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Show . REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS. IX country until the ~ l ~ i theasd left it, and fixed the date of their leaving at the time of the corn harvest, it was feared both by the agent a.nd the lnilitary authorities at Camp Apache that the medicine man was working upon the snperstitions of the I~rdians to bring abodt an ont-break, or would bring them into snch a co~~clitiothua t they could easilg be induced to join in any demonstration made by hostiles from Sew 3Iexico. It was accorclingly deeicled that the military should arrest the man at a '(medicine-dance" which he proposed to hold at Camp Apache ou Angnst 20th. The dance having failed to come off, Colonel Carr, com-manding post, sent a messenger to tell Noclr a de klenny that be wanted to see him on the following Sunday. Only an evasive reply being recei~e.il,h e atarted on Monday, Angnst 29th, with 6 officers, 79 soldiers, and 23 Iudian scouts for the Indian village, reached there the following day, and arrested Nook a de klenny, who snrrendered quietly, professing no desire or intention of attempting escape. But as the troops mere making camp for the night, their own Indian scants and many other Indians opened fire on them. A sharp fight enmed, the medicine-man was killed, the Indians repulsed, and the command reached the post the next day, to be again attacked b~ the Indians, who had already killed eight men on the road to Camp Thomas and run off some stock. The loss in the two fights was 11 killed and 3 wounded. p The nlutimus scout8 mere themselves White Mountain Apaches, and though a few of them are exonerated from complicity in the treachery,. it is believed that most of them left the post with no intention of aiding in the arrest of the merlicine-man. Re-enforcements were sent to Camp Apache and troops were sta-tioned at the agency, and preparat.ions m.de for an attack at either point. Th6 White Mountain India,ns, however, were not long in dis-covering the folly of their action, anil came into the agency and sub-agency in small parties, where they were required to surrender to militar~ officers ~ulcouditioually, except 'that they asked and mere: promised a fair trial for their individual crimes. Six &&ys' notice was , given thronghont the reserve tkst a l L peace line" wonld be declared on the reserve Sel~tembe2r1 st, outside of whose limits all Indians fonnd wonld be considered hostile, with the exception of Pedro's band near Camp Apache. On the 20th of September the five cl~iefws ho had been leaders in the affair surrendered, and during tlre ensicing week GO of their principal men follomeil their example. Several of the mutinous scouts had been arrested and brought in by the agency Indian police force and delivered np to the military, and by the close of the month nearly all mere in or acconnted for, alld little remained to be done but to proceed with the trials. It appears, homever, that chiefs George auil Bonito, who had come in to the subagency, and had gone with Issue Clerk Hoag to Camp hamas, and there surrendered to Gen. Wilcox, September 26, had been |