The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1883-06-22
CROOK AND THE INDIANS.
| The General Sends Fuu Details Of His
Campaign to Army Headquarters.

The General Sends Fun Details of Hi
Campaign to Army Headquarters.
SAN Francisco, juno IL.
The following dispatch from Genera!
Crook has been received at military head.
quarters:
SILVER CREEK, A. T. Twelve Mics
North of the Boundary, via TOMBSTONE,
June IA left here May with one hun
dred and twenty-three Apache scounts under
Crawford, and Wood Mackey, with Cbaffee'i
company of forty-twO men of the Sixth
cavalry, and rations for two months, on
mules. We followed the hostile Chira-
oahuas to country of Undesirable
roughness. A number of mules lost
their footing, stepping from the trail,
fell down the precipices, and were killed.
The stronghold of the Chricahuas was in
the very heart of the Sierra Madres. The
position is finely watered, and has 4 dense
growth of timber and plenty of grass. They
had been camped for months near the head
OF Bavispe, occupying prominent elevated
peaks affOrding fine lookout for miles. ren-
dering surprise almost impossible, and
making their retreat secure through
the rough adjacent canyons. Captain Craw-
ford, with the Indian scouts, early on the
morning of May Is surprised the village of
Chata. the chief who led the recent raid
into Arizona and New Mexico. The fight
lasted all day, and the village was wiped
out The damage done can not be estimat-
ed. A number of dead bodies were found,
but the indiscribable rougliness of the coun-
try prevented a count being made. The en-
tire camp, with the stock ard everything
belonging to it, was captured.
1t was learned from the pris-
oners taken that the Chiricahuas were
unanimous for peace and had already sent
two messengers to try to reach San Carlos.
On the 18th they began to surrender. They
said their people were much frightened by
our sudden appearance in their Businesses
and had scattered like quail. They
asked me to remain until they
could gather all the hands together, when
they would 90 back to the reservation.
BY the terms of the treaty my opera
tons were limited to the time Of
the fight, and l told the Chiricahuas to
gather up their women and children without
delay. They answered that they could not
get them to respond to signals, the fugitives
fearing they might be set by our Apache
troops to entrap them. They told us they
had white boy, who was in the village
jumped by our scouts. He had run off with
the squaws who escaped and who
had not been heard from.
They assured me every one of the
band should come in il l would remain a
short time. The terms of the treaty EN-
barrasSed Inc greatly, and being in that
rough region and rations rapidly disappear
ing-there being between three and four
hundred Chiricahuas to feed-I was CON-
PEELED to return with the Chiricahuas. We
found six Mexican captives, five women and
one child, taken i'm chihuahua early in May.
They are now with the command. These
women say they were captured near the
Mexican Central Railroad, at a place called
Carmen. They further state that when
the Chiricahuas discovered the Apache
scouts were in the country
they became greatly alarmed, and aban-
doned on the trail the three hundred head
of cattle they were driving away from points
in Western chihuahua. The cattle were
afterward picked up and driven off by a
body of MeXicans. We marched back Us
rapidly as the condition of the stock and
the strength of the women and children
would permit, and found the country pop
ulated for distance of one hundred miles
from the Apache stronghold. The Chirica-
huas insist that they have always lived in
the Sierra Madres; that even when the main
body went OH the reservation some
remained behind in the noun
tains. OF these now out there
are number who they state have
never been OIL the reservation. / have
strong hopes of being able to clear the
mountains of the last of these. Now with
lis are Loco and Mana, so often reported
killed, and the families of other prominent
chiefs. l saw no Mexican troops, and after
leaving the settlements in Northeast Sonora
did not see Mexican other than the capt
ives rescued. l have such assurances from
the Indians that the white boy will be
brought back alive that am looking for
him every moment, and will inform you by
courier"