The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1882-05-04


A Lor,.sbnrg IN. NJ dispatch says : night
occurred on Saturday at Horse Shoe canors
between indians aud Indian scouts and troops.
The latter were victorious. -Four Indian scouts
wcrc killed and three soldiers; eleven soldiers
were wounded. A small band Of hostilcs was
seen going south over the Sansimon hats. A
band Of twenty Or thirty crossed tho Southern
Pacific near here early this morning,
going nor th toward tho Dulro minc.
Mcdonald, . wellknown contractor OF this
section. arrived from tho Gila river thls morn
ing. He assisted In burying tho bod.es Of
twenty ncu yesterday, and reports that several
persons are missing. Among tho killed areJ.
+ Rlsqne, rising young attorney Ut Rliver
City; Capt: John ]. lawson, mining supsrin-
tendent Mr.. Trescott, Alex. Knox, 4. D. Pink
ard and pinkara's herdsman (name unknown).
The Indians number over $40 bucks,
squaws aud children, ~ shown by actual count
while passing Yotk's rancho. The Indians arc
completely surrounded and corraled in Doubtly
canon.
All the male citizens Of Lietendorf, Shaks-
peare aud Lordsburg are under arms.
The present Indian outbreak In Arizona y
the most disastrous which has ever occurred In
that Territory. Over sixty people have been
killed BY them 80 far. Loco, noted chief and
con Of tho once-dreaded Cochise are with
tho band, which y composed Of ChiH.
cAhuas and tho remnant Of vistoria's
band Of Warm Spring indiana and
numbers about 800 bucks and 800 squaws and
children. They declare their intention Of slay-
ing every palefaco that crosses their path. In
retaliation for the three Indians recently
executed 1t Fort Grant. According Ia
: telegram (April 26) from 9Gake-
spears, Nsw Mexico. Tho town 81 aualleysvlle
~ Arizona. just over tho New Mexican lne Wan
burned and completely destroyed BY the sav-
ages. Thirty-dvs white people were killed.
The Indians were scattering INTO small banda
and making for tho ChiricahuA mountains III
Mexico Forsythe, with his cntire command,
wasin pursuit. The purs1ing. force numbered
Of overhauling the murderons wrctches was ~
garded - worry smail. unless the Mexican Gov
ernment acted promptly in driving them back
Ayers. : small mining camp Ia Arizona, was
surrounded BY $50 hostile Indians, and three
whites had been killed and ono wounded.
tho massacre 1t Stevens sheep- camp. tells the
following story Of that ghastly AFFAIR: Before
daylight tho Indians attacked tho camp while
we weee Al asleep. Ny father and iive other
men attempted 20 get their guna, but too lats.
powered them before . shot could DO fred.
Tho work Of slaughter then began. An In
dian put the muzzle Of bis gun against tho
head Of one man and tired, blowing
his brains against the door and wall
I saw them iill my mother and two little
stones They killed Ave. They tied my
father and tortured him post dreadfully. He
begged them to spare him, but they only tor
mented him the more When they tired OF
torturing him. one of them split his skull with
On ~. An Indian squaw, vito OF ONE Of the
worked with NJ, saved my lifs BY holding me
behind her and begging them % spare me-.
Whom all the Mexicans were dsad except me,
the Indians left"
Intelligence from Arizona, conveycd through
Tucson telegram Of April a, Is to tho effect
tha. Col. Forsyth's command encountered
haul of the hcstiics near old Camp Rucker aud
killed ak OF them. Four Of the men were
wounded and one killed in tho skirmish. after
dcn. Fnero was marching north from Jan0a
to attack the Indians going into the Chiraca-
hna mountains. A fght occurred between
Mexican soldiers and Indians near the from
tier in which nlne Of tho latter were
slaughtered. The American mining camp At
yalnables carried away. Ata large meeting In
Tucson. resolutions wcre adopted 10 inform
tho President and Congress that nearly 100
pioneers had been murdered BY ApacEes
within few days. Gov. sheldon ordered tho
militia of New Mexico under arms, and Gen
Mckenzie, has gonc TO El Pxso u arrange for
the cooperation Of the Government Of Chr
hnahua.
A fight occnrred At STEMS Peak between In
dians and Capt Tuppcr, Of the sixth Cavalry.
aud his Indian scouts. Four Of tho latter arc
reported killed. and two private soldiers II ID
claimed ak Of tho hoslllcs We're killed. The
Indians3wcre routed and took to the mount-
ains. The troops were unable to follow.
Near Ganeysille, band Of hostiles attached
the ranch Of Mr.. Rlggs and shot and seriOusly
wounded HIM. Tho lndians then commenced
l4,ng brush on him for the purpose Of cremat-
Ill. HIM, when 10 their astonishMent the man
supposed to DO almost dead quickly taracd over,
and. drawing his revolver, killed two Of them.
wounding another. This sudden movement
was such . complete surprise to them that they
diapatch from Tucson reports that
the bodies OF fiftv white victims have becn
buried along the dila river. A Tombstone dis
patch reports that Sulphur Springs valley u
one mass OF flame. AL the ranches are burned.
Including that OF County Treasurer Dunbar.
Gen. Forsyths. with seven companies OF in-
fantry, is ON the trail Of the Apschss, and pro-
poses to follow II into Mexico The Seventh
Infantry, commanded by Cen John Il bhon,
with headquarters at Fort Snt ling. u ordered
to hold itself in readiness 10 proved to Arizona.
Mr.. Ouray. delegate in Congress from Arizona.
il reported from Washington ~ saying that tho
people OF that Territory arc very much stirrcd
up by these lndlan outrages, and that, II the
Government does not do something pretty
soon. the people will take matters in their own
han,ia and ana,hilase All the tribes OF Indiana