Arizona silver belt., 1885-07-11
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human treatment ana violent ueath or his wife, in Thompson's Canyon, N, M., and the carrying of their son into captiE!ty, is one of the many horrid incidents of the Chirieahua raid of 1883. Chato, Ca present pet of Gener- al Crook according to Pee-nal.tish, alias Peach" was the leader of the band who committed that deyilish deed. Nah-ehe and Bonito were also of the number, but were not present at the time of the killing. When they arrived two Indians wore quar- reling for the possession of the boy and in order to save his life Bouito, chief, took forcible possession ef him, guarded him and carried him into the Sierra Nadre, Mexico, where it is olaimed he was in the squaw camp when 1t was attacked by 125 of Crooks Indian scouts, From that time the fate of the boy is mystery, It, how ever, !s eoniectured he was killed by squaw during tho confusion incident to the attack, This belng Crooks only fight" as we are credibly in formed, Tn the Sierra Madre, we can not otherwise class 1t than as a Gads- hill affair where Jack Falstaff 'scaped hy miracle" l"
 The substance of the treaty that led to the Chiricahuas' return to San Car los was Crooks promise to release all Chiricahua prisoners in the United States and turn them over to the tribe, and also to exert himself to pro- cure the release of Chirlcahuas held as prisoners by the Republic af Mexico; and that the same privileges would be extended to them that were accorded to other Indians on the San Carlos reservation; also that the stock stolen by them in Mexico would be allowed to remain in their possession unless he, Crook, was forced to return them to the persons from whom they had been stolen. It was further uRder- stood by the Chiricahua chiefs with whom Crook negotiated the treaty, that they would be held guiltlesS for the murders they had committed in the United States, and it was upon that understanding they struggled back to San Carlos. The first allot. ment that returned to San Carlos numbered BOA, about 27O of whom were women and children. About three months after the first arrival several more came in with Bonito, who was sent cut by Crook to induce them to come, and thus they returned in isolated numbers until they coun- ted five hundred. The time occu- pied in tEsir coming back to the res. sryatiOn was about ten months. They came upon their own motion and none were under duress. As an evidence of this, is the fact that after Crook folded his tents in the Sierra Madre and took ths.back track to Arizona, the Chiricahua bucks, whom hs claimed to have conquered, crossed the Sierra Ma dre from Sonora into Chihuahua and opened negotiations with the people of Janos for peace as lasting as time itself. They bought serapas, calico, beads, sugar, coffee, arms, ammuni- ton and tiswin, but were too wary to be caught drunk where there was ap- parent danger of being killed by the Msxicang, whom they watched with argus eyes and only left Janos upon discovering Mexican troops endeavor- ing to cut them off from the noun tains. In order to square accounts for the intended treachery, the In- dians gathered all the stock within reach, which they drove across the mountain into Sonora, and what Crooks captives" did not kill and eat were driven into San Carlos. That Gen. Crook achieved no victory over the Chiricahuas in Mexico can not be better exemplifed than by the fact that the warriors of the tribe were left for months to depredate upon the property of our sister repub. lie; they murdered her citizens, deyas- tatea their homes and created feel ing of insecurity long after General Crook 6lalrned to have mastered them. A victory pre-supposes subjugation and control Of the vanquished. No one who recognizes this fact will credit Crook with having gained an advantage over the Chirlcahuas. Puck correctly illustrated the situation when 1t caricatured Crook struggling in the yiCelike embrace of stalwart buck. in support of the statement that Cro9k was virtually prisoner in the hands of the Chiricahuas, we reprint the subjoined extract from an exten. dsd interview of the St. Louis Globe Democrats Denver correspondent with ex.Agent P. P. Wilcox. He says,
 @Gen. Crook then set about to form a system of runners between San Car- los and the Chiricahuas' camp, in Old Mexico, in order to keep posted on their doings. He sent demands that they should come in, and told them what the consequences wonld Dc if they did not.