Trouble With Apaches

TROUBLE WITH APACHES.

They Protest Against Shutting Off of Rations.

Washington, June 19.—The war department has transmitted to the interior department information that trouble is threatened among the Apache Indians on the San Carclo reservation in Arizona on account of the proposed shutting off of beef and other rations after July 1 next. The action is based on reports received from General Funston, commanding the department of Colorado, saying that the Indians are very much agitated.

The secretary of the interior has telegraphed Agent Carson of the San Carlos agency to make a full report on the matter, and directed that issues of rations to the Indians will not be stopped on the 30th inst., as planned, but will be continued until further directions are given by the interior department. Secretary Hitchcock said that it was not proposed to discontinue rations to all of the Indians, but those capable of working should be given work if possible. It was estimated that employment could be given to between 300 and 450 of the Indians. The remainder would continue to draw rations. General Funston's report is based on a report from Colonel Lebo of the Fourteenth cavalry, commanding at Fort Grant, Arizona. General Funston says the Apaches are not self-supporting and will not be for many years, if ever, and that the discontinuance of issues to them will be followed by serious trouble. "If beef is not issued to them," he reports, "they will leave the reservation and take it where they can find it, and thus soon will come into conflict with the ranch owners."