Arizona weekly citizen., 1886-06-12
DAMAGING TESTIMONY.
Evidences duplicating Esl<iminZin With Aiding the Ho>tiIes-SOme Facts Which
 have a Bad Look.


 1fJfns- thc Ho-tiIes-SOme Facts Which
 have a Bad Look.
 MT. LA. Crowley is in ihe city from his cattle ranch ou the San Pedro, eight miles below Rsdingion, and from him the following information showing d. most conclusively the treacbery of Es- kininzin, IS obtained. His statement is prefaced by the information for those who do not personally know hIm, that his word is thoroughly reliable and worthy of the most implicit confidence;
 On Saturday, May 29th, abou; four o'clock in the afternoon, EskimiEzin, with buck and two squsws, driving a team with farm wagon, came to Mc Crowley's ranch. from down the riyer EskimInzin lives about thirty miles down the river from Mr Crowley's. between Du .leyyille and Mesavil e, not far from the mouth nt Ariyuipa cseoh and c ose 70 tGe corr e OI tar reservs,Iua IEC Indraus cs-pci st h.5 r,nce three ui.h.s. IT., uigi; Di tueir arrival, two ,asTy of E,kiminziI's bucks cams dOwn
 ron ihe mOuG alas iIJm the direction .ae h,s.i.es we're ;heI supposed tO be, and joined ths Campers. E-kiminzln aaG his belt full Ol cartridges Wten he arrived.
 E.rly the next morning, when Mir. Crowley got up, and Le ls a very ca ly rlser. all the buck were gone. He saw them return m tine eyeniu2, about sun down, and EskimiuZin's belt then con tainsd only five cartridges and they brought no game.
 On Monday morning he saw them all leave camp, with full belts of cartridges, and they went into the mountains in the direction the hOstiles we're supposed to be. but he did not witness their re- turn and does not know whether they brought back cartridges or not, but they had no game.
 On Tuesday they returned hOmeward, having apparently brought nothing and taken nothing away. The wagon seemed to contain only lIt.le straw in the bot tom, over winch some blankets were thrown. Eskiminzin volunteered no in formation as to the cause.of his pres ence SO far from his ranch during the uu-l nhINNHN EChCOAs hAAl Nuo I0N HANH- tioned. He dId say that the hOstiles had no knowledge of thRt part of the cOun- try, as that was his country. NIT. Crowley was tempted to look in- tO the wagon, but the unprotected condi- ton of his family, on the isolated ranch. caused him to abandon the certainty of incurring the dispieasure of the old chieftain.
 This much is fact. and also 1t IS fact that Frank Murphy, foreman of the Red ingt)u Cattle company, while hunting stock in tho mountains on the Monday above mentioned, suddenly came upon Eskiminzin, who did not seem to be hunting game very Zealously, but wRs aim essly wandering Hb0ut-a circum- stance of no consequence excepting to prove the direction taken by Eskiminzin and his men.
 The whole thing was SD unsuBl and untimely that Mir. CTowley's suspicIOns were aroused upon R retrospective view of it Thst the cx-chIef, who has probably shed more human blood tIan any living Apache, and now, in his old age and inability Co tgse the war path, has applied himself Ustensi6ly 10 the cultivation of the soil and stock raising close to the settlements and tO the rss- ervRtion; that this old Indian shOJli leave bis fields at harvest time, the | busiest season Of ;he entire year. when | his personal direction ot ranch affairs Is almost indispensable, tO Ro into the | mountains R days journey away where | but little or no game exIst-, seems | strange-very strange.
 There are other facts and pretty well | authenticated reports which point with | suspicion tO the cOuniyAnce of the Apa- | che with the hostIes. Readers of the | CITIZEN will remember that on Satur- day morning, May 22d, SIX or even Apaches were seen crossing the railroad four or five miles west of Tucson, where the RillitO creek crosses the railroad. They went up the bed of the RillitO a short distance and then bore of tO the north. going around the Santh Catalinss. Their trail was seen on Sunday morn- .ng. May =, by Msssrs. Nm. C. Davis, Alex Mckay and others, near Oracle l Later they were trailsd tO the Sau Pc iro which they crossed @ short distance l ut los the Mammoth camp and above Ntsaville. On Sunday May 3o;h. the 'rail .howel that they were Gtout Bunk Hill, or Table Mountain, in the tafH At tAA.A tl llAf fN4lAa-E 70 l-Af'as4N not Tor from Arivsipa crecS5 and the re- -rrvrtion, and only twenty mIles from ! E-ksminZin's. They were there joined by three otber Indiaus, who were seen l by miners aud p-uspec,ors ihere. They bad committed 20 Cutraces, and were | evidently upon som highly important mission requiring lke u:most discretion l.d secrcsy.
 The northern end of the GaliuriG is 8 very rough country and ,tIOrds many natural stronGholds and ,ecure places of rendezvous. IL IS unin- 1, labIted and the hOstiles might c5ncre , ,nte there in large numbers and not be I Recovered for months. uuless chance should acc de1tally run upon ' lem, and then h:silife would ray the s orfeit. IL lies little north of vest {, rom Camp Grant and can be safely | cached by the hostles coming from 4 ny direction. The circumstances all {; 'oint to the probable rendezvous of the . z ostiles there, and that they are aided {, y Eskiminzin to prepare for the con o Inuance of their raid GO soon gs every G hing is favorable for them to strike. 1. What havoc they could make along n be San Pedrol q