The Daily Tombstone., 1886-01-28
Lieutenant Maus and the Scouts will Arrive at Guadalupe Canyon
 This Evening.
One Mexican Officer and Seven of his Troops Killed by the
 Scouts.

Guadalupe canyon to-day, we glean the following pictures in regard to the killing of Captain Crawford: Captain Crawford and his scouts were just preparing for an onslaught upon the hostiles at the time they were at- tackled by the Mexican troops. When the Mexicans opened fire upon the scouts, Captain Crawford rode up in front and threw up both hands, and tried to make the Mexicans under stand that he and his command were peaceable, but he was shot through the head and the heart, falling from his horse lifeless corpse. As soon as Captain Crawford fell from his horse, "Dutchy," the scout who seems to be very fond of his commander, took de- liberate aim at the Mexican officer in command and fired, killing him in- stantly. The shooting then became general, and seven Mexican soldiers and as many more scouts were shot. Lieutenant Maus who, by the death of Captain Crawford became com mandeI, succeeded, after hard strug- gle, in getting his scouts, who were worked up to state of frenzy by the death of their commander and their friends, out of reach of the Mexicans' fire, and with flag of truce made the MexicanS understand who he was.
 The scouts then went into camp and the remains of the gallant cap tain were laid to rest meath the skies of foreign cline.
 That this trouble occurred when it did was extremely unfortunate, as Capt. Crawford had trailed the In dians night and day and had them completely tired out, and was almost upon them when he was killed. In fact he expected to give them battle that same afternoon, and would have probably settled the Indian question as far as Geronimo and his band are concerned.
 It was only by the most strenuous efforts that Lieutenant Maus succeed ediin keeping his scouts from killing the whole Mexican command, so mad and full of fight were the scouts after Crawford's death.
 Lieut. Maus and scouts will camp at Guadalupe canyon tonight and then push on to Fort Bowie for orders.
 Below we give the news as it came in last evening and which we pub Iished in the shape of an extra at mid- night last evening.
 At midnight word was brought to town that Capt. Crawford and Apache scouts had been murdered on the west slope of the Flaxcala mountains by Mexican troops and ye reporter of THR DAILY TOMBSTONE at once started out in view of securing reliable infor- nation and learned that dispatch had been received by a prominent journalist of this city who had reliable news of the mas sacre.
 From all accounts, it seems that Capt. Crawford, with no scouts was scouting through the Box Canyon when they ran against a company of 200 Mexican soldiers, who. at once i opened fire upon the scouts, and Capt. Crawford rode ahead at once in order to explain matters, when he was riddled with bulle5s and fell from his horse. The fght then became general and at least one half of tEe scouts were killed. Those that re mained flew tS the brush upon the sides of the road. As we could not publish until tomorrow evening, and knowing that our esteemed contem- porary had gone to press, we issue THE DAILY TOMBSTONE extra in order to inform our subscribers at the earliest moment of the latest intelli- gence in regard to the hostiles.
 The course of this journal has al- ways been against Crook and the ] Apache outs,and the killing of Capt. Crawford is only another example of