Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-12-01

numbering not more than twenty Indi-
 ans usually set down at s-veutseu- passed almost in sight of every military
 camp and fort in southeastern Arizona.
 Those forts and camps contained from
 one to four companies of soldiers each,
 splendidly equipped, armed with Che
 best breech loading guns, mounted upon
 the hest horses the country affords, sup
 piled with pack animals, in fact
 everything necessary to make ac-
 tive scouts after just such bands
 of Indians, yet not an officer
 or private of Crooks army laid eyes
 on an Indian during that raid, of
 250 miles through Arzona and New
 Mexico. Is that the kind oi General We are expected to fall down and wnrsMp:
 In the opinion of the CITIZEN Crook
 showed i1competeacy as well as criminal negligence at the very outstart. He dld
 not raise a finger to save The life oI
 single Laman being ou that occasion,
 but the other day when the Southern
 Pacific tram was robbed he had men out from three different forts, in less than
 twelve hours in hot pursuit of the rob-
 bers. We do uot cite thIs case for The
 purpose O. finding fault with General
 Crook for such action; but if he can send bis soldiers out so promptly after
 train robbers, why can be not send them
 ont as promptly when the Tadiaus raid
 through the Territory
 Before going to Sonora, General
 Crook stated that be would gladly zee
 the last "Chiricahua under the sod.
 But when he had his pov-wow with
 them a feE weeks later m the Sierra
 Nadres, he told them "that SO far as ae
 was concerned, the past would all oe
 wiped out Why this sadden change?
 To-day be would put them under q;
 tomorrow he has n3 Idea Of putting
 them under the sod, bTt promised to do everything in his power to shield and protect them on the reservation.
 Why were the Cmuclhua ApGches
 permitted Co murder and rob our citi- zens right and left, and when caught
 with a portion of the booty in their
 world that they murdered the oyvuass-
 allowed 10 go unpunisheds Not only
 this but they were rewarded for their devilish deeds, by being received on the reservation and furnished with every thIng that could be furn shed for an h. dIan's comfort.
 Why did General Crook compel iAe young McComas brothers to buy the.r dead fathers watch and photograph of the same Indians who murdered their father, mother and little brother-tor we have no idea that little Charley Gyes, l or has ever been heard of-wheu these l devils were under his control: What | manner of nan would he be considered l who iostered white thieves and mur- derers, and compelled their children TO ] buy family relics and souvenirs from ! the hand that took their fathers Lie2 | He would be looked upon as no better l than the robbers he held, and the civil l law would make short work of the ]. creature who would stray 30 far from l reason, common justlce and common ! humanity A ten-year-old-boy would | know that such an act was wrong, and ] that no honorable man would even | think of doing such a thing, much less . sanction it. General Crook has secured ! the return Of some three huud-sI old, ! decrapid, worn out blcls, squaws and ! children; bu, from the best information | at hand, no fighting Indians, no war riors have been returned. They may | come in this winter and they may not. l But if they should come iu, what have we gained by their coming, if they are allowed to come and go at will? Those who know the Chircaluas best, men | who have been with them and have known of them during the past fifteen or twenty years, tell us that they will not . remain on the reservation. This bailg . the case, whl. assurance has Arizona of !. lasting peace2 Is It not like whei,iag . the knife to cut our own throatz, to ] clotbe and feed the Chiricahuas during the winter, and in the spring, when they are rested up and fed I'D, send them out ! from the reservation with their arms in their hands and their belts sUll of car tridges: It looks so to @ very large ma- iority of the people of this Territory. The CITIZEN wants peace n the summer a. well as in the winter season. The pence that General Crooks policy offers in cur opinion is worse than continual war. The CITIZEN wants @ lasting peace in Arizona. It would have these red handed devils removed from the Tern tory so far that they can never find their way back. This is what the CIrI- FIN would have done, and it but voices tho wishes Of all our people. The CTI- ZEN and the people Of Arizona have lost all faith in Gen. Crook, and he alone is for #. The test friends of General Crook cannot point ont a slDgle l official act Of his, since the Apache raid .hat meets with the approval of tho people Of Arizona or any other land. Az to the charge made by the journal referred to, that he CITIZEN published false reports. which do che Territory incalculabie iu- ury. we deny the charge. Our news ! correspondents are among the best and , most trustworthy in the Territory, and they have reported the facts as they oc- cured. The fact that the CITIZEN, pays for, and collects more Ari- ; .ona news than all other papers in the ( Territory put together, ls no reason why t should be held responsible for slight thut may creep in on the he spur of the moment.
 No man nor country was ever injured t " stating facts. The CITIZEN will not .dvise people to come to Arizona and n ettle in that section of our Territory ' hat is likely to be raided by the ApEches 8 t any time We have many sins to sn- s