The Tombstone., 1885-06-12
COWARD AND BETRATER OF
 PUBLIC CONFIDENCE.
Cochisc County Protected by Only Thirty Soldiers.
 A Little History.
While a Prisoner CroOE Ar rays to Himself the Hon.
 OTIS of a Victory.

on the reservation where they were sup posed to bc held .s prisoners in charge 'if Lieutensn, D wis and twenty -onc sol diers, aud that same night they laughed at the snldisrs and took the war path and our readers have a pretty vivid idc, of what that means by the seventy people that have been murdered and thsil bodies mutilatea. That General Crook deliberately LIED to the people of Ari zona is now proven by the fcilo wing article written by Chas. D. Rsppy then publisher of this paper, and publ ished in the issue of March II, 1884; which VIC publish in full and which gives Q state mcnt of Lieutenant Davis saying the In. dians were DO, prisoners, and that he wa. acting snly as sn escort to protect the Indians from the Whites: "A new and interesting phase in the return of Geronimc's baud of hostile Apsches has developed. They brought with them from Sonora l25 head of cattle and abou, 100 horses snd mules with Mexican brands, and undoubtedly stolen. On Saturday evening last the Indians, thirtythree in number, in charge ot Lieutenant Eritton Davis. Third Cavalry, canped at SuIphar Springs ranch. thirty miles northeast of ,hIs city, e2 route io the r:.ervation. Learning of the snug sled stock, W. ?. .uowinnd, general iu- spector of customs, and J. E. Clark, de- putty inspector and collector, went to Sulphur Springs and msde an attempt to
 SEIZE THE HORSES AND CATTLE
 as being smusgied property. A demand lB writing wss made upon Lieut.. Davis which demand he refused to recognize saying the stock was not In his charge that the Indians were not prIsoDers. that he and tho ,wcnty-one soldiers with him were merely au escort-in fact he had uetl,ing to do with the matter. 4 dcmsnd was made then on Davis as citizen O! the United States to assist the officers in making the seizure. He evadcd reply 10 this, saying, Make the attempt and you will sec what will do." Upon the mission of the custom officers being made known to Geronimo. he said he wond dio before he would give up the stock, that his band would
 PIoHT TO TH3 DEATH,
 and tho result would be that 2,OOO Apachcs would be on the war path in forty-eight hours. Runners were dis patch to the reservation by the Ia- dians, and about midnight they broke camp and followed after with the stock The situation is considered very grave As Lieutenant Davis expressed It: If the demasd is insisted upon it will re- suit in tho largest outbreak ever knowD, and will esd in the extermination of the Indians" The people of Arizona hay" only ono hope--that the Indians will be removed from the territory, where they are . constant mena ace, and will watch with interest to see. whether or not the government will allow t.s Apaches to run this county to suit themselves. =.
 The above piece shows concIusivelY that General Crook was captured in the Sierra Madres, and inst part of his con tract with Geronimo was to escort the Indians back to the reservation and to shoot down the settler who dared to claim his own stock.
 On Crooks representations Gen. Pope who has magnificent quarters at ths Pressdio barracks in San Francisco tele- graphs te the War Department at Wash ipgton that there are only S4 bucks sn .he war path and that they were all in New Me xico, asd that F companies of soldiers were on their trail and that DO more soldiers were needed In this c0un. try.
 We VII now endeavour to give few facts in the case, and they are facts. The Indian scouts Chstto and others, who are now protected by the government as United States scouts, were with Geronimo on his last raid, and are the identical h. 'dians who killed Judge McCeuas Judge Dlbbles brother and numerous other citizshs of this territory and the terri tory of New Mexico, While the Indian. whe were scouuus sfter Geronimo on bis last raid are po* his warriors.
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