| Show THE APACHES CAUSES THAT LED TO OPEN OEN oes WAR WITH THE AMERICANS IV IF ritten by governor safford of c arizona the following appeared in the missouri Misso url uri denlo Dento democrat crat recently and so far as true is important as a matter of history in order to properly understand the true condition of cachine and his band I 1 will say that belsa heisa lle lie is a chief of a band of apaches who in olden times inhabited the country from the gila on the north to some distance into sonora on the south kuth and from tile the san pedro 0 oh n the west to the Allin mimbres bres in new mexico on the east they hav baas as far back as the memory of inan man here luns been at war with the people P io of new it mexico e c 0 and their riv elv living i n has hus been 1 principally xvi n c obtained alues by robbery when arizona was first possessed by the united states for reasons best known to myself cachine sought and evidently desired peace with our people and government and this relation existed until 1860 during that time however ile he constantly raided upon the neighboring states in mexico and brought back herds of horses borses and cattle occasionally stock was taken in arizona by his indians at points eints distant from his country iut but it is understood that when complaints were made in buch such cases he made an effort to restore the property during the year 1860 a boy was made captive while herding stock on the tile So monotia Son notia otla and same believed that cochise had taken him benee benoe lieutenant bascom with a company of to apache rass pais near his headquarters and camp camped edat at the overland mail station the lieutenant told the sta tion keepers that lie he was on his way for new mexico exico Nr and desired to see cachine Ca chise and induced them to go and invite him in when asked by cachine what was wanted of him he was informed that he desired to extend the hospitalities of his tent as helas he was on his way out of til the country machise with four of his friends and relatives came in and when seated in bascoms Ba tent it was suddenly surrounded by soldiers he desired to know the cause and was informed that he and his friends were prisoners and would be kept as such until the boy believed to be with his band was waa eiven elven up cochise protested against such treachery and declared that he could not give him up as he be knew nothing of him watching his opportunity lie drew his knife and cut a whole through tile tilo tent and escaped he immediately called his warriors together and came in force near the station and desired to have a talk one of the tile station kee keepers pe rs went to lil ill him in to hear what ho he had to say yay y say but as soon as he lie had reached cachides lines lie he was seized and made a prisoner A day or two was spent afterwards in endeavoring to efrece an exchange of prisoners cachine offering to give up his prisoner if the lieutenant would release his cachides friends the lieutenant declined to exchange only man for man unless cachine would surrender tolbo the boy bos but machise steadily affirmed that lie he knew nothing about him finally he came for a last talk leading his station keeper prisoner with a rope around his iw neck tied to the horn of his saddle saddie he again offered to surrender him if his four friends were set free the station keeper begged to have the exchange made as his life would be forfeited if etwas it was not done but the lieutenant again refused and ca chise ro his horse and dashed affat off at lightning speed dragging his poor victim at full len ien length t by the neck the lieutenant then tilen hung the four prisoners and cachie opened the tile terrible war that has since almost desolated arizona the people not being that hostilities had broken out eay eary victims and the horrible murders and tortures that followed the next few days are sickening relate and from that time to of last september scarcely week has past without flon lon ion fion of bloody deeds by his baud band the attacks of or cachine were ft from om ambush and invariably suc sometimes he be to be supported by a large force and again had but few followers hb was often ro pouted poTted to bo tio at ferent points at the same time frequently reported dead an and generally believed to be crippled for life his forc force c was often reported to have dwindled to mere nothing while he would when occasion required make a stand with sufficient force to resist all attempts to take him no matter what impressions were entertained regarding him and his force one thing is certain that lie he has for twelve years successfully resisted all the power of the friendly tribes and what the governments ern ments of the united states and mexico did bring to bear against him and that since the first of last april he be has been as successful in taking life and property asat as at any other period since he hostilities the carnival of blood the tnie intelligence daily placed before for the public shows that the spirit of or murder murden is rino rife throughout the land immediately around us throughout the state and in every state in the union the same fiendish power powen asserts itself and demands ma umer s its daily human sacrifice the murders of the present epoch appear to be marked tod with unprecedented brutality and to be committed with incomprehensible coolness and deliberation very often they originate in motives 60 slight and purposes so trifling as to be irreconcilable with our preconceived ideas of human nature another feature of the sickening ilc lic picture is the frequency with which women are made the victims in one locality on the shores of maine two women who occupy a jonely lonely island are butchered with an axe in the night and the third barely escapes with iier lien her life as the murderer retire retires with fifteen dollars booty at the other extreme of ot the continent a woman who resides quietly upon her own farm is while begging for her life shot down by a man who has made open and careful preparation for the deed and whose object is to acquire an insi insl insignificant ant portion of her land il in n the east school girls are shot down on their way from school because they refuse to marry their murderer murderers and in the west women are butchered by hired assassins because they happen to be witnesses in important civil suits A other women who wiio leave their homes and seek employment among strangers to avoid the tiie importunities port unities of thoe whom their souls forbid them to marry are followed up and in iu the namo name of affection sacrificed by the dagger in another locality a young ayoung girl has her brains beaten out in her own home by her own cousin for no known cause in our own vicinity women are strangled in the night for the sake of the small sums of money which they are supposed to have accumulated these are frightful photographs 0 of human life but the frequency of their occurrence will not permit society individually or collectively to close its eyes tases upon them are such deeds to continue to increase in frequency or can they bo be checked are there special causes for their occurrence and can no remedy be enforced these are questions which may well claim the attention of our lawmakers law makers clergymen authors professors and political economists some years ago the subject of the abolition of capital punishment was very generally agitated in the eastern and northern states this agitation was followed by a change of law in a few of the states and a decided change of public sentiment in many of them one result was that it became almost impossible to obtain a conviction for murder in tilo the first degree again the plea of insanity has been set up with such general success that escape through that channel lias has been comparatively easy hundreds ds of murders are committed by both men and women who deliberately in advance calculate the chances of escape through the courts and who would be restrained from such crimes if the chances were less favorable A realization of this fact is leading to more fie quent convictions and a more rigid enforcement of the law now than a few ye years ars ago but aside from causes of this character other influences are at work which tend to widespread moral degeneracy the pilgrim fathers of new england the tile quakers of pennsylvania and the catholics of the southern states who first settled the continent were eminently conscientious and religious people whatever may have boon arbir dv degree n of bigotry and however great the errors which resulted from that cause they believed in doing right in dealing justly in obeying the dictates of their consciences and in fulfilling the will of god as t they hey understood those requirements require ments menta until after the period of our revolution fatherland fathers father sand and mothers taught their sons and daughters to discriminate between right and wrong to listen to the tile suggestions of honor honesty li and virtue to comply with the requirements of benevolence charity and humanity to detest cruelty to scorn meanness and to govern the actions of life by higher rules and purer tests than the seln self selfish ish se sensual asua I 1 soulless motives of our baer ba er nature in modern times children receive but little home teaching of this character the lesson of ilde life of the present day seems to bo be success regard regardless less of the means 11 let principle be violated let duty be forgotten let good faith among men be abandoned let crime be sanctified and criminals be canonized so that through such means temporary and worldly success is achieved how far this lesson is practically taught by the parent the church the press by political political parties and ty by society bac eacle may answer for himself the tendency of the age is to flood the country with a hoodlum and lawless element the prominent trait of which Is self assertion and the principal aim alm self seif gratl gratification fl cation catlon we have hoodlums in rags and hoodlums in broadcloth those who are ignorant and those who are educated tica ted tod those abw e who prowl prow about the outskirts of our cities clues and those who wilo throng our capit alsand control our legislatures and government this element is the same in elia ella charac ille ter ler under all circumstances inces but far more dangerous in the higher than the lower walks of life with such an element rapidly increasing the sanctity of human life and the inviolability of all human ri rights c lits are disregarded and forgotten a and nd with of the law relaxed and powerless society must continue to pay the fearful penalty of its self sought moral momi degeneration sac union moral courage in municipal affairs the number of men who are willing to accept is innumerable the number who are willing to perform the duties imposed by said office is very few the profuse promises of men while candidates are equalled equal led only by their entire diere disregard of them when elected when men enter upon the duties of a public position they take an oath to faithfully execute the laws or ordinances of the city A wilful failure to do so amounts to little less than pei per perjury Jury I 1 11 t is an open violation of a solemn oath and this is simple perjury how many nien men when wilen they seek public position and make oath to perform its fiul duties realize the they are assuming their minds are so full of the honor and glory they have llave achieved that eliat til they ey seldom think that that is the least part which they have to perform the oath and the fulfillment fulfilment of the obligations 1 imposed by it play apparently a vei vel vely ysmall ysmail small smail part t in their estimate of what they ave nave to do how bow now in the coming municipal election we need men who will do what they take oath they will not men who promice promise and stop at the promising we ve want men who have the moral courage to do their duty and not with admirable facility for inventing excuses for a of the ordinances the plausible gentlemen plausible in pointing out their own excellence plausible in apologizing for failures to do their sworn duty plausible in demonstrating the defects of the ordinance st have no business in public position in denver we have had too many of them in the pat part we need no more of them in the tho future the first essential of the man who lec elves the tilo popular suffrage should be moral courage Pose sed of this tilis quality he is ae certain r to be honest and most probably capable it does docs not require a very smart man nian to enforce the laws A pe penson person on of medium abilities who is able to read the StatUte statutes 3 or ordinances and who can see e when they are violated violated is 13 sufficient for all practical purposes read the city ordinances wha what tare are they passed for are they not just and wholesome and proper and calculated to pl preserve oserve the tilo peace and good order and safety and morals of the community we elect men to enforce these ordinances do they tiley do it run pun back over the last half dozen olty city A tle the 40 present besent one and see how bow many of atre the ordinances ordinance have been dead letters either let these ordinances ordinance 8 be repealed or else let us elect men to office who will enforce them if any present candidate proposes to make any mental reservation when wilen lie he takes his oath of office and to except certain ordinances din dina ances Dees which he will not enforce let him announce the fact beforehand and furnish the people with a list of them the men who will enforce the most of them or all of them are the men we are anxious to support in the ensuing election we do not care about aboul mentho men who will promise only promises are cheap pheap things the man with the moral corao courage to do to act to ful fil sworn obligations is the man denver needs such men are few and far between they are never available candidates those who stand up for the tile right for law and the duties imposed ly by laws always have enemies Butir but nut if such men can be found in the city let us bring them out and elect them we cannot always tell what men are until we try them but if we choose wisely there will be no just cause to complain of broken brohen ordinances ana violated laws elect men with moral courage and a great victory will be gained for the cause of law and order and public morality denver news the trouble in utah is not that our municipal and other local officials als ais are unwilling to do their duty but they are judicially prevented from putting good laws and ordinances into force and the criminal classes i reap leap the benefit 0 0 hor how the girl of the period acts in the horse cars she stands upon the curb with a little sp springy rl up and down motion as if she had spiral springs in the soles of her gaiters As the car approaches she sticks the joint of or her closed paral caracol in the tile direction of the driver with a small jerk the car stops she gives one or two little motions beare be ore she leaves the pavement and then dances to the car As she ascends the step stop the co conductor seems to consider it absolutely necessary to her safety to place one of his hands in the small othen other back while he rings the bell with the other she enters the car with the spiral springs still bobbing her up and aud down an and as is the seats are all full she stands holding her hands bands in front of her and gazing off into illimitable space as if tile tiie one idea which never entered her mind and which never could enter it under any possible circumstances is that some man will rise and ofner offer her his seat but a young man in the corner does rise and immediately the fellow next to him moves quickly into the corner as if that maneuver had formed the subject of anxious thought during many years of his life |
