Arizona silver belt., 1894-12-08
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Forty-six of the Apache prisoners recently guests of Uncle Sam at Mount Vernon Barracks, Florida, have been railroaded to San Carlos and turned loose, Tuesday noon of this week. Such belng the fact, it behooves way farers, and those living in exposed lo- cations, to "trust in God and keep their powder dry"
 others of the Chiricahuas are gravi- tating, by easy stages, in the same direction, and since the last of the red skin assassins have left the barracks, the order for it's abandonment has been issued, and now only a solitary officer of the quartermaster's depart ment is left in meditation, fancy free, to care for the property of Mount Yer non, where rats are the only other tenants.
 Es-kim-in-zin, big chief and "bad Injun" who SO recently arrived at San Carlos, will soon be joined by his pro- totype the notorious Geronimo. These Indians have a crimsoned history the result of their damnable work, marked by mounds that dot the valleys of Ari- zona, beneath which their white brethren" repose They are Ishmael- ties, whom no one will harbor. Re- moved to Florida after their surren- der, their presence there became so obnoxious to citizens that the Govern ment was prevailed upon to move them to Alabama; there their disrepu- table character soon manifested itself, and after repeated and vigorous pro tests by the people of Alabama, the Chiricahuas and Es-kim-in-zin and band were ordered retdfned tc the San Carlos reservation. They are no less disliked and dreaded by Arizonans, and their return here is an act of bad faith upon the part of the Federal gov ernment which, in the absence of any other available place, should have To- cated them in the Indian Territory.
 The apprehension of Geronimo cost the government more than q million of dollafsi the recorded distance which he was pursued was over 2l ,OO0 miles The actioh ofthe government in the present instance is only a premonition of the recurrence of the bloody days of 1881, the beginning of the Cibicu outbreak.
 The idea of resting on the promise of the Chiricahuas to maintain peace is like leaning on broken reed. Those who know them best scout the relia- bility of their word. The future will realize the broken pledges of these re. gently returned Indians. The lives and property of surrounding settle ments will pay the forfeit of the gov, ernments credulity. ..
 When the evil day comes, and it is laiready Eoreshado@ed, then mobili. 2ation Of thes entire military of the | West, ss. in 'sl, will be required tc subdue them That however will not l be q breakfast spell, but the chase may, as has already been witnessed lengthen from months, perhaps, into years.
 The relations between the various bands now concentrated at San Carlos have never been cordial--in fact they are hostile, and those who had peace ably remained on the reservation are as bitterly opposed to the return O the Chiricahuss as are the whites.
 Why not give the Chirieahuas a rest ing place among their friends on Bos ton Common, or in the District O Columbia, where so seemingly, they
 would be welcomed, and where they might profit by the refinement and culture of a more advanced society than in Arizona? Perhaps the inhu ence of evening receptions and after noon teas might effect a change o
 their murderous heart, and finally find a resting place with their distin
 guished dead Taza, the son of Cochise
 in the Congressional burial ground
 and may the Lord have them in Iii
 holy kingdom, and as in duty bound
 the West, will ever pray.