The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-05-08
Genera, Crooks Movcmeu,,.
MEXICAN TROOPS co0pERAuNg-A REPORT,
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AVIAN TROOPS C00PERArlNG-A REPORTED
FIGHT.
A dispatch from III Paso. dated sund,v.
says: Information from General Crook Lv
way of Janos, chihuahua, Is expected hero
almost hourly. IL Is believed that no win
have reached that place by this date. Re-
ports by citizens have come indicating fhe
direction OF Crooks march. ,Janos Is
about seycnty-tivc miles from Guadaloupe
canon, the frontier point at which Crook
entered Mexico. His first wa~tering-place
would he Oio de Los Mosquitoes. His
second camp was probably a dry one
q, Blanco. Janos Is a town o! over fifteen
hundred inhabitants. and il a military dis
tr'ct headquarters. IL Is in the eastern
iootholds Of the Sierra Madre, aud 1t IL
stated by army scouts to be the point from
which movements into the mountain fast
nessos must be made. There Is a con
siderable area IN the range and below the
line OF march presumed 10 he followed by
Crook that has seldom II ever been pcnc-
tratcd by any but hostile Indian bands, the
remnants OF which are now to be sub
iugated.
That the Mexican forces under Major
General Cahro. in both chihuahua and So
nora, are operating in conjunction with
General Crook and our forces Is made evil
dent by the dispatch received from Her.
mosillo, Sonora. dated yesterday. and an
~nouncing n sharp fight at Lagashie canon,
lGS miles southeast Of that city. That would
be In the heart Of the SieTras. near the loca-
ton indefinitely described as the Apache
stronghold.
The fight reported shows by the number
OF killed and wounded that the Indians
are more numerous than the military out
givings have indicated. The point ut which
the Sonora fight occurred is estimated 10
be at least 100 miles south Of Crooks pre-
sent line of march.
General Crook has barred all access to
himself by courier and dispatches, and
there is some reason TO believe that he will
not have followed the Janos route at all,
but Is at this time e%ndeavoring to penetrate
directly south into the Sierra Madrc by
trails known only to the soldier Apaches
with whom he is operating.
Crook has with him a captured Chirica-
hua who has agreed TO act rs his guide. He
also has old Indian warriors who have
themselves in years past been on his war
path against Mcxicans into and from the
very heart OF this stupendOus range. Mexi-
can traditions TEEN with stories of Indian
towns ruined or still used in the Northern
SierraS.
Adiutant-Gcneral Drum and Colonel 4.
Barr. Assistant Observation-Disclosures
and Private Secretary to Secretary Lincoln,
arrived here to-day. 1t is believed their
visit has been in part directed by the posi-
BILE complications that may arise from the
operations Of General Crook.
lBy telegraph to the Dispatch.I
TOunSToNE Aprzn<A Nav -SoOo Tn
italia Paredos arrived at Tombstone yester-
day from Sonora. He reports an engage
ment in The Sierra Madres on the first of
the week between General TOMS and rene
gade Indians. resulting IN the killing of
twenty-seyen bucks and the capture of
thirty-SiX. The same news reached here
later by letter from J. II. Farrell, who,
however. credits the victory to Colonel
Parks. Ii is thought General Crook has
driven the hostiles out OF their haunts in
the Sierra MadreS, with the result stated.