Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-05-17
AMONG BAD INDIANS.
THE SUPERINTENDENT or INDIAN SCHOOLS HAVING GAN EXCITING
 TIME.''

He Visits the Apaches in Arizona and Is
 Entertained with Tales of Terrible AtrOcities---He Sees Few Things that Confirm
 His Suspicious.
 Special Correspondence of the Globe-Demo ocrat.
 WASHINGTON, D. C.. April 9, 1S90- Dr. Daniel Dorchester, Superintend- ent of Indian Schools, is engaged in making a tour of the agencies in the Southwest. He is inspecting the schools on the various reservations with the view of ascertaining the con dition of education among the South western Indians The Indian Bureau Is in receipt of several reports from the Superintendent, which have been forwarded from various points along the line of his journey. The reports are all more or less interesting, and some of them are particularly enter taining and instructive. One which has attracted the especial attention of the department officials is dated at Albuquerque, N. M., March 27. This report was written after the Super intendent had returned from trip into Arizona among the Apaches, and in some respects 1t reads like a dime novel.
 Dr. Dorchester belongs to the ultra school of New England philanthropists who deny most earnestly the old Western adage that "the only good Indian is dead Indian" They seem to believe that under all circumstances and at all times the red man is the aggrieved party, and that he is en- titled to the exclusive sympathy of all good and peace-loving citizens of the whole East. From Dr. Dorchester s letter it appears that in some respects he has changed his mind about the Apaches at least. His trip has evi- dently revealed to him much con- corning the Indian character that he did not suspect before. Dr. Dor chester, as well as Commissioner Mor- gan and other officials of the bureau who are Eastern men, has been for some months, advocating the return of Geronimo's band of Apaches to the Indian Territory; but Dr. Dorchester, in view of what he has seen and learn ed of the Apaches, is evidently not disposed now to be very enthusiastic over the proposed change. His letter detailing his trip and it's revelations reads like a wild Western romance, and it is evident that Dr. Dorchester was deeply impressed with the gravity of his surroundings while in the In- dian country. While it is not likely that the natives conspired to make it Interesting and highly sensational for the Superintendent, he had a somewhat exciting time.
 TERRIBLE TALES TOLD.
 "From the time I entered Arizona, J he says, "I was entertained with thrill ling accounts of the savage atrocities perpetrated by the terrible Apaches The prevalent sentiment in regard to this tlibe is sharp and vindictiye- scarcely an exception. l had known something of the fearful experience: of miners and settlers with the Chira
 cahua band of Apaches, the mos
 fiendlike of all, but I learned much
 more. I will not attempt to describe
 the atrociOus tortures to which theil
 victims were subjected My hear
 revolts from the attempt. They ex
 tend through period of nearly twenty
 years, down to the capture Of Geroni
 mo in 1886 and some little less flend
 ish have been perpetrated since tha
 time.
 "I was at first inclined to plead tha
 it was only Geronimo's band whicl
 had committed these bloodvcurdliny outrages, and felt that the wholesale denunciation of the Indians, or evel of the Apaches, was not justifable
 though I did not dispute with any on upon the subject. All the Indians O Arizona, except the Apaches, are al most universally held in good reput as far as public order is concerned though many are degraded.
 "I found great anxiety lest Geroni mo and his band should be sent t Fort Sill. Every one was confiden that if sent there those Indians woul speedily reappear in Arizona and re } peat their old deeds of slaughter. On day when seriously asked by a lagu : brious inquirer whether l thought tn t Government would let this band com
 back to Arizona, I answered: [ "Oh, no. The Government has to much regard for their safety. Tn . Government would be afraid the il v censed Arizonians would slaughte l them. He saw the ridiculousness ( : his questiQp, and smiled.
 5 "When it was learned l intended { = go to San Carlos was warned agains : it, some military men even joining i
 expressions of caution. Freighte
 Herbert had been killed only the Sul
 day before, directly on the road { V San Carlos, and the killing ws e wholly qnprovoked, done purely fC 8 blood and plunder, like other Apacf |. atrocities could not bear the thougl Il of passing by this important post, l d cated at such distance from Il [, routes of ralIrond travel that it T d ceives less attention from the office ,t of the Government than many eth n places. 1 felt, too, that the mo |. wild and savage the tribe the mo e important it is to promote the civil l. ing influence of education and I n ligion among them. 1 must, ther c fore, go if pessible.
 l. INVITATIONS OF DANGER. u "When I came finally to decide u question of going to San Carlos, aft Ii completing my work elsewhere '' Southern Arizona. I telegraphed .r the Agent to know whether tgave, IS IS the agency Was sate. Capt. Bulls l 7s piled:
 Travel on the roads is probably safe at present
 ''The peculiar character of the l
 ply excited grave doubts in son e, minds. A military officer whom 'li, met said
 id ""While Capt Bulls is dashil It officer, he is careful how he involy 'e other persons. There may be It danger, but the treacherousness of t 'u Apaches leaves little ground for co It fidence at any time"
 Fl, "I went to Bowie Station, the poi Ill from which the stage runs daily e;, San Carlos, where l found 10 app ta hension of danger among those W