Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1908-03-20
MURDERS ARE
CREDITED TO
THE APACHES
Although YaquiS Are Blamed,
Is Thought Small Band of
Renegade Followers of Ger
onimo Committed Crimes.

Renegade Followers of Ger
onimo Committed Crimes.
A man engaged in mining IN So
nora in the district of Moctezuma.
writes a friend in FL Paso in regard
TO the Yaqui situation, from which
the following is quoted in the Herald:
This week scouting party of the
force raised to follow some Apaches,
who killed two men near here, found
a family of Yaquis farming on the
Rio Benito, and, acting on the general
instructions looking toward the de
portation of all YaQuis, took two men,
woman and two children into Gus
tody and marched them toward Moo
tezuma. One man escaped capture
by making a break for the brush
amid a shower of bullets.
1T was not pleasant to see the
poor woman trudging along from the
freedom of little farm to the he'll
of deportation and exile but it has
now got to the stage where the va
quis must be cleaned out absolutely
exterminated and obliterated as a
race.
This reflects on the Mexican gov
eminent, but no American is In shape
to criticize any nations failure TO
keep perfect faith with Indians and
aborigines in general, for if there
ever there was a mess made in
dealing with Indians the United
States certainly made it, until the
wiping out of race remnants became
the only recourse for those who were
where a very just vengeance was
falling upon the wrong heads.
1.-The Yadui situation is not bad,
but there is troublesome bunch yet
to be gathered in and this process re
calls the trouble Uncle Sam had with
his remnants in the not very remote
past
whenever and wherever a simple
aborigine has a forest, a rich valley
or a stream with yellow specks in the
sand he might as well hang up the
fiddle and the bow, for he viii soon
be benevolently assimilated into the
sweet bye and bye and his tejuas will
track along the still waters of the
happy hunting ground"
From the same letter 1t is also
learned that the two Mexicans who
were killed near Oputo last week
were not the victims of Yaquis, but a
bunch of renegade Apaches. The
Mexicans, it is stated, fired first on
the Indians and were then killed.
The two men were going into the
range south of FL Tigre to whip out
some lumber and, seeing the Indians,
fred on them These returned the
fire and killed both Mexicans.
One barely lived TO tell the story
to those who found him and his dead
party.
The Apaches, about five in number,
sent a squaw into the camp or n.
Stuppe at his mine north of Hua-
chinera and she sized up the situa-
ton, calling in her companions in the
temporary absence of the Americans
who had left her to tend camp.
They absolutely stripped the camp
of bedding and eatables and packed
the animals of the murdered men
with the plumber.
The prefecto of Mectezuma, the
seat of government of this district,
Immediately sent out runners to all the
pueblos in that part Of. Sonora, and
a systematic campaign was begun to
exterminate the Indians. The trail at
last account went into the Bonito
country, the old haunt of these In
dians.
At the final surrender of Geronimo
in Skeleton canyon, Arizona, near the
corner of that territory with New
Mexico and Mexico, a few Indians,
about fifteen in number, broke away
in the night and fed under the leader
ship of the kid" into the breaks of
the river Arcs, where remnant still
remains.
= They have as a whole been quiet,
but several missing men may be
charged to them and they once made
a raid on the Pratt ranch near Co
lonia Pacheco. killing several Of the
Williams family. They came about
six years ago to an adjoining ranch
and stole corn and potatoes.
The following day Martin Harris
and Thomas Allen took the trail and
killed three One was man whose
general appearance and bearing in
dicated leadership and they may have
killed fthe Kid
AS he is confidently stated to have
died elsewhere of disease and two or
three times by gunshot, 1t is hard
to determine his fate with certainty.
Some can even conceive the posi-
bility Of his being still alive as a
man who had brother in the OUTLAW
bunch and who has lived in the
heart Of the Sierra Madre for many
years and who has kept these Indians
in supplies using them as spies and
scouts, says that he could go to the
Apache Kid at any time and that all
stories of his death were false.
This bunch OF about five is the final
fag end of the Chiricahua Apacnes
whose very mention causes the ma
lives of northern Mexico to huddle to-
gether in fear, and whose raids led
by Mangas Coloradas, Ell Ju Name,
Victorio and Geronimo have left the
little piles of stone all over the south
west markings of graves OF muir
dered settlers.