Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-11-22
APACHE INDIANS.
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 Them.
Graham County Bulletin.


 Capt. E. w. Kingsbury. Indian Trader at San Carlos. the home of the Apache, stopped in Solomonville on Saturday, night last, en route to Bowie Station. where he is interested in large mining enterprise The Captain has been at San Carlos for several years and is thoroughly posted as to the habits and disposition of the Apache.
 On the San Carlos and White Noun tain Reservations, there are about 5000 Indians, including three tribes, Yumas, Mohaves, and Apaches; of the latter tribe there are more than dozen bands, each having chief of its own. The Mohaves and Yumas have never been satisfied on the San Carlos reservation, and have, since their removal there from the Verde reservation in Yavapai county, been constantly importuniDg the Government to return them to their old home. Their prayers for this have been so constant and earnest, that army officers have rec ] commended that they be heard and grant ed. owing to the restless and dissatisfied condition of the two tribes A commit tee of three Yumas and three Mohaves are now in the Verde country looking up quarters for their people in hope that an order for their removal home will come from the Great Father soon. Their old res ervation is small and Is now occupied by a number of prosperous white settlers, and this, it is believed will make the question of their removal a delicate one and if carried ont will surely bring trouble.
 Capt Kingsbury says the Indians are continually fighting among themselves and killing each other. One of the worst l T.. IL 1 Eyes, was killed on Sunday the 2nd inst.
 The only renegades now at large and making trouble are the Kid and Old Nasse, who is the only one of Geronimo's band now in Arizona. Nasse was started with Geroni- mo to Florida in 1887 but jumped the train somewhere in Missouri and made his way back to the reservation and has been an outlawed desperado ever since. He stole young Yuma squaw only a few weeks ago, which makes the third wife he has stolen off the reservation since his return after making his escape. Both the Kid and Nasse are believed to be on the reser- vation. The Kid killed a White Noun tain boy recently, and these people are now after him, and it is believed they will succeed in killing him. It was the White Mountains that killed and brought in the renegades who killed Sheriff Reynolds. 1 They do not take any prisoners, but kill the men they are after, on sight, and bring in their heads only, never doing any i scalping. but cut the heads off smooth be- 1 hind the ears.
 i Many of the Indians on the reservation ! follow agricultural pursuits, raising wheat, corn, barley, and cut quantities of wild l hay. which grows luxuriantly all over the whole reservation. The Indians re- ceive the following prices for their pro- l ducts. Wheat $2.50 per hundred, from the agent, barley $2 from the Indian Traders corn, ;S1.75: wood $6 per cord; hay, 5 per ton. Hay is cut and carried in by squaws in lots ranging from b cents to ss3.
 There are two Indian traders at San Carlos, Capt. Kingsbury and MT. J Windmiller, who have all the trade with the Indians belonging tOsthat Agency. The Captain says that an Indian will buy nothing but the best quality. The staple articles sold to the Indians are sugar, coffee, shirts, calico, beads and saddles The only sugar they will have Is cut loaf and of this consume large quantities, the Captain having sold in small quantities more than five barrels i'll one day. floul they will not have If 1t Is the least bit dark in color; the same in regard to calico shirts, blankets, and saddles. They are great for beads. and some of the squaws carry four or five pounds strung around their necks. Many of the sauaws make ollas. baskets and Indian trinkets which are bought by the traders,
 The Indians are all polygamists and some of the bucks have four or five wives. They show but little evidence of advancing il the ways of civilization.
 The agent employs many of them in various ways, in the saw mill, and at al work done under his supervision.
 The dams on the San Carlos and Gil; river were all washed away, and will hav' to be rebuilt by the government before any more Indian farming can be done