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Show 442 LEADING FACTS OF NEW MEXICAN HISTORY been slain and the hostiles made good their return to the mountains of Mexico. On May 1, 1883, arrangements having been made by which American troops were again permitted to pass over into Mexico while in pursuit of the Apaches, General Crook began his campaign, his forces consisting of 150 officers and men, together with about 100 Apache scouts. On May 11th, 150 Apache scouts, commanded by Captain Crawford and Lieutenants Gatewood and Mackey, left the main command and started ahead with four days’ Te TTS rations, keeping one day in advance of the regular troops. On the 15th the scouts reported from Captain Crawford that the Apaches were hear at hand and in less than an hour word was received that fighting had commenced. At dark the command under Crawford came to the main camp, reporting that they had fallen upon the bands of the chiefs Chato and Bonito, killing nine, and capturing two boys, two girls, and one young woman, a daughter of Bonito. The presence of the American troops seems to have produced a great sensation among the Indians; presently they began to ask for terms of surrender, which were granted and all of the hostiles were returned to the reservation in Arizona. Geronimo was the last chiet to surrender.®® On the 17th of May, 1885, Geronimo, Chihuahua, Natchez, and Mangas, with forty-two men and ninety-six women and children, again took the war-path and began raidGERONIMO’S RAID OF 1885 ing through the western portion of the territory. They were pursued into the Mogollon mountains, where they were defeated by a small command of government troops. The Indians, however, scattered into small bands and ravaged the areas lying in Grant, Sierra, and Socorro counties. Geronimo and his band were driven into Mexico, the remainder of the Indians following this chief into that country 4 little later in the year. Geronimo sought to induce the Mescalero Apaches $62 General Crook cluding three chiefs, started on May 24th, with 237 captives, Chiricahuas, ca Chato, Chihuahua, Kawterme, Loco, Bonito, Mangas, Ze ¥: 29th Geronimo joined the troops, increasing the number oF Nané. On the Crook, and captives to 384. in this campaign, did not lose a single man. hie Mexican women, captives, were restored to their people. The fate of the — of Judge McComas was never ascertained. When the first attack was mat by Crawford’s men upon Chato’s band, he was said by the Indian —— to have fled into the thicket and was never seen afterward. Crook did a disarm the captive Indians. They had great confidence in this general. — was severely success. criticized for his conduct of this campaign, notwithstanding INDIAN CAMPAIGNS 443 to join him in this raid, but the movement failed owing to the vigilance of General Crook. In the summer an expedition was organized for the purpose of pursuing these Indians but nothing was done other than the establishment of a patrol along the Mexican border.*® On April 1, 1886, General Crook asked to be relieved, and, on the following day, General Nelson A. Miles was by President Cleveland assigned to the command, with instructions CAMPAIGNS OF GENERAL to carry on ceaselessly the most vigorous NELSON A. MILES operations, having in view the destruction or capture of all of the hostile Apaches in Arizona or New Mexico. The department embraced a territory of about 300,000 square miles, in which all told there were 47,000 In863 During this raid a boy, Santiago McKim, on the 11th day of September, 1885, while herding stock accompanied by his brother, fifteen years of age, on the Mimbres river, Grant county, fifteen miles from San Lorenzo, was captured by the Indians. He was playing around some rocks when he heard a rifle shot and saw six Indians rushing toward the place where his brother had been sitting. He attempted to run away, but was overtaken by the Apaches, who inquired of him how many men were in the ranch house some distance away. Learning that there were none, the Indians rounded up all the stock, took the boy with them, and left his brother shot through the shoulder and his head crushed with a stone. This boy was with the Apaches seven months and was restored to his friends at the time of the surrender of Geronimo and other Apache chiefs to General Miles. Geronimo extended his raid to within three miles of Silver City, killing twenty-six persons and wounding many others. Those known to have been killed were: James Montgomery, on the Little Blue; Robert Benton, on the Big Blue; Nat Luse, Peter Anderson and Robert Smith, at Alma; Smith, on the Little Blue; two brothers Lutton on the Middle Blue; Calvin Orwig, A. W. Lyons, at Alma; John Madden and — Bunting, — Green, and a young man named Prather. Soldiers and citizens took up the pursuit, and a few days later Captain (afterwards General) H. W. Lawton and his command engaged in a fight in Guadalupe canyon, in which several soldiers were killed. In September following Brady Pollock, a stock-raiser, was killed by the Apaches seven miles from Lake Valley. About the same time George Horn and a son of John McKim were added to the victims. Others who lost their lives were: September 29, A. L. Sabourne, merchant of Cooney; November, Charles Moore and William McKay, near Lake Valley; November, John T. Shy and family, and Andrew J. Yeager and wife, near Cold Springs; George U. Hay and Jacob Halling, at Lake Valley; December, George Kinney, a Ireighter, at Cactus Flat on the Mogollon road; also Charles Clarke; ny, Prior, and Ethel Harris, near Alma; in the same vicinity, Surgeon T. D. Maddox, U. 8. A., and four privates. Names of others slain were William Waldo, a brother of Judge H. L. Waldo, Williams, May, Wright, Papinaw, Grudgings, and Polland. On December 23d President Cleveland was asked by wire by citizens of Socorro for sufficient protection and on January 6th, 1886, the stock men and other citizens met at Socorro and offered a re- ward of $250 for each Indian scalp. band was captured and two days On the following March 25th Geronimo’s later surrendered to General Crook. On March 29th he escaped with twenty-five bucks and sought refuge in Old Mexico. |