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Show VIII REPORT OF THE COXMISfiIONEB OF INDIAX AFFAIRS. 28, 1881, woluld show that the return of these Incliana to a marauding life was not wholly without excuse : As to who these Iodians are, I can assure the Department that they are not from this agencr,at least have not Lsen here for over one year; it is certain, however, that they belong here, and had it not heen for the Sao Carlos soo!lts and the soldiers, they would have came ioto the aeencv- at least two weeks aeo. It Jocms I hnr cowe l'vw utdt,ti~rs ince r Ltdutenarnr uirfral'nitcal Ytatns r m p , t heu sru-tionod here, ynvea !\.rillon permit ro:I~reeIt~diabsatLt isapr!>cy togo roOlc1 jlbricoatlal brioghaakh&espsrty of their friends whom they olaimedhadieft& the time ofthevic-torie troubles. This party were due here throe weeks ago, and at that time attempted to come in, but were chased and driven into the moontaius thirty milea from the agency to the sr-nth. Since that time they have made, according to thestatement of one of the packers for the soouts, who is now st thia agenoy badly wounded, three in-effectuale fforts to eet ioto the se.,e no-r .. hsine - re vented each tiroe by the scouts and soldiers; finding that theyoonld not retorn to the ageocp, as they had been led to he-lieve they oould, they commenced to go an the war-path. I learn on good authority - that there are aholit seventy Indians in thia party. I n June and Jnly reports that these L~l~ost i lewse"r e being driven by General Hatch towards Arizona cansed some anxiety on the part of the San Carlos agent and the military in the vicinity of that reserva-tion, lest t.he hostiles might cause disaffection a8mong a few of the In-dians there who were related to the renegades, and various precau-tions were taken and preparations made to resist any attack. These fears, irowever, were not realized, and, reports to the contrary notwith-stmding, the San Carlos Indians seem to have had no part whatever in t,he Indian raida in New Mexico; on the dout.ra,ry, at different times they have had no small share in the scouting carried on against them, In 1875 the Camp Apache Agency, located in the northern part of the San Carlos reserve, was abolished, and the White Mountain Apa-ches belonging thereto, about 1,800 in number, were turned over to the San Carlos agent.. Most of them were removed to the southern part of the reserve and located on the Gila (where a sub-agency was estab-lished), and regularly rationed; but some, preferring to take the chance of self-support on their old hunting-grounds, remained behind, and were gradually rejoined by otlrers until they numbered between 600 and 700, whose headquarters were on Cibicu Creek, in the northwestern part of the reserve, about 40milesfrom the agencyand30from Camp Apa-che. In June last, considerable excitement was occasioned among these Indians by the. proposition of a medicine-man rlamed Nock-a-de-klenny, at the expense of 'large gifts of horses, blankets, &c., to bring to life again some cl~iefs who had died a few months previous. The agent remonstrated with the Indians on the ground of the folly of the thing and the waste of their goods, but they decided to wait till the time specified, and in case t.he ~'resurreotion" failed, to demand the resto-ration of their property. Whether he desired only to appease the In-dians for his failure, or whether he intended to bring about a revolt, cannot be known; but when Nook a de klenny announced that the spirits had notified him that the dead warriors could not return to the |
