Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-06-30
THE RENEGADES. What Shall We Do With
 Them !
Views of the Press of Arizona, New Mexico and California Upon
 the Question.
The Apaehes Not Wanted Here.


 Apache question. But they do not em brace one-half of what has been said
 indeed, almost every journal in thIs Ter ritory and California have similarly ex
 pressed themselves. They are true re tiections of the feelings of the people and the CrrIzES honestly believes the! sound the key note to the true situation
 The press and the citizens of the en tire Pacific coast are a unit on the ques tion ot the disposition of the Apaches The leaders should be tried and hung and the balance sent to the Indian Ter | ritory, as ID the case of the Modocs- Prescott Journal.
 The Clarion hopes that the War De pertinent will deal with these Indians and that they will be removed from th' limits of the TerritOry-taken to tht government reserve in the Indian na tion. The Chiricahuas have been chron ic disturbers from first to last since they were induced to go on the reservation l Archie Mcintosh told the writer las' l year that Juh informed him short timt before his last emeute that himself anC his people were going to leave the re servation, and that they never would re turn to stsy.-Clifton Clarion.
 The press of the entire territory should unite in urging that the murderou: ! Apache be, at once moved to the 1ndiaI | territory. So long as he remains herI he will be prone to indulge in his spring raid, and the government should mol hesitate to gIye uB assurance of perma nent peace by removing him beyond striking distance. General Crook hai done good work, but it needs to be sup | plemented by such intelligent action or the part of the authorities at Washing ton as will obviate the necessity of futur, raids into Mexico.- Southwest \. NJ. Sentinel
 The Republican devOutly prays that | the Mexican government will demand the extradltion of the ApRches captured | by Crook. Diplomatic negotiations in re | gard to gIvIng them up would not last long, we fancy, us Uncle Sam would bt | only too glad 70 get rid Of his white ele phant. A few files of Mexican soldiers | a few rounds of musketry, and a whole | lot ot good Indians" would be the re- suit Tomestone Republican.
 We have been in the Indian country longer than almost any other editor have witnessed more Apache deviltries than any of them but, with all this, We can forgive. Government wlll, no doubt, hang, shoot or banish the ringleaders of l the murderOus tribe, whose sIns literally 'cry for vengeance" We wish govern meut would take the Indians cut of tbe Territory.-Prescott Courier.
 If Lincoln and Teller do not do ex- actly the right thing with the Indians in Crooks hands they will dig their future political graves, so far as the west IS con- cerned.-Mesilla News.
 The government HOW uas the Apasl.es ID it's power, and can easily place them where 1t will be impossible for them to "gO on the war path as they undoubt- edly would If treated as General Crook seems to desire. If the policy to which General Crook seems to have pledged himself be carried ont, it would have been much better to have allowed the hostiles to remain in their Sierra Madre strongholds, as their final exterminatiOn by the Mexicans would then have been only a matter of time.-TOmbstone Epitaph.
 "It Is to be hoped that the humni- tartan sentiment will not prevail in the disposition of the leaders of the hostile Indians captured by General Crook An example should be made, as ID the case of the ModOc chiefs, and the leaders tired and hanged for murder. The h. dianS on the San Carlos reservation ob- feet to the captured Chiricahuas being returned to She reservation, claiming : l.e sn and that they will only remain until they have recruited from the present campaign, when they will again take the war path, enticlng young men of the Apache tribe to join them, and thus keeping up hOstilIties between the whites and Indians. The best thing for the government to do would be to hang the chiefs and turn the rest of the cap tured Indians on reservation so re- mote that they could never find their way back in any considerable number, and then make them earn their own living, pro- viding them with the means necessary to do so" San Francisco Post.
 The Apsches have robbed and deso- lated large tract of country. They treated their victims with the most in- describable cruelty. They have rayish- ed, and murdered women, and mutilated theirremains in manner shocking be- yOnd description. And after all this, we are told that they were glad to return to the Aesh-pots of the San Carlos re- sarvation alive. Possibly the Indian policy of the past has treasured them. They have confidence in the humane policy of the paternal government, which will bid them wash their bloody hands, cast away the scalps of their victims, and become good boys for the future. If the government fails now to hang these wretches by the wholesale, then Crooks campaign has been fail ure. They should be tried by military law, and placed altogether out of the jurisdiction of the civil courts. And the military law Is that when an enemy IS taken plundering and numbering set tiers he shall be hanged or shot without the privl 2ge of an appeal to any higher power. In justice to the people of Ari- zOua, ss well as the common sense of the country at large, this should be their fate. There should be no escape from it. No evasion. Nothing to inter fere with it's speedy and determined execution. This may have an effect upon the rest now on the reservations. It may teach them that wholesale mur- der means death to the criminal. And If they escape, it would be no stain on the fame of Arizona if its people arose en masse and themselves enforced the law and avanged their masssered breth- ren.-SaD Francisco Exchange.
 General Crooks expedition has con- quered the most troublesome tribe of the Apache nation, but 1t has not settled the Apache question. That problem will never be solved as long as these untame- able ssvages remain upon the reservation of San Carlos. They will agan escape in small bands, as they have repeatedly before; and after numbering innocent settlers and travellers in Arizona and New Mexico take refuge in the barran- cas of the Sierra Madres, to be again pursued, whipped and brought back, without punishment to the survivors. More aud more after every one of these raids Is heard the execrable assertion that "the only good Indians are dead Indians San Carlos reservation Is re- garded as @ recruiting ground for mur- derers; as a convenient establishment for white thieves and speculatOrs. The surrounding settlements will feel unsafe and resentfUl as long as it remains, and who can blame them? It is false to say the government does it's best to pro- tect them. Its best would be to remove the Apsches root and branch SO far from the heart of the Sierra Madres that It would not be possible for any armed band of them to ever get there again. The Modoc war cost far more than the removal of that tribe to the Indian Territory. And Crooks ex- petition, first and last, will have cost ss much The fact that some of them have