Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-08-23
Y Ths Chir.oahaa Rsnegadss.
Globe Silver Belt.

The history of Crooks Sonora cam palgn will not be found in his misleading official Fepqrts; t has yat tq he written, and should 1t appear and be contrast ed with his own statements newspaper accounts, Jim Zabriskies felicitOus speech of welcome, the action of the Arizona Pioneer Society, c. D. Poston's gratify- Ing, heroic poem that dcitied the General, and the Prescott resolutions inscribed OH a gray fox skin (which, in compliment to the doughty General, were formally presented to him and gratefully accepted) 1t will beof do different a hue that the actors Gil those occasions will blush for their participation in them and, perhaps, find pleasure iR the painless woods, by sleeping their aen5e2 in forgetfal- ness.
 Crook, his henchman Captain Bourke, and other attaches of headquarters" :" 4ot onlJ humhggged ''the wild and wool ly West" bat also stat osm6n who look wlse, draw their pay and rest their shins beneath congressional mahogany. Crook even engaged the camera in depicting what was supposed to be the Chiricahua stronghold in the Sierra Madres, Mexico; we venture the opinion not one Cf those noveilsts have TemOtest idea where 1t Is and, if they did, would not have cared to see 1t even at a distance, much less enter 1t while Ju, OerOnlIno and their followers were there.
 The Belt unlike the literary persons herein referred to, will not attempt to describe the undescribable, but will only say the stronghold Is not within miles of where Crook surprised the squaws' camp nor Is 1t n the Sierra Madre, proper, but in continuation of that mountain range, on the line of the States of Chihuahua and Sonora.
 It is there the fourteen Chiricahuas, still in Mexico, when necessary, find a safe retreat. Of that number. six are | bucks, respectively named, Nah pi-G, Et- 1 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 a full-hand in free fight, Nah-pi-a is a man of unbounded courage, a strategist second to none who preceded him in com mand. It was El-il-aah git who assassin ated the son of Judge McComas, and il was only last winter he visited friends at San Carlos, and, doubtless, added others to the list Na-shul- pi-a looks like a Mexican, speaks the Spanish language and goes into Mexican villages to learn the news and locate what there is to steal and learn how to obtain 1t. He is indis- pensable as a proyider and news monger tC that itinerant camp.
 They know they are regarded as Ish- melites and, like Camilla, move with the alacrity of a weavef's shuttle. Feeling their insecurity, they are never caught mapping and, therefore, it has become a settled opinion that they sleep with one eye open
 Masse who jumped from the cars il Kansas, while being whirled with Gero nimo and others to Florida, is again il Arizona plying his vocation of murder and robbery He plays lone hand, love; the fair sex, takes squaw VI ct armis from 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 ing, clothing, and otherwise caring fol the Ohiricahuas with the exception O the fifteen here referred tO. They were the incentive to the Gadsden treaty witt Mexico, 1853, which necessitated the pur chase of 30,0O0 square miles of Mexican territory, which cost the United State $l0,0O0,000, not because it was then con sidered desirable, but to get rid of al objectionable feature of the treaty o Guadalupe Hidalgo, resulting from tht
 war of the United States against tn, Mexican republic.
 For thirty-seyen years the United
 States has been fighting or feeding thes Apache assassins, without counting tn
 millions expended in their behalf, or talk
 ing into account their terrible slaughter o white men, women and children, or con sidering the disturbed and unusual an
 guish of hearts occasioned by thei
 dreaded presence. The graves o , their victims iii the northern States O ? the republic of Mexico, southeastern r Arizona, and southwestern New Mexic l attest their relentless characters, and ye ] with all these evidences of their hell bor . nature, all of them except the fourtee !, are unwilling guests of the nation. am
 feed and fatten at the public crib, i
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 Such is history, So far as 1t goes, bu
 Crooks military history had yet to b
 written by an impartial chronicler of hi
 pap and panada policy toward those II
 dians, which goes to show that he wa . their friend and had no inclination t [ punish them for their mideeds Iris tru, U U although we blush to acknowledge i . U that he interposed the power of his pos | tion in behalf of indicted Chiricahu u murderers, and resisted the execution (
 United States warrants in the hands ( 2 United States marshals for their arres a and excused his unwarrantable conduC ' upon the himsy pretext that ''to give thel T up would interfere with my policy U '1 thus placing himself higher than tl II II constitution itself, which enioins that ''tl . military shall at all times be subordinat !, to the civil power," thus rendering hin ' self amenable to the law by ohstruetin < public justice. He only escaped Il ;' penalties by glaring direction of offici |, duties on the part of the judges fro II whose courts the warrants were issued, al y merited the greatest censure, if not | II removal from the army.
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