Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-05-07

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 them valuable animals. This was don,
 in broad daylight within sight of tn, house. Ten Indians We're SC. II m tWt squads driving the stock; but there mus
 have been a third party who crossed tht
 range further vest, out in the valley
 who were not seen, as a band of horse;
 were found to be gone the next day
 which ranged in that locality. Wher
 the Indians were first seen by the mel
 at the ranch they did not think of then
 as being Indians and they did not know
 that they were driving stock that be
 longed to tue ranch.
 There was no riding st ok up at the
 time or the four or five men who saw the
 driving would have immediately gone
 ont to see what it meant. When they
 did get some saddle animals two or three
 men went out to examine the trail, stil
 not knowing that tn were Indians They found two animals on the trai
 with lance thrusts in them, and they
 then knew, of course, what it meant. By
 that time the Indians had got q good start nd 1t was not deemed prudent tc
 follow them without more men.
 T8e night Mr. White got to the ranch
 Captain Madden with two compani oi cavalry and a company If scouts camped
 there, pn his return from the Finer! canyon. Captain Madden took the trail Of the Indians and stolen stock the next day and, up to yesterday, nothing def. nite had been heard from him except that he was flowing the trail It is hoped that he may strike the Indians and make few more good ones. White brothers would be willing to lose their stock if they could hear of few of tue Indians whp drove them off being killed On the secund day after MT. White got to the ranch Mir. Fife, q nelghbor, brought the word tat band of Iu- diaus had driven between 10 and 50 head of cattle up into the hills as far as his place, and seeing him and his boys ont n front of the house with their guns, they dropped the cattle and gallOped down the road. It was about dusk at the time and they could not tell how many Indians there were driving the cattle. but, judging from the noise they made in galloping down the road and the pony tracks which they found next morning, they thought there must have been nine or ten Indians.
 As soon as Mr. White received word of is he sent messenger to Rucker informing Maj. Norval of the circum- stance; and Lieut.. West with a company of cavalry and a company of scouts im- mediately came up to ivestieate the matter.
 Mir White accompanied Lieutenant West to Flies place but the trail of the cattle could not be found beyond this this point. So many reports were being continually brought in which could not be verified or were entirely gr undless, that Mr. White concluded to organize little scout on his own account and with volunteers from the ranch, from Riggs place and from Morse's saw-mill, until on tho third day of the scout his force amount d to seventeen men, he made a thorough scout of all the canyons on the west side of the Chiricahuas and along their summltS. In what were thought might be the more dangerous places they travelled at night and on foot, and posted themselves around watering places to awmt daylight. Much Indian sign was found, but only little that was right fresh. They found mOecasin tracks along tue trail in the Pinery canyon near where those men were killed, tracks that had just been made. One evening they saw signal smoke go up from bluff on the summit of the noun tains. They became convinced that there was a small sigma party on the summit of the mountains, but with the exception of this small signal party they became satisfied that all the Indians had left the Chiricahuas. They could not run across this signal party but saw signs of their being there.
 MT. White says he has hvtd along the Chircahuas for several years but had no idea before making this scout of the great extent of country in these noun tains, and their extreme ruggedness. and says he can better understand now why it IS the Indians can SO easily elude the troops. Cavalry can not be used in these mountains where the Indians have their hiding places, they are too rugged for horses to get around in, and then the Indians have a complete system O signals from the tops of the mountains from where they can see every move ment in the valleys where the military operations take place
 Having becrme convinced that there is no present danger in the Chiricahuas the saw mill operatives, miners, etc, are to their work. But the pres ence of :his signal party in the mount ains may be considered evidence that the Indians intend to return to that locality after the families are located in a safe ,lace in Old Mexico, unless they should receive a reinstatement in the meantime
 M q. isat . l1N .1 .H.. make up their minds to shoot down Apaches wherever they are found of the reservation. II the Government insist npon keeping i's pets Tn our midst lei them take better care of them and keep them in their places. The Government hasn't any right through its agents to issue passes to them and send them on, amongst us with arms to spy out the country and lay plans for future cam paigns IT settlers should sometime make q mistake and draw l bead on nI Apache so-called soldier, the mistake would not he serious If the settlers would act with disc etion in the matter l. may be that these Indian scouts have done good service, but they have shown their treachery m SO man instances that they are undoubtedly a grrat detriment tO the service. Military officers rely upon them more or less and are mislei by them. NIT. White says be this during the little whil h. was with them. When shown fresh tracks they said white men h d made them, white men heap fool 'em.' They are reported tO have said that white men did the killing mp Tn the Pinery canvon also. There Is certainly ahuu dant evidence to show that 1t is a mistike to rnlist Apashes to fight against Apa- ehss.