The St. Johns herald., 1890-07-31
Renegade ApaCheS.

| V. u. bruce, one or lue DdDdcO
 mari Cattle Company of Southern
 Arizona, is at a down town hotel The government having just come to an. agreement with the Mexican Minister at Washington by which United States troops hereafter may pursue hostile Apaches into Mexi- co, areporter interviewed Mir. Bruce yesterday as the effect of this agree ment on the situation in Arizona.
 q have been living in Arizona for ten years" said Mir Bruce, "and I left there only few days ago for a short visit 10 San Francisco. I sometimes think the least said about the outrages which our Ari- zona people have to submit to in connection with this Apache ques- tion the better. As long as the Government insists on the policy of maintaining a lot of savages in the midst of civilized community what we can say or do will result in no permanent good. The effect of the argument which I see is des- cribed at length in the dispatches will be to give our military author ities the right to pursue the Apaches that have been depredating lately in Arizona into about the widest and most inaccessible region on this continent. It was there that Captain Lawton captured Geroni- mo. We do not have a Lawton in the United States army every day, however, to pursue these Apaches, and it is difficult to say whether the permit which the Mexican Gov ernment 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 reser- vation. What do you know about this?"
 "Well, there is a great difference, yan-know between. the citizens and the authorities as to the number of Indians that are supposed to be off the reservation. I saw it stated in the 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-murderer5 who, after kill ing Sheriff Reynolds escaped from the civil authorities. If General Miles really made this statement, I can only say that 1 am sorry his sources of information on Arizona are inaccurate and misleading.
 "Soon after Mir. Hardie was killed Sheriff Slaughter, a man of high character and veracity and the Sheriff of Cochise county, went at once to the part of Sonora to which Hardie's murderers had fled, to as- certain, if possible, their number. I had an interview with him in Tombstone the day he returned. He told me he saw the trail of at least fifty Indians in the Cajon Bonita canyon, and that he saw the trail of twenty Indians which led from the north and evidently from the San Carlos reservation. There IS no reaSOnt to doubt Sherlf SIaugh- ter's statement He is a man of few words, his life has been alwi y among Indians and he knows just what he is talking about. You will perceive from his statements that Secretary Blaine's agreement with Mexico has not come any too soon, if the Indians of which he speaks are at all disposed to give further trouble before returning to San Car los.
 1T could mention numerous in stances of Indians being seen with in the last month off the reserva- ton. The truth is our military au- thorities are unequal to the task of