Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-04-28
DEEDS OF RED DEVILS.
MT. Al. Fellows. Fresh from pache Land
 Makes some strange Revelations.
Denver Republican.


 NIT. Al Fellows, ho has just returned from Mexico. was visited by a Eepub- hcan representative yesterday, and m a conversation with him learned some thing about the atrocities the Apacnes have been committing there recently. Mir. Fellows has been Iu the Sonora val ley, engaged m mining, but owing tr the imposslbilIty of procuring men to work for him while the red devils are on the rampage. was obliged to leave, hum self.
 Where is your camp or ranch, Mr Fellows? asked the reporter
 "About twenty-five mIles from San Miguel"
 Were the Indian atrocities commit ted near youY
 Within a radius of twelve niles"
 ''ls It Jus band:'
 "No; Ju Is near Chihuahua. I don't think he has been out of his stronghold. ' bpYe f.rg.tten the ,ra--a fl ,he other red devil The band he IS leading Is not large. only about eighteen men. bnt he has done a considerable am,uAs Or damage He has killed, all told, about one hundred and fifteen men, women and children. Iguaclo Augulara, a prominent Spaniard, hls two sisters and three of his hands were killed near my ranch. About fifty others have been killed m that ueighborhood.'
 Have the Indians run off much stocky"
 Not any IS I know of This furay seems to have been made merely for tLe purpose of murder and nothing else The ici 's will slp up on some poor devil gathering mescal and the first thug he knows, c. use au old saving, Ee knows nothing. They always scalp their victims, and practice other bar barlties
 "The soldiers have made attemps to rid that country of the pests, have they uot:."
 "Yes; but have not accomplished much"
 "Ihe Mexican soldiers don't amount to much, anyhow, do theyY
 They'll fight Apachss. They never take one prisoner. Shoot them down like dogs. They practice on The only true theory of civilization: that an h. dian is never good until he IS dead. If our troops would follow their example the brutalities and barbarisms of the red devils would be stopped, because they would be powerless. X bullet hole through an Apache's heart has 9 very civIiizIng effect
 "N hy can't they he ezterminatedY'
 "That is a hard question Co answer, and y1u ar not the only man who has asked 1t. The country they roam m K cov,red with chapparal, and to look tor an Iudlau is like searching for twenty dollar gold pieces on 70 cherry tree.
 T should thuk they might mass a fierce large enough in a district overruu uy Indians to protect the settlers.
 ''Yes. and whIIe they were protecting one district, another twenty miles away would be visited by band. They are not always on tie warpafl, but they are always ready to kill. But everybody knows what Apacles are In the west, SO there is no use talking about them now"
 Do you know the names of many per sons killed in your ralghborood2
 "I have heard them of course, but have forgotten them except, Aguiara. He was a prominent man, bad travelled all over the United States auj was well liked by all with whom be had come iu contact l think about thirty Amerl- cans were killed, the rest being Mexi- cans, amounting, as l sad, to ll5 per sons Iu all"
 ~You don't consider it s,fe, then. for man to go into that country at presently
 If you want to be an anger, it is a very safe place Co go; if he doesn't, he had better stay away. But I suppose dispatches from that district have given all the news. I don't know ss | know anything new. know | have been in the midst of the devilment and feel safer out of 1t. My opinion or views are worth no more than those of any other Westerner acquai ted with Apache ways. If they were eXtermi- mated there is a great deal Of country which could be settled by white men who would soon make it produ tive and add to the wealth and increase of the world Of course hardy settlers brave everything now. but their enterprise is hardly advisable under the Apache cir cumstances. However, m time, the Apaches will go to their happy hunting grounds. and the only Incur-i0ns made into the now alarmed districts will ne by the gentle book agent or his confrele, the sewing machine peddler.'