Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-10-27
A DIsHoEoREp COMMANDER

The dispatches from Bowie and Silver
 Creek via Tombstone, lead us to believe
 that the renegade Apaches are coming
 back to Arizona, and from the Bowie
 dispatch We are informed that seventy
 five hostiles have already surrendered,
 and that eleven more are coming in.
 This yacIllating and cowardly treat
 ment of the renegades by General
 Crook, is an outrage to Mexico, and
 disgrace to the United States. The
 Apaches have robbed and murdered ID
 Mexico from the day Crook crossed the
 line on his return,up to within few days
 past, if we are correctly informed.
 When General Crook left the renegades
 in sonora. he made them certain prom
 ises. but just what those promises were,
 is not known outside of the few who accompanied the expedition. General
 Crook "staked his reputation" however,
 on his return, "that the renegades
 would come in" He even went
 so far as to say they might be in any day,
 as they were but a short distance be-
 hind his forces and that"they were hum
 blei and subdued as they never were
 before" and that all they asked was his
 promise to take them on the reserva-
 ton and protect them, which he first
 stated be did not promise to do, and
 afterwards admitted that be did. But
 it is natural to presume that the prom
 ise was made by General Crook, for
 that time, and not for re-
 mote future date. Had the renegade Apaches come in then it might have
 been within inc bounds of reason to &C., cept them, as General Crook had prom ised, but they did not come. The utter failure of tine renegades to perform their part oi the contract absolved General Crook from further consideration of the question, and If he receives them in any other way than at the point of the bsyonet, ne deserves the ceusare of our people from one end Of the land to the other. General Crook had scarcely crossed the Sonora line on his return with the old men. women l and children 10 the reservation, when l these renegades went on the war path l stealing stock and murderipg Mexican l citizens. It Is a fact that General Crook l has denied that the Indians committed l such depredations in Sonora, but all | the Mexican consuls In Arizona have | the official record of the number of Mexican citizens killed and stock stolen and property destroyed, and the re- cords show that over twenty Mexican citizens were murdered during the time that Crook was promising that they would come in. The Mexican citIzens were much disappointed at Crooks failure in the Sierra Madre campaign, and iisgusted with its results. They have, however, been doing the best they could to suppress the renegades. and from the most reliable information now lt hand, have been fighting them for several days past, have lost some men, killed several Indians and driven the re- of them right into Crooks camp, who, instead of giving them cold lead, as justice and right called for, be receives these murderers of Judge Me Jomas and forty odd other American md Mexican citizens, with open arms, and in all probability gave them a grand banquet in honor of their return! Such action by an officer of the United States army, who receives with open rms and manifestations of delight, the -ery worst band of dirty, treacherous, cutthroats and villains that .ver walked the earth, and who are less .ntitled to life than band of mad dogs s simply inexplicable. General Crook las not only forfeited his right to com nand the forces in Arizona but be should be dismissed from the service he