Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-05-10
ARIZONA.
The Indian War in Arizona.

Tucson (Arizona( May Sth.-A special
Just received by the Star from Fort Thomas
says: Victorio iu yesterdays fight killed
George I'll. Stevens and about twenty families
OF Indians who were living on his ranch.
Stevens has been in Arizona fifteen years,
was native of Massachusetts,, had been
| connected with the Indian service many
years, and was at the time of his death en-
gagged In stock-raising. Captain Tupper left
Fort Thomas with reinforcements last night.
1t Is believed that a decisive battle is now
being fought. The scene of action is forty
five miles from Fort Thomas and the tele-
graph lines. Victorio is trying to reach the
San Carlos reservation to get the wives of his
warriors, and, if possible, get reinforcements.
General Cars foresight in placing Captain
Kramer with his force on Ash creek has, it is
believed, been complete checkmate to the
chiefs plans.
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY
New YORK, May Sth-The Sun to-day
prints a letter from A. j. Fountain, who
went from Sacramento to New Mexico with
General Carleton at the beginning of the re-
bellion and has been living in Mesilla since
1872. Fountain is Chairman of the Republi-
can Executive Committee of the Territory,
and writes to bis brother here, under date of
April 22d: " start to-day for the Mescalero
Indian Reservation. You will see bv the
papers l send you that they are having ter
rible time down there. General Hatch, af-
ter having been whipped all over the country
by Victorio, has gone to the Mescalero
Agency, and driven away all the Indians who
were behaving themselves. My old friends
Caballero, Gorgones and San Juan, the prin-
cipal chiefs of the Mescaleros, have fed from
the reservation, and it is feared have taken
the warpath. | am sent for to go out and
try and induce them to return. The whole
country east of us is up in arms. Victorio,
with less than two hundred warriors, has
whipped over eight hundred troops. Don't
believe word you read in Eastern papers
about affairs here At San Andreas, thirty
miles from here, battle occurred some
days ago. There were four hundred troops,
and not over sixty Indians. The
troops claimed a victory, and pre-
tended they killed thirty Indians, when, in
fact, they were BADLY defeated, and came
near being annihilated They lost one Cap
tain and seven men, and killed one squaw.
General Hatch makes big blow about it in
the papers, and claims a great victory. 1
predicted this thing months ago. OF all the
wretched mismanagement that has uniformly
characterized the conduct of Indian affairs
on this frontier, there has been none TO equal
this last. | fear that hundreds of lives will
be sacrificed by the imbecility and criminal
stupidity of our officials"
KRAMER's LATEST FIGHT.
SANTA FE New Mexico), May Sth.-Kra-
mer, with Is men of the Sixth Cavalry,
fought 90 warriors of Victorios band all day
on Friday in Rock creek canyon. Several
soldiers were wounded. Blackman, with
twenty cavalrymen and thirty Indian scouts,
has reinforced Kramer, aud Colonel Carr
also dispatched help from Camps Grant and
Thomas. The Arizona troops, now in Coop
Grafton with General Hatch in New Mexico,
have been ordered home to follow up the trail
of VictoriO into Arizona.
KRAMER's REPORT OF HIS OPERATIONS.
Tucson, May 9th.-A special to the Star
from Fort Lowell the Sth, says The follow
ing was just received from Ash Creek valley,
A. T., May 9TH, via Camp Thomas
have to report that yesterday, about noon some
of my Indian scouts reported the hostiles OF Vic
torios band fighting with peaceable Indians and
her1ers at Stevens sheep camp about eleven miles
above my carID on Ash creek, in this valley [ at
onee took ali my available force, about 20 enlisted
men and about the same number of Indian scouts
and started for the scene of fighting, deeming it
best to reach and assist the parties at the sheep
ranch at an early moment. took rapid gait with
the cavalry soon passing my scouts, who were un-
able to keep up, being dismounted. When near the
scene of trouble very suddenly received lley
from the hostiles, compelling to draw off a
reasonable distance, where skirmished with them
until tne arrival OF my SCOUTS, VINO were IN the foot
hills. When the increased fire was turned upon
them the enemy broke and run, gained their
animals, which they had secured in the dis
tance and made off at a rapid pace Sergeant
Griffin of my company mortally wounded
and has since died One Indian scout received a se
rous wound, but not dangerous. followed the en-
emy with what airy had, keeping the scouts in
the foothills, it having been decreased to fourteen
enlisted men by having to detail some as couriers
aud for attendance on the wounded After reaching
a distance of about nine miles the enemy took |
stand in a very strong position. | sent Lieutenant
Bockson, with his scouts, to make detour to the
enemys rear, VIII n, under the heavy fire OF the |
scouts, they again broke and ran of. | followed
them until nearly dark, they taking an easterly d
rection for the mountains, when, not being able to
overtake them, and my pack train not having come
up returned about four miles and went into camp
for the night.
$50 \. M-The pack train has just arrived. Major |
Tupper arrived at daybreak 1t is impossible for |
me to judge of the casualties of the enemy in yes
terday's fight, it having occurred in very rough
country. The strength OF the enemy between |
10 ard so bucks-nO women children-with 35 |
animals. The bodies of two white men, supposed |
to be prospectors, found near the present |
camp also wounded Mexican shee p-herder-al |
the work of these Indians. KRAMER, Captain.
The report that Victorio's Indians killed
Stevens at his ranch is not true.