Arizona weekly miner., 1877-05-11
THE EAST INDIAN RAID.

The Reports of Capt. Raferty. Lieut. Craig and Lieut. Reuker have been received st Department Headquarters, and all there is in them is sn account of damage done and of long marches by the troops, but not trace of the depredators where they went.
 Lieut.. Reuker, with the Company of In dian scouts, and about thirty cavalry men of the 9th Cavalry. secuted the Chiricahua mountains and the Guadalupe and Stein's Peak ranges, from the 9th of April to the 2sth. No trace of the animals stolen from the stage station iu the San Simon, or any fresh Indian signs could be found.
 Lieut.. Craig, with l2 men, started from the camp, in the Huachua mountains, south, along the eastern base of these mountains, into Sonora to Santa Cruz. From there, via San Rafael to Camp Critendcn, secuted tlte Sonoita Valley and country east of Crittenden, and thence to camp. This scout was made from April 18th to the alst.
 Capt. Rafferty went io the scene of depre- slation, near Crittenden, on the 18th. and secuted fer the Indians who committed the depredations in the Sonoita Valley the day previous. He secuted down the valley to CalabareS and back. and failed to find any trail that he could pursue. as all signs dis appeared and could not be followed after striking the hard ground in the hills. He proceeded from Crittenden to San Rafael and back to the Whetstone mountains. but found no trail except one. of three or four animals through the Whitestone mountains. amt was then lost in the valley of the san Pedro. He returned by the valley. up the San Pedro to camp m the Huachus noun tainS.
 IL will be seen from the foregoing. that the troops have been completely baffled, and the real facts show that a body of thirty h. dians. more Or less, can make raid in a settlement and carry of fifty or sixty head of stock, and get away without leaving any trail that can be followed. There is some thing very unsatisfactory about this. and We cannot understand it, We don't think such case could occur here in the North: it certainly has not occurred for several years. The troops. in every instance, have been able to follow the renegadeS. The renegades who killed Hawes, in the latter part of De cembcr, 1875. were traced to the san Car los Reservation, but, as all the cattle were killed on the trail before reaching the Reservation, it was not possible to identify the depredators.
 There is mystery about these operations that requires solution. It seems incredible that so many Indians should make their ap- pcarance, do such damage and disappear without trace. IL the scouts, now going South, under Lieut.. Hanna and Dan 0'Lcary, cannot solve such problems as these. we don't know how the southern set dement's are to he relieved from such troubles. If the depredations were com mitted, somebody must have committed them. Ii Indians did il. where do they be- long. The settlers report that the Indians seen wore soldiers clothing. One thing is certain, there are no Indians in that coun- try that do not belong to some Reservation, ai any Tate. when it suits their purpose. Can't Agent Cum. who is now escorting the Warm Spring Indians to San Carlos, tell Us whether there were any ab>entees from the Warm Springs, in the latter part of April, Hho may have possibly been concerned in this raid