Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-07-12
RENEGADE APACHES.
AN ARIzONIAN ON THE INDIAN
 QUESTION.
Fifty savages of the Res ervation--Troops
 Can't Guard San C.%rIos.
San Francisco Chronicle.

c. M. Bruce, one of the Bab 7comarl Cattle Company of Southern Arizl nna, Is at down town hotel The Govern ment having just come to an agreement ,Vltl the Mexican Minister at Washington by which United States troops hereafter may pursue hostile Apaches into Mexico, re- porter interviewed MT. Bruce yesterday as to the effect of this agreement on the situation in Arizona.
 II have been living in Arizona for ten years" said Mir. Bruce, and 1 left there only few days ago for short visit to San Francisco 1 sometimes think the least said about the outrages which our Arizona people have to submit to in con nection with this Apache question the better. As long as the Government in sists on the policy of maintaining lot of sayages in the midst of a civilized com munity what we can say or do will result in no permanent good The effect of the argument which | see Is described at length in the dispatches will be to give our military authorities the right to pur- sue the Apaches that have been depre- dating lately in Arizona into about the widest and most inaccessible region on this continent. It was there that Captain LawtOn captured Geronimo We do not have a Ilawton in the United States army every day, however, to pursue these Apaches, and it is difficult to say whether the permit which tine Mexican Govern ment has given our troops to cross the border will result in the capture of these renegades."
 But, according to the statements of the military, there are only a handful of renegades off the reservation. What do you know about thls:'
 "Well. there is a great difference, YOU know, between the citizens and the au- thOrities as to the number of Indians that are supposed to be off the reservation. saw it stated in tine newspapers some time ago that General Miles said there were only seven or eight renegades out, and these were the notorious Kid and his fellow -murderers who, after killing Sheriff Reynolds, escaped from the civil authorities. If General Miles really made this statement, l can only say that 1 am sorry his sources of information on Ari zona are inaccurate and misleading.
 Soon after Mir. Hardie was killed Sheriff Slaughter, man of high character and veracity and the Sheriff of Cochise county, went at once to the part of So- nora to which Hardie's murderers had fled, to ascertain, If possible, their number, I had an interview with him in Tomb stone the day he returned. He told me he saw the trail of at least fifty Indians in the Cajon Bonita canyon, and that be saw the trail of twenty Indians which led from the north and evidently from the San Carlos reservation. There Is no req son to doubt Sheriff Slaughters state ment. He Is 6 man of few words, his life has been always among Indians and he knows just what he IS talking about. You will perceive from his statements that Secretary Blaine's agreement with Mexi co has not come any too soon, If the Tn. dians of which he speaks are at all dis posed to give further trouble before re turning to San Carlos.
 Il could mention numerous instances of Indians being seen within the last month off the reservation The truth t our military authorities are unequal tC the task of keeping renegade Apaches from leaving the San Carlos reservation which embraces an immense area of coun try. They do, think, about as well as any other body of men would who have been instructed to perform something that Is visionary and imprachcable The | root of the evil IS the persistence of the Government in maintaining these savage! in the Territory. In the meantime tht people of Arizona and Mexico have ts suffer for it all There will be withou doubt good many more mternationa agreements before we hear the last of 1t The people of Arizona still have conf dence that General Miles will do all h, can to protect us from these Indian out rages, and when they take place again wt shall have to ask him to protect us agains the foolish Utterances Ofsubordinates hk, | Grierson.''