Show Indian Matters j Washington 22The following telegram was received at the war department on June 20th PREaiDio San Francisco To Adjutant Reneral Following dispatch is just received re-ceived from General Crook I recommend recom-mend for the present at least that the management of the surrendered Chiracakuas be left entirely in the hands of Crook and that both war and interior departments give him full authority and mean td carryout carry-out his policy j this seems to bs the only possible way of successful issue evidently the CWracahuas cant be treated arbitrarily as prisoners of war General Crook alone has power to contract them He telegraphs I tele-graphs I see bv the papers that secretary Teller declines to receive on the Sap Carlos reservation any Jhiracahui Apaches except women and children If these Indians are not fed they must either starve or go back to the warpath war-path They are now as thoroughly subjugated as it is possible for them to be By nature they are so suepicious and vigilant thatat no time will they camp in but different elevated I one body occupy i vated points making the surprise or destruction of the entire band an impossibility In like manner in i surrendering they would not trust themselves in our hands a t once but came dropping in from all sides in small fragments They would say We give ourselves up to do with us as you please Had I seized upon the lirst who came in no others would have followed Twenty warriors would have been as bad as the whole number num-ber Chitto in his raid through Arizona and New Mexico had but 26 men Hiranimo in his recent depredations in Chihuahua had less than 40 When the Chir acahuas reached the reservation they will be fully as nervous and distrustful and any attempt to hold them responsible for their acts before be-fore surrender will drive them back to the cliffs and gorges of the mountains We shall then have to fight them till the last one dies |