Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-12-04
Beadshot,s Statement.

Undoubtedly Doadshut has been sen-
 fenced to death. lie Is a good Indian
 to all mtents and purposes. This is his
 statement before the Court martial:
 " Went to Carisa; after supper asked
 Nose w4ere they.vere going. General
 Carr issued twenty rounds or ammuni-
 ton; he asked how many bands were up
 at Carisa; they told him two-Sanchez
 and Naehinojicha. Was asked how
 many bands at Cibicu. Four were at
 Cibicu Had plenty of corn, squashes.
 etc, at those places. Next morning
 Nose and Charlie No. 22 were told to
 buy bee. Nose and Charlie were told
 to say that the command wanted to
 buy some becf and to find out wlo had
 some beef for sale. After Nose was gone Dcadshot was left in charge Of the company. We went into the Cibicu and
 ] asked permission Of Lieutenant Cruse and Mr. Burns, the guide, for two Indi-
 ans to go hunting, and was refused. As
 they were going along they talked, won derIng what was the cause of refusal
 We went on that way as far as the for
 est At the place Of the forks We were
 told to stop and wait for the command. They then told Lieutenant Cruse and
 guide, Burns, that that was the nearest
 to water; that was the reason they want
 cd tn take the left hand road. Lieuten-
 ant Cruse told them to take that road.
 and they did until they were turned of
 by Hurley, the interpreter, who told
 them they should take fine right
 hand trail, which they then did.
 They went mp on that trail until they
 met Sanchez, who was coming down on
 horseback, who told them he was going
 home-back to Carisa. They went along
 until near the river before they asked
 Hurley wheIe they were to camp. That
 Hurley told him they were going to the
 medicine mans place. Lieut.. Cruse
 then asked hlm where all the different
 camps were which they told him. After
 that the whole command went to the
 medicine mans wicidup-surrouuding it.
 When they got there the medicine man
 and an0ther chief, Wee-na-schee Nan tan-askeen, showed their passes to Carr,
 who handed tlem back. One officer
 with probably two nou-cummissioned, were left at the medicine mans caflD. f while part of the comLsT1 aId aack ji..ii, %ltn Gen. Carr, moved con. We crossed the river to go to the camping place. The Cibicu Indians started to come in. They appeared to be quarrel ! some, and tine American soldiers also l wee quarre-s0me. Nose called him and | told him tO take his step-sou's horse and l follow Gen. Carr. He followed Gen. 1 Carr and tcld the lat CT that the Indians l and soldiers were quarrelsJme. General | Carr told him that was all ri-ht: he did | not think it would amount to anything | He says he then hurried back and joined | the Indian company, which was already | moving down with the medicine man. I After he got back he gave the boy his | horse and came with the Indians on foot. | He saw Nose going along with tle ID. di- cine man, and the Indians were crowt- ing him. He I}.l told them to Ukashay, and tho Indians were made to move of that way. When they anne close to American camp there were seven Of the scouts together. and ue rest were coming in tVOs and thTcgs. DeadSlot told them to close up-uot traE-le that way. The Indian soldiers were gong toward General Carrs tent when they met Lieutenant Carter, who showed them where to camp. In the place were ants, and Deadsh0t told him | was not good place Go sleep, SD Lieu
 elaut Carter told him tO take another place. He seat one of the Indians after he mess, as they were hungry. He e1ued Lls gun against a soap-weeI and tartcd for wood, when he heard two
 hJ.s When he heard the shots he LDughr some one was shooting ducks n the creek, and then he heard four L9ts. He saw the Indian scouts go l.o brush. He asked what was the natter. Indians told him that Ameri- ans and Indians were killing each other. le ran tO get ls gun when ne saw him- cii alone and the Americans were charg- lg that way. ' haze got ten fingers and ] "o eEe.' 1shd the Americans accuse me 1 .T shooting what I never did. Never Iut finger on the trigger, but that much 1 ran Cl the other side of the Tcek. The scouts would not have run ii if anybody had gwen orders He made the statement because he dii no hOoting and was never known tO lie. Been a soldier since he was young. He -as always well treated by being such, citing sugar, coffee, etc, and had no o-ion or quitting. When his time was ut he intended to enlist again. He is ceusej ol shooting and probably the Ourt would believe he did, but he did ut: # he had he would not have come a; he visited Nr. SOOviaua's camp and hey had plenty to eat there. He start q for San Carlos, but Salt river was too iTh. When he was at Salt river he had
 notion to go back to Apache; stopped lree days at Salt river. Came back as IF as Cedar creek and stopped there IUr days; stopped ou Black river three ights; had been raining heavily during ne time, making the river impossible. Ice shot a deer this side of Black river: ltar that stoppad in a place two nights; 1 .oppod In another place two nights, here he scraped off deer's hide. Went l ) the agency to give himself up.