The weekly Arizona miner., 1869-10-09
The Apache Race.


 the Apache, of this Territory. The children, even, are exceedingly smart and precocious We well reoollect when, in the fall of 1867, we, with Is or Is other whites, were encamp- cd at the head village of the Coyotero and Sierra Blanca Apaches, which was, at that time, under the shade of the mighty White Mountain, on some knolls, overlooking the beautiful stream known as E R,o fs ias Hii- pas, and its fine, rich valleys, how the young bucks" of the village made fun of our nail cd boots and other civilized toggery; how, in fact, they "joshed us about them in the wittiest possible rsnner.
 One of our party had an aged pair of iron clads, which be was anxious to trade to young Indian for pair of long-legged moo casins. The owner of the moccasins wanted boot as we'll as boots, for his property. Our white brother let on not to see it in that light, and informed the heroic young aborigi- ne, in very fair Spanish, that the boots were bueno-good. lSi, said the promising young horse thief- "bueao DOT eabaLo," which, turned into English, means, Yes good for horse," or something very nearly so. And the fellow was about right, for nobody bu, horse of man would have dared to set feet in them,-they were so heavy and, wiib,l, so laundering hard, wrinkled and repulsive.
 Tbe men-notwithstanding the gravity ss- sumed by them in the presence of whites occasionally uncork their laughter boxes and aws Es.~ nsse sa -I . Apache ,o work, lsnsh, aud grow fat. She not having heard of Anna Dickinson, Susan B. Anthony, or Mrs. Stsnton-scarcely ever tires of waiting upon her lord and master, and is to him wife. cock, farmer, and, indeed, pack-animal, for, when removing from place to place, she packs the baby, the corn, meat, mescal and house furniture All this and more she has to do, yet, notwithstanding her hard fate, she generally dotes on her Heller, and is as true to him as is the needle to the pole. Whether he loves her iii as intsBpeF- ate a manner as she does he, was not ascer- tained by us, but, judging from the evidences of love and affection seen and heard of by us, we fear he "don-not.
 Thoug not brave,-aecording 70 our stand ard,-Johnny Apache is q decidedly hard enemy to head of. He and his ancestors practieed and understood "strategy" long before Mcclellan, Pope, Burnside, and the Hon. Benjamin 7. Butler amused themselves, and others, with clumsy attempts to use 1t. He has, also, great love for independence, and scorns the very idea of being 'cribbed cabined and confined to any particular spot Born and raised in this wild, mountainou, land. which, we know, he loves dearly, and over which, short time ago, he roamed a, pleasure, and WAS monarch of all be survey. ed" we cannot, conscientiously blame the un- tutored cuss for trying to expel all white in- truders from what he considers his own land But, alas mo, thanks to American valor and improved firearms, he is rapidly wasting away, and will soon "peg out" His entire race is doomed to extinction, and the sooner the better, unless its members behave them. selves better than they have been in the habit of doing. To our people, delay is both dan gerous and ruinous, for the Apaches have ar ugly habit of killing and robbing them when. ever and wherever they can.
 To some people, it is sad sight to behold the end of great anything, let alone the end of A once powerful race, but, to us, it would be quite cheering to see an end put to every hostile Indian in the land ;--that is, we dont want them all killed of, but just enough tc make the survivors understand that they must submit, and be good Indians. It viii take many men, considerable time, money and strategy to accomplish this, and in t' accomplishment, we can discern very little for the statesman, the Indian agent, or the min ister of the Gospel to perform. 1t will have to be brought about by the sword, the bullet and the torch. Neither, in our opinion, can 1t be accomplished as quickly by large bodies Of troops, as by small bands of from % to 50 men, conposed of soldiers and citizens, moving rapidly through the country, and striking the foe when he Least expects it.
 We go in for the speedy eItermination of q large portion of the Apache race, for the req son that their trsnsEer to the other world would be great blessing to us, those of the tribe who would remain alive, and, perhaps, also, to those who might get killed, and not because we hold malice against them for mur- deripg our friends, robbing ps nf onr property