The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1883-04-26
LETTER FROM EUGENE WARE.


Efforts Being Made to Recover Charlie
McCOmas from the Indians.
FIR. SCOTT, Kas., April 20.-The FIT.
Scott Monitor is In receipt of letter
from Hon E. F. Ware, at Silver City, Civ
ing an outline of the situation in the In
dian country and the efforts being made
10 recover Charlie McCOmas, from which
the following extracts are made: The
good offices OF the governors of Chihua-
hua and Sonora, Mexico, have been Sc
cured through Gov Sheldon, and a
large reward offered. To assist in his
identification photographs have been
circulated throughout the entire Indian
country. The inhabited territory is so
impossible that it will take considerable
time to find the Whereabouts of the boy,
and in the present condition of affairs
it will take considerable time for mat
tiers to subside so that the boy
can be reached even after his where
abOuts is found. Several thousand
OF the Apaches, III TACT The greater bulk
| of the tribe, are Oil their reservations,
but the bands of unnamed Apaches still
continue their fu,agcs and are from
time to time, rs is believed, reinforced
| from the reservations. They are ell
AIMED with the best variety of breech-
loading cartridge rifles, rs is testified TO
| by all who have dealt with them
| Wherever they have been engaged the
brass cartridge SHELLS are found, from
which the character of their weapons
can be definitely stated. All agree
that the boy cannot be recaptured. If
troops come upon the band holding
him, he will Immediately be dispatched.
Instances are numerous and with.
out exception where this has
happened. AT present there appears
| 10 be a luIl but it is believed
that arrangements are in progress by a
joint action on the part OF the United
States and the Mexican ge nerals to per-
sue, stay with and extermine;e the hos
tile Apaches, without regard TO cost OF
difficulty. The officers OF both fnrces
have just had consultation, but
the plans, if any have been formed, are
| not known. II such movement is
made the boy may not be recovered
| alive. At present all is hostility. Nc
Indian can leave the reservation with
out death wherever found. In fact the
feeling is so intense that large bodies ol
men are organized and are waiting the
word to move on the reservations and
butcher every Indian big and
little. There is stormy fe, ling against
longer permitting an Indian reservation
to remain in Arizona. The feeling seem:
to be universal that the entire Apache
tribe, quiet and hostile, must be exter
| minated. For this reason no Indian car
be found, as yet. who cauld with safety
leave the reservation tO find tue boy
Bad as IS this state of affairs here, in old
Mexico it is worse. 1t is nothing bul
blood and murder in Sonora and Chi
huahua. The Mexicans kill every man
woman and child of the Apaches thai
can be got at. All trading with
them has stopped. Nearly 1O(
have been killed by the
Apaches- In Sonora the stroagholds of
the Apaches, the mountains are oe-
/ scribed as almost impregnable. An
officer of Sonora told me that there
were places were ten armed Indian.
could hold back regiment, and thai
the only way TO do was to make bust
ness of it with numbers and at very
great expense, with starvation as al
ally. He also remarked if was Difficult
tiles, who IVES in the McComai
murder, happened to get coilared whel
he stepped back into the reservation
where he had been before His name Il
Serot Tish. He is now in irons TIT
only hope of the boys recovery is tbt
happening of truce in Mexico. Their
appears 20 be very good prospect of
truce there. My arrangements are sucl
thst If there Is truce and the boy j
still alive he will be recovered. Sucl
arrangements are, in fact, all that can b
made. fear that all that can be nov
down, in addition TO what has been done
Is TO walt
TSigned. Z. +. WARE