No. 225.
Señor Zamacona to Mr. Frelinghuysen.
Washington, February 18, 1882. (Received February 22.)
Mr. Secretary: The consul of Mexico at Tucson, Ariz., has reported to my government that the Chiricahua Indians who escaped from the San Carlos Reservation have invaded the districts of Ures, Arispe, and others of the State of Sonora, and have committed certain depredations, of which, in their turn, report has been made by the authorities of those districts.
In a dispatch which I have just received from the office of foreign relations, I am directed to address your Department, as I have the honor to do, asking it to be pleased to obtain the proper orders for redoubling vigilance over the Indian reserves in that part of the Territory and preventing the repetition of incursions so injurious to the tranquillity of our frontier districts.
I have, &c.,