Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-12-15
(Silver Belt.)

Forty-six of the Apache prisoners rs. gently guests of Uacle Sam at Mount Vernon Barracks, Alabama, have been railrosded to San Carlos and turned loose, Tuesday noon of this week. Such being the fact, it behooves way farers, and those living ID exposed locations, to ''trust ia God and keep their powder dry"
 Others of the Chiricahuas are grsvi- tating, by easy stages, ln the same di- rection, and since the last of the red skin assssslns have left the barracks, the order for it's abandonment has been issued, and now only solitary officer of the qusrtermaster's department is left in meditation, fancy free, to care for the property of Mount Vernon, where rats are the only other tenants.
 Es-kim-in-zin, big chief and bad InIun" who recently arrived at San Car los, will soon be joined by his prototype the notorious Geronimo. These Indians have crlmsoued history the result of thelr damnabie york, marked by mounds that dot the valleys of Arizons, beneath which their "white brethren repose. They are IshmaelItes, whom no one will harbor. Removed to Florida after their surrender, their presence there became so obnoxious to citizens that the Gov ernment 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 Els kim in-zin and band were ordered returned to the San Carlos reservation. They are DO less disliked and dreaded by Arizonans, and their re- turn here is an act of bad faith upon the part of the Federal government, which, in the absence of other available place, should have located them in h. dian Territory.
 The apprehension of Geronimo cost | the government more than a million of dollars; the recorded distance which be was pursuid was over 21,000 miles. The action of the government In the present instance is only premonition of the re- cnrrence of the bloody days of 1881 the beginning of the Cibicu outbreak. The idea of resting on the promis of the Chirichuss to maintain peace is like leaning on broken reed. Those who know them best scout the reliability of their word. The future will realize tine broken pledges of those recently retur- ned Indians. The lives and property of surrounding settlements will pay the for6t of the governments credulity. When the evil day comes, and 1t is al hu ton of the entire military of the West as in 'Sl, will be required to subdue them That however will not be a 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 peaceably remained on the reservation are as bit- terly opposed to the return of the ChI- ] ricahuas as are the whites.
 Why not give the Chiricshuas 8 rest ing place among their friends on Boston Common, or in the District of Coium bia where SO seemingly, they would be well comed, and where they might profit by the refinement and culture of a more advanced society that Tn Arizona? Per haps the influence of evening receptions and afternoon teas might effect change of their nurderous heart, and finally find 8 resting place with their distin- gui shed dead Tsza, the son of Cochise in the Compression al burial ground, and may the Lord have them in ite holy kingdom, and as in duty bound the West will ever pray.