Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-06-07
THE INDIAN CAMPAIGN.

The following statement of the view taken
at army headquarters of the situation of af-
fairs on the Mexican frontier and of the
plans and circumstances of Gen. Crook is
promulgated by the War Department:
The United States acquired Texas, New
Mexico and Arizona and Old Mexico in war
in 1868. Ever since that time our army
and adventurous emigrants had been fight
ing with the Apaches-the general name
given to many bands Of Indians, of about
the same type, known distinctively as Ton
tos, Jicarillous, Warm Spring Indians Chi
huahuas, who for two hundred years have
been contending for possession Of the terri
tory lying along what is now the Mexican
frontier According to the policy of the
United States such of the Apaches as prop
erly belong to our side of the line have been
collected into two reservations, at or near
each of which is the usual agent OF the In
dian Bureau and garrison of troops. One
of these reservations is in New Mexico
Fort Stanton, and the other in Arizona at
San Carlos-Fort Thomas. A large part of
the Apaches, however, still remain in SonO-
ra and Chihuahua.
These Indians occasionally come North to
see their old friends at the agencies and the
agency Indians return their visits, and
while making such trips they keep their
hands in by stealing cattle and horses which
fall in their way, and by killing everybody
whom they encounter. They are the natu-
raj and common enemies of both Americans
and Mexicans; they give no quarter ana
expect none. Such visit or raid across the
borders creates panic, but the cause lsgone
before hue and cry can be raised. Some
time since Secretary Frelinghuysen, in be-
half of the United States, and SenOr Romeo,
the Mexican Minister, with the approval of
his own government entered into an agree
ment, not treaty, that the troops of either
nation might follow such raiding party
across the national border and destroy them
The pursuit, however, must be immediate,
in hot blood, on afresh trail, and, according
to international law, due notice being given
to the party, and must cease the moment
the authorities of the territory invaded were
able and willingt to take it up.
General Crook was assigned to the COM
mand of the Department Of Arizona on ac-
count of his special fitness and experience,
and he was given an increased force to ena-
BILE him to prevent these Apache raids,
which so interfered with the development of
the resources of the territory. This force
consisted of two full regiments of cavalry,
the Third and Sixth, one regiment Of intan-
try, the First, and 200 Indian scouts-tWo-
thirds of all now employed by the United
States. General Crook was convinced by
the recent raids that peace and security in
Arizona could be attained by making the
Apaches in Sonora respect and fear the pow
er of this government, and he therefore de-
ter1nined to follow the raiders to their hid
ing places in the mountains which separate
the Mexican States of Sonora and Chihua-
hua. He made his preparations with great
care and deliberation, and took the precau
ton of first visiting Sonora in person and
consulting with its civil and military au-
thorities with regard to his contemplated
movement. They were only too glad to
have such an auxiliary in the work of pre-
venting Apache raids, and, having assured
himself of this, General Crook returned to
his command and began the movement now
in progress.
The War Department has given General
Crook the fullest liberty toconduct this bold
enterprise in his own way and his own
time, reposing in him absolute confidence
and furnishing him with men and money
fully up to his acquisitions and estimates.
There is no hurry in the matter, for during
his absence from Arizona all railway and
mining operations and other pursuits of the
people of that Territory are going on with
out interruption and his presence on the 9TH
er side of the border will keep all the hos
tile Apaches there from undertaking anoth-
er raid. General CROOK IN due tlnle Will ac-
count for everything in his own way or
perish.
THE GALIOws.-Robert Henderson,, col
ored, who murdered his wife near Oxford,
n. G., last November, by beating her, was
hanged at Oxford last Friday. The execu-
ton was private, only a few persons being
admitted within the enclosure, but large
crowd filled the town, as it was expected
that the hanging would be. public: He
made full confession. The drop fell soon
after noon. There was a bitter feeling to-
ward Henderson, who narrowly escaped
lynching the day after the murder. Hehad
been tried in April and was sentenced on the
last day of that month. The jury was COM
posed equally of white and colored men and
Quickly agreed on verdict. The woman
was about to become mother at the time
of the murder.
John Baily, aged 3s, and Henry VIM
bush, aged 80, were hanged at Macon Ca, on
Friday, in the presence of a crowd estima-
ted at 5000. Bailey murdered Paris Tap
pan, an old negro, last July during dis
butte over one dollar. He escaped, but was
captured in September. He was tried in
November and found guilty. WimbuSh