The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1879-09-30

The newspapers generally write OF
the Indian troubles in Grant county,
New Mexico, as being produced by the
Utes. This is a mistake; there are no
Ctes in that territory. Grant county,
In which the Indian depredations are
reported, Is the extreme southwest por-
tion of New Mexico. 1t is q region
rich in mineral wealth, especially cop
per and gold. Mountainous and rugged
in the larger portion of its area, it has
but a sparse population, and those
mostly Mexicon birth and race. Cover
ing an area of 10000 square miles, its
Inhabitants do not number 1000. The
Indians whose raids have stirred Gov.
Apaches-''nenegades," as they are
termed-not over 40 in number, under
the command OF a chief named Victo-
ria. These Indian banditti-for even
from an aboriginal standpoint they are
nothing else care fugitives from the
White mountain reservation, in the
territory Of Arizona. They are chiefly
Jacarilla Apaches who were, till about
three years since, located at Warm
Springs, New Mexico, refusing to
move until forcibly taken away by
Agent Clum (now editor of the Citizen,
Tucson, A. t. to San Carlos, in Arizo-
ma. On the Arizona reservation, Of
which San Carlos is the agency post,
and Camp Apach the military position,
are now concentrated what is left of
the once formidable Bedouins of the
southwest. Gen. Howard first succeed
ed in breaking in the Apaches' front
by inducing Cochise and his followers
to agree not to fight the whites, and to
accept q reservation us their permanent
home. Gen. Towards success was
won by simple courage and personal
fidelity to his ideas Of the Indian faith,
but it was marred as a finality by his
sentimental failure to regard the inev-
liable cunning of n savage nature.
Cochise meant by the word white"
only Anglo-Americans. He and his
band continued the merciless wal that
for two centuries the Apache and the
Mexican had made on each other. Con-
tinual forays were made on Mexican
territory, and continued murders of
Mexicans were reported. The reserva-
tion in the extreme southeast part of
Arizona was il-chosen-it was too near
Mexico. The now famous Tombstone
and other mining districts are within
the boundaries of the Chiricahuahua
Tor Cochise) reservation. The ominous
name OF Tombstone was given by the
earliest miners there, some eighteen
months since, because of the number of
graves with stone cairns on them, filed
by Cochise's victims. Gen. Crook,
who followed Howard as q paciicator,
adopted a more vigorous policy. There
were four or five large divisions of the
Apaches. He used their clan quarrels
and employed them against each, final
ly subduing the whole body of Apaches,
and uniting them on their present res
ervation. A few hundred were left in
New Mexico. Out of this latter fact
has grown the occasion at scares which
have afflicted portions of these far-off
territories, greatly retarding their de-
yelopment, and bringing on what seems
the last desperate raid of a few savages,
who are no longer warriors. but only
horse thieves and bandits.
The authorities. military and civil,
have continued, till recently, the en-
ployment Of Apaches, either as militia
~ scouts or agency police. The terri
tory Of Arizona, under Gov. Stafford,