Santa Fe, April 11…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

he country, regarding the San Carlos Indians: Santa Fe, April 11. — The New Mexican is in receipt of news from southwestern Arizona that the White Mountain Apaches are very uneasy, and it is feared they will go on the war path. They are having much trouble among themselves. This morning Deputy Marshal Frank Por- ter came in from the reservation and refutes the report in every detail. On Friday last, the 10th inst., two flocks of sheep near Sheep Tanks, 20 miles from Solomonville, and on the edge of the reserva- tion, were being herded by Mexicans, an old man and a boy in charge of one herd. The herders of the other flock were asleep when the two bands of sheep were coming together and to frighten them apart the old man fired his revolver in the air. This stampeded the sheep and the dust with the noise of the shots awoke the sleeping Mexicans, who rushed to Solomonville with the tale that the Apaches were on the warpath. A posse was at once formed and investigation disclosed the fore- going facts. Mr. Porter says regarding the statement that “they are having much trouble among themselves,” that they were never more quiet nor doing better work than at present, Apaches as well as Tontos, Yumas and Mohaves. — Democrat. WILL BE SHOT