Arizona silver belt., 1886-01-23
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ment of the manner in which the favorite scouts of Gen. Crook conduct themselves in Mexico in the pretended prosecution of their hostile brothers:
 Since the American forces have pen etrated the Mexican territory, accom- panied by Apache scouts, the Mexican settlements along the frontier, and eX- posed ranchers and travellers in the northeastern part of the State, have been subjected to robbery, outrages and murders committed by the pre- tended friendly IRdians whom the American officers are unable to con trol. As long as they keep directly under the eye of the officers, they be- have. to some extent, but the moment they find themselves out of sight, which is frequently, by the very na- ture of the expedition they are brought to carry out, the natural iiendishness of their nature and the hatred the Apaches bears to the Mexican, imme- diately crops out.
 They kill cattle and horses indis- criminately, using some of them for food; and though they pretend that such deeds have been committed by the hostiles whom they pretend to be pursuing, in several instances the owners have found around the slaught- cred animals, the utensils and other things used by the scouts, which proves them, and not their renegade brothers, to be the perpetrators. In some instances, when the number of American troops is small. the scouts do not at all hide their acts, and as sample we will detail the following occurrence: On the 18th of December last, a Custom House guard met at Teras, an American force of fifteen dragons, under Captain Emmett Crawford, and 100 Apache scouts. On the 17th of the same month this force of scouts arrived at Nacosari, under command of four American officers, and these savages under the eyes of their superors and the Mexican GUS tom house guard, fired at every head of cattle or horses they met on the road, wounding many and killing out right four, all being the property of Jose N. Torres. From there they weat to Guasabas, shooting all the time the cattle they met on the road. At Guasabas they encamped about one mile from the village. On the 23d seven scouts came into the town and went about taking whatever suit ed them to eat or drink, and offering all kinds of outragcs to the inhahi- tants. The Mayor of the town, sent for endorsements for protection, and Capt. Emile Kost8rltzky arrived with six armed men to Iirive out the scouts. The a1tb7.,ities nd q notified the Amer icau officers of what was happening, but they could do nothing. To get rid of Gen. Crooks scouts, Capt. Kos terlitzky had to attack them, wound ing one, taking another prisoner, while the rest fled to their camp.
 On the 25th, Capt. Crawford left for Bacadeguachi with hIs scouts, and the Mayor of the town, sent a party to watch the conduct of the Indians. They never passed a herd of cattle they did not fire at, killing outright, eleven, and woundlng many more. The next day after the scouts had passed by Granadas, a village on the way to Bacadeguachi, news came thata man had been killed three and a half miles from the place. 4 party went to bring the body in but they found two men dead, three jackasses killed, the loads they carried footed; they also found @ knife and a coffee pot, such as were used by the scouts, and the party had every reason to believe they had done the act. Besides, there had been no indications of hostiles in that neighborhood for weeks. The names of the unfortunate men were Francis Lavendera and Tomas Mo- reno.
 It has now become usual to hear of Indian outrages within five to twenty miles where the American scouts are found in our state, and we have no hesitation to believe, that these are perpetrated by the pretended friendly Indians, who elude the vigilance of their officers, commit the outrages, and then, are themselves set to pursue imaginary hostiles, who are daily drawing rations from the commissary of the United States. We ask the general Government of the Republic to forbid the introduction into Memco any Indian scouts, as auxiliaries to the American troops, in the pursuit of the Apaches, or to stop entil ely the