Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-06-13
C0DDLED MURDERERS.
The ChirIcahua Apaches as they are-How
 They Bottled Up Crook.
IS. F.Chrouiele.I

NP-She Ihlus HOW paralYzing business
 n great proportion of Arlzona anC
 New Mexico bus been received with in dlsnation by all classes of citizens. The | general belief Is that those who are suf
 iering m life and property in those Ter ritories by these raids are better inform
 ed as 10 the real situation there than 1.
 even General Pope, who has the sigma
 advantage or vlewIng the situation from
 hls well-sppointed quarters overlooklpc
 the bay of San Francisco. In order to
 obtain some absolute facts a Chronicle reporter yesterday interviewed three
 men who have had exceptional oppor.
 tunltles 10 acquaint themselves wlth
 the Inside truths Of these raids. The
 nrst intervIe" was with Captain Joyce,
 owner or a cattle ranch in Cochlse
 county, A. T. Captain Joyce Is now lIy- lns In thls city, but at the time of the
 Apache raids of loS3 he was residing on
 llls ranch and was chairman of the
 Board or Supervisors Of his county.
 He may t'e remembered as the man who ralsed and equipped a company of IOO
 men st that tune to protect fife and property m their neIghbOrhood, and who planned tO attack the Chir,cahua Apache band after General Crook had taken them back to the San Carlos Re seryatIOn and IardOned them. General Crook first ordered colonel Tn his command to arrest and dIsarm Colonel Joyce. Then, when JOyce's plans to rad the reservation was learned by Crook, he armed every Indian on tue Reservation and told them to shoot Jtyce's men Es renegGdes. As there were l3OO armed Indians, Joyce natural. ly gave up the plan, although many of hls men, who had had relatives murder ed or stock stolen, were anxious to make the raId at all risks.
 CROOKS TREATY WITH GERONIMO.
 "lt should be distinctly understood" said Captain Joyce, that It was only the Chlncahua AVtches who were trouble some. Inele are not more than seventy men m the band, of whom Geronimo Is chic, and they are as cordially hated by all ;ne other Apaches as they are by the whites. They neither farm nor herd cattle while on the reservation, but only collect arms, ammuI itiOn, horses and ra- tons, to prepare for each successive raid. They are utterly lawless, murder for the delight in killing, and have killed over 3OO white men, women and children in the last three years. When they crossed the line two years sgo, murdering and robbing on the way then as now, they took the traIl through Cochise and my ranch. My cabin was rlddled with bullets, but the men on the inside escaped by hiding m little cellar. Crook went after the Indians with only one company of whites and 2y0 Apache scouts. When they came near the murderOus band tue scouts de- mAnded ammunition every morning, went away from camp, returned and pre- tended tO have u-ed the ammunition, which they hal really given to the mur- derers. Crook became snort of ratIOns and made forced march back to my ranch, with the Indians in hot pursuit. There Crook agreed to receive the mur- derers back on the reservation and par don them If they would let hIs command That was how Crook captured the Indians. There Was an indignant demand that the raiders should be pun ished, but Crook kept his treaty with them, aDd they were fattened up and prepared for the present marauding raids"
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 ''Now what the people down there want to know is this," continued Capt ain Joyce. Does the Government In- tend these regular fattening and Dur- dering raids to alternate until every white man has been killed or driven out of the country? They only ask that when GeronimO's men go out and mur- der they should be treated just as white man who murders IS treated tried, and If found guilty, executed. You eau say this safely: If the author itIes take Geronimo back again and par don him It will be once too often. The settlers will stand 1t no more. They uill rail the reservation, capture the of. ndtrs and try them for murder. There Is belief down there that Gen. eral Crook depends upon an annual out break tO keep his name prominently be- fore the public"
 How about the colored troops with which Crook IS operBtingT
 Capt. Joyce laughed. The Apaches." he said, "c4ll them buffalo soldiers, and care less for them than they would for so many women
 THOUSAND MURDERS.
 The reporter next called upon Mr. Dibble, for some years Q prOmint mt member of the bar of Arizona, as well as a judge on the beuch. In the Apache outbreak of 1883 a brother of Mir. Dibble, a young lawyer, was murdered, with a ompauion, by the Chiricahua Apaches while on his way to a mIne on business for a client.
 ..I think the records will show," said Mir. Dibble, "that the ChIricahus Apaches have killed 1000 white men, women and children In the last twelve wears. They are the same who have had Cochise. then NictoriO and now Geronl- mo for chief. They are the only Apaches who give trOub. e. the others living peace fully on the San Carlos Reservation, lising cattle and farming. l have been R witness of three outbreaks in four years, and each one was entirely with out provOcatiOn or cause other than their desire to kill and murder. The Chiricahuas are afflicted with a homi- tidal mania. They murder without hope of plunder; they kill men, women and children, for the delight Of shed ding blood. Any attempt to belit.le the magnitude of the trouble they cause IS simply wicked
 "What remedy do you propose?"
 "In an open letter l wrote to the Presi lent. which was extensively pub lished about two years ago, l recom- mend d that this particular tribe, the Chiric ,huBs. should be segregated and confined apart from the others. They should be deported to say the Aleutlan islands. where they will be removed frov, fha roSsibIiit tD do harm or Iu- citing others to do harm. II IS impossl- ble and always will be, to keep those men on any reservation m the territo- ries from which they VII not make peri odical raids. Those who are out now should be treated as any other crlmIn- als: given fair trial and made to suffer the legal penalty of any crime Of which they are convicted.
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