Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-07-07
TEE APAnRP MAE

some newspapers outside of this Ter ritory favor the proposition of allowing deneral Crook the disposal of the apache prisoners. It matters little who uisposes of the csptives General Crook now has under his charge, as most Of them are old men, squsws and children, and of themselves are not a dangerous class to deal with. But should the able bodied bucks-the warriors who were left in Sonors-ever be captured, they should not be placed upon the reservs ton for the very simple reason that such disposition of the Apaches would se- cure no lasting peace and afford no per manent protection to the, settlers of southeastern Arizona. But all this talk about the disposition ot Apaches Is pre- mature. The Apaches-the warriors have not yet been taken, nor Is there any prospect of thelr being taken for 8 long time 10 come. When they shall have been captured there will be time enough to talk about disposing of them. When General Crook returned from his Sonora campaign he gave the people tn understand that the war was over. Gen. Crook WAS interviewed by representa- tive of the CITIZEN while in this city, and also by a representative of the Star, to both O. whom he made substantially the same statement, which was as follows
 &ll of the chiefs came in and spoke of the warriors in the field and
 for them tO surrender and come
 lot a single Apache" said Gen.
 ''ls on the warpatn today ID So
 ld l doubt whether there Is evel
 living Apache ln the State O
 Sbr Chihuahua. The spirit of ti e ChiricGhuss has been crushed they hay, been humbled much more than any Ui the tribes l put on San Carlos reserva- Ion ten years ago"
 This was what Gen. Crook said on hi, return from Sonora, and it was upor this statement that the people fell int, the mistake of believing that Genera Crook had won a great victory. General Crook returned from Sonora by easy marches, and as he stated he expected the remaining renegades to overtake h's forces and surrender to him at any mo nent.
 Now General Crook may have believed hese renegades woulI come iu, as thei associates had promised they would dc, ut on the contrary, So far as known, hey have III no way communicated witl ieneral Crooks forces, and at the -ery 'eginning have turned the tables upoI lim, and added one more chapter oi reachery aud infamy to the many thtJ nave been recorded against them duriuL he past fifteen years, thus showing to ne world the utter fallacy of Gemera. )rook's policy of placing them upon tn. e~ervation. They have not even con- lied with the preliminary steps of sur ender, but at the very moment Genera Look was pleading for them We are in- prmed th-t they were actually on the 'ar-path in Sonora. numbering defense -ss citizens and destroy ing their prop rty, near the very locality where Gen. jrook nal left them. They did noi ollow up General Crooks command to De by him placed on the San Carlos -eservstiOn with the other Indians; bui laving been despoiled of theIr supply of cod by General Crooks c mma, d, they it once went on a forray in Sonora to cooperate their impoverished "a der. These are the facts as near as can b, iscertained at this date, and from all in- hcatioDs the Apache Indian question is 4s far from 8 satisfactory solution to-day ss it has been st any time during the past ten years It IS evident the Apaches Eill not come in, and those who are be,i acquainted with them and have spent ,esrs among them have from the first expressed the belief that they would never surrender SO long Us there Is warrior left or a rock to hide behind.