Arizona silver belt., 1890-03-22
A WELCOME EXODUS.

iuS way lu Ioit iHioH, NtW mSAlcui 450 miles, as the crow flies, from San Carlos They left on Sunday the 18th, but no standard appeared in the blush of the morn. They moved in silence and sorrow to a more cireumscribed jurisdiction than they hitherto en- joyed. That they will soon weary of exile does not admit oi doubt, and it is equally certain that contrition for former crimes will not disturb tbeir leaden sleep.
 The cause of their removal was be- cause of their discordant nature, re- pugnant to the better class of Indians; {; they were drunken, quarrelsome, and continual infractors of the rules gov erning the Agency, where they were fed and clothed at public expense. They are a graceless lot, and un- worthy of human sympathy, and yet there are those of sanctimonious mien who condone their hellish deeds and ask "why white men hang on the h. dians path like the hound on the h. gers track.
 The major part of those now on the way to Fort Union are women and children, mostly families of bucks now on the war path, and of men whose hands have already shed white men $ blood and who have been drawing government rations and stealthiiy con veying them to the raiders and sup plying them with ammunition.
 Captain J. l.. BulliS Is credited with the suggestion for their removal. As agent at the San Carlos reservation he was enabled to discern that their pres ence there would result in an out break and in order to forestall their corrupting influence he suggested their relegation to some remote point where their minds might be diverted from the savage allurementS of the torch, and death dealing rife.
 The only music attending tue march is the glngling of cavalry sabers which will cease to enliyen the ear at Fort Grant, from which place to Wilcox no other symphony than the cadence of infantry footsteps wIll attend the march. Capt. L. Johnson, command ing the military forces at San Carlos, supcrintended the removal of the pris- oners from San Carlos to Wilcox, and the arrangements, in every detail, were carried out to perfection. Frcm Wilcox they will go by rail, to Fort Union, Mora county, New Mexico, where they will be dumped, and glared at as unweleomed visitors.
 Now that the policy of weedlug the San Carlos Agency, of it's worst ele- ment Is seemingly adopted, it is to be hoped 1t will be continued until the reservation IS so thoroughly purged that murder, thievery, distilling tis- win, and its attendant wees, will be regarded as among the lost arts. We are charitable, and regarding the dose already administered upon Fort Union and vicinity as quantum sutficit, we would kindly suggest that the next instaIlment be shipped to Boston, and that future distributions mIght con tinue to other points, until Arizona is free from their unweleome presence, In selecting their future homes great care should be had to locate them as remote as possible from tbc scenes of their lordyS, in order to ayoid the ne- cessity of trapping them when want ed; to some place Tn the far East where they nnght stand with the choir and ioln in singing "Old Hundred, " and "Corinth, and Near and other sweet psalms, even though they have exhibited, no very incorporate zeal in the matter of hiding their nakednoss beyond the adoption of tue conyerl- tlonal gee string, broad scarf wrap- ped around the loins once and be- tween the limbs. and each end foanng and tlapping behind and before, 'Shich completes the tout en semble of the Apache summer dress, nothing more, not even blush.
 The removal of these Indians east, is commendable. They will be nearer the base of supplies, and where they will learn to eat pie with a fork, and otherwise the change will place them in the ascending scale of civilization, and the further east they are taken the moro advanced they will become in modish manners, and It IS fair to presume that If any are sent as far east as Boston they will wear eye glasses to be in fashion with the elite of the hub.