, 1884-01-22
THE APACHES.
Cruelty and Treachery of tho Noted
Indian Tribe
a Haee who Delight to Destroy
nan's Thrin and Hope
A Race without Human
Friendship.

Gath" interviewing an American just re
formed from Mexico, says:
what Ia this curse of the Apaches you
speak about How many Apaches are therefr
1T Is believed that there are now only
sixty-nve, but every one Of them Ia a most
determined and successful murderer. In the
revolutions which have occurred In the north
ern states OF Mexico the people nave been re-
fused permission to bear arms, and conse-
quently four or five Of the Apaches, well
armed, can come In and slaughter a whole
town There Ia no doubt that a very large
portion of the country, not only In Sonora,
but In Arizona, once populated with good set
Elements, has been laid waste and returned to
nature by these Apachss Fifty years ago
they were a somewhat powerful nation, 1
have been told, well armed. and disposed to
be friendly to the Americans, but terrific
marauders on Mexico They would ride hun
dreds of miles into Mexico. and were cruel as
the grave. They seemed To delight In blot
ting out every yestige Of mans hope and
thrift.
In time quarrels arose between them aud
the Americans, and tboy were roughly
handled; and II the United States govern
mept would let our Gringo men get at them
they would very soon be extinct But the
United States, guided by eastern sentiment,
would rather soc whole counties of America
perish than one Apache. Gen. Crook went
recently from the San Carlos reservation
into Mexico and brought out the squaws and
invalids and all those who were n burden
TO the warriors. From that time to this
the little vestige OF assassins hnvS
been free to extend their out
RACES. The camp where 1 slept a week ago
was raided by Apaches the next night, and
Eve out OF eight men killed. They under
stand fnlIv fha fKahn,lgty - thu Ar,a,aoa.
executive. They will bury their arms and
come into camp to bo fed when they AVE
hard times, and then go out aud dig their
guns and scatter themselves over hundreds of
miles, willingly going 200 miles TO kill one
man. They are armed with the best class of
guns, frequently with repeating Winchester
or Henry rifles, for which they pay tho high
est rates, taking the money from the bodies
Of those they nave killed.
A few young men, say sent from Colorado
or California, investigate the mining resour-
ces of the Sierra Madre mountains, and they
carry on their bodies the gold they expect to
use. They 60 to sleep in a wild waste, with
no one near, and that Is the last ever known
of them In this world. Their gold watches
and gold chains go to buy the finest cartridges
made In the United States. Whenever you
kill an Apache you find'that he has the stand
ard ammunition of America, labeled u.
s. The Apache, while not "a very
tall Indian, Is very powerful and sinewy, in
durAtsd to that hot climate and burned al
most as black as a negro. He docs not wear
anything upon his body, except a horse tail
perhaps over his head. He Is feet on foot
and q good rider. He has no friendship with
any human race Of beings. Blood and muir
der are his trade. Tho Mexicans ar0 as
afraid as death of these few Indians. The
Americans merely want that military arm To
be taken of which at present is the protection
Of these hsnds. The Apaches who were
brought up to the San Carlos reservation by
Gen. Crook had 5000 in sold. some of II
American coin, and a large collection of the
watches OF lone travellers"
"Are your general impressions favorable to
Mexico, both from what you have seen and
nave heardf7
-Very unfavorable. 1t Is q land hot,
almost barren, ragged, full of ignorance,
without comforts, with nothing that | can SEQ
to tempt our people in there. OF course, mer
will go for gold at all hazards; but that hns
not yet been found In quantities sufficient Il
dazzle anybody"