Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-09-06
TIE INDIAN wAR-GENERAL CARR NOT
KILLED.

The latest official advices from Arizona
are over the signature of General Carr, who
was not killed, as the first accounts stated.
The official account given by General Carr
Of the battle OF Cibicu will be found in
our dispatches. General Carr declares the
uprising of the Indians to be general. The
question OF general war with the Indian
tribes OF Arizona and New Mexico is there
fore no longer in doubt. The horrifying
tragedy Of Rosebud, in which the gallant
Custer and his command persisted, has
been almost re.enacted in Cibieu canyon
and If in the latter as in the former In
stance the commanding General and his
entire command did not perish, the fact is
not due to any wise precaution Or discre-
bon on their part. It would seem that even
centuries of experience has not suficed to
make even veteran officers acquainted with
the real character of the Indians. From
the first experience CT Europeans with the
North American Indians, the cunning Of
the latter has been an overmatch for the
former. From Braddock at Fort Du
Quesne, to Caster at Rosebud, and Carr
at Ci5iou, the smbu7cade trick has been
successfully played. 1t would seem that
the military men learn little or nothing by
experience. General Carr was on really
hostile mission. To arrest the medicine
men of the Apache tribe was IN itself
declaration Of war upon the tribe. But the
officer Penetrates the very heart of the In
dian country, into the Businesses Of the
mountainsregardedb by them asimpregnable.
His command is led up narrow deiile of
rocks, and the old story of ambuscade and
defeat is repeated. Now that an In
dian war Of the first magnitude is in
augurabed, the Government is thoroughly
aroused, and vigorous measures will be in
stituted. Bat it is hoping too much even
now to hope that an adequate fierce will
be sent against the Indians. To this time
some 400 troops have been ordered to the
front. The Apaches already outnumber
this force, and they will be reinforced from
other branches of the tribe. There were
but 60 braves of the Modoc tribe in the
Lava Beds, but it required many months
to dislodge them from their stronghold,
and when it was done the principal part
Of the fighting was done by the friendly
Klamaths. The Ap2ches are far more for.
midabe than the Modocs WERE and their
Judgment in the White Mountains more
difficult of successful Assault than the
Modocs in the Lava Beds. For, in add
ton to the inaccessibility of the Apache
retreat, the food and forage the White
Mountains afford the Indians must be con-
sidersd. Upon the whole it appears plain
that we are to have an Indian war
of serious proportions, and between the
present and its successful termination
there viii be many reverses and disasters
to record. The Apsches and the various
collateral branches of thai tribe are,
when combined, the strongest numerically
of any of the uusublued Indian tribes
remaining on the continent They are
brave and warlike snd the climate Of their
country affords every facility for the
marauding method of warfare the Indians
viii adopt. The rigors of winter will not
drive Pedro and his people into pretended
submission. as was the case with the Black
Hills Sioux under Sitting Bull. The troops
viii prosably find little difficulty in driving
the Apaches to their mountain Businesses.
but their dislodgment and subjugation
will not be the work of day.