Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-06-16
Crooks Victory.

momentarily expected to arrive, afte
 receiving the first authentic information
 from General Crooks army yesterday
 the CITIZEN was delayed one hour to set if our special courier, who accompanied the expedition throughout, would not ? arrive at Tombstone with complete re' port. But he did not come, and, not
 withstanding he rode sixty miles in SIX hours over a road that ordinary men dare not follow, he did not arrive until nightfan. and the complete report which we now present the patrons O. the CITI-
 zEs was not taken off the wires here until
 after midnight, too late to issue an extra, as the people, as well as our compositors,
 were in dreamland, We congratulate
 the people of Arizona on the successful termination of the Indian war, for its backbone IS now broken beyond doubt.
 To General Crook, Captain Crawford, Lieutenants Getewood and Mack ey, and the brave soldiers who did their duty so nobly and so well, we return our sincere thanks and we believe all the people of Arizona will jo;n us in this expression of our obligation.
 General Crook has well earned anoth- CT niche in the temple of fame, and we believe that every man. woman and child in Arizona will not only ask it. but will demand that be be made Major General. for placing his life in the hands of Indians vino at any moment might have turned upon him, and destroyed him, and for his superior skill in cap turing the bulk of the renegade Apa- che-, in the mcst preeipitous rugged | mountains in the country, where hither- to no white man had ever ventured.
 TOMBSTONE. June 1.-The special courier of the Arizona CITIZEN and Tombstone Epitaph arrived tonight from Crooks headquarters at Silver Greek, bringing the first official information Of Crooks expedi- tion, which left American soil on the 3d of May, marching 200 miles southeast from San Bernardino on the boundary line Of Chihuahua and Sonora, follow ing the trail of the hostiles. General Crook was guided by the Apache Ma daski, who was captured near San Car los just previous to the expedition leav- ing. At q point about two hundred miles' south of the line the command crossed the Sierra Madre range, dis tance of 50 miles over an indescribsbly rough trail, eight mules being killed by falling over precipices. They pressed on without delay, rendered nearly bare foot by the sharp rocks. After fourteen days of hard marching, night and day, the Indian camps of Chatto and Bonito were discovered in the heart of the Sierra Madres in an almost Im- preSneblo position. The APaches did not dream of attack, for an entrance to the stronghold was next to impos- 1 sible and the warriors were mostly | ont on raid under Juh. only thirty seven bucks being in camp with the women and children. The San Carlos scouts. under Captain Crawford and | Lieutenants Gatewood and Msckey, l with Al. Sebre, Archie Mcintosh and l Mickey Free. chiefs of scouts, sur rounded the camp before the hostiles were aware of their proximity, and ad- vanced from different points and were very near before discovered. The scouts secreted themselves behiad rocks and | commenced firing upon the camp, creat- ing a perfect panic. Anumber succeeded in escaping, though nearly all surrend- cred. Seven were found dead in camp; | five Mexican women and little girl | were recaptured. They were taken from Carmen, Chihuahua, and are now with Crook in good health. Every thing in the camp was burned or carried of by the scouts. Among the property captur ed was one hundred ponies and | mules, forty being loaded with I pluuder, and saddles, brides, clothes, gold and silver watches, and several | thousard dollars in gold, silver and | greenbacks. showing they had been very | successful ID their raids. After the fight most of those who escaped came in. Altogether SS3 prisoners were taken. The chiefs captured were Chatto, Bonito. Geronimo, Natchez, Loco and Mana | The two latter were long reported dead. | The chiefs say the American boy, six | years old, captured month ago in New | Mexlco, IS with the s~ -ws in the noun | tains. He is no doubt Charlie NcComas 1 Runners were sent out and he is expect ed in hourly. After the fight the com mand with the prisoners marched leis- | urely back to American soil and the entire command with the prisoners are now encamped on Silver Greek, about sixty miles southeast of Tombstone. Not one If Crooks command was lost or even wounded during the campaign. |
 The CITIZEN and Epi,aph courier who l accompanied the expedition throughout | rode sixty miles to-day in six hours to l bring ou: dispatches, with but three re- lays of horses.
 SAN FRANCISCO, June 11.-Mrs. Des- | comiers. wife of Charles Descomiers, of | Oakland, while temporarily insane, be- lieved to be caused from the effects of puerperal fever cut her boy bsby's throat | who was but F days old, who died. She