The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-09-08
APACHES.
A Lively Contest Expected
Mormon Stock Stolen.

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Mormon Stock Stolen.
Washington, 6.-The official reports of
| General Carr in his recent fight with the
| Apsches have been received al the wSr
depart nenl, having been forw rded by
Gen. Mcdowell. Gen. Med ,well tele-
graphs that the outbreak in Arizona APP
pears t. b. very general. Hnstilities are
reported along the Southern Pacific from
| Wilma To Bowie, distance of 100 miles
Tney pursued the west bound train near
| wilma six miles and attacked Fort Bowie
the same night. The rsilrosd employee
| ut Bowl have been removed and wont
return until tDey are armed Officials are
earnestly a-king for loan of arm and
am n un ton with which to protect their
trains and stations for few days. This
request is respectfully referred to the
secretary of war. / ha a battalion Of
the Fourth Artillery ready to dipatch
and then all but infantry companies one
1T Gsstin, one at Bldwell and one at Nc
Dermott and Hsllaeks, will have to go
to Arizona. Nothing is yet heard from
Apache. trust that Gen Sheridan will
be able to find troops by the Atlantic and
Pacific to try and open communication
with Apache from the nor b. 1t is sur
ms by the commanding officers at
Camp Thomas that an attack on that
tont may be expected, but it
WAS no. Known that it was occupied
by military and contained large quanti-
ties Of arms, ammunition and supplies.
Troops approaching the east from Camp
Thomas are greatly impeded by the
flooded streams, and must be prepared
for serious opposition from the Indians
occupying Apache Canon, the approach
to the post from the south. A large
party of hostiles crossed the railroad
yesterday between this point and San
Simon, going north. This presents q
very serious outlook, and gives rise to
fears that the hostiles have been sue
cessful in their attack on Apache, or ex-
pect to be.
San Francisco, Tucson dispatch:
Camp Thomas, 6-Nothieg further
from Apache at 8 am. Some murders
were reported in Tonic Basin and Pleas
ant Valley, west of the reservation. a
party Of citizens leave Globe to-day to
assist the settlers. Col. Price, of the
Sixth Cavalry, with two companies of
cavalry, is supposed to be advancing in
that direction. Everything is quiet at
San Carlos. Precautions have been
taken against an attack there, and at
Globe.
A special from Wilcox says reports
still continue to arrive CT the killing of
packers and prospectors in different di-
rections. Lieutenant Guilfort, who has
been to San Carlos Agency to recruit
company of scouts, reports bury
ing ten or men east of here
while on his route from New
Mexico. The Bowie scare has subsidized,
and the carpenters VINO left the station
will return to-day. Many of the freight
ers and packers now here are preparing
to take their chances and start out. Two
Indian couriers arrived from Apache al
4 pm, and report everything quiet
around the post. 1t is said the bodies ofI
the four white men near Black River,
were probably those Of the McMurren
party. Craig and OVe7ton's command
and Clark's Indian scouts reached there
without encountering any hostiles. NJ sjor
Chatfe's company re4ched Cortez to-day.
A mail carrier from Clifton arrived
here at Z p. m, and reports that Indians
stole ali the stock and provisions at the
Mormon settlements fifteen miles from
here, to-day. No one was killed. A |
courier from Apache, this afternoon, re.
ports the finding Of the bodies Of four
men on the trail, eight miles from there. |
Troops were to bury them. The cloth |
ing left shows they were mounted cour-
iers from here, AID two men who ran
the Black River ferry boat for the post.
Gen. Carr was scouting the trails to
locate hOstiles. who seem to have kept
southwest, while citizens report them in
the rough country northeast of Rocky
CaflGn. o. B. Wilcox, commanding
the Department of Arizona, passed here
this afternoon at o'clock, for Wilcox,
where he will at once make arrange
ments for the forwarding of troops and
supplies to troops in the field.