Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1890-09-12
THE cH1R1CAHUA REIraADIs.

rsPertSi Il has yst 70 be written, and
Should Il appear and he eOAtrastsd with
his swn statements, nswspaPsr accents,
Jin ZsbriSky's fslisitsun speech Of vel
come, the astisn sf the AriEona Pionsor
soeisty, Q. D. Postsn's gratifying, hsrOie
posn that doiasd the General, and the
Prescott rSsolutisas described On . gray
fox ikin (Whish, in ssnphmsnt to the
doughty General, we're fsraAlly presented
10 bin and gratefully sessPtsd) il will be
Of 90 different has that the astsru On
these occasions viii blush fer their parti-
ciPatiSA in thsn ana, peril apS, fad pleas
are in the Pathlssss woods, By utsspinE
their senses in fOrgstfulness.
Creek, his hsnOha aan, Capt. Bourks and
other attaches Of headquarters, " net on.
ly humbuEged "the wild and wSoly
west, " bat also Statesmen who look wise,
draw their pay and rest their shins beneath
cOnErsssiOnal mahogany. Crock Svsn
engaged the camera in depicting what
was supposed to be the Chirsahua strong
hold in the Sierra Madres, Mexico; We
venture the opinion net one Of these Roy-
elistS have the rsmotest idea where il is
and If they did, would not have cared to
see it even at distance. much less eater
it while Ju, Geronimo and their followers
wers there.
Tho Belt, unlike the literary perSOns
herein referred to, will not attempt to de-
scribe the undSspribAbls, bat will emily
say that the stronghold is net within miles
Of where Crock surprised the squaw camp,
nor it is in ths Sierra Madrs, proper, but
in a continuation Of that mountaiA range,
on the line Of the States of Chihuahua
and Sonora.
1t is there the lorteen ChirieAhuAs, still
in Mckee, when necessary, fad a safe re-
treat. or that number six are bueks, re-
speetively named, Nah-Pi-A, Et-il-Aah-Vit,
Rah-Ghul-pi-a, El-eha-nA-ehs and tive sons
Of the late chiof, ia, one having attained
his N aiOrity, the othOr still IN his teens,
but old enough to sake full-hasd in a
free Sight. Nah-pi-S is a man OF an
bounded courage, a sArateEiSt SseOnd to
none who proceed him in command. 1t
was Et-il-nah-zit who ASSASSIN ated the son
Of Judge MeCOnAs, and it was only last
winter he waited friends at San Carlos,
and, doubtless. added Sthers 10 his list.
Na-shul-pi-a looks like Mexican, speaks
the Spanish language aud goes into Msxi-
can villages to lsara the news and locate
what there Is to steal, and learn how to
obtain it. He is Indispensable a. a provi-
der and the news mOngsr to that itinsrant
camp.
They know they are regarded as Ish-
malItss and, like Camilla, move with the
alserity Of Veaver's shuttle. Feeling
their insecurity, they are meyer caught
mapping, and, therefore, it has become a
settled opinion that they sleep with enc
eye OPSn.
HaIss, WhS jumpOS from the ears in
Kansas, vhilS beng Whirlsd Vith oihOrs
to Florida, is again in Arizona plying his
vocation Of murder AAd robbery. He
plays lone hand, lOYes the fair sex, takes
n squaw vi ct armis frOm a pOaOoably dis
posed tribe and if she refuses to accom-
pany him. he sheets her.
Perhaps it has not occurred to the gen
erality Of the people Of the United States
that the Government is still feeding, cloth
ing and otherwise caring for the Chri-
sahuAS, with the exception Of the fifteen
here referred 10. They were the incentive
to the aadsdPn treaty with Mexico, 1883
which neeesHitated the purchase ef 80, 900
square nilsI of Mexican territory which
oost the United States $4,000, 900, not
because it was then considered desirable,
but to get md Of an Objectionable feature
Of the treaty of Guadalsupe Hidalgo, re-
OultlnR from tho war Of the United States
ngainst the Mexican republic
For thirty-ssvsn years the United States
has been Sighting or feeding these Apache
AsSassins, without counting the millions sH-
pended in that bshAlf, or takiaR ints ae-
count their terrible slaughter Of white
men, women and children, or SOnSidSrinG
the disturbed and uAusuAl anguish Of
hearts OcsaSioAOd BY their dreaded pres
snOe. The graves Of their VistimSl In the
northern States of the republie Of Mexico,
S0uthsRStsrA AriEShA, and SOuthWSStSrR
Kew Mckee attest their relentless OhArAs-
torS, and ySt with all these evidences, Of
their hsll-born nature, all Of them except
the fourteen new in NSxicO and the enc in
ArizOAA, are unwilling gusits Of the ma
tiOn, and feed and fAttsA at the public
crib, in AlASanA.
sush ia history, So far as it goes, bat
Crooks military history has yet 50 be writ
ten BY an Impartial ehroAislsr Of his pap
aHd PsRada P0lisy toward these Indians,
whieh gees TO ShOW that he was their
friend and had ne inclination to punish
then fer their nisdSsds. Tis true,
althSuEh We blush to acknowledge il, that
h intSrPoSsa the POWer Of his pssitiOa in
behalf Of inAisisd ChirisAhuA muTdsrsrs,