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Show Y REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. paroled by that officer and allowed to retnru to the subagency. Sep tember 30, Colonel Biddle, with some troops, was sent to the subagency to take them aud their bands back to Thomas. Unfortunately this was issue day;a.ild a large nuinber of Indians were assembled. They agreed to go as'soon as the issue of beef (which mas then in progress) had beeu made, but later in the aft,ernoon sent word that the troops need not wait for them a8 the.vwould followsoo~lmithIs sue Clerk Hoag. Colonel Biddle replied that they inust go at once, and started his command to-wa. rds George's camp,whereupon he and Bonito fled to the Chiiicahuas and so alarmed them that during the night 74 Chiricahu:~s, including women and children, fled from tire reserve, leaving much of their stock behind. The troops followed and are reported to have overtaken and nttacked them. In their flight the Indians have captured 8 teams and killed 6 teamsters. Bonito vent &th them. These are some of the very Indians who under chief " Juh" were induced by Captain Haskell, to come iu from Old Mexico in Januarylast. -T11e following, froin Agent TiftBrry, shows that these Indians were not concerned in the White Mountain troubles, and that their flight was occasioned by fear, not hastilitm:y These hands have been perfectly quiet during the whole White Mountain trouble. They hsve been reported out on the war-path in New Mexiooaod committing depreda-tions all over the couutry, but every time inquiry hss been made the chiefs and men have allways been found in their csmpa, and on two oeoasioun they were in the agency office talking to me when telegram8 arrived as to their whereabouts; and on one of theae occasions, R. 5. Gardner, Indianinspeccor, waspresent. Ten daysor thereabouts before the present outbreak they came to me to hear what was going on, and what so many troops meant about the ngenoies. I explsined it to them and told them to hare .no fear, t,hat none of the 1ndians who had been peaceable would be molested in any way. They said they hnd been out on the rrrrr-path and had wme in in good faith and were contented, that they did qot want w a or to fight. The only plarte they would fight ass if the White Mountains would come to the agency or subagency they would fight them there. Theg inquired if the movements of troops bad anything to do with what they had done in Mexico. I assnred them it had not. They shook hands, much delighted and went hack. Then the military move was made on the suhagenoy to arrest Chiefs George and Bonita, of White Mouotsin Indians, and I88lle Clark Hoag at suhaganoy, who has been very effioient and jodiciuus in all this trouble, tells me that they were literally soared away by this movement of troops. I dmire to call attention to the loyalty shown by five-sixths of the Indians on the San Carlos reserve. Theg have rendered invalilable and hazardous service as police and scouts, iu finding, arresting, aud guarding the guilty ones, and asmessengers for both agent andmi1itar~- when commmlication was interrupted by the cutting of the teleg.rthph wires. GENERAL STATISTICS. The following t,ables show : First. 'Phe distribution of population. Second. The objects and purposes of the expenditures from appro-priations for the fiscal year 1880 and the present year. |