The Arizona sentinel., 1904-05-25
mediate vicinity. Finally couri- CTS began to arrive announcing the early approach of General

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 Crook and the renegade Indians
 He had met them and they were
 "his'n." The mice had suffered
 long, but at last the cat was in q Itrap and Gray Fox" was watching 1t. The Indians went into camp near the town of Will
 COX under the protection of the Esoldiers who had escorted them from Mexico. General Crook, 1 by special invitation, visited
 Tucson. The band-played See,
 the Conquering Hero Comes.
 A grand ball was given in his
 honor in Levin's park, and high
 and low turned out to do him
 honor and pay homage to the
 warrior who had brought them
 the long prayed for peace,
 True, all the renegade Indians were not in his train of captives;
 those i'll evidence near WillcoN
 consisted only of women,. chil-
 dren and old men; but Geronimo
 and his brawny warriors had promised to follow soon. This
 was, apparently, very satisfac-
 tory. Drowning people were
 willing to catch at straws so long
 as they were thrown to them by
 General Crook. True, General
 Crook did not say so, but he al
 lowed his henchmen to say it for
 him, and by his silence tacitly gave 1t the stamp and brand of
 his approval, that great battle
 had been fought in. the wilds of
 the Sierra MadreS and that the Indians had been beaten into
 prayerful submission. The Tue son papers, both Citizen and
 Star, were loud in extolling the
 "Gray Fox" as Crooks admir- CTS were pleased to call him for his strategic ability in outwitting the willy Geronimo. Five Mexi- can women and one child were brought to Tucson as living and positive trophies of the terrible battle that had forever shattered the harmful power of the dread ed Apache. Crook was repeat edly complimented on his great victory. He smiled, and took it all like a little man. In doing so he plainly acquiesced in the false hood of the battle, from the fact that none had been fought. On the contrary, Crook and his en- tire army had been deliberately led into a trap by his Indian scouts. Had he offered battle be would have been exge31lrfnated Crook was military man enough to see the predicament he was ill. He took a shotgun as though lle was going hunting, went up the side of the hill overlooking the canyon into which he had been, trapped, sat down and awaited results. He. was soon surround ed by Indians. They dictated the terms of peace. These terms conditioned that he should imme- diately return to Arizona with the women, children and old men, while the fighting bucks, under Geronimo, were to follow in later. As a result of this treaty the murderous savages, freed from all membranes, were at liberty to rob and plunder Mexl- cans to their hearts content.
 The Mexican consul, then in Tucson, informed the writer that his government was cognizant of the fact that no less than thirty seven people were killed by the in Mexico after Crook returned to Arizona, and before the Indians decided to go back to the San Carlos reservation. Further, it is well known that when they did return they drove with them a large herd of stolen cattle. Two companies of Unit ed States soldiers escorted the Indians and the stolen cattle to the reservation, where the cattle were sold for the benefit of the thieves. Carlos Velasco, then editor of the Fronterizo, entered suit in behalf of the owners of the cattle, to recover the pro- ceeds of the sale, but so far as .1