Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-10-06
To Be Left to the Tender Mercies of the Apaches.
 Silver Belt.

! bhOHs cthAAhS Hftoc. Sty and lFt slip the dogs of war;" Not that the Federal power will participate in the strife. On the contrary, i5 is the antic- l ipat result of recent orders discharg- | ing Indian scouts from service, the with ! drawal of contracts for sup. lies which have heretofore furnished employment and partial support 10 reservation Indi- and, last but not least, the abandon ment of San Carlos and Fort Bowie as military posts, which an associated press dispatch informs us is the declared pur- pose of the Government, which have ar oused inc apprehension of citizens oi Eastern Arizona.
 Gar political doctors have decided that retrenchments must be carried into the Indian service, that expenses must be reduced in order to effect which posts ID the Indian country must be abandon ed and troops concentrated in cities where the cost of maintenance is less and every incentive to industry amongst the Indians removed. And to still fur ther complicate the situation, Geronimo and hIs red-handed followers have been ordered returned to the;r former home on S4n Carlos reseTvali .n.
 V Wbat more is needed to fiji our cup of Wee? What will b. the consequence of this disruptive policy to the pros Tess of Ar zona and the security Of life and property within her limits?r Indians left to idleness, aimost every r4st aint removed, and opened U the worst ID fiue. ces, the counsels Cf Geronimo and his associates, will aUoG be trars- form from peacesble, industrious neig bors, into dangerous foes, he old war spirit will De revived within them and scenes of bloodshed and plunder common in Arizona and New Mexico in early years will 5e reenacte6.
 The Chiricahua renegades now jn Sonora, will bs emboldened to return to the White mountain reservation and will rs-establisi close relations with Geronimo's band. It Will require but little persuasion to induce other resar- vatian Indians to join them on their raids, and then indee !, will the vail of voc De heard through Arizona, and in order to afford relaif to suffering com muuIjy, millions of dollars will be requi- red in order to quelI the agile, cruel, raiders. Geronimo and his band have already been removed to Oklahoma, and within two monts are t. bs brought back to the White mountaia reservation in Arizona.
 A copy of the Silve. B.lt of Oct. 25, 1879, which came into our hands a few days since through the kindness of Chas. Ruckelshau ;eu tour early file pa- pers having been destroyed by fire) re- counts at some length the appalling murders aad depredations at that time committed by Victoria and his band in New Mexico and Arizona and very for cib'y pictures what may again be expec- ted trapspire in the southwest in the eveot of the suicidal policy outlined by the government being carried out. At that time the travelled route from Fl Paso west into Arizona was marked by an almost continuous trail of blood; emigrants and settlers were surprised and murdered by the devilish Apaches; wagon trains and ranches were plunder- ed and the torch applied; stock was run off, and such as was of no use to the Indians killed. The killing of 75 or more persons by Victorio's band is re- counted in that single issue of the Belt. There are many now living in ArIzona who can recall those distressing times, and they doubtless retain a wholesome dread of recurrence of such scenes, and appreciate the danger to bs apprs- hendee from the contemplated action of the goverument in regard to the San Carlos reservation.
 The danger is manifest, and in our immediate presence, and can only be avoid by more generous distribution of r.t:ons and other necessaiies towards tha In Hans, than is now grudgingly giv t em. Those already on the re- | servation will by force of circumstances i take to the woods unless q more liberal policy is pursued in their behalf, It is not nanural to suppose that conventional | lines will restrain their wanderings. | they will go to where their wants can
 be supplied, and in that event, not the government but the citizen unwillingy y | becomes the almoners. The Indians are aware of the fact that foot-loose, they | will fare better than when trenching en the larder assined them by the gov | ernment and for that reason they will
 go where rancheros' cattle will afford
 them the means of putting fat upon | their ribs.
 Already they are discussing the re-
 turn of the Chiricahuas to the reserva
 .ion, and spsculating as to whether they
 will be reduced to their scrimp way oI
 living or if all the Indians will be given | full rstione. That is the alternative
 that presents itself, which alone car
 determine whether or not San Carlos | will become a skeleton rendezvous ol
 a home of ihe Araches.
 "Histoly Repeats Itself,"
 and so does Hoods Sarsapsrills in the
 remarkable cures it ia continually ao-