The Clifton clarion., 1886-07-14
that we should have a fight in three


 kill white COW and let them eat it, we should catch the Chiraca- huas. The singular part of it was, that the next day a part of his story came true.
 After long, hot march of near ly forty miles, a great deal of which was on foot, having crossed the Batipito River and gone into camp at the foot of the Sierra de Teres, word was brought in that one of the scents had been killed, and another wotnded, by Mexi- cans, while tagging behind the column. This created the great est excitement among the scouts,' and many of us feared that If they attempted reprisals on the Mexi- cans, as they threatened, we should have a poor chance with our little command ever to get out of Mexi- co. We shortly after received a letter from the Presidente of Hua- savas, small town on the river south of us. He ipclosed a letter from an American, explaining the circumstances. The Americans had come over a hill suddenly, and seeing the scouts, thought they were hostiles, and fired upon them. This was explained to the Indians, and apparently they were satisfied, but they neither Jagged or strag gled after that.
 The letter from the Presidente of Huasavas also contained the information that the hostiles had left the Sierra de Terres, where we were then camped, and had been seen near the village of Opu- ta, north of us. They had evident ly gone to these mountains, as Chatto said they would. We sent out and buried the dead scout, and brought ir tlIe wounded one, and the next morning started for 0pu- ta.
 We camped about three miles above Oputa and had it not been for the kindness of the people of that town, our animals would have fared badly, as there was no grass in the country. They allowed us to turn the animals into their stub ble fields, and showed in every way very friendly feeling. The sing ing of the scouts had grown so tiresome that we got them out of hearing by placing them on the opposite side of the river from us The river was broad and shallow at our camp, and on each side there was large growth of cot tonwoods, under which we were camped.
 After some scouting in the vi cinity, the scouts announced that they had located the camp of the hostiles; so that evening a part of the command was detailed to go on foot at night, with view to surrounding the camp and surpris ing them. Each man carried a hundred rounds of ammunition, and three days food. Just as the | moon rose over the distant peaks of the Sierra Madre, they silently stole out of camp. The moon shone brightly on the broad rim, and the cottonwood trees threw both camps into dark shadow, beneath which 1t would be diff cult to imagine a command like ours was concealed. The silence was only broken by the croaking of the frogs, and the scene had lit tie in keeping with the object of the little command then going out. The party that went out travelled about twenty miles, and the next morning surprised q band of hos 5iles under Chihuahua, and cap 5ured eleven women and children. They made but little fight, but led as fast as they could, leaving one dead on the ground, all their camp equipage, and horses. We lad one scout seriously wounded. 50, although Crawford did not lill the white COW, as kilkenny de- ] tired, we did catch the hostiles. The women and children were a looking lot, and showed ]; n their appearance that their flight l rom the reservation had been no pleasure excursion to them. l Among the captives were the squaw |  md children of Chi -hua hua. The , lext day I was ordered to take the prisoners and wounded, and an ; 'mpty pack train. with an escort ,f ten cavalrymen, to the nearest amp Tn the United States. We had to travel through q ; +o+o1I,, ,,,1-,o,rr +o ,,, I