Arizona silver belt., 1890-08-16
Saturday, August t6, 1890.
THE CHiRrUinrA RESEeAms.

ing official reports; it has yet to be written, and should it appear and be contrasted with his own statements, newspaper accounts, Jim Zabrisky's felcitous speech of welcome, the action of the Arizona Pioneer Society, c. D. Posten's gratifying, heroic poem that deitied the General, and the Prescott resolutions inscribed on gray foy skin (which, in compliment to the doughty General, were formally presented to him and gratefully aceepted) il win be of so different hue that the actors on those occasions will blush for their par ticipation in them and, perhaps, find pleasure in the pathless woods, by sleeping their senses in forgeffulness.
 Crook, his henchman, Capt. Bourke and other attaches of headquarters, y not only humbugged "the wild and woolly West" but also statesmen who look wise, draw their pay and rest their shins beneath congressional ma hogany. Crook even engaged the cam era In depicting what was supposed to be the Chiricahua stronghold in the Sierra Madros, Mexico; we venture the opinion not one of those novehsts have the remotest idea where it is and, if they did, would not have cared to see it even at a distance, much less enter it while Ju, Geronimo and their followers were there.
 The BELT, unlike the literary persons herein referred to, will not attempt to describe the understandable, but will only say the stronghold is not within miles of where Crook surprised the squaw camp, nor is it in the Sierra Madre. proper, but in continuation of that mountain range, on the line of the States of Chihuahua and Sonora.
 1t is there the fourteen Chiricahuas, still in Mexico, when necessary, find safe retreat Of that number six are bucks, respectively named, Nah-pi-a, Et-il-nah-zit, Nah-shul-pi-a, El-cha-na- che and two sons of the late chief Ju, one having attained his majority, the other still in his teens, but old enough to make q full-hand in free fight. Nah-pi-a is a man of unbounded cour- age, strategist second to none who preceded him in command. It was Et-i-nah-zit who assassinated the son of Judge MeComas, and it was only last winter he visited friends at San Carlos, and, doubtless, added others to his list. Na-shul-pi-a looks like Mex ican, speaks the Spanish language and goes into Mexican villages to learn the news and locate what there is te s.eal, and learn how to obtain it. He is in-
 ible as provider and news
 4 to that itinerant camp.
 They know they are regarded as Ish- malites and, like Camilla, move with the alaerity of weayer's shuttle Feel ing their insecurity, they are never caught mapping, and, therefore, it has become settled opinion that they sleep with one eye open.
 Masse, who jumped from the cars in Kansas, while being whirled with Ge- ronimo and others to Florida, is again IT Arizona plying his vocation of mur- der and robbery. He plays lone hand, loves the fair sex, takes sauaw vi ct armis, from a peaceably disposed tribe and if she refuses to accompany him, he shoots her.
 Perhaps it has not occurred to the generality of the people of the United States that the Government is still feed 'ng, clothing, and otherwise caring for he Chiricahuas, with the exception of die fifteen here referred to. They
 re the incentive to the Gadsden .eaty with Mexico, in 1853, which necessitated the purchase of 30, 1000 square miles of Mexican territory, which cost the United States $10, 900, 900, not because it was then considered desira- blc. but to get rid of an objectionable feature of the treaty of Guadaloupe Hidalgo, resulting from the war of the United States against the Mexican re- public.
 For thirty-seven years the United States has been fighting or feeding these Apache assassins, without counting the millions expended in that behalf, or taking into account their terrible slaughter of white men, women and children, or considering the disturbed and unusual anguish of hearts occa- stoned by their dreaded presence. The graves of their victims in the northern States of the republic of Mexico, south eastern Arizona, and southwestern New Mexico attest their relentless characters. and yet with all these evidences of their heli-born nature, all of them except the fourteen now in Mexico and the one in