Arizona weekly miner., 1877-03-09

: <sz 2 zset of Cavalry, to Tres AleInoS, on the San
 Peiro. The Scents from Verde and Apache
 and all the ataiIabie Cavalry from tho
 northern part were ordered sonsh and ar
 ranged to take ,he field tn reqSon. l. was discovered however that fherA NaS no gen, eral outbreak of the Ifiise and on the 2Srd
 the commanding officer oi Camp Bowie, re-
 ported on the authority oC ihe Agent. (Jcf
 fordS) that all the lpdiaus had returned lo the Agency, except soven, the alleged mur- ders. The Cavalrv WAS shereioye ordered
 back 10 their stations, HEld the Scouts con-
 tinued on 10 Iamr Grant, lt was the de
 sign to use these Indians to hunt up the
 murierers, but tbe Agent look no trouble,
 offered mo information As tn who were tho criminals, and ion tha officers in charge Ia find out and ste whAt they >ould. lt wa>
 his business to hRve asked for military aid and thus secured the perpetrators. The Agent was afraid of Gla Indians and did not dare take such action. The Scouts hay ing reached Grant, were on the @6th, O. April ordered to search for the Indians who had committed ihc murders, and it was claimed that they were absent from the
 Agency,
 The Scouts ran over tbe entirc country
 west or Bowie. Including Jhe NheiSioue'
 
 returninE bv Mule Pass and l1Tac coon Noun sains. found no Indians aud all trails were
 leading to the Chificahua Agency. The
 Indian Scouts returned on the fIth, ot May
 to Camp Grant,. Capt. NhiSidc, at the
 same sine pLirogie5 tho country about old Camps CriiICR,len and Nalien, and near the Sonora line, fonni nu cy idcncc Of Indians. and the few inhabitants were following their pursuits as usual. These scouts con
 flrmed the report of thc Ageni of May Huh. that all the ChiricshuaN had returned to the Agency. He however did uo, ask for troops to make auV arrCx3s. and dIl nol offer to point out Inc perpetrators
 The alleged outbreak answered itS pur-
 pose and hfly thousand dollars additional appropriation was huTriet through Congress with a proviSo, that tho ChiFicahuaS be re moved 10 ghe San Carlos Reservation. IL was to put through This ioh that the Cover
 nor hurried as he states io Prescott. 10 gel
 me to put it through, or as he expresses 1t, s'to secure if possible, my cordial co-operd- ton ! declined 70 he accessory to measure in which the War Department had not been consulted, which would add great ly 10 the expenses of that Department. the Smount Of which could moi be foreSeen. for the Governor was very positive that the h. dians would 20 To Nar, before they would
 be removed. The War Department woulC not give me the order h assist m the remoN- al until it was authorized by Congress
 The responsibility for inc consequences having been fully assumed by higher aC- thority, entered into the movement with alacrity for mS duty NaS clear enough then, although was satisfied that the end was distant. and 1he consequences unforeseen. May nth. received the order ,o assist in the movement. and on the 9th of June five hundred Cavalry and eighty Indian Scouts. were in position on opposite sides of the Agency, at EaIl -GaNlc. some of these troops had s,-sIc.iei over three hundred miles to get thorc, which is quite different from what is stated and implied iu the Gov ernor's letter. .----.---
 The result was by no means what was eN- ! pected bx .hg Governor and others in 1 tereSted. There was no war. the Indians ! were peaceabty removed 10 old Camp Good ! win, and the part which took highly com ] mended by tho Governor himself, although i l have always suspected tha. he was io certain extent disappointed. NIr. ieflordS, told me tha; he lad been mastering seven . hundred and fifty to nine hundred Indians. : In the course of the tiye days ] Srent at Bowie. pending inc reunoval. ih the course . of numerous couNprSations, 1 obtained his . own figures of the number of Indians in . each band that constituted Inc thiricuahua | tribe pertaining ,o his Agency. which were loosely given, for hn never would state that . q band had any positive number; he states ' Gordo's band, fer eSalnple.to number from thirty to sixty. but his eNtrcnfe figures never . aggregated over five hundred and fily. Now as to the actual numbers, as far as could ascertain. aud l wifi add that was on the ground is perscu and gave my per sonal attention ;a getting at ihe truth. whilst the Governor WIS ia Tucscn. or sill farther away Mr. Chm iS iily authority for about three hundred and twenty fbat cIule in .Hns! with which he started for Camp Goodwin, on the I2gh CT June. Isoydc's bud, call ', sixty, the extreme tiSnrc, bciag poaCeably inclined iefl immediately after ihe killing of Roggers and Spence, and Ha- believed 10 have gune to ihe Warm SpFiu. Resersa- ton, where ho came from three years ho- fore when the Reservation was established by Gen. Howard. On thc 1ll, Who. Gero- ninlo and Nolgce, oT tacariSa, came in from the party still cut, and interviewed NIT. Cum, and ieft with the promise Ia come in with their families iu q feW days. IL was discovered Ina same day by Mir, Cium's In- dian Scouts, iitat they had broken camp C aud fled ani under date of Ihe Sin. MT Cum, requested ihat tha rsn8wsYS be pur- [ sued auss captured or killed. Major Comp ! ton. who wa~ iu Congmana nf the detach- ' fnetlt ltf the San H3mnn AaIiek. was ordered to take ihe trail and follow is, and capture V or kill The parsY. On the morning Of the 10th, I received 3 dispatch from Major O Compton. that inc had found the trail con e Sisiiifg ot a'icut twenty-five or thirty ami T malS, stating That he would follow it. By this time if became evident that there Il were no sitore Indians 10 come in. for 1ahza ' the young chief, said ;hat there were no Q more. Jeiler,is claimed that there were s about two hundred Southern Chiricahuas ? out, but like his other statements there Il was no doGliniteAeSS "a this one. and he Q named no chiefs, and Youcbsafed no facts !, Io establish i4is assertion and inferred that u he was simply trying to account for the 900 Indians he had been mastering. Mir. Cum u was of the same opinion w;h myself. and @ my presence being no longer required. O proceeded ta Camp Goodwin. 10 select the U site Of new Camp. l learned on my way a back, about the l4th. that Major Compton. l lad not followed the irail. He was still in S' he field, and tiii not learn until my re e urn to Prescott. when received his written a' report, how unsatisfactory and inadequate n ais reasons were. ! had ordered that the h chiricahua Reservation, he thoroughly D secuted. aud all trails followed that led from N he Reservation. None were found except te hat Of Geronimo and his party. and to the lo present date no evidence has been furnished nc, that any others escaped, except the as N ertions Of tho Governor. Jehords, Lieut.. N Henley and Dr. King. which are entirely u by any facts, or data. whilst W