Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-06-07
WHsRE Is CROOK =?
RECoRD-UNIoK EXPEDITION oU. N
SEARCH FOR HIN.
Crook Met With Disaster
speculatious.

speculations.
When the Modoc war broke ont this journal
was the first to send to the lava beds trained
scout, who ia az the same time good corre-
spoRdent, man Of unquestioned courage ard
perseverance and cultivated powers of OBJ
servation. 1t kept that correspondent in the
field, at heavy expense, until the close of
the war. The same gentleman has now been
dispatched to opsn communications with
General Crook in his pursuit OF the Apaches in
THE FAsTNFssEs
OF the Sierra Madre Mountains Of Northera
Mexico. Pursuing the same policy of enter
prise that marked the course of the RECORD
UNION in sending trained correspondent
and fearless man on the search for John D.
Lee, and in maintaining reporters in Southern
Utah during Lees trial the same policy
which gave to the public She only thoroughly
reliable accounts of the long and perilous
struggles with the Modocs, we have nov used
every exsrtion to penetrate
THE MYSTERY
Surrounding the eApeulL-O1 OF GSn6faI
Crook. One of our correspondents, accom-
panied by Mexican ranger and courier of
the greatest courage and experience, and ap-
pointed with arms, provisions, and riding and
pack animals, has left Tombstone, A. T.,
and struck out across the plains of Sonora
upon Crooks trail to the Sierra Madre, tax
ing the route by way of Guadalupe canyon.
He will enter the mountains at the point
where Crook was last seen, and viii
not abandon the trail until he has
met him, or can report from the
nearest station from which he can dispatch
courier, the truth concerning his fate, il, un-
fortunately. disaster has oyertaken him. The
RECORD UNION deputy has full authority to
use the nearest telegraph offices, and to reach
them by the quickest means. regardless of
expense in doing so. He teegraphs US from
Tucson that he fears Crook has bsen de.
stroyed. His fear is that ths $50 Apache
scouts accompanying the General
HAVE TURNED UPON HIM
And his fifty soldiers and, If so, little hope is
entertained by our representative CT the Gen
eral being found alive. General Crock
crossed the line into Mexico, by way OF Quad.
alupe Canyon, April 2G h. By May 5sh he
had made point sixty miles southeastsrly
from the place where he crossed into Sonora.
Juh, whom Crook is pursuing, left San Car.
los reservation with but ffteen men; Nache
had thirty-.wo and Benito eight. Several
White Mountain braves accompanied them.
and Loco's band of sixty-fvs Hot Spring
Indians.
OUR REPRESENTATIVE
Is provided with passes to carry him and his
party through any Mexican lines, and rec
ommendinR him to the good offices of Mexi-
can soldiers and authorities. Accompanying
the correspondents party will be John
Jetfards, Colonel Roga and Colonel Harrison.
The horses chosen hsve been secured with
especial reference for trail end mountain
work. Our deputy says:
From scattering Indians we mey learn
something definite, but we have but little
faith il that class OF news. We don't expect
much information until we penetrate about
two hundred miles into Mexico. We may
/! work out by the Mexican railroad to the line
where telegraph facilities may be obtained
The fact of Captain Ross and company kav.
ing been disarmed and seat back when al
tempting to reach Crook, has much import
ance in determining the course we have
marked out, as we might be turned back il
we found ourselves among strange Mexicans
and with no passports"
A dispatch to the REcoRD-UNIoN from
Deming, New Mexico, says that man from
Biddle'a come in with confirmation of the
news that there was not . good feeling among
Crooks Apache scouts when he crosssd the
Mexican line. He says that Captain Craw.
ford's 125 scouts did not want to go With
Crook because their time of enlistment ex-
pired May 14.b. Crook insisted on their
going, and agreed to give them 81 day for
all overtime; but they were rot prevailed
upon until Mickey Free, Do.ed scout OF
Irish aud Mexican blood, obtained Crooks
promise that the sco7ts should divide all
captured property among themselves.
THE LATEST NEws.
Reports from Mexican villages along the
Sonora stops Of the Sierra Madre have con-
frmed the intelligence th,t the Apsches have
broken off into smali parties, and some are
being driven north again. In consequence
the troops left behind are preparing for an
extended campaign, and the belief is ex-
pressed that Crook will require all summer
iievsd on the border that the forces have yet
turned back, SIS they still have twenty-five
dsys' rations, and not more than two weeks
will be taken for the return march Crook
will be forced to return to the line for rations.
The Indian scouts were enlisted for cnly sixty
days, but it is expected majority of these
will re.enlist. The military authorities claim
that there will be no necessity for more than
a single company of Bhits troops, which is
nov with Crook, to cross the line again but
this is a poor conjecture. The 6rst news
from the mountains will be brought in by
Indian scouts. The Indians with Crook are
from the Yuma. Mojsve. Q1onto, White
Mountain and the San Carlos ojos Apsches.
LIST OF THE OFFICERS
The officers are First Lieutenant J. G.
Frehrger, of the engineer corps; Captain
John G. Bourke, Third cavalry, acting aide.
de-camp; First Lieutenant Emmett Craw-
ford, Third cayalry, commanding battalion
of Indian scouts Second Lieutenant Charles
B. Gatewood, Sixth cavalry, commanding
battalion OF Indian scouts Captain Adna P
Chaffee, Sixth cavalry, commanding troop
Of the same cavalry First Lieutenant Frank
West, Sixth cavalry. on duty with troop /;
s cond Lieutenant VIM. ". Fors gthe, Sixth
cavalry, on duty with troop First Lieu
tenant James Q. Msckey, Third cavalry, on
duty with Crook. Troop is the only white
company with the expedition, and contains
about fifty men. Crooks positive instructions
before leaving were for Msjor Biddle, com.
rran6ing the companies scouting along the
Mexican line, TO be at Ssn Bsrnardino
Spriugs, aud meet him FIVE days before the
expiration of the present month. II nothing
was heard from him by July 18th, Biddle
was to push on into the mountains. Should
Crock prove successful, il is expected he will
take time in coming back. II any disaster
happens, some Of the Indian scouts would
force thsir way through the mountains and
coon bring the neTs.
SKETCH OF GENERAL COOKS RAID.
All Ariz,ua and New Mexico and all
Northern Mexico is now thoroughly aroused
on the subject of the Apache atrocities. L
may be taken Rs certain that whatever the
orkroraa ~ Nrnoi's raid altar the Indiana