Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-04-30
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 About the first of last October most of
 the Cbiricahuas. or at least all Of that
 portion of the tribe which had belonged
 to the band Of he famous Cochise, ran away from the Indian reservation at San
 Carlos. They made aa almost bee line
 for Mexico, marking their pathway with tie blood of butchered teamsters and
 settlers. These Indians had been per
 suaded to leave Mexico and come to Ar
 izona, where they would find q home and could live peacefully. They came and place was assigned them near the sub- agency, and they were supplied peTiodi- cally with food and clothing. Here they remained a year or more, when, without the slightest provocatioD or cause. they suddenly decamped, committing the depredations above referred to. Experi- ence has demonstrated that a great his
 take vas made in ever bringing these Indians to San Carlos, where they were able to recruit, to reeuperate, to re-arm, to become familiar with all the ins and outs of the reservation. In a little over fix months after leaving, they steal back m little groups at a time over the border, travelipg at night and lying quiet in the daytime, all mee ing at the appointed time Tn th- vlcInity ot Clifton. or course, emissaries had been sent to San Carlos to confer with Loco's Warm Spring Indians, d remnant of Nictorio's old baud, and of course they were found ready to skip out at the appointed time, under the protection of their Chiricahua friends. And now they have gone and wherever they have been able to strike a solitary mining camp. a small train ora defenceless herder, they have left bloody evidence Of their implacable hatred to the people of Arizona. They have gone to Mexico, finding within Ter limits a secure asylum from which to issue when they get ready to resume their destruct- i've work. They make their headquar- ters in the mountqins near Janos, and from this central point they have at their mercy all the small settlements along the Rio Grande from Fort Quit man to Albuquerque, and also all the eastern part of Arizona from Clifton down to the line. The question Is how long is this condition of affairs to be sui fered to exist? Mexico has 10 right to give an asylum to scoundrels whose hands are red with the blood of Ameri- can citizens. She must drive them out herself or not object to our passing hei frontier Tn pursuit of these fends- If Mexico Is unable to handle the savages entering her territnry when hunted out of Arizona by the United States troops, she has no right, according to the laws of nations, to say to them "this is my boundary line, you must not pass" To pay any attention to boundary lines under such circumstances Is worse than folly. This band must be followed, hunted down-exterminate
 IL wOuld be cheap to offer a thousand dollars head for every CLiricahua dead or alive. It would be an act of humani- ty, because there IS no safety for the frontier while these people are suffered t. live.
 4 demand should be made by the United States on Mexico to make good the damage which has been done the people Of Arizona, as far as money can do it,
 The c iricahuas have escaped, but there siIll remains three or four thous- and Indians at the San Carlos reserva- ton. NJ st of them are armed, q at IS the men, and nearly all have horses. The people of Arizona should petition the President tD remove every Apache h. dian from Arizona. Remove them to a country m which they cannot skip off L. the mountains every time they become a little disconteuted, or better still, place them on some Of the Pacific Islands ad- jacent to the coast of CalIf. rnia. But failing Tn this, means should be taken to have those in authority disarm and dismount every Apache Indian III the Ter itory. If we must have them with us, in Gods name let us deprive the rat flacuuka af f1puc