Arizona weekly citizen., 1896-05-23
"A GOOD INDIAN
Lieutenant Averill Strikes
 their Camp with Good
 Results.
One Buck Killed, a Squaw and
 Papoose Captured and the Rest Scattered.

Last Saturday evening authentic news was received at Wilcox of a fight be- tween soldiers aud renegsdes close to the line between the United States and Mexico ID Southern Cochise county. Tn which some of the San Carlos pets were roughly handled.
 The report was brought iA by gov. ernment courier from Fucker canyon. where Lieutenant Bullock is in camp with troop of cavalry, and, of course. there was the usual amount of secrecy about the matter. From conversation with officers and soldiers from the bor- der, the News glesned the following story of the fight:
 Lieutenant Averill, while scouting close to the Mexican line one week SEQ Monday. rsn across an Indian trail lead. ing south, and upon reporting said fact to bis superior officer received orders to follow the trail as far as be deemed ex- pedient, and to endeavor to run the h. 6isns down at all hazards. Lieutenant AverilI. who is one of the youngest off, cers 10 the Seventh, and only out from West Point about eight months, on re- ceivipR instructions saw 8 wonderful career marked out fer himself, promo tion, mention in general orders, and all of those things so dear to the young off, cer's heart. He immediately started with his command, consisting of ten troopers and some scouts, and followed the trail so diligently that in the course of couple of days be came up with the Indiana. when with the natural impe- tuOsity of youth he disregarded all the ancient traditions concerning Indian warfare in this country, and instead of halting his command for dinner when in eight of the enemy, he went slap-dssb at them, without question or comment, killing buck, wounding and capturing Q equaw together with pepoose and scattering the balance of the fighting members of the band over several square miles of good cactus and caflaigre soil. The Indian camp was captured with all their horses and provisions, and lesson taught these noble red men that they will not soon forget.
 The exact location where the fight oc- cured is not known, but 1t is generally conceded by military authorities tbst it was somewhere between the $. r. rail- road and the City of Mexico, although the suspicion that the soldiers would follow Indians over the border should not be entertained 8 moment. Never the.ess, if We are not greatly mistaken, nt A- careful about coming into the United States, committing depredations and then jumping across the line and cooly going in camp for week or SO five or ten miles over the border in old MexI- co.
 The buck killed in the fight is the first Indian killed by soldiers in Arizona since Lieutensnts Watson and Clark pursued bsod of five who murdered Mormon freighter on the read between San Carlos and Fort Thomas in 1890 and run them to earth up Cn the hesdwa. ters of Black River. killing two and capturing the remaining three. Since then citizen known as Huallhpai Clark killed squaw in @ fight not far from Wilcox. These casualties on the h. dian eide are all there are to offset some fifty or moie white men, women and children who hsve met a violent death during the past eight yesrs at the hspds of the Apache cut thros,s.
 The latest news as we go to press is that Lieutenant Averill nas returned to Rucker canyon with his prisoners. The band of Indians encountered numbered eight or ten aud is believed to be the ( hot about 8 month ago. It is supposed to be under the leadership of Msssai, the renegade Chiricahua who escaped while en route to Florida in 1884, Sulphur Valley News.