The herald., 1898-01-11
NO OUTBREAK TO BE FEARED
INTER-TRIBAL HATRED OF THE
APACHES
Southwestern Tribes That Jealously
Guard Each Other for the
Whites

lle idteSI TepoTtiS " Ue DeileVeu, no oHe
was materially injured. The trouble, for
it was not to be termed an outbreak, was
with the NavaJos, who occupy, in the
northeastern part Of the territory, a res
ervation a little larger than the state of
Massachusetts,. The Old Bay state has
a few millions Of population; there are
about 5000 Of the Indians. Yet the res
ervation was all too small for the no.
madic redskins Hence the trouble. And,
as point of similarity with the first
crime mentioned in sacred writ sheep
were mixed up In the row-the firstlings
Of the flock.
In northern Arizona the sheep men
won in the struggle that is inevitable in
all new countries between the rearers of
cattle and sheep. The fiocks are grazed
in the great forests or valleys of the
Mogollon plateau, south of the line of
the Santa Fe Pacific road, till the winter
fairly sets in. A favorite plan is then to
drive south all the sheep that are to be
sold, the stock sheep being driven into
the country about the Grand canyon.
This Grand canyon district is renowned
for grass, but is almost destitute of wa
ter This lack is supplied to the sheep
men in winter through the heavy snow
fall. A hundred thousand head or more
of Coconino county sheep are thus Will
tered. The county taxes amount to
about 5 cents per head. The Coconino
sheep men do not claim monopoly of the
grazing ground, though the water tanks
are of-their own building, but did resent
the intrusion Of about 5000 head of In
dian sheep, driven upon their ranges
last winter. Pursuant to their COM
plaint, the sheriff of Coconino county
was dispatched from Flagstaff either to
collect taxes at the usual rate from the
Indians or to warn them back to their
own preserves. The Indian herders re-
fusing to pay, they and their fiocks were
escorted across the Little Colorado river
and to the reservations edge.
A TALE OF WOE
The modern Indian is liar of liars.
On such subjects as folk lore, If he can
be induced to open his mouth, he is pain
fully accurate. But as a modern ro-
mancer he has few equals. The Navajos
found New Mexico man named Upton,
a sort of government inspector, who had
ready ear and willing pen. The re-
suit was a tale of woe, tale that
straightway went to the Great Father
at Washington. 1t told of eviction from
palatial tepees, of brutal officers, of a
long march across snowy steppes, of
drowning of lambs where the reckless
whites drove the nocks into the brawl-
ing, icy river.
The Great Father asked Governor
McCord to look into the matter. The
governor sent Adjptant General Lewis
to investigate. The adjutant general
took evidence for week at Flagstaff
and has rendered report that weighs
something less than ten pounds. File
has found that Tiptons evidence was of
no value whatever, and was not even
substantiated by an affidavit; that the
Indians, jealous ever of their reserva-
tion privileges as against the whites,
had insolently defied the sheep owners
in a district where the Indians had as
suredly no special claim; that the ac-
tion of Sheriff Cameron was under the
advice of the county attorney. and that
the migration to the reservation and be-
yond the borders of Coconino county
had been attended with no hardships or
cruelty. Indeed, there are affidavits
that the sheriff and his deputies car
ried the lambs across the Little Colo
RADIO in tarpaulins, on their horses.
TRIBAL JEALOUSIES
Indians, mainly Of the Navajo, Apache
and Pima families. More accurately, l
might say that the Indians of the south
west (the Pueblo tribes, Of several
names, alone excepted) are of either
Apache or Pima stock. Generally
speaking, the two divisions are ever at
enmity, yet the Maricopas (who are of
the Yuma family, an Apache offshoot)
are found near Phoenix under the pro-
lection of the main Pima tribe. The
Pimas of whatever tribe have ever been
the friends of the whites. Another
feature that has been favorable to the
white settlement of the country is the
fact that the Apathes are quarrelsome
among themselves. The Cibicus hate the
Tontos, the San Carlos band hate the
Chiracahuas. the Yava Supais hate the
whole parent stock. The Navajos main
tain with all an armed truce.
Since the time Of the domination of the
white man there has been little inter-
tribal warfare, though the whites have
accepted the aid of the Indians MANY
times in fighting renegade Apachss. 1t
was Crooks peculiar plan to pit Apache
against Apache. An especially we'll
remembered incident among old timers,
also, is the battle of the "Pinole treaty. u
at Bloody Tanks, not far from the site
of Globe, where fifty Maricopas fought
like men and soldiers side by side with
twenty Americans against the gathered
clans of the whole Apache nation. The
latest inter-tribal battle was in the
early seventies, when the allied Mari
copas and Pimas ambushed and slaugh-
tered several hundred raiding Yumas In
an arroyo not far from Maricopa.
THE NEW INDIAN
lam aware of the fact that large pro-
portion Of the citizens of this republic
look upon Arizona as a land Of wild In
dians and still wilder whites, where life
is jest and property has no security
The writings Of Captain King and OF
Mayne Reid are histories and guide.
books. There were days their descrip-
tions fitted, for the record of Indian war
fare in Arizona has been a bloody one
The same can be said of Massachusetts
and of Kentucky. Here. though regsn-