Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-06-06
oLsNEscY TO HuapEREss.

The outbreak of the Apache Indians, | from which the citizens of Arizona and l New Mexico are now suffering, is an event long anticipated by all close ob- servers of the management of those un- conquered savages since they dictated terms to General Crook ln the Sierra Madre mountains of Mexico and their voluntary return to the San Carlos res ervation Tn Arizona, early in the sum- inert of IcS3. In coml lliance with the earnest reqces. of General Crook, aud against the protest of Judge P. P. Will cox, Indian agent of the San Carlos, the agreen ent with the Secretary of War, whereby IL was stipulated that the hos tiles ehould remain on the reservation, ana, together with all the peacesble ln- dians of the tribe, should be under the exclusive police control of tbe military. Since the first of August, 1883, up to the present time, the duty of preserving the peace and punishing refractory In dians has bean vested in a military off Ger appointed by General Crook. and the policy adopted by the General has been strictly adhered to, in all matters
 pertaining t. police management, with out interference from the agent Dur ing greater part of the tune the five hundred Chiricahus Apsches. whose hostility 1t was claimed could not be ap-
 peased in any other way than by continu
 ing them under the exclusive authority of the military. were kept at distance of
 sixty five miles from the agency, where they were fed and othervIse cared for
 by the War Department. Though nom- lnally held hs prisoners they were per
 mitied to retain theIr arms and ponies, and many Of them were employed as
 military scouts and supplied with gov erument rifles and ammunition.
 Unuumbered crimes of which they
 had been guilty were freely condoned.
 The m1rderers of Judge McComas, his
 wife and child. aud scores of other citi- zens, though we'll known, went unwhip- ped of justice. Names of Indians no torious for deeds of revolting cruelty were carried upon the military psy-rolls, and these paid criminals were trusted with the keeping of their guilty con- rades. Little restraint was imposed upon them. They lived in camps Of their own choosing, divided into band- suiIed to their social pleasure, and mn g!ed freely Aith the pescesble Indian by whom they were surrounded. The | efforts of the officer charged with their l immediate supervision to direct them IL | agricultural pursuits were rendered in- l
 fIectual by theIr determined idleness. | The impl- ments and seeds gwen them l by the government were thrown away, | destroyed ur sold.
 In ih- summer of 1884 plan, devised Dy vne of the most determined of their c liefs, to murder the officer m charge of e he n. and uis ass siauts, came near be- 'uS succr ssfGl, aud was only frustrated by the ,urage and discretion Of Lieu .enant DavIs, upon whom had been im- posed the perilous duty of watching aud feeding them.
 To white man who has long been a resiient among the NavaiOes and Ap ich-s, is married t. a equaw, -pesks he idIau language il lently aud has the conf fence Of the ChirIcshuas, they | long agJ declared their intention to es- cape ron the resei vatIun, and laughe in quiet scorn Rt the suggestion tina Uro,.k's sol Hers might prevent their de- par'ure. The result confirms their boast hat they cculd go through the troops ke sand through the spread fingers of heir hands, and show how we'll founded were the fears of the citizens Of ArIzous that the price fl Crooks mistaken pol cy would be pad in blood.-Denver Daily News.