Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-09-11
ES-KIM-N-ZIN.
The Late Head Chief of the Apacsc..
What He Tells Citizen Reporter r-He is Now Living on Ra,oh- Story Of His Experience The Apachs's Account of Outbreak -Ind.aus Complain Aboa, the Agent at San ca,los.

o As previously announced in the Crr1 - ZEN, Es-kim-in-zin, late chief of all th, - Apaches, who now owns and occupies l ranch on the San Pedro, has been spend l ing several days in the city. Thursds, with competent interpreters, g reporter of the CITIzES sought cut the old war , rior to ascertain his views as to the pras } ent difficulty with the Apaehes. | Bs-KM-N-zIs Is in the prime of manhood and is fine specimen of well-formed Indian. His build is solid and his height is about five , feet eight inches. He has keen, piercing 1, eye set in a face somewhat fleshy. That he possesses great decision of character : is indicated by that unmistak, be sign. firm upper lip Be was arrayed in garments peculiar to his race and tbe frontier: a peacock calico shirt. vest. pantaloons, a good palm-leaf hat and neat fitting moccasins completed his outfit. He has retired from the chief ship, severed his tribal relations and now as q peaceable American citizen proposes to earn a living by tillinr tba soil and raising stock like his white neighbOrs. He says he works all day and at night thinks about what he viii do the next day and how he can be good and do right.
 ENJOYING COMFORTS or LIFE.
 He tries to do as the whites do so he can travel the roads with safety and drink water whenever he finds it and not be shot at. He purchased a wagon to supereede the old way of carrying every thing on horseback; and finding that too heavy for family use he has purchased carriage payins Sls0 for it. At first he settled on Ans spai creek with number of Apaches. They were all friendly, but afterwards number of them ran away. It was here that he first became
 ACQUAINTED WITH GOV. sArToRD,
 who told him not to be bad any longer. not to go about numbering his white brothers, but to be good and settle down on ranch, cultivate the soil, raise stock and he would be much happier than in the life he was then living Up to that time he had been very bad In- dian and had
 KILL ED MANY WHITES,
 Mexicans and other Indians. lie had | been taught to steal, plunder and kill by | hls forefathers. He thought much on what Gov. Stafford had told him. and | finally decided to mend his ways and | habits. He always remembers what his good friend told him and prefers his present life. Goes where he wants Co | unmolested, without fear, and every man | Is hfs friend. He has constructed irrigat- | ing ditches and has several acres under cultivation. He made seye. a expcri- ments before he got his ditches right. iDd they cost him considerable money. "The water would run up hill for white man, but no run up hill for Indian" He now has plenty of corn, eleven horses and | forty-siX head of cattle; has sold a good many during the past year and eaten good many. At times be has as many as fifteen or twenty Mexicaus and Lndi- ans at work on his ranch.
 HIS WIVES.
 In reply to a question in relation to the number of his wives he said that t was nothing that concerned any one, and that fl he should tell white man would only laugh at him. It sundarstood that he has three wives in his barom.
 
 He says he is not afraid of the whites, but he expects some of the bad Indians of his own tribe will some day kill him because he has become an American citizen. He has a boy five O. six years old whom he wants to have his ranch when he dies. His
 OLDER CHILDREN WERE MURDERED by the Papagos on the reservation sever ! al years ago. He lives within hali a | mile of where his children were killed | and buried and he wants tO be buried l beside them. He says he has a
 BROTHER-IN-LAw AT COLLEGE in the east, probably in Virginia, who | writes letters to him and tells him what | beautiful country it is, how green are the | fields and mountains and how happy he ! Is there. After awhile he will come back ! to see his people and teach Apache ch.l- | dren how to read and write and the ways ! of the white man and hopes to do them good. He has had all his living children | baptized in the Catholic Church in this city, where he has many friends who | give him many things he cannot have on the ranch.
 THE APACHES.
 There are six head men among the Apaches but one is now dead, PebigO Uron Truth,) Nan-ta-re-toz 0o0ks like a Captain,) Ne-das-chin Panted Face,) Del-che-na (Ant,) As-ke-alte (He speaks Brave) and Noka-ka-te-klnna Zone bound to COmmand,) the medicine man who caused all the trouble and was killed in the engagement at Clbicu creek. These are the names oi the lead ing chiefs of the White Mountain In- dians. He has had little or no inter course with these bands for the last two years and only speaks of them as he knew them at that time. He does not know the
 CAUSES OF THE OUTBREAK except what he has heard through the Apaches. That two Indians killed each other, when the medicine man Noka-ka- te-klinna, told them that if they would get together and sing and at the same time hold least for fifteen days the de parted would come back to life again. That they got together on CibicU creek and were holding a feast and singing when the soldiers came to arrest the medicine man. The Indians told the sol diers that they did not want to be inter rupted, that they Lad not done anything wrong, that they had not killed any white men or Moxicans, tha. they were simply holding their feast and not inter- l. fering with any one. But prior Go this
 AGENT TIFFANY
 went out and ordered them t0 come into the agency, but they refused, stating that they would continue theIr feast and singing to the end. Three officers and two sergeauts came to their camp at Cibicu creek and asked the medicine man to come down to Col. Cars camp but he told them that he vould not ro. that he had no business with them. They then sent ten soldiers up Co the medicin mans camp and took him down to Cars camp. After they got him down to Carr's camp
 THEY KILLED HIM. The remaining Apaches then said. now they have killed our medicine man with out cause, let us kill all the soldiers, and they commenced the attack. There were no Indians killed except the medicine man.
 Agent Tiffany told the Indians that they had done wrong, that they had run away from the agency, but for tue pas. two years Es-kim-in-Zin says that they have done nothing wrong and have not been drinking.
 COMPLAINTS AGAINST THE AGLTr.
 Sometimes Agent Tiffany gives them passes to go and hunt, and at other times he gets angry when they ask him. Some times, when there Is plenty of beef, he tells them there is none, and only Hves them iiour Much of the time he will not give them salt or sugar and all the Indians say he is bad agent and will not give them what they are entitled to.
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