The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-06-07
RANCHERS vs.. REDSKINS.
COWBOYS AND APACAEs FIGHT
The savases wersted--A Papoose Pris.
oner-War Department Reports on
the Campaign - Seventeen
Whites Killed Thus Far.

SAN SIMON, N. NJ, June G.-Twenty-
four cattlemen, leu by Parks and
Fisher, Of Duncan, who arrived hore
last night, had an encounter with a
band OF about 20 Indians night before
last NJ The mouth OF Doubtful Canyon.
ono hundred rounds of ammunition
were exchanged. Two Indians are be-
liev0d to have been killed. The cattle
men brought with them n papoose,
whose mother Is supposed to haye been
killed in the encounter. Eighteen head
of stock were also captured.
REPORTS FROM THE FRONT.
WAsHlNGTONI June 0.-Assistant
Adjutant-General Barber telegraphs the
department from Whipple Barracks
that General Crook has reports the In
dams are that again moving
south. Roach, who has been
with scouts on the Mexican
| bOrdeH for the past month to find
captivity in Mexico, has been directed
to report for duty 10 the commanding
officers OF troops from HUnchia, now at
Guaualoupe canyon.
Lieutenant Wslch reports that q tolo-
| gram from Globe indicates that the In
| dams are stealing stock in that vicinity.
| Ito VIII send also TO ascertain, and also
Orde. the Indians in again FOR another
count,
| General Crooks states that mp TO last
| night the following number Of people
| had been killed by the Indians:
| Seven in the Blue Mountains and
| around Alma; . uO8r Silver City; near
| Ola Camp and near CrOtton-a total
| oil II. There may have been others
| Killed, but there no roliGbla data 10 be
obtained.
! LATEST OFFICIAL DISPATCHES.
! Tho following dispatch, dated Whip.
| PIE, Barracks, Arizona, June ., has boon
/ received at the war department from
! General Pope:
Capt Smith reports from ella river.
near Sapitto, May %, that the Indians
are III worry rough mountains north OF
him and that Chatta, ichiof OF
! the Sioux, with 40 OF his
men, had struck their rear guard and
was after them. In another dispatch OF
the Slst, from the same place, he saws
the main body Of Indians, women
and children, are scattering through tue
mountains, east of Suck Creek and
north OF tho ella; that Chatts and his
scouts are hunting them; that heremains
IL the vicinity until he iears from Chats
and that the day beioI, Chatta got their
ponies saddles from tho Indians. He
says party is raiding east of him.
A dispatch from General Crook, al
Fort Payard, yesterday, Gays they have
no definite news from the scouting par
ties or Indians.
In another dispatch TO General Drum
dated San Francisco, June 3, Genera
Pope says:
Everything possible Is being
done TO put a stop to the
Indian trouble in Arizona and
New Mexico. Only 81 mon OF
the Apaches have gone of
with their women and children
and are trying to got into Mexico
killing and taking everything thai
happens to fall in their way
The difficulty is TO overcome o.
head them off, but Their,
is large force Of cavalry after then
from various directions, ant
II would seom that they
must be caught. Genera
Crook, who knowa more about
these Indians than any othe
man, is in the field, an,
he says he needs no NOR
troops Ofcourse the newspaper report
are sensational and exaggerated and ere
ate unnecessary alarm. MOTHER Indian
have left the San Carlos reservation OK
cept the party we have Indicated"