Arizona weekly citizen., 1881-10-09
THE SITUATION UNCERTAIN.

The CITIZENS specials from the h. dian country indicate more serious condition of affairs than have heretofore existed The troops now have a more troublesome occupation than firing over the heads of old squaws. The Chiri- cahuas evidently mean mischief and d. ready they have marked their tracks with blood.
 To account for this sudden outbreak of the Chiricahuas, who have not been on the war-path for the last ten years, we are at loss, unless it is due to the operations of the military, who desire something to gratify their ambition. All news, pretty much, thatit has been pos sible to obtain from the front, has passed through the hands of and been edited by the military. The correspondent of the Associated Press is d clerk in the office of General Wilcox, so all news from that source IS had and will have the color given to it by the military. The CITIZENS sources G. Information are not under such control, only it's dis patches from certain points on the gov ernment line are subjected to inspec- ton. The tenor of our dispatches have indicated at least masterly nismanage- ment and a disposition on the part of the military to afford every opportunity possible for the eyil-disposed among the Apaches to go on the war-path.
 Tho idea of paroling men who are to be tried for murder, after being told that they will be tried and if found guilty they will be hanged, is certainly a novel one. The Indians know full well whether they are guilty or not, and it is not at all surprising that George and Bonito and their bands, when they got the opportunity, preferred to take their chances in the hills rather than before military commission. It looks very much as if the authorities preferred to do as they have done, at least it is open to that suspicion.
 What has induced the Chricahuas to pursue the course they have we can only surmise. Perhaps later information will throw more light upon the subject, but it IS thought they have been driven to 1t through the machinations of the mill tary. These charges against the military are openly made by the citizens in the vicinity of the scene of the trouble. They consider the whole matter, from its inception down, to have been part of preconcerted plan to furnish occupation for the army and secure promotion to certain officers high in command. 4 long series of circumstances are cited as proof of this.
 Now we are not prepared to go to the length that some are and positively make any such charges. The circum- stances certainly warrant suspicious un- favorable to the military, and their de- termination to prevent the publication of no news except what they approve of strengthens that suspicion. We can not see what object they can have in trying to establish the espionage over newspa- per correspondence unless it be for the sinister purpose of concealing from the public the true inwardness of their oper- properly they have nothing to fear, and they can not certainly hope to conceal any thing from the argus eyed press for any great length of time. The press H-'n certainly ascertain the trlIo ciiase- An zona IS not the isolated country 1t was ten years, or even five years ago, and matters can not be covered up. It would be better policy for Gen Wilcox, and re- lieve him from much unpleasant susplc- ion if he would rescind his order and let the newspaper correspondents send such information as they can obtain without submitting 1t to inspection