Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1884-01-18


through the head, for that is their target,
always; but if he should mise, you are
safe for the time. He will drop his rifle,
which bothers him in running, and get
out of your reach before you realize that
you have been shot at. The Comanches
are different. One of these swarthy viii
lians will stalk right up to you and say :
''You my fren, my enmy?" If you say
friend, he'll tell you to give him all you've
got; il you say enemy, he'll lick you or
get licked. The Comanche we take to be
the friend in need that we have heard so
much about.-Reporter. The Apaches
invariably kill their captives when they
are out on q raid, and to be sure of their
work, after they have shot them, they cut
them into pieces. This they do also to
the horses, mules, burros, dogs, or any
other animals that can be of use to the
whites.
SAN CARLOS RESERVATION.
This tract ON which the Government Of
the United States breeds Indians to muir
der its citizens is something like 200
miles square or over, maybe less, and is
the choicest portion of Arizona Territory.
1t is in the southeastern part running
nearly to the New Mexico line. 1t is well
watered; the soil is rich, and its land as
fine for farming as could be desired. 1t
has also fine bodies of various mineral de-
posits, which, like the land, | suppose is
reserved for the Apaches. l know a party
of miners who discovered a valuable coal
mine, but they were quickly surveyed two
miles within the line of the reservation by
Uncle Sans Jealous military servants, and
they had to lose their find. 1t won't be
long before those same officers will be SELL
ing coal from that mine flor the benefit of
the IndiansD and thus serve to show how
much kinder our Government is to the
redskins than to pioneer white men. There
has been a great deal of whitewash plas-
tered on that San Carlos Reservation man
agement, but the people in Arizona know
how it Is. They are not fooled by the
pretty things said about it's management
and the glowing reports sent to Washing
ton to gull Eastern people who neither
know anything about the Indian nor about
how the r~sscally agents use him. They
draw money for full rations for the
Apaches and then starve them. l have
seen the commissary weighing out the ra-
tons, and | saw him send out a cart load
ed with bacon and -four on one occasion.
Without being emptied that cart came
back to his shop and was weighed again,
not once, but three times, and Uncle Sam
paid for the cargo every time it was
weighed.
But / don't care so much for this. If
the agents could only starve the red devils
to death ] would be glad. The officers in
charge of the reservation give the bucks
passes to go out, and while they are robbing
and numbering the settlers Uncle Sam
pays them a per diem in rations-which,
of course, others draw for them in green
backs.
CROOK, THE INDIAN INT
81 don't know how many thousand
Apaches there are on the Reservation, but
there are a plenty of them. On the out
side there are maybe 120 bucks who refuse
to come in. These, constantly backed by
recruits from the Reservation, are the fell
lows that Gen. Crook, with something like
60 soldiers and 80 Apache scouts, followed
into Sonora. The result of that campaign
was disastrous to the General about
whose previous military career / have not
a word to say in disparagement) in more
senses than one. He not only did not
corral the Apaches in the Sierra Madres,
but they corraled him. And then to save
his reputation as an Indian fighter he made
a false report OF his operations. His scouts
took him straight into the Apache camp.
The hostiles told him they would scalp
him and his whole command if he did not
agree to do certain things, which were as
follows: That he should give them
half of his guns and ammunition,
and that he should take back with him
to the Reservation all their old bucks and
women that were worn out and foot-sore.
Crook, and I don't blame him for it,
agreed TO the stipulations and carried them
out to the letter. Those old, stiff Indians,
Crook claimed as his prisonersi On his
way back Crook did not lose any time, in
fact, he retreated much more rapidly than
he had advanced. The Mexicans pursued
him because he had no right on their soil.
They did not catch him. If they had,
none Of his old bucks and foot-sore squaws
would have crossed the Mexican line. The
Mexicans kill every Indian they capture
and that is the only way to properly con-
vert them and make them truly good.
A SWEET PoLIoYl
These facts were given me by one OF q
number Of Mexican women whom, also,
as oaptives of the Apaches, Crook WAS to
bring with him back TO San Carlos. where
they were afterwards released. But the
story as I give II to you ia just as the peo-
pie OF Arizona know 1t; and Gen. Crook
has not g friend left in the Territory. All
the newspapers there but one have given
him away, He has got old and useless;
and, in order to save his own reputation,
he misststes the condition Of Indian affairs
to the distress and injury Of defenceless
settlers. Through such as he and the off,
GERS and agents on the San Carlos Reserva-
tion, miners are kept out OF Sonora and other
mining regions across the Mexican line,
the richest aud most attractive 10 the
world. Through their greed and bungling.
backed by the maudlin aympathy of
Indisn-loying sentimentaiists OF the East,
valuable lives Of pioneers and settlers have
been lost, and will continue TO BIO sacri-
Aoed, for bold men will ventuse into the
dangerous places have described, taking
all the chances Of life and death. 1t is
high time for the Government to come to
its senses and adopt o rational Indian
policy. 1t seems hard to say so; but as
sure as you live, there is no way to treat
with such Indians as the Apaches. There
Is no remedy in the case that stops this
side Of determination. Such Is the in
evitable conclusion unless those men at
the head of our Government wko have con-
troll think it is more human that white
people should be killed by the Apaches
thar thai the latter should be put out of