Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-10-01
: 'EEKLY CITIZEN.
GEN. CROOK.

The Washington Sunday Heral, .lves to General Crook the following mer.ted notice:
 General Crook has assumed command r' the Department of Arizona. fhe hare statement carries with 1t conf. Esuce in the present and hope for the future. The people of that Territory hareve in him. The Indians fear and respect hIm. The faith of the people the fear and respect of the Indians are well founded. Confidence Is based up- on his former success. The Apaches fear him because in days gone by he fol lowed the consistently hostile and bad with the bosom of destruction, and smote them "hip and thigh" They re- spect him because he never deceived them. He made them few pledges, but tbn.e few be redeemed. When he D-amissi them either bread or bullets, ba eava them all that was nominated in tle h51d. When. eleven years ago, he visited Arizona for the first time, the ,-1aus Of dying settlers shot down upon tteIr own dolrsteps was heard through out the land, the odor of burning hu- man a-sh filled the air, and hideous sueeimeus of mntilated bodies were st-eWa along the principal routes of travel. Peace cOmnlssIOners would u4ke peace with the wretches who rerpetrated these horrors, offering them fine shelter Of the reservations where thsI supplied themselves with arms and ammunition only to return to their old laults Crook changed all this; his scouting partles made map of Arizona look like a fashionable pattern sheet flat accompanies Harper's Bazar. He became to the Apache a cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night. He follow eI Lis wiiy foes iu season and out of season, on the mountain tops and down iu.a their caverrs, until they cried for peace. Then he made peace with them, and they tried the old game. A few uu- der :he leadership of two notouOus old wrrt,hes, Deltche and Chuntz, having laii hy a supply of ammunition, left tle.r reservation, murdered the unsus- pectI-E settlers near by, and took to the mountains again.
 Crook sent his Apache spies into their camp and notified them that all except the chiefs might return, provided they brought with them the head of their leaders, who @Ould never again be d. l0EeI to return alive. Meantime the White Wolf" as the Apaches call him, Vas again upon their trail. 4 few weeks more and back came the rene .aies, bringing with them the heads of tle5 chiefs ghastly pledges of a pence that was not soon broken. This stopped peace-making as convenience t0 the Indians.
 Times may have changed since Crook wss in Arizona before, but be has not. He is the same earnest, honest man, tae modest unassuming, but stern, stub bora, and accomplished soldier that he Las always been. Besides he carries with him now what be did not have be- fore, the confidence of the humanitari- ans oi the East They believe ID him, i1- they have seen him fight just as earnestly, stubbornly, and successfully for the rights of the Indian as he had before done for the rights of the front iersman. All that 8 man of bis ch8rac- ter and soldier of his fibre can do for au afflicted Territory will be done. Give him m opportunity, a fair field and free fight, and he will soon give A-izona time to knit up the travelled sleeve of WAT and enter upon new era oi peace.