The Huntington argus. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1872-1905, 1882-05-25

mcnt Commander. Happily the ar
rival of the Third Cavalry and First
Infantry has enabled that officer to
station four companies of the First
Infantry at or near the Longfellow
copper company's works. | am OF
the opinion that the most available
point for
PERMANENT CAMP
Would be on the ella river, on or
near the ranch of the late Hon, ;.
B. York. Here the troops could
head off any struggling bands Of In
dams coming up the ella river by the
way of Solomonville or by trail by
way of Eagle Creek and Stevens
rancho. In my opinion, so long as
the Indians are permitted to remain
on the reservation this section should
have protection. Troops here can be
supplied by way Of Lordsburg, New
Mexico, distant from Yorks' ranch
So miles, and from Lesinsky's works
so miles. There is good wagon
road all the way, over which hun
dreds of teams are continually travel
ing. 1t was on this road that the cit
liens sustained the greatest loss OF
life and property during the late raid,
the principle incentive to the hostiles
being the stock owned by the ranch
men and employed By the freighters,
together with the exposed condition
of the country.
REPORTER-Was the loss Of lie by
the Indian raid as great as has been
reported and given by the press?
GEN. VI am glad to say it was
not, although it was bad enough
Yet it is natural, under the excite
ment in the neighborhood raided By
the hostiles that the casualties should
be greatly exaggerated as well rs the
loss and destruction of property.
REF.-Can you give the number
killed together with their names and
the circumstance of their death?
GEN. WI can, but prefer not to
do so at this time, as yesterday for
warded an
OFFICIAL REPORT
To the Department Commander con-
tanning the number Of the killed,
their names with the exception OF a
few Mexicans who were not identi-
fed, and the neighborhood in which
they were killed. This report will
doubtless soon bemade public. | can
assure YOU that not more than one
third of the number so reported were
killed.
REDO. you think the country
is now free from hostile Indians?
Gen. W.-Yes; / do not believe
that to-day there is hostile Indian
in the Territory, except, perhaps, a
few stragglers from Loco's band who
are striving to steal back to the reser-
walton, and the only danger to be APP
pretended from them is when they
come upon isolated parties whom
they deem it necessary to kill to pre-
vent their presence and movements
being known.
EP.-Didyou learn any additional
particulars Of Major Tupper's fight
with the hostiles, near the Mexican
boundary?
GEN. W.-While absent | met
Lieut.. Dorr, Twelfth Infantry, who
commanded a company Of Indian
scouts during that engagement
Knowing him to be a competent and
thoroughly reliable young officer, |
asked him to give ne such details. Of
the fight as came under his observa-
ton. He informed me that Major
Tupper's telegraph report Of the at
fair was prepared in great haste be
fore full particulars could be obtained
and that in addition to the fifteen
dead left on the field, which he re-
ported killed, the next day there
were found bodies of six more bucks,
one or two of them being tied in the
branches of trees, making in all killed,
twenty bucks besides five or six
squaws. Among the dead was an In
! J;o,, u,oor;no, Cou+ StarIinor'a mocca.
sins and vest, who had on his person
SO in American money. Seventy.
three head of stock were captured
From the Lieutenants description,
which l believe to be strictly reliable,
the fight vas
sPLENDIDLY PLANNED & EXECUTED.
For instance, Major Upper ascer'
tanned where the Indians were
camped for the night. A council