Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-03-22

ing was so strong against the leaders and their depredating followers, that at Fort Marion and consequently at Fort Pickens they were subjected to mprisonment, in which the women and children shared. The innocent have suffered with the guilty, and can see no other possible way of re- lieving the situation than by adopt ing the course recommended, and 1 hope in the interest of justice, as well as of humanity, that speedy action may be taken. Should school be set in operation it could be perman- ently used for educating the children of the vast southwest"
 A proposition which is under seri- ous consideration at present and which may meet with general approval, is to set aside certain lands in the noun tainous portions of North Carolina. The land is reported to be fairly well adapted to the needs of the Indians, the country being mountainous and woody. It would, in the opinion of General Crook, who has visited it, re- quire 1000 acres, or about 500 acres to each family to enable the Indians to make living.
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 General Miles, whose splendid re- cord in Indian warfare entities his opinion to more weight perhaps than any other living soldier, expresses him self candidly to the Examiner repre- sentative on the matter. He said:
 "The Chiricahua Apaches, are the lowest, most brutal and cruel of all the Indian savages on this continent. They kill for the pleasure of killing and they take fendish delight in the most cruel tortures, burying men all except their heads over great ant hills, to have their flesh slowly eaten off un- til death relieves their oxcruciating agonies. Hanging little girls by the under jaw on great meat hook to suffer a slow death, and men by their feet with their faces over slow fire is q congenial pastime to them. In morals they are degraded. They are in awful physical condition and this more than anything else is the cause of so many deatl at Mount Vernon barracks and the Carlisle school. They will not work. The commanding of ficer at Fort Apache, where they were located, wired me in response to a query, that the Chiricahua and Warm Spring Indians had under cultivation in 1886 only one hundred acres of land and that one Mexican did most of the blowing, for the squaws did nearly all the work. When certain number of them came here to Wash ington they were treated more like heroes than criminals. l knew if they were allowed to go back nothing would be accomplished, and l wired the department tfat there would be outbreaks for twenty years if they re- turned. On that they were stopped at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and finally sent to Florida. It is now urged that they should be returned west of the Missouri river because oI their continued ill-health. Why, the report of the Surgeon-General of the army shows that Fort Sill is one oi the worst places in the country.
 WHY FORT SILL WILL NOT DO.
 At one time it was my purpose tc have them sent to the Indian Terri tory, but since then the hOstiles have been with those not really on the war path, and they feel that an injustice has been done them. There would be nothing to prevent their breaking out in fact I believe there would be the greatest danger of it. have no more coafidence-in them than in any other Indians that have broken their prom ises and been good only for q little while. If they are sent to Fort Sil there is nothing to prevent them from getting into the mountains Of New Mexico.
 "There are some other Apache! there, renegades from the Mescaler( Agency. They go back and fortf every season. They can ride across in five days. The Apaches, Conan ches and Kiowas now there have { perfect knowledge of the country. l these fellows are sent there they vii be together, mounted, and possibly ! armed within six weeks. Once start ed it will be difficult to intercept then and I think there would be great dan ger of their exciting the Kiowas an' Comanches. I think it would b' exceedingly dangerous to place thes
 Apaches at Fort Sill. think the pee pie of Arizona would have just caus , for apprehension. I have no conf dence whatever in those Indians am } it would be terrible mistake to nov , them. believe that they should b placed somewhere in the mountain f of north Carolina. It is the best plac 7 for them"