Arizona silver belt., 1894-09-22
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 the strife On the contrary, it is the anticipated result of recent orders dis charging Indian scents from service, the withdrawal of contracts for supplies which have heretofore furnished em- ployment and partial Support to reser- yation Indians, and last but not least, the abandonment of San Carlos and Fort Bowie es military posts, which an associated press dispatch informs us is the declared purpose of the Govern. ment which have aroused the appre- hension of citizens of Eastern Arizona,
 Our political doctors have decided that retrenchment must be earned into the Indian service, that expenses must be reduced, in order to effect which posts in the Indian country must be abandoned and troops concentrated in cities where the cost of maintenance is less, and every incentive to industry amongst the Indians removed And to still further comphcate the situation, Geronimo and his ed-handed followers have been ordered returned to their former home on the San Carlos reser- yation.
 What more is needed to flll our cup of woe 9 What will be the consequent ces of this disruptiye policy to the progress of Arizona and the security of life and property within her limits ? The Indians left in idleness, almost every restraint removed and opened to the worst influences, the eounsels of Geronimo and his associates, will soon be transformed from peaceable, indus trious neigh5ors, into iangetous foes the old time WET spirit will be revived within them, and scenes of bloodshed and plunder, common in Arizona and New Mexico in early years, will be re- enacted.
 The Chiricahua renegades now in Sonora, will be emboldened to return to the White mountain reservation, and will re-establish close relations with Geronimos band It win require but little persuasion to induce other reser- vation Indians to iOiu them on their raids, and then, indeed, win lhe vail of woe be heard throughout Arizona, and in order to afford relief to q suffer ing community, millions of dollars will be required ID order to quell the agile, cruel, raidsrs Geronimo and his band have already been removed to Uklaho- ms, and within two months are to be brought back to the White mountain res6rvation iR Arizona.
 A copy of the SILVER BEuT oi Oct. 25. 1879, which came into our hands a few days since through Che kindness o' Cbss Rackelshausen, tour eerly hl9 papers having been destroyed by fire) recounts at some length the appalling murders and depredations at that time committed by Victoria and his band in New Mexico and Arizona, and very forcibly pictures what may be again ex- pected to transpire iu .he southwest. ID the event of the suicidal policy out. lined by .bs government being carried out At that tune the travelled foute from Fl Pasc west into Arizona was marked by an almost continuous trail of blood; emigrants and settlers were surprised and murdered by Che deyilish Apaehes wagon trains and ranches were plundered and the torch applied |, stock was run of, and such as was of no ase to the Indians. killed The killing of seyenty-fys or more persons by Yictorio's band is recopnte5 in that single issue Of tho BELT There are many now living in Arizona who can recall those distressing times, and they doubtless retain a wholesome tread of a recurrence of such scenea, and appre, ciate the danger to be apprehended from the contemplated action ot the government in regard to the San Carlos reservation.
 Phe danger is manifest, and IF our immediate presence, and can only De avoided by more generous distribu ton of rations and other necessarles to wards of the government, than is now gudgingly given them Those already on the reservation will by force ot cir cumstances taks to the woods unless a more liberal policy is pursued iif sheir behalf. It is not natural tC suppose that conventional lines will restrain their ganderirgs They will go to where their watts can be supplied and in that eYgnt not the government out the citizen rnwilhnglY become ihe al- moner3 The Irdians are aware of ths fact that foot-ioose, they wifi fare bet ter than when tlenchine on the lerder assigned them by the government, and for that reason they will go Skere ran cAeros cattle will afford shem the mesns of putting fat upon their ribs.
 Already they are discussing the ra. turn of the CAiricahras to the resevs- ton, ard speculating as to whether they will be reduced to their scIimp way of living or if ail the Indians will be given full ratious That is the al