Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1882-05-05
THE BLOODY APACHRS.
THE PRESIDENT SAYS. THEY
MUST BE CLEANED OUT. .. ''
FOrsythe's Account of his First Fight
-Hanlan Wins the Race with
Trickett Miscellaneous
kilograms.
The Arizona W09'.

The Arizona Var. y,... d.
WASHINGTON, May 1.-The president has
decided to put down the Indian outbreak in
Arizona as soon as possible, and has so .ex-
pressed himself to the secretary of war; who
has been instructed to take prompt and vigor-
GUS measures to that end. An order is is
sued for more troops to proceed to the scene
of the trouble in Arizona. and aid the troops
there in preventing further acts of violence,
and bringing the hostiles to speedy justice.
These re-enforcements will consist OF the
first infantry, now in Texas. the 4th infantry
on the Union Pacific R. R.; department. OF
the Platte, the 3rd cavalry, also IN tne o.t a9-
partment on the Platte, and part OF the 9th
cavarly, department of Missouri. The pres,
ident is in earnest in the matter, and
in his own words to a prominent army
officer. he intends to make 'clean sweep"
The probabilities are, that the troops IN
Arizone and New Mexico will be united IN
one command, under a brigadier general.
yet to be assigned to that duty. ~:
FoRsYTHE's STORY. ...- ii.
Chicago, May 1.-Lieut.- Gen.. Sheridan
furnishes the following from reports of Col.
Geo. A. Forsythe on his recent operations
against the hostile Apaches: The report ls
dated STEMS Pass station, April 25: ~ fed
nv horses at $50 q. m. on the 23d inst, and
watered as soon as possible from a tank car
which I had ordered here from San Sunan
station gGt off , at six snd ststed I drso eoa
to Richmond. ordered Lieut.. Mcdonald
to take six scouts and two enlisted men of
Can't Call ,han's company and try and cut
off any trails along the southeastern. end of
STEMS pass. At his request 1 dismounted
one of his own scouts and gave him Yuma
Bill, who spoke excellent English, and was
regarded as one of the best of the Indian
scouts. I also sent out six dismounted In
dams along the base of the same range,
though further out on the foot hills. When
about two or three miles from camp, Lieut.
Mcdonald sent word that he had struck
trail twelve hours old, of ten Indians, dis
mounted, who were going in our direction.
He also asked additional enlisted men,
whom sent. An hour later he sent word
that fifteen more Indians had Joined the
trail, and had with them mules and two
horses. I sent back with his messenger two
more enlisted men and continued my march.
He had now turned the southern end of the
range in a northwesterly direction. l was
moving across the plain, and was probably
18O miles on my way, when one of the In
dian scouts came in with his horse on a dead
run, and stated that four Of the scouts were
killed, including Yuma Bill, and that Lieut..
Mcdonald and his men were standing OH a
large body of Chiriehauas, and must hasten
and galloped sixteen miles to the point indi-
Gated by the Indian. I met Mcdonald
about twelve miles from where / started,
who told me the scouts we're falling back on
foot, the Indians not following them. He
had been chased closely by an
other small band of mounted Indians,
who came near cutting him off. I soon
came up to the party, who were all right, the
attacking force of Indians having retreated,
0 nseeing my command approaching so rap
idly. It seems these Apaches had been trail
ing the party, and ambushed them from be-
twenty feet distant They mortallywounded
Yuma Bill and killed three. others of the
scouts instantly. Bill saw them three or
four seconds before they fired, and shouted
'sWatch out Lieutenant" ana Mcdonald was
quick enough to turn his body and horses
head just as they fired, and he was the only
one of the advance party who escaped. I
the left of the canyon, and in the middle of
o. Of witn rocf about Sas 40 % feet % in height, s
/ realized that the body of Indians was greatly
in excess of twenty five, and dismounting
my entire force formed two fanking
began the attack. In about an hour we
flanked them out of both positions and they
took up strong second position. We again
drove them from there back up among the
mountains and high rocks of the canyon.
They scattered all through the rocks, some
firing from points eight to twelve and six
teen hundred feet above us, and most of
them evidently climbed from crag to crag,
and suppose evidently worked back to the
other side of the mountain. never before
saw such rugged place, nor one better
adapted to defence. was delighted to see
how much better marksmen our men were
than the Apaches. They never dared to fire
third shot from behind any particular rock,
as our men, as soon as they could see where
the shots came from, put their bullet right at
the spot from which the shot came.
Our people drove them to the verge
of the canyon and forced them
back over the range. The action
lasted from to 81 o'clock p. m, and our
men were completely exhausted from climb
ing the sides Of the mountain and going up
the canyon. The Apaches abandoned about
thirty ponies and mules. We killed ten or
twelve and took some with Us to mount our
scouts, and yesterday when returned they
had killed the rest" i M g..
WASHINGTON, May 2.-The war department
has received the following: .@..a..i
SAN FRANo1soo, May 1.-Adjutant General,
Washington, D. G.. The following report
was received from Gen. Wilcox to-day:
Everything is quiet at San Carlos agency.
No Indians have left the reservation since