The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-06-23
Meanwhile the General Ventures the Opinion
that All Will BE Well if He Is
Given Full Power.
The Attractions the Negro Republic
Offers the Coiored Race.
Efforts of Our Government to Secure Peace
Between Peru and Ohili-Notes and
Gossip of the Capital.
THE CAPTURED APACHEs.
Belief that Gen. Crooks Recommendations
VIII Be Compiled with.

Will Be Complied With.
| Special to the indianapolis journal
| WASHINGTON, June 22.-Although the con-
clusions of the cabinet respecting the recep-
ton of the captured Apaches at San Carlos
reservation have not been made public there
is warrant for believing that the recon-
mendations of Gen. Crook will be complied
with. Secretary Teller is opposed to such
policy, but majority of the cabinet are in
favor of it. Mr.. Tellers position, it is
said, is influenced by representations of In
dian Agent Wilcox who was formerly resi-
dant of Colorado. Wilcox was strongly
pressed for the position of United States
Marshal Of Colorado by Mr.. Teller prior
to his becoming cabinet officer.
The military authorities state that he
has made no end of trouble
since his appointment as Indian agent.
Wilcox knows nothing of Indian warfare
nor the necessities of the public service in
that direction. The people of Arizona have
full confidence in General Crook, who re-
ports that if these Indians are not received
on the reservation they will make life
business OF raiding and numbering, and he
will never undertake to bring them to terms
hereafter
General Crook Thinks He Can Manage Them.
| To the Western Associated Press
| WASHINGTON, June 22.-The following tel
egram has been received at the War Depart
ment:
Preside, SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, June %.
To the Adiutant- general, Washington:
| The following dispatch is just received from
| General Crook l recommend, for the present,
at least that the mana cement Of the surrendered
Chir1cahuas be left entirely in the hands of Gen
| eral Crook and that both the War and Interior
| Departments give him full authority and means
| to carry out his policy. This seems to be the
only possible way to a successful issue. Evil
IDENTIFY the Chricahuas cannot be tried arDitrari-
ly as prisoners of war, and General Crook alone
has power TO control them. He telegraphs: "T
seller decline. papers reca9s ssSs aS
San Carlos reservation any Chiricahua
Apaches except women and children. II these
Indians are hot fed they must either starve or
go back to the war-path. They are now as thor
| Oughy suljugated as it is possible for them to
be- BY nature they so suspicious and vigil
| ant that at no time will they camp In one body,
but occupy different elevated points. making
| surprise and destruction of the entire band an
they would not trust themselves in our hands ut
once, but came dropping in from all
W Sl9eS In small FRAGMENTS Ihey would say
| us as you please Had l seized
upon the first who came in no others would have
| followed; twenty warriors would have been as
bad as the whole number Chituo. in his raid
| through Arizona and New Mexico, had but
| twenty-sx men, and HiranmO, In his recent
depredations in Chihuahua, had less than forty
| When the Chiricahuas reach the reservation
they will be fully as nervous and distrustful, and
| any attempt to bold them responsible for their
acts before their surrender will drive them back
TO the cliffs and gorges of the mountains, and we
shall have to fight them until the last dies
In their code all depredations committed upon
! ourselves and the Mexlcans while at
| war is legitimate. While it is re-
pellant to my feelings to put these
red-handed murderers on the reservation,
| reflect that they are no worse than were the
5000 Apaches l put on the reservation ten
years ago Then had nothing but the soldiers
and scouts who had suhiugated them, TO orgal-
lze and discipline the 5000. But to discipline
and control this handful of Chricahuas, l would
not only have soldiers and scouts but the vaIu-
| able assistance of all other Indians, who would
! watch with jealousy the slightest movement the
ChirCahuas might make. | am satisfied the
! Chiricahuas would not have surrendered to the
| Mexcans under any circumstances, and if am
| not sustained will not surrender to us again.
| Their natural distrust aud suspicious have been
| increased ten-fold by an act of treaeherv which
| they allege the Mexicans committed some
months since. The Chiricahuds were invited in
| to make peace, filed up with liquor, and then
attacked, many being killed ana wounded and
Others being carried off prisoners. Please in
| form me by tele graph, before proceed further
whether or not it Is tho intention of the Interior
| Department to take charge of these Indians. I
shall be only too glad to get rid of the hard work
and responsibility their management will entail" !"
| sCHoFIELD. Major general
copy of the telegram was to-day sent to
the Secretary of the Interior by Secretary
Lincoln, with the request that he will ndi-
cate his pleasure touching the disposition of
these Indians.