Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-03-22

left, and were not missed until next morning. They left their horses, sad dies and all their stock, but took theil arms. Provisions? No; an Indian would rather leave his mouth behind than his arms. Matches is son oi old Cochise, and is the head of the Chiricahuas. He was at the time oi the last outbreak twenty-seven or twentyeight years old. He stands five feet ten inch high and weighs about 160 pounds. He is rather 8 negative character-a lazy sort of a fellow Chiricahua is sub-chief, or the in fuential man of Matches. He is about forty-fve or forty six years old.
 GERoNIMo's HISTORY.
 Geronimo is not hereditary chief but is the leading spirit among them. and is what he has made himself. He is vindictive, cruel and crafty Geronimo was not known until 1876 He was one of the three famous chiefs belonging to the Chiricahua branch of the southern Apaches which had for many years made their home in the Dragoon and Chiricahua noun tains. This last outbreak was begun in April, 1885, and up to the time that Geronimo surrendered and escaped from General Crook, little more than ten months from the time they left the reservation on their murderous raid through the rich vallty tys of Ari- zona, they killed everything human in their path and committed such fiendish barbarities and outrages upon helpless women and unprotected chil- dren that a recital of their details would appal the stoutest heart. They swept through like bosom of destruc- tion, striking here and there, never resting and always going, watching by day from commanding peaks the movements of the military and flying by night to far distant points and sur prising every one, The raid struck terror to the heart of every resident of Arizona, and it paralyzed all stock and mining industries. Chatto, the brave and valorous scout, so applauded by General Crook at this time, was not always so docile as at the present moment. The appended statement, published for the first time this week by The Florence ENTERPRISE, shows this brave fellow up in his true colors. This is from the pen of $. l.. Sanders, now living in the Pioneer mining district in this Territory, and can be depended upon as true state ment of facts. He says:
 "I was living in New Mexico at the time Chatto and Dutohy made their bloody raid up theGila river by Clifton and through the Mayfower mining dis trict, killing seven men near Clifton and five in the Mayfower district. This was on the 26th day of March, 1883, and on March 27th, about 10 o'clock, Judge McComas, his wife and little son, Charley, had just passed through Thompson's canyon out of the Burro mountains, and, when about one mile out onto the open country on their way to Shakespeare, as hap py as larks-the Judge intending to leave his family at Shakespeare while he went to Las Cruces to attend the United States Court then in session. the Judge and his wife were killed and their son captured by these Indians.
 q was then a deputy of United States Marshal A. L. Morrison, and had the opportunity to know the facts 1 herein state, and defy impeachment. Two other men and their wives were witnesses to Chatto's deeds, no true report of which has ever appeared in ill print,
 THE M'COMAs HORROR.
 "As 1 said, the Judge and his family had got fairly out of the canyon and upon the open plain. There were some walnut trees growing by the roadside, and hackherry and elder bushes. It was behind cluster of these walnut trees, about twenty-five feet from the road, on the right hand side as Judge McComas was travelling, that this saintly Chatto and his band of twenty-nine Indians lay in wait.
 "When the Judge and family were nearly opposite them the Indians fired and shot down the off-wheeler of the team and wounded the Judge. He ran about sixty yards before he fell. The red devils then gave wild whoop and rush and Mrs. McComas and her son were made captives. My blood hoils even at this late day at the horrible scene that followed and my pen cannot detail the vile conduct Of these wretches, human only in form. The person of this unfortunate lady was violated in the most brutal manner; her clothes were dragged from her body, which was torn and scratched most horribly. When hel life was almost tortured out they beat the back of her head until her brains oozed out, and then to exhibit still further proof of their inhumanity they broke off branches of the elder bushes and thrust them deep into hei body, as many as they could
 "The Judges body was riddled with bullets and not 8 stitch of clothing was left upon it. Little Charley wa: never heard of afte1ward.
 "Has General Crook ever heard O this deed of his brave and dear friend Chatto? If not let him know tht facts, and likewise all those sentimen talists of the East who love the In dians."
 From these statements, made bN those who were on the scene at tht time, and from these sworn statements made by eye witnesses to the atrociou acts of cruelty, can there be any won der that the people of Arizona lool with indignation and horror upon the attempts of the so-called Indian so cieties to thrust back upon then these inhuman wretches, fiends in carnate? The Territory has enjoyed three years of unbroken peace ant prosperity; happy homes have sprun! up; farms cultivated and crops peace fully harvested; foreign capital flow ing within her borders to develol her bouhdless resources; the soldie lazily willing away his time within his barracks; and all because ther how lives in exile those who hav caused so much unhappiness. Th milestones of progress we remarked
 few shorts years ago by the newly made grave of the Apache's victim to-day they are marked by happ