The weekly Arizona miner., 1873-06-14
The Apaches.

The prospect for continuance of the peace which Gen. Crook and his good men have forced several bands of the Apache nation in- to making and keeping, is not as bright as we could wish. They have, through white and Mexican go-between traitors, heard all about tue long continued and successful fight the Modocs have made. They know that troops have been taken out of this Territory, to help fight said Modocs. They know that they have white ''friends" behind and around the Presidential chair, whose interest 1t is to aid and abet them iu a war upon the white set tier. They know that this Territory has many lava bed, and unmistakable signs lead us to believe that many of them will soon quit the reservations and commence anew the bloody tragedy, the performance of which Crook, by the shrewdest planning and hard est of work has, for the time being, delayed. Besides, there are bands of them still in the mountains, who have never agreed to be peaca- ble, and the influence of those bands with the reservation fellows IS all powerful. Had Crook another regiment of cavalry or even the com panies of the gallant First, of which he has been deprived, be might manage to guard the red tiends so that they could not steal away from their reservations. He has one small but excellent regiment of lnfantry--the 23d and one regiment of Cayalry-the glorious Fisth-but they cannot always stand the hardship of marching fighting, escorting, do- ! ing garrison duty and hundred other things, ! in mountainous country, containing tens of thousands of Indians, none of whom save a l few weak tribes, can be rehed upon To keep the Indians upon reservations, they must be counted every day; to keep them from at tempting to murder their agents and other
 whites oD the reservations, they must be dis
 armed, and thousands of them say they will
 not give up their arms.
 The recent murder of Lieut.. Amy is proof
 of the temper of the savages of the Grant res
 ervation. The late wholsale theft of horses
 and mules from the poor farmers of the Sar
 Pedro, by confederated reds from several res.
 eryations, is good proof that they still preie
 horse and mule meat to reservation beef Tn,
 murderous attack recently made upon MT
 Thomas, sheriff of this county, near the Verd
 reservation, is villainous evidence that thei
 thirst for white blood is still unappeased |. Not long since, fresh tracks were see near Tucson, the sight of which set the citi
 zens and peacable Indians of that locality |
 hunting up their stock. On the heels of thi came the painful rumor, published elsewhs of the supposed murder of Judge c. T. Hay den and others, which rumor, we hope, wi . prove unfounded.
 , As yet, it is not known whether or nc they were reservation Indians that attacke . Mir. Thomas. He, with Lieut.. John G. Bourk
 and Mir. Tom Moore, went back to the battI :, ground recently, and saw the tracks but wer z unable to tell what Indians made them. Bu
 this will come to light.
 |. Just now is the turning point in the Ap'
 che war, and just now is the time 10 strength
 en the military force here, instead of weak
 eDing {. With men and means to work witt Crook eaH Jorce the Apaches to do as whit :, people do-work for living, and let the e white neighbOrs lives and property alone. r Gladly would we announce that peace VI
 permanent, for then we would stand a sho
 for immigration, but as we have never y e z told lie about the deeds and temper of u ,,' Apaches, we shall not now do so. Dang N for whites still turks in Arizona, and will, ui v til more devils are cast out of the Apaches.