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Show Sheridan Talks of Crook and tbe Indians. Washington, January 8. Lieutenant-General Sheridan, in conversation with a representative repre-sentative of the Associated Press to-day, remarked re-marked witht-eference to his recent official visit to Arizona and the latest news concerning concern-ing the Apaches : "I have reason to believe General Crook's operations will result in the destruction of Geronimo's band and the re storation of quiefrrr the Tegibn. of te Apache depredations, but the work cannot be accomplished in a day. - Now that Gen eral Crook has full sway, his tact and fearless fear-less energy will, I doubt not, bring about good results. He has all the troops he wants, and they are placed in the most advantageous ad-vantageous positions, i Detachments guard all the watering places, and patrols and scouting parties cover the entire area of 30,-000 30,-000 square miles over which the savages have been operating. Every route , which is practicable to the white men is thus guarded. The failure to extirpate the band long ago is due to the wily instincts of an enemy so small in numbers that the methods of aotual warfare cannot be employed with effect, and to the nature of ths country. When I visited General Crook, five or six weeks ago, eleven warriors had been killed and thirty-one thirty-one women and children captured. Twenty warriors and all the remaining women and children were in Mexico, and only ten warriors were north of the border. These ten have committed all the recent murders." |