Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1883-06-23
A CONFLICT OF TONGUES. 1
What Shall We Do With 0ur Bucks :?
still UnSOlVGd.
The Recommendations OF Generals
Crook aud schofield-The Inter-
ior Department Refuses to
Receive Them.
Special Dispatch to THE BEE.
CROOK DISPATC.

Special Dispatch TO THE BEE Pos.
CROOK DISPATCH.
WASHINGTON, June 22.-The following
telegram was received at the war depart
ment June 20: Pesidio, San Francisco,
Gala, June 20. To Adjutant General:
The following dispatch was Just received
from Gen. Crook. recommend for the
present at least the management of sur
rendered Chiricahuas be left entirely in
the hands of Crook, that both the war
and interior department give him full
authority and means to carry out this
policy. This seems to be the only posi-
BILE way of successful issue. Evidently
the Chiricahuas cannot be treated arbi-
trarily as prisoners of war Gen. Crook
alone has power to control them. He
telegraphs, 81 see by the papers that
Secretary Teller declines to receive
on the San Carlos reservation any Chira-
cahuas Apaches except women and
children. If these Indians are not fed
they must either starve or go back to the
war path. They are now as thoroughly
subjugated as it is possible for them to
be. BY nature they are SO suspicious
and vigilant that at no time will they
camp in one body, but occupy different
elevated points, making surprise and de-
struction of the entire band an impossi-
bility. In like manner in surrendering,
they would not trust themselves in our
hands at once, but came dropping in
from all sides in small fragments. They
would say, we give ourselves up to
do with us as you please Had
l seized upon the first who came
in, no otheIs would have followed.
Twenty warriors would have been as bad
rs the whole number. Chitto in his raid
through Arizona and New Mexico had
but twenty-siI men, Hiranimo in his re-
cent depreciation in chihuahua had less
than forty. When the Chiriachuas
reach the reservation they will be fully
az nervous and distrustful, and any at
tempt to hold them responsible for their
acts before their surrender will drive
them back to the cliffs and gorges of the
mountains. We shall then have to fight
them until the last one dies. In thei1
code all depredations while at war are
legitimate. While it is repellant to my
feelings to put these red handed
murderers on the reservation, l re.
fleet they are no worse than were
the 6,000 Apaches put on the reserva
ton ten years ago. Then / had nothing
but soldiers and scouts who had sub.
jugated them 70 organize and discipline
5000, but to discipline and control this
handful of Chiricuhuas Iwould have moi
only soldiers and scouts but the valuable
assistance of all other Indians, who would
watch with jealousy the slightest move
ment the Chiricuahuas might make.
am satisfied the Chiricuahuas would not
any circumstances, and II am not sus
tanned now they will not surrender to th'
United States again. Their natural dis
trust and suspicion has been increased
tenfold by the act of treachery whicl
they allege the Mexicans committed
some months since. The Chiricuahuas
were invited in to make peace, filled uI
with liquor, then attacked, many being
killed and wounded and others taken
prisoners Please inform me by tele
graph before proceed further, whethe
or not it is the intention of the interiol
department to take charge of these In
dians. l shall be only to glad to get ric
of the hard work and responsibility thei
management will entail.
(Signed) SCHoFIELD, jor General.
A copy of the telegram was to-day sen
to the secretary of the interior by Secre
tary Lincoln, with a request that he will
indicate his pleasure touching the dispo
sition of these Indians.
ATALK WITH TELLER.
Secretary Teller was asked to-nigh
whether he had reached any conclusion
with regard to the disposition of Crook
captives. He said he was willing to tax,
the children and unmarried women, t.
put the former to school, the latter upol
the reservation, but as to the others the,
should not 60 upon the reservation. Hi
reasons were-first, that the Indians nov
upon the reservation, the Indian agent
and white settlers in the surronndin,
country did not want them there; second
ly, putting them upon the reservation
would practically leave them loose, becaus
they would only remain until next sprin.
when they would go upon the war patl
again; thirdly, his appropriations for tn
support of the Indians would not ALLOW
his keeping four or FIVE hundred o
Siooh CaP1iNcS. Oecretdry leiler Salu
also, he did not think thore would be an,
disagreement between himself and tn
secretary of war as to the disposition o
these Indians and that when Crook un
derstood the circumstances he would no
ask to have them placed on nthereservation
The secretary said further, that Will
his appropriation would not permit hi
undertaking to care for the capture,
hostiles, many of whom, he said, wer
not American, but Mexican Indians, tn
war department had $27O,0OO at it
disposal for the support of Indian pris
oners. He thought the war department
should take these Indians and CORA
them for awhile until they were some
what tame.
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