The Irish standard., 1895-09-28

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~ tKELLY's RANCH, South of Apache
Canyon, June 9, 1877 Assistant Ad-
I iutant General, Headquarters Depart
ment of Arizona:
Sir have the honor to report that
on receipt of your dispatch notifying
me of the Apache outbreak, and direct
ing me to guard well my working par
ties at old Fort Retribution and the
road connecting it with the new post,
I detached Lieut.. Crane, with twenty
of Capt Raymond's troop, and sent him
to camp. temporarily at the abandoned
corral, and also took steps to notify the
settlers north and south of the post OF
the new danger Deeming it possible
that the Indians might attempt to pass
| around us and raid the ranches, had
caused a beacon to be built on the sum-
NIT OF Signal Butte, and instructed
Lieut.. Crane to fire it if he learned the
Apaches were in the valley 49,
Last evening my sentr1es reported
firing on the Prescott road, north Of
the new post, and Capt Foster, with
his troop, was sent to investigate. He
reported by courier that he had come
upon two Mexicans, who claimed that
! the Apaches had attacked them and
| run off their mules, they themselves
escaping BY hiding in a dark ravine.
They also reported a large party Of
prospectors, ETC., at Ration Springs, and
represented them as being in peril of
similar attack, so Foster pushed on at
once to their succor, expecting to reach
them at midnight. At two-thirty a: m.
Trooper Ruclxel, sentry on post No.
in the low ground to the north of the
| post, was found dead, pierced by sew
eral Apache arrows, and Capt Ray
| mond with his men made a search
| through the chapparal as far as the
| foothills without discovering anything
of the enemy. A few minutes later q
horse recognized as Private Raffertys,
of c troop, came riderless andwounded
into the post, and had just dispatched
Capt. Turner with his troop at day
break to scout the country along the
Prescott road, when the flaming signal
at the butte told that the Indians had
worked around to the valley to the west
| Of us. Leaving Capt. Raymond with
the infantry and his half troop to
| guard the post, proceeded with Troop
| F. .(Turner's) to this point, reaching
here after sharp trot in less than an
hour and quarter, only to find the
| Indians fled with some stock from
Kellys ranch and Lieut.. Crane al.
ready in pursuit. The only casualty
in the valley thus far reported is one
Mexican herder killed at Kelly's, and,
| i regret to add, the probable loss OF
| gallant little fellows, Leon MacNutt,
whose pony was found few minutes
ago at the foot of the butte with three
1 Apache arrows through him. It is
| feared that the boy has been killed or
run off by the Indians, who are report
led to have fed into the Businesses of
| the Socorro, to the north of us. It 80,
between Capt Fosters troop, already
in the field, and those here at hand, l
hope to make short work OF them.
And here Maj. Thornton was inter
rupted by the entrance of the ordnance
sergeant. It must be remembered now
that old Kelly had served:in Arizona in
4 his dragon days, before the war, and
had just completed another period ct
five long years with the Eleventh cav
airy, the predecessors OF Thorntons
regiment. Like every other old SOL
| der. he was inclined to the belief that
! newcomers had very much to learn,
! and, as we have seen, the Indians them
selves were taking advantage OF this
| inexperience. Kelly couldn't be dis
| respectful to an officer, but he had
much to say, and there was no time to
| he lost. II s7
Nav Ispeak to the 1najor?" was his
abrupt request, as he stood erect at the
doorway, his hand raised In salute.
4 Thornton wheeled round in his chair
. and looked upin quick interest.
..Certainly, sergeant Go ahead!"
| ,..As / understand it, sir, Lieut..
| Crane party followed the trail into the.
CANYON, and would 60 on through in
/ pursuit.. !. Z 81. y,
.tThat's my understanding also, said
the major. /. 4 XII.
And did the major order the: de.
| tnchme11t that foil owed Lieut.. Crane to
| 90 on till they came up with him ?"
eyes. He coul dn't go very far, you
| know; he took no rations !"
/ b 81 know, sir; but from what 4 hear
1 the lieutenant rode straight into the
| canyon and expected to find the raiders
| there somewhere Once into II, sir,
there's no way out but through it.
cry true. :
..sysYen, what I'm afraid Of, sir, is this
the Indians who have run that stock
! into the canyon SO stc make trail to-
draw the troops il pursuit are only two