHUA OUTBREAK.

A letter from Camp Bowie, dat
 ed April 18th, says: The scout
 which left here on Saturday morn
 ing under the command of Lieut.
 enant Henely, consisting of forty
 men of the Sixth Cavalry, accom-
 panied by Agent J eff0rds, two ci-
 tiZens and four Indians, returned
 here about nine o'clock last even ing The party went directly to
 Sulphur Springs, buried Rogers
 and Spence, left a guard at the
 station and proceeded after the
 Indians They struck the trail at once and followed the Indians
 about eighty miles, resting only
 two hours on the road. They came up with the enemy strong
 ly posted on ridge in the San Jose mountains, on the east side of the San Pedro, about fifteen
 miles this side of the Sonora line.
 The position taken by the Indians
 was such that they could not be dislOged, being completely cover ed by the rocks, so that none of
 them were seen during the en- gagement while they kept up a
 terrible fusilade on their assail- ants who were obliged to retreat
 from their unseen foes, with the supposed loss OfOne soldier named Gardner, who was missing, but subsequently, came into Sulphur Springs. The horse of one of the citizens was killed. ToWza, son of old Cachise, and the few In dians accompanying him with the soldiers, are reported to have shown much bravery during the fight. ToWza stood up on a rock in the thick of the firing and made speech to the foe. He proved himself of great value in bringing the command up so quickly with the Indians and giv- ing valuable information in re- gard to their haunts. Lieutenant Henely is said to have shown much coolness and personal bra very, in the most exposed posi- tions. He had some close calls. The Indians were we'll armed and well supplied with ammunition, having so much that they left a considerable quantity at Sulphur Springs station. The sooner this thing is stopped the better for all concerned, and the only way to do this is to push in additional troops here and with them send Apache scouts and plenty of them. The more of the latter, the better. Mir. Ochoa left here on Sunday for Grant and we are in hopes that upon his representations the commanding officer at that post will at once send out troops. So much depends upon prompt and energetic action. ToWza'S band is encamped near here and he will go out again as soon as he can get any following and sup port.
 Gov. Stafford telegraphed Gen eral Kautz on Tuesday, asking permission to lead two hundred San Carlos Apaches against the Chiricahuas; also suggesting in the telegram that the Generals presence would do much good here. In answer General KautZ replied that he would send Major Brayton to the San Carlos to enlist all the scouts necessary, and that he would be here in person with in ten days, but that it would re- uuire more than ten days for the scouts to reach Camp Grant. Gen. eral Kautz also expressed a will ingness to send troops to protect | such settlements as the Governor might consider ill danger, until l his forces were organized. The | Governor advised him that all the available force at Camp Low aIl should be sent at once to pro- tect the settlements at Crittenden, in the Huachuca mountains and he upper Santa Cruz. To this, on morning, General KautZ .epIied that he would order out he troops at Lowell
 We heard man say the other lay, and he was of the opinion hat he was endorsed by 999 out ,f every 1000 people in these parts, hat the kind of war needed for he ChiFicahua Apaches, is stea- ", unrelenting, hopeless, undis- .riminatIng war, staying men, wo-