Wichita eagle., 1889-05-07
THE INDIAN OUTBREAK.

Ell PAso, Tex, May 5.-Through som,
unexplained means the Indians on botf
the San Carlos reservation, in Arizona
and the Mescalaro refervation, in New
| Mexico, have learned that the former fed
eral administration, under President
| Cleveland, entertained for some time in
| the latter portion of 1888 the idea of re.
| turning the blood-stained Apache chie1
| Geronimo and his savage followers te
their western haunts, under the mistaken
notion that their short detainment on
Santa Rosa island in Florida, and at
Mount Vernon arsenal, had reformed and
| made good Indians of them. The in
tention Of ex-Secretary of the Interior
Villas had been to return them all, first to
the Mescalero Reservation in New Mexico,
and after the first storm of indignation
among the people Of the west had sub
sided, then forward them to their old
home, the San Carlos reservation. The
timely exposure OF this scheme
in the southwestern press generally,
deferred the Cleveland administration
from carrying out their ill-judged, senti-
mental and altogether evil intention,
which has been probably entirely aban-
doned by President Harrison's cabinet.
The Apaches, however, are perfectly aware
of what was intended and the effect
upon them has been by no means
good one. They have been restless,
omlnously secretive ever since the order
and wise heads among them want to avoid
any further open host1lltles as they know
from sad experience the disastrous results
of any open conflict with Uncle Sam But
the young and hot-headed bucks of all the
great Apache family are hard to control
Tales of the former grandeur of their ma
ton have been instilled into them by their
medicine men, and numerous secret soci-
cites existing among them, formulated
somewhat rudely on the Masonic order,
with signs, grips and secret lectures,
keep alive the traditional hatred of
the white man, directed, first of
all against the Mexican, and
next against the Boston man, as they call
Americans The Mescaleros are branch
of the great Apache family, and are living
about hundred miles north of Ell Paso,
on vast reservation which included the
latest and most valuable portion of New
Mexico They were subdued and reduced
to state of passive quiescence some
twenty years ago, after series OF thorough
and vigorous drubbings by the United
States army. Since then they fell fortu-
nately, under the superintendent of man
in everv way fitted to control and guide
them-Indian Agent W. II. Llewellyn-
who, by firmness tempered with equity,
savage spirit and guiding them into the
ways of standardization, when unfor-
tunately at the beginning Of President
term Of Office he was displaced
for political purposes and a Democratic
partisan put into his place. Since then
the Mescaleros have been restless and tur-
bulent. and while not guilty of any open
outbreak, have never hesitated to show in
dications of their ugly temper. If Geron-
imo and his fellow prisoners had been
sent to the Mescalero reservation last Oc-
tober, as President Cleveland's cabinet in
tended, there would have been a general
Indian outbreak throughout New Mexico,
but the election of Gen. Harrison came
just in time to prevent it. As it
is the young bucks of the
San Carlos reservation have not
been able to hold in and are again on the
war path. Frank Cody, the foreman of
Senator Hearst's great cattle ranch, in the
San Simon Valley, who has just been bar
barou-ly tortured to death by the first
war party that has started out from San
Carlos, was well known and generally re-
,pected and esteemed in Ell Paso. Cody
was a typical western cowboy, and well
liked by everybody who knew him. The
hostile band that killed him was about
sorty strong, and was last seen in the
Florida mountains about sixty. miles north
vest of Ell Paso. So far no move has been
made by the United States troops to check |
,he outbreak.