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-The Project Gutenberg eBook of The dread Apache, by Merrill Pingree
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-Title: The dread Apache
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-
- The Dread Apache--That
- Early-Day Scourge of
- the Southwest
-
- _By_
- DR. M. P. FREEMAN
-
- Tucson, Arizona
- November 14
- 1915
-
-
-
-
-The Dread Apache--That Early-Day Scourge of the Southwest
-
-BY DR. M. P. FREEMAN
-
-
-A short time ago, idling through a collection of early-day photographs,
-I came across two that vividly recalled the closing scenes in that
-bloody frontier drama in which the Apache was the chief actor. For many
-years the relentless foe of the pioneer, wary, tireless, cowardly and
-treacherous, he was the very incarnation of fiendishness, if possible,
-more pronounced in the squaw than in the man. Never meeting you in
-the open, always in ambush, concealed behind the big granite boulder,
-the point of a hill or a clump of brush, he and his fellows patiently
-awaited your solitary coming, all unconscious of danger, then--the
-crack of the rifle and it is all over. Today he might be a “sniper”,
-but in the days of his hellish activities the word had not yet been
-given its more recently enlarged meaning.
-
-
-2000 Pioneers Victims of Apaches.
-
-How many breakers of the wilderness, hardy, fearless old-timers, were
-sent to their final rest by this early scourge of the desert, who can
-say! Some place their number at two thousand, some say more, others
-less. This does not include the soldier boy, whose profession it is
-to risk his life, and when necessary, his duty, its sacrifice. Of the
-number of these there is probably a record somewhere, but of the old
-pioneer, only an estimate. In the valley, on the mesa and the hillside,
-on the mountain-top and in the deep shadows of the canyon, everywhere
-this broad land is dotted with their unknown and unmarked graves.
-
-Captain John G. Bourke, author of “On the Border with Crook,” and “An
-Apache Campaign,” who was with Gen. Crook, tells us that the Apache “is
-no coward, but that he has no false ideas about courage, that he would
-prefer to skulk like a coyote for hours and then kill his enemy, rather
-than by injudicious exposure receive a wound.” May we not attribute
-to the chivalrous spirit of Capt. Bourke, not to criticize a foe, his
-delicate way of putting this?
-
-No, I do not recall that this early plague of the old pioneer ever
-“injudiciously exposed” himself unless driven to it. “Skulking like the
-coyote,” as Capt. Bourke so well expresses it, is my conception of his
-bravery. If forced to the open he would undoubtedly make a brave fight,
-but I have never heard of his voluntarily seeking that open, meeting
-his enemy on anything approaching equal terms.
-
-
-Paris Adopts Name of Apache
-
-Being over in Paris a few years ago, a friend who had lived there a
-number of years, and who was as familiar with Paris from basement to
-roof-garden, as I am with Congress street of our good old town of
-Tucson, suggested one evening that we visit the “Apaches”. Expressing
-surprise that any of my people should have wandered so far from home, I
-suggested as a substitute the Moulin Rouge. However, the Apaches were
-agreed on, and in the evening, my friend, bringing a policeman with
-him, called for me at my hotel.
-
-Arriving at the door of the Apache rendezvous in due course, we
-three--my friend, the policeman and myself--are readily admitted, the
-presence of our policeman assuring that, and we find ourselves in an
-underground dive, a large room with a low ceiling, barely furnished,
-dimly lighted, and reeking with the sour odor of stale beer. Looking
-about the room, by the dim light as it forces its way through the dense
-gloom of tobacco smoke, we are enabled to see two other policemen
-besides our own--there are two stationed there day and night--and a
-score or more of the toughest-looking lot of cut-throats I had ever
-had the pleasure of coming in contact with. This was the retreat, the
-gathering place, of as bad a lot of thieves, thugs, robbers, burglars
-and murderers as the world could boast of, and Paris, in seeking a name
-for them that would embody all of these characteristics, had searched
-the world over, and was almost in despair of finding a single word that
-would express all that is mean, wantonly cruel, murderous and cowardly,
-but at last attention was directed to the Apache of Arizona, and then
-it was discovered that the word which would embody all that and more
-had been found. And that was why I was enabled to find some of my own
-home people away off there in the world’s center of fashion. Settling
-for a few bottles of the vilest beer possible to brew, as a tip to the
-house, I was soon ready to ask my friend to call his policeman and get
-us away from this vile den.
-
-
-Judge McComas and Wife Murdered.
-
-It is scarcely more than a quarter of a century, March, 1883, since
-Judge McComas, his wife and their little son Charlie, about seven
-years of age, coming from Silver City, New Mexico, to Lordsburg, were
-ambushed by a band of Apaches from San Carlos, the Judge and his wife
-killed, and poor little Charlie carried off to the Sierra Madres in
-Mexico, where, a few years later, an Apache squaw reported that on
-their camp being attacked by United States troops, Charlie, being
-frightened, ran off into the mountains, where he is supposed to have
-died of hunger and exposure.
-
-It was during this same year that a band passing over the Whetstone
-range of mountains killed a teamster and two of his men and a
-wood-chopper, who were furnishing wood for the Total Wreck mine.
-
-On July 3, 1885, Frank Peterson, who was carrying the United States
-mail between Crittenden and Lochiel, was killed by the Indians while
-returning from Lochiel to Crittenden. A sad feature in connection with
-this killing was that he had just been married.
-
-
-Dr. Davis Shot to Death.
-
-On June 3, 1886, Dr. C. H. Davis, a brother of W. C. Davis, of Tucson,
-coming from the San Pedro river over the pass between the Catalinas and
-the Rincons, with a wagon and span of mules, was waylaid and killed by
-a band of these outlaws. J. P. Hohusen and W. H. Wheaton, coming from
-their homes on the San Pedro the day before, met Dr. Davis going out,
-and warned him against the Indians, but having been in the country but
-a short time, he failed to appreciate the danger and made light of the
-warning.
-
-It was subsequently learned that Hohusen and Wheaton narrowly escaped
-this same band themselves as they were coming in to Tucson. When
-Hohusen returned home he learned from his man that the Indians had been
-at his place the night before the killing of Davis, and attempted to
-drive off some of his horses from the pasture; but the man, seizing his
-rifle, jumped into a well which was partly caved in and which naturally
-furnished him an excellent defensive position, and from this he fired
-at the Indians, but without apparent effect other than to force them
-to leave the place. After the killing of Dr. Davis, the Indians,
-taking the two mules, went to Walter Vail’s Happy Valley ranch, in the
-Rincons, where they left the mules in exchange for a bunch of Vail’s
-horses, shooting, but not killing, Cal Mathews, the herder. From Happy
-Valley they passed south into the Whetstones, where they shot and
-killed Marcus Goldbaum. Edward L. Vail, one of the party going out to
-the scene of the killing, found that the Indians had been gone but a
-few hours, having also killed a partner of Goldbaum as he was en route
-to Benson.
-
-
-Little Boy Taken From Gastelo Ranch.
-
-It was not long prior to this that a band working back from the
-Sierra Madres to the San Carlos reservation attacked the ranch of
-Juan Gastelo, not over fifteen miles from Tucson, near Tanque Verde,
-and carried off with them a little Mexican boy. The news coming to
-town, a volunteer company was immediately formed by M. G. Samaniego
-(now dead) and R. N. Leatherwood, our Bob. Samaniego, having had a
-brother killed by the Apaches a few years before, was more than keen
-for an opportunity to avenge his death. The volunteer company, led
-by Leatherwood and Samaniego, came upon the band, encamped in the
-neighborhood of Tanque Verde. The Indians, however, being alarmed by
-the premature firing of a gun, scattered like a flock of quail and got
-away, but the boy, escaping, was recovered by the volunteers.
-
-On another occasion a band, killing a rancher named Lloyd, four miles
-north of Pantano, stole the horses of Ed Vail and George Scholefield,
-near Rosemont, and passing on south, killed a man named Wimple, near
-Greaterville.
-
-
-Mexicans Attack and Rob Wheaton.
-
-A trying experience in the life of Wheaton, who narrowly escaped the
-band that killed Dr. Davis, was when four Mexicans came to his ranch
-on the San Pedro river one evening, he being entirely alone at the
-time, and demanded his money, which they said they knew him to have
-from the sale of some hogs. He, however, denying that he had any
-money, they proceeded to put a rope round his neck, and strung him up
-three or four times, each time demanding that he tell where the money
-was concealed, and he still denying that he had any. During all this
-time they were trying to find where the money was hidden, and finally
-discovered it, about $60, in the window casing. Then the question was
-debated as to what they should do with Wheaton; whether or not they
-should kill him. This they evidently hesitated to do, but finally
-decided to take him out and throw him into his well, probably having in
-mind that this would not kill him, but would make him a close prisoner
-for a time. On taking him to the well, however, they found it to be a
-bored one and therefore only eight or ten inches in diameter. Of course
-this frustrated that plan, and they returned him to the house, and
-throwing him on his bed, proceeded to tie him, and after threatening to
-kill him in case he at any time made them any trouble over the affair,
-they left him. As soon as they were gone Wheaton succeeded in releasing
-himself and went to the home of J. P. Hohusen, not far away, naturally
-nearly prostrated from his fright and the terrible ordeal through which
-he had just passed. The next day Wheaton, accompanied by Ira Davis, a
-brother of Dr. Davis, came to Tucson and reported the case to Judge C.
-H. Meyer, an old-time justice of the peace.
-
-
-“Old Charley Meyer,” Law Unto Himself.
-
-Old Charlie Meyer, as he was familiarly called, was indeed a character,
-and had the well-earned reputation of meeting out justice with an
-iron hand, and, due in a large measure to his eccentric methods of
-administering justice, was quite popular with the well meaning, but
-certainly a terror to the evil-doer. Judge Meyer’s conception of
-justice and the language of the statutes frequently failed to be in
-full harmony, but that, of course, was not a matter for which he was
-responsible, and should not, and did not, interfere in the slightest
-degree with the administration of justice in his court. Meyer recalled
-that four Mexicans had that same day come into his court and, by the
-deposit of $60 as bail, had secured the release of their friend, one El
-Zorra, who was being held for some offense, having been unable until
-then to secure bail. Three of these four men were immediately found and
-arrested. The fourth, having started for Mexico, was followed by the
-officers and overtaken at Boley’s Well, where, in resisting arrest, he
-was shot and killed by Bob Cannon, one of the officers. On trial of the
-other three, Hohusen was able to fully identify one of the bills in
-the $60 turned in to Judge Meyer’s court as one that he had personally
-paid to Wheaton a few days before. In addition to this, one of the
-men, Pancho Gomez, having turned state’s evidence, they were all three
-convicted and sentenced to the Territorial prison, Gomez, however, for
-a shorter term than the others.
-
-
-“Tommy Gates Displays Magnificent Nerve.”
-
-While serving their terms, on October 27, 1887, in an attempted
-outbreak at the prison, in which these men participated, the prisoners
-succeeded in getting hold of the superintendent of the prison, Thomas
-Gates, familiarly known as Tommy Gates, and threatened to take his
-life if he permitted the guards to fire on them. Notwithstanding this,
-he ordered the guards to fire, when one of the Wheaton convicts, one
-Puebla, thrust a knife first into his shoulder and then into his back,
-seriously but not fatally wounding him. Barney Riggs, a life-termer,
-then succeeded in getting hold of a pistol, shot and killed Puebla,
-and for this was subsequently pardoned out, in response to the almost
-unanimous sentiment of the Territory. In the emeute four of the
-prisoners were killed outright, and Tommy Gates’s display of nerve on
-the occasion goes into history as a heroic example of self sacrifice in
-the discharge of duty.
-
-
-Brutal Murder of Mrs. Peck and Baby.
-
-On April 27, 1886, a band of Indians appeared at the ranch of A. L.
-Peck, about twenty miles from Oro Blanco, where they found Mrs. Peck,
-her baby, about eleven months old, and her niece, Jenny, a young girl
-of about 11 years. Killing Mrs. Peck and the baby, they took the young
-girl away with them. It was asserted by some at the time, including
-Peck himself, that the leader of this band was Geronimo, but I think
-this could hardly have been possible, for the reason that the leader
-was too young and spoke good English, whereas Geronimo did not speak
-English. In giving the “Story of His Life” to S. M. Barrett, at Fort
-Sill, not many years ago, it had to be done through an interpreter.
-Besides, Geronimo had escaped from General Crook, sixty-five miles
-south of Fort Bowie and 125 miles east of Oro Blanco, on the night
-of March 29th, only a month previous, and gone into the Sierra Madre
-mountains. It is my opinion that Geronimo was never seen in Arizona
-subsequent to that time until he surrendered to General Miles and was
-brought to Fort Bowie the following September.
-
-At the time of the killing of Mrs. Peck, Peck and a young man by the
-name of Charles Owen were a mile or two away from the house, both being
-mounted but unarmed, and were in the act of catching a steer. The
-Indians surprising them, Peck’s horse was shot from under him and he
-was captured and held prisoner. Owen, being well mounted, made a dash
-for his life, but ran into another part of the same band. His horse
-was shot from under him, and Owen himself was shot through the neck and
-arm, killing him instantly. Those that had Peck were apparently waiting
-for their leader for instructions as to what to do with him. The leader
-soon coming up, after taking from Peck his boots, knife and tobacco,
-they released him, telling him, however, not to go home. Before
-releasing him, one of the Indians, for some unexplainable reason, gave
-him 65 cents in money. A squaw with this band had little Jenny on a
-horse with her. Jenny was crying bitterly, and when Peck attempted
-to talk with her the Indians intervened and prevented his doing so.
-About six weeks later she was rescued from the Indians by some Mexican
-cowboys, at a point about forty miles from Magdalena, Sonora, where she
-was delivered to Peck, who had gone after her. As soon as released,
-Peck went directly home, where he found his wife and baby lying dead.
-
-
-Shanahan Killed, “Yank” Bartlett Wounded.
-
-The day following the killing of Mrs. Peck and her baby, John Shanahan,
-who was unarmed, left “Yank” Bartlett’s ranch in Bear Valley, about
-eight miles from Oro Blanco, for his own place, about three miles
-distant, leaving at the ranch with Bartlett his little son Phil, about
-ten years of age, who was there visiting Johnnie Bartlett, of about
-the same age. Shanahan had been gone but about ten minutes, when
-Johnnie ran into the room where his father was, telling him that he
-had just heard three shots, and that he thought maybe the Indians had
-shot the “old man”. Bartlett, who had not heard of the Indians being
-in the vicinity, scouted the idea, but on going outside saw Shanahan
-approaching, and ran to him and assisted him into the house, Shanahan
-telling him that the Indians had shot him. Bartlett immediately seized
-his gun, and on going to the door a bullet fired by one of the Indians
-whistled past his head. There were but three of the Indians, but having
-placed themselves in different positions, it was hardly possible for
-Bartlett to get a shot at them without exposing himself to their fire,
-and one shot from them passing through his shoulder, only missed the
-head of Johnnie by about an inch, blinding him from the dust of the
-adobe wall as the bullet struck it. The fight between Bartlett and the
-three Indians was kept up until dark. Shanahan, fatally wounded, was
-constantly calling out for water. Bartlett thinks that in the fight he
-wounded one of the Indians.
-
-
-Little Phil Saves Mother and Sisters
-
-Shanahan’s story is that a short time after leaving the house, being
-totally unconscious of any danger, he was suddenly shot by an Indian,
-whom he then saw only about thirty feet away. Picking up a rock and
-starting for the Indian, Shanahan received another shot from behind
-that knocked him down, but he was immediately up again and ran back
-for the house, Bartlett meeting and assisting him in. Shanahan saw but
-two Indians, and said he could have killed both if he had had a gun.
-During the time Bartlett was keeping the Indians at bay, realizing the
-danger of Mrs. Shanahan and her two young daughters, at their home
-three miles away, he told Phil, Shanahan’s little son, to steal out of
-the house by a back way and go to his home and notify his mother of
-their danger and of the shooting of his father. Phil demurred at first,
-wanting to stay with his father, who was suffering intensely, but being
-told that unless he went his mother and little sisters would surely
-be killed, the little fellow courageously said he would try to get to
-them, and good fortune favoring him, he succeeded in doing so. Finding
-them in the garden, they all, including Phil, immediately started for
-the mountains, where they concealed themselves until the following
-day. In the meantime the Indians had come to the house and carried off
-or wrecked everything in it, and would undoubtedly have killed Mrs.
-Shanahan and the two little girls had not brave little Phil, at the
-risk of his life, warned them of the danger.
-
-
-Brave Little Johnnie Bartlett.
-
-Bartlett kept the Indians off until dark, when it is probable they
-left, as they were not seen again. Soon after dark, Bartlett told
-Johnnie that he must go to Oro Blanco and notify the people of the
-shooting of Shanahan and himself, and that Shanahan was probably dying.
-When little Johnnie was told that he must do this, like the little hero
-he was, he simply said: “All right, papa,” and immediately started,
-first taking off his shoes and going barefoot the first mile or two,
-to avoid making any sound. Johnnie, on foot, reached Oro Blanco, eight
-miles away, about two o’clock in the morning and gave the alarm.
-A posse was immediately made up and started for the scene of the
-troubles, where they found Shanahan dead and Bartlett wounded, and the
-Indians evidently gone.
-
-
-General Crook Relieved.
-
-Gen. George Crook came to Arizona in 1870, remaining in command of the
-department here until 1875, when he was transferred to the department
-of the Platte, and was reassigned and returned to Arizona in 1882.
-In 1886, evidently taking exception to an implied criticism from the
-Department at Washington, and, as he expressed it, “having spent nearly
-eight years of the hardest work of his life in this department”, he
-asked to be relieved. Crook was criticized in Arizona at the time for
-a too abiding faith in the loyalty of his Indian scouts, and many of
-us believed this criticism to be fully justified. There is hardly a
-doubt that much of the ammunition used by the renegades was supplied
-them by these same scouts. It was but a few months prior to Crook’s
-being relieved that Capt. Crawford, a zealous and gallant officer,
-while engaged in his thankless task of ridding their own country of
-these pests, was treacherously killed by Mexican irregular troops in
-the Sierra Madre mountains. It is true that these irregular troops were
-Tarahumari Indians, possibly as wild and uncontrollable as the Apaches
-themselves, and that may extenuate the treachery to some extent, but
-the fact remains that the officers in command were not Indians, but
-Mexicans.
-
-
-Geronimo Surrenders to General Miles.
-
-On April 2, 1886, Gen. Miles, superseding Crook, took command of the
-Department of Arizona, and in his “Personal Recollections” he speaks
-of finding here, stationed at Fort Huachuca, a “fair-haired, blue-eyed
-young man of great intellect, manly qualities and resolute spirit, a
-splendid type of American manhood”. This “fair-haired, blue-eyed young
-man” of 1886 was at the time Assistant Surgeon in the Army. He is now
-Major General Leonard Wood, late Chief of Staff, U. S. Army.
-
-On the 4th of September following Miles’s assuming command, Geronimo
-and his band surrendered to him, and on September 8th they left Fort
-Bowie for Fort Marion, Florida. The point of surrender to Miles was
-at Skeleton canyon, in Mexico, about 65 miles south of Fort Bowie.
-The surrender of Geronimo may be fixed as the date of the termination
-of the many years of warfare between the whites and the Apaches as
-a tribe, a warfare marked with a cruelty on the part of the Apaches
-probably unparalleled in the history of the four hundred years of
-strife between the whites on the one side and the redman on the other.
-
-
-Apache Kid Begins Bloody Career.
-
-I have said that the surrender of Geronimo terminated the many years
-of bloody warfare with the Apaches as a tribe, but the Indian tribes
-may, and do, have outlaws in their own tribe, outlaws for whom as a
-tribe they are in no way responsible, and for whose acts the individual
-and not the tribe should alone be held amenable. Even the white tribe
-is not altogether immune from this infliction. In this class, among
-others, was the “Apache Kid”, who, following the surrender of Geronimo,
-with a few lawless followers made independent warfare on isolated,
-helpless settlers, leaving the footprints of his bloody work wherever
-he went. The Kid, sometimes called the Apache Kid, and at others simply
-Kid, was an Apache scout occupying the position of sergeant under Al
-Sieber, chief of scouts. On June 1, 1887, the Kid shot Sieber on the
-San Carlos reservation, wounding but not killing him, and this marks
-the beginning of Kid’s series of bloody crimes.
-
-Immediately following the shooting of Sieber, Kid, his squaw and
-sixteen other Indians, left the reservation.
-
-
-Capt. Burgess, Old-Time Scout
-
-An interesting old-time scout is Captain John D. Burgess, who came
-to Arizona in 1873 to look after some mining interests for General
-Kautz and Colonel Biddle of the army, subsequently becoming a guide
-and scout for the government, and in 1882 was chief of Indian police
-at San Carlos. At the time the Kid started out on his career, Captain
-Burgess was working some mines of his own at Table Mountain, in the
-Galiura mountains. The officer in command of the troops sent out from
-San Carlos in pursuit of the Kid and his followers, knowing Burgess,
-immediately secured his services as guide and trailer. Following the
-Kid and his band, they trailed them through to Pantano, where they had
-crossed the railroad, and going up Davidson’s canyon, and passing E.
-L. Vail’s ranch had accommodated themselves to a bunch of his horses.
-Passing down the east side of the Santa Ritas, they killed Mike
-Grace, an old miner, near old Camp Crittenden. Here Captain Lawton,
-with a troop of the 4th Cavalry, heading them off and forcing them
-to turn back, they passed by Mountain Springs, near the present Vail
-station, and were run over the Rincon mountains, where they were so
-closely pursued that while in camp they lost all the horses they had
-stolen. They now headed for the reservation, which they succeeded in
-reaching before Lieutenant Carter Johnson, who was immediately behind,
-could overtake them, and here they surrendered, and in due course were
-tried and sent first to San Diego barracks, passing through Tucson on
-September 3rd, and subsequently, in February, 1888, were transferred to
-Fort Alcatraz, in the bay of San Francisco. Subsequently, the United
-States Supreme Court, having decided that the trial of an Indian
-devolved on the county in which the crime was committed, ordered that
-all Indians sentenced by other than the territorial courts should be
-returned to the Territory and tried by such courts. Under this order
-the Kid and several others were returned and tried by Judge Kibbey, at
-Globe, and on October 30, 1889, sentenced to imprisonment at Yuma, and
-were being taken there by Sheriff Reynolds and his Deputy, “Hunky-Dory”
-Holmes. They were being conveyed by stage over the Pinal mountains, via
-Riverside and Florence. In the stage were Reynolds, Holmes, a Mexican
-who was also being taken to Yuma, the Kid and seven other Indians, and
-Eugene Middleton the driver of the stage, making twelve in all.
-
-
-Killing of Sheriff and Deputy and Escape of Kid
-
-The Indians were handcuffed together, two and two, and had shackles
-on their ankles. They stopped over night at Riverside, about half-way
-between Globe and Florence. Leaving Riverside early on the morning of
-November 2nd, while passing up a heavy sand-wash, the pulling being
-quite heavy, in order to relieve the team, the two officers and six
-of the Indians got out to walk, the Indians probably having had their
-shackles loosened from at least one ankle to enable them to do so;
-the Kid and one of the Indians still remaining in the stage. Suddenly
-the six Indians that were walking seized the two officers, whom they
-overpowered and killed with their own guns. As soon as Middleton
-discovered what was taking place, drawing his own revolver and covering
-the Kid and the other Indian still in the stage, he kept them quiet
-until, on standing up to look back, he was shot through the face by one
-of the other Indians. In the meantime the Mexican, taking advantage of
-the opportunity, escaped. Middleton, although badly wounded, was not
-killed; the Indians, however, evidently thought he was dead. He was,
-however, sufficiently conscious to realize what was taking place and
-avoided disabusing their minds of their belief, and in due course was
-rescued and taken to Globe, where he finally fully recovered.
-
-The eight Indians, now armed with a shot-gun, a Winchester rifle, and
-three revolvers, partly stripping Middleton and the two officers,
-hastened to get away. Stories of the manner of their relieving
-themselves of their shackles do not agree. One story is that, finding a
-blacksmith-shop near the mouth of the San Pedro river, they succeeded
-in cutting the shackles loose. Middleton’s statement is that, finding
-the keys in the pockets of the Sheriff, they easily freed themselves
-of their irons, and the plausibility of this is quite evident, as the
-officers must necessarily have had the keys with them. After their
-escape the Indians are supposed to have come along the west side of the
-Catalina mountains, and passed near the Half-way House, between Tucson
-and Fort Lowell, as their tracks were seen there crossing the road,
-going south.
-
-
-Sword Presented to General Miles.
-
-The people of Arizona, having been finally and, it was felt,
-permanently relieved of this black incubus that had been hanging over
-them for the many years dating back to their early coming to the
-Territory, and General Miles having contributed so largely to the
-result, decided to do something marking their appreciation of the
-services rendered them, and this found expression in the presentation
-of a sword. Through a popular subscription a magnificent sword costing
-$1000 was procured through Tiffany & Company of New York, the blade
-being of the finest steel, beautifully etched, and the hilt of solid
-gold. The presentation took place on November 8th, 1887, at Levin’s
-Park, at the foot of Pennington street. It was originally intended that
-the ceremony should take place on September 4th, the anniversary of the
-surrender of Geronimo, but that day falling on a Sunday, it was fixed
-for Monday the 5th. General Miles, however, having been injured by the
-overturning of the carriage in which he was out riding at Santa Monica,
-California, on August 8th, the presentation was delayed until the date
-named. Many notables in our country, also the Governors of neighboring
-Mexican States, were invited to be present. A distinguishing feature
-in the very long procession leading to the Park was three hundred
-mounted Papagos, under their chief, Asuncion Ruiz, in all their
-barbaric splendor of feathers and paint. The Papagos had always been
-the consistent friends of the whites and the inveterate foes of the
-Apaches, so they were more than glad to participate in this event. In
-addition to the conventional combination usually found in parades,
-there were the 4th U. S. cavalry band and a platoon of United States
-artillery, William Zeckendorf, one of the very early pioneers, acting
-as grand marshal. One of the photographs suggesting this article is of
-this procession, evidently taken from the roof of one of the buildings
-on the west side of Main street, looking up Pennington street, and
-shows the parade the full length of the street, the head not having
-quite reached Main street. The presentation was made on a platform
-erected for the purpose in the Park. Royal A. Johnson was president of
-the day, I having the honor of acting as secretary, and Judge W. H.
-Barnes making the presentation address. One of my duties as secretary
-was to read the letters of regret from those who had been invited
-but were unable to be present. Among these I now recall letters from
-Secretary of War Wm. C. Endicott, Gen. Sherman, and R. G. Ingersoll.
-Among those present were Major Chaffee, subsequently Lieutenant
-General, and Lieutenant Wood, now Major General. The other of the two
-photographs is of General Miles and those on the platform with him,
-taken as the general was delivering his address accepting the sword.
-In the evening, following the presentation, there was a reception and
-ball at the San Xavier hotel, since burned down, near the station; this
-hotel at the time was kept by Wheeler and Perry.
-
-
-Johnny Greenleaf Mistakes Scouts for Kid.
-
-As illustrating the trying experiences that one might be subject to
-during these troublous times when the fear of the Kid was in the very
-air, I may relate one of a friend of mine, Johnny Greenleaf. Johnny
-was sinking a well on his ranch, some distance from the house, and had
-just ridden to where his two men were at work, one in the well and the
-other on top. Suddenly a number of Indians came in sight, approaching
-the well. Recognizing them as Apaches, he naturally assumed them to
-be the Kid and some of his followers, and obeying the instinct of
-human nature, that of self-preservation, cried out, “Here comes the
-Kid!” quickly mounted his horse and started to escape. He had gone but
-a short distance, however, till that chivalrous spirit which makes
-one sacrifice his own life rather than cowardly desert his comrade,
-asserted itself, and he immediately turned and rode back to his men,
-both of whom were now on top, realizing at the same time that there
-was absolutely nothing that he could do, neither he nor his men having
-a shooting-iron of any kind, all of their weapons having been left at
-the house. The Indians now approaching the well, Johnny asked them in
-English what they were hunting and where they were going. One of them,
-speaking English very poorly, in trying to make himself understood
-mentioned the Kid in such a way that Johnny understood him to say that
-he was the Apache Kid. This simply confirmed what Johnny had thought,
-but it so startled him that for a while he could barely speak; for if
-this were the Kid, there was little chance for the lives of either
-Johnny or his men. Finally, recovering his nerve and asking something
-else, the Indian succeeded in making it understood that they were
-scouts from San Carlos and were seeking the Kid. You can well imagine
-the relief of the three men when they realized that they were in no
-danger.
-
-
-What Would You Do?
-
-I think I hear one of my readers saying that Johnny’s attempt to
-escape was a cowardly thing to do. Yes? What would you have done, and
-what would I, under the same circumstances? Unless idiotic, or too
-frightened to mount the horse, we would have done just what Johnny did.
-Assuming that this had been the Kid, as Johnny firmly believed, his
-escape meant the loss of but two lives, instead of the loss of the same
-two and the sacrifice of a third--his own--if he remained. But no man
-knows just exactly what he would do under a certain trying condition
-until he has been subjected to the test of that very condition. He may
-think he does, but he doesn’t. But having gone less than 100 yards,
-Johnny’s mind has had time to react, and the chivalrous spirit asserts
-itself, and he turns and rides back--to what? To his death, he has
-every reason to believe. But having gotten the 100 yards away, would
-you or I have turned and ridden back to our own certain death? Is there
-not a possibility that were the world wide enough and the horse strong
-enough we might still be going? In your imagination don’t place the
-standard too high for the nerve you think you possess, if at the time
-you are absolutely in no danger.
-
-
-Stoicism of Indian
-
-The following incident shows something of the character of these
-Ishmaelites of the desert. On one occasion five of them had been tried
-at Florence for the killing of someone in the Superstition mountains,
-and sentenced to be hanged. The night previous to the day of the
-hanging, while in their cells, with the death-watch outside, three of
-them, to avoid the ignominy of death by hanging, committed suicide by
-self-strangulation. This they could do only by each putting a cord
-around his neck and deliberately choking himself to death. The three
-were found dead in the morning when the guards entered their cells.
-
-Of course it is not possible to recall the names of all of the many
-whose lives were a sacrifice to the safety and prosperity of the great
-commonwealth that was to follow, but I have in mind that on June 7,
-1886, Thos. Hunt, a prospector, was killed near Harshaw, and on June 9
-of the same year Henry Baston was killed near Arivaca. On September 22,
-1888, W. B. Horton, post trader at San Carlos, was killed by one of the
-Indians on the reservation. But in this case punishment was swift, as
-the Indian police almost immediately killed the murderer while he was
-attempting to escape from the reservation.
-
-
-“Walapai” Clark and the Kid
-
-One of our early frontier characters was E. A. Clark, familiarly known
-as “Walapai”, having gained the title years ago when in the government
-service as chief of the Hualapai scouts. Clark was a giant in stature,
-measuring six feet three, absolutely fearless and in those olden
-times equally tireless. Coming to the Territory in ’69, his life and
-experiences here would fill a volume of intensely interesting reading,
-but in this limited article I can mention only a few of his closing
-Indian experiences, the culminating one--the one of the greatest
-service to the Territory--resulting in the death of that outlaw and
-terror of the border, this same Apache Kid. Clark’s first experience
-with the Kid was on June 3, 1887, two days after his shooting of Al
-Sieber. At the time, Clark was living at his ranch, the Oak Grove, in
-the Galiura mountains, about twelve miles east of the San Pedro river,
-but was absent, his two partners, John Scanlan and William Diehl, being
-at home. The Kid and his followers coming across the country from San
-Carlos, stole fifteen horses from William Atchley, then came on to
-Clark’s place, three miles further on. At the time, Diehl was about 150
-yards from the house, cutting some poles for a corral, when Scanlan,
-who was in the house, heard three shots, and, seizing his gun, ran
-out, and as he did so saw three Indians coming towards the house, and
-firing at them, they immediately sought shelter. When Scanlan fired
-at the Indians one of them lost a big sombrero which he was wearing,
-and which, probably very much to his regret, he was unable to recover.
-They then rounded up a number of Scanlan’s horses, not far away, and
-seemingly tried to get Scanlan to come out to protect his horses, and
-thus enable them to get a shot at him; but being unable to do this,
-they left, taking the horses with them. As soon as they had gone,
-Scanlan went to where Diehl was and found him dead, the Indians having
-shot him.
-
-
-Clark Vows Vengeance
-
-Clark, returning home a day or two later and finding his partner dead,
-vowed vengeance on the Kid, and this, several years later, he found
-opportunity to gratify. A few months later, Clark and Scanlan having
-occasion to be away, left a young engineer, J. A. Mercer, at the house,
-with a caution to be on the lookout for the Indians. Soon after, Mercer
-discovered three of them crawling up towards the house, but was in time
-to seize a rifle and fire at them, and as he did so they broke and ran.
-However, they took five of Clark’s horses in exchange for three of
-their own, which they killed before leaving.
-
-For several years Clark impatiently bided his time. To him the mills
-of the gods were, indeed, grinding slowly, but they were grinding, and
-the time was approaching when the grist should be delivered. In the
-meantime the Kid was continuing to lengthen his trail of blood. Now
-here, now there, the wily outlaw was ever at his work. A murder here
-today, he is heard of one hundred miles away tomorrow, leaving a trail
-behind him marked by where he had changed his mount by the stealing of
-a new one at some ranch, leaving his old one dead, in exchange. This
-was his practice, killing the animal he might leave by stabbing in the
-side, thus avoiding the sacrifice of any of his ammunition, which he
-could ill afford to lose. Being an outlaw with his own people, he found
-it difficult to replenish his belt.
-
-
-Kid Nears End of His Trail of Blood
-
-But at last the end of his career of robbery and bloodshed is
-approaching. The opportunity that Clark has been waiting all these
-years is nigh at hand. The Apache Kid’s race is about run. Clark had
-been away from home, and when returning, on February 4, 1894, passing
-by the house of Emmerson, a neighbor, about a mile from his own home,
-he noticed the tracks of three Indians about the house, and going
-inside, found they had robbed it of its contents. Going on home, he
-found his partner, Scanlan, whom the Indians had not disturbed, and
-said to him, “Scanlan, your old friend the Kid has been around again.”
-
-Soon after, Clark, taking his gun, went out of the house for the
-purpose of “scouting the country around” and seeing whether he might
-get sight of the Indians. Going to the top of a peak near by, where he
-could overlook the surrounding country without unduly exposing himself,
-he awaited events, not realizing what an approaching one should mean
-to himself, and to an old enemy on whom he had vowed vengeance for
-the death of his old-time partner, and that this event would mark an
-era in a life ever filled with its dangers, not one of which had ever
-been shirked, but always bravely met. The opportunity for which he
-had waited, and in his way--a way probably familiar only to the “old
-scout”--had prayed for, was but a few short hours away. The language
-of his prayers, except for its fervency, may not have been up to the
-orthodox standard, but he knew what he wanted, and in asking for it
-used the language with which he was familiar--the language of the
-desert and the mountain, the camp-fire and the trail.
-
-
-Closing Act in Great Drama
-
-Clark had been there for probably twenty minutes, when, looking off
-across an intervening canyon, he noticed three Indians approaching his
-horse where it was grazing, about 1500 yards away. The Indians not
-having discovered Clark, who, knowing it would be impossible to get
-across the canyon in time to save his horse, raised the sights of his
-gun, and fired at them, not expecting, however, to hit any one of them
-at that distance, but hoping to frighten them away from his horse. On
-firing, Clark immediately ducked into the canyon, out of sight of the
-Indians, who were evidently frightened by the shot. Waiting there until
-dusk, he cautiously crawled towards his horse for the purpose of taking
-him to the house, and was within about seventy-five yards of him, it
-being too dark to see an object distinctly at any distance, when he
-saw two Indians approaching the horse, and only a few steps from the
-animal and about 50 yards from where Clark was. Owing to the darkness
-it was impossible to more than distinguish the two Indians, who were
-but a few feet apart, one ahead of the other. These were subsequently
-found to be the Kid and his squaw, the squaw in front and nearest to
-Clark, but owing to the darkness it was impossible to distinguish one
-from the other. Clark instantly raised his gun and fired at the one
-nearest to him, but, being unable to see the sights, could only take a
-quick aim along the barrel. By his long experience with a gun he knew
-the danger of overshooting in the dark, and made allowance accordingly.
-As Clark fired there came a simultaneous report from the Kid’s rifle
-and an outcry from the squaw, and from the character of this outcry,
-Clark knew that he had made the mistake of firing at the wrong Indian.
-The ball from the Kid’s gun whistled alarmingly close to Clark’s head,
-but fortunately did no harm. Following the shots, the two Indians
-immediately dropped to the ground, and as fast as the old scout could
-work his rifle he “pumped the lead” into where they had dropped, firing
-several shots. The Indian, however, fired but the one shot. Clark then
-made a run for his horse, but the animal being frightened, he was
-unable to catch him.
-
-Not knowing how many of the Indians there might be about, Clark
-immediately set out for Mammoth, on the San Pedro, where he procured
-a small posse, and was back at the scene of the shooting by morning,
-finding the squaw dead a short distance from where she had been shot.
-Following the Kid’s trail, they found that he had hopped on one foot to
-where he had left his horse, one of his legs evidently being broken.
-Scouts from San Carlos, following his trail, found some bloody rags
-where he had built a little fire, and probably dressed his wounds.
-
-
-Kid’s Career Ended
-
-Thus ended the murderous career of the Kid, the terror of the
-Southwest. Clark had undoubtedly hit him with one or more of his shots.
-Where or how soon after he may have died, no white man knows, Clark
-being the last one to see him, as the two shots simultaneously rang out
-on the silence of that night. Had it been the Kid instead of the squaw,
-Clark would have earned the large reward that was offered for him dead
-or alive. Tom Horn, an old scout, who spoke the Apache language like a
-native, came from Denver subsequently, hoping that by some chance the
-Kid might still be living somewhere and that he might earn the reward.
-The mother and the sister, however, both assured him that the Kid was
-dead, but beyond this would say nothing.
-
-It would seem that there could be no more fitting ending to this little
-sketch than its dedication to the memory of those old-timers, makers of
-early-day history, the old pioneers. Each well played his individual
-part in that great border drama. On them the curtain has rung down for
-the last time. To them the succeeding generations owe much.
-
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-<h1>The Dread Apache—That<br>
-Early-Day Scourge of<br>
-the Southwest</h1>
-
-<p><i>By</i><br>
-<span class="large">DR. M. P. FREEMAN</span></p>
-
-<p>Tucson, Arizona<br>
-November 14<br>
-1915</p><br>
-</div>
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-<p class="ph2">The Dread Apache—That<br>
-Early-Day Scourge of<br>
-the Southwest</p>
-</div>
-
-<p class="ph1">BY DR. M. P. FREEMAN</p>
-
-<p>A short time ago, idling through a
-collection of early-day photographs, I
-came across two that vividly recalled
-the closing scenes in that bloody frontier
-drama in which the Apache was
-the chief actor. For many years the
-relentless foe of the pioneer, wary,
-tireless, cowardly and treacherous, he
-was the very incarnation of fiendishness,
-if possible, more pronounced in
-the squaw than in the man. Never
-meeting you in the open, always in ambush,
-concealed behind the big granite
-boulder, the point of a hill or a clump
-of brush, he and his fellows patiently
-awaited your solitary coming, all unconscious
-of danger, then—the crack
-of the rifle and it is all over. Today
-he might be a “sniper”, but in the days
-of his hellish activities the word had
-not yet been given its more recently
-enlarged meaning.</p>
-
-<h2>2000 Pioneers Victims of Apaches.</h2>
-
-<p>How many breakers of the wilderness,
-hardy, fearless old-timers, were
-sent to their final rest by this early
-scourge of the desert, who can say!
-Some place their number at two thousand,
-some say more, others less. This
-does not include the soldier boy,
-whose profession it is to risk his life,
-and when necessary, his duty, its sacrifice.
-Of the number of these there
-is probably a record somewhere, but of
-the old pioneer, only an estimate. In
-the valley, on the mesa and the hillside,
-on the mountain-top and in the
-deep shadows of the canyon, everywhere
-this broad land is dotted with
-their unknown and unmarked graves.</p>
-
-<p>Captain John G. Bourke, author of
-“On the Border with Crook,” and “An
-Apache Campaign,” who was with Gen.
-Crook, tells us that the Apache “is no
-coward, but that he has no false ideas
-about courage, that he would prefer to
-skulk like a coyote for hours and then
-kill his enemy, rather than by injudicious
-exposure receive a wound.”
-May we not attribute to the chivalrous
-spirit of Capt. Bourke, not to criticize
-a foe, his delicate way of putting this?</p>
-
-<p>No, I do not recall that this early
-plague of the old pioneer ever “injudiciously
-exposed” himself unless driven
-to it. “Skulking like the coyote,” as
-Capt. Bourke so well expresses it, is
-my conception of his bravery. If
-forced to the open he would undoubtedly
-make a brave fight, but I have never
-heard of his voluntarily seeking that
-open, meeting his enemy on anything
-approaching equal terms.</p>
-
-<h2>Paris Adopts Name of Apache</h2>
-
-<p>Being over in Paris a few years ago,
-a friend who had lived there a number
-of years, and who was as familiar with
-Paris from basement to roof-garden, as
-I am with Congress street of our good
-old town of Tucson, suggested one
-evening that we visit the “Apaches”.
-Expressing surprise that any of my
-people should have wandered so far
-from home, I suggested as a substitute
-the Moulin Rouge. However, the
-Apaches were agreed on, and in the
-evening, my friend, bringing a policeman
-with him, called for me at my
-hotel.</p>
-
-<p>Arriving at the door of the
-Apache rendezvous in due course, we
-three—my friend, the policeman and
-myself—are readily admitted, the presence
-of our policeman assuring that,
-and we find ourselves in an underground
-dive, a large room with a low
-ceiling, barely furnished, dimly lighted,
-and reeking with the sour odor of stale
-beer. Looking about the room, by the
-dim light as it forces its way through
-the dense gloom of tobacco smoke, we
-are enabled to see two other policemen
-besides our own—there are two
-stationed there day and night—and a
-score or more of the toughest-looking
-lot of cut-throats I had ever had the
-pleasure of coming in contact with.
-This was the retreat, the gathering
-place, of as bad a lot of thieves, thugs,
-robbers, burglars and murderers as the
-world could boast of, and Paris, in
-seeking a name for them that would
-embody all of these characteristics,
-had searched the world over, and was
-almost in despair of finding a single
-word that would express all that is
-mean, wantonly cruel, murderous and
-cowardly, but at last attention was directed
-to the Apache of Arizona, and
-then it was discovered that the word
-which would embody all that and more
-had been found. And that was why I
-was enabled to find some of my own
-home people away off there in the
-world’s center of fashion. Settling for
-a few bottles of the vilest beer possible
-to brew, as a tip to the house, I was
-soon ready to ask my friend to call his
-policeman and get us away from this
-vile den.</p>
-
-<h2>Judge McComas and Wife Murdered.</h2>
-
-<p>It is scarcely more than a quarter of
-a century, March, 1883, since Judge McComas,
-his wife and their little son
-Charlie, about seven years of age, coming
-from Silver City, New Mexico, to
-Lordsburg, were ambushed by a band
-of Apaches from San Carlos, the Judge
-and his wife killed, and poor little
-Charlie carried off to the Sierra Madres
-in Mexico, where, a few years later, an
-Apache squaw reported that on their
-camp being attacked by United States
-troops, Charlie, being frightened, ran
-off into the mountains, where he is supposed
-to have died of hunger and exposure.</p>
-
-<p>It was during this same year that a
-band passing over the Whetstone
-range of mountains killed a teamster
-and two of his men and a wood-chopper,
-who were furnishing wood for the
-Total Wreck mine.</p>
-
-<p>On July 3, 1885, Frank Peterson, who
-was carrying the United States mail
-between Crittenden and Lochiel, was
-killed by the Indians while returning
-from Lochiel to Crittenden. A sad feature
-in connection with this killing was
-that he had just been married.</p>
-
-<h2>Dr. Davis Shot to Death.</h2>
-
-<p>On June 3, 1886, Dr. C. H. Davis, a
-brother of W. C. Davis, of Tucson, coming
-from the San Pedro river over the
-pass between the Catalinas and the
-Rincons, with a wagon and span of
-mules, was waylaid and killed by a
-band of these outlaws. J. P. Hohusen
-and W. H. Wheaton, coming from their
-homes on the San Pedro the day before,
-met Dr. Davis going out, and
-warned him against the Indians, but
-having been in the country but a short
-time, he failed to appreciate the danger
-and made light of the warning.</p>
-
-<p>It was subsequently learned that
-Hohusen and Wheaton narrowly escaped
-this same band themselves as they
-were coming in to Tucson. When Hohusen
-returned home he learned from
-his man that the Indians had been at
-his place the night before the killing
-of Davis, and attempted to drive off
-some of his horses from the pasture;
-but the man, seizing his rifle, jumped
-into a well which was partly caved in
-and which naturally furnished him an
-excellent defensive position, and from
-this he fired at the Indians, but without
-apparent effect other than to force
-them to leave the place. After the
-killing of Dr. Davis, the Indians, taking
-the two mules, went to Walter
-Vail’s Happy Valley ranch, in the Rincons,
-where they left the mules in exchange
-for a bunch of Vail’s
-horses, shooting, but not killing,
-Cal Mathews, the herder. From
-Happy Valley they passed south
-into the Whetstones, where they
-shot and killed Marcus Goldbaum.
-Edward L. Vail, one of the party going
-out to the scene of the killing, found
-that the Indians had been gone but a
-few hours, having also killed a partner
-of Goldbaum as he was en route to
-Benson.</p>
-
-<h2>Little Boy Taken From Gastelo Ranch.</h2>
-
-<p>It was not long prior to this that a
-band working back from the Sierra
-Madres to the San Carlos reservation
-attacked the ranch of Juan Gastelo,
-not over fifteen miles from Tucson,
-near Tanque Verde, and carried off
-with them a little Mexican boy. The
-news coming to town, a volunteer company
-was immediately formed by M. G.
-Samaniego (now dead) and R. N.
-Leatherwood, our Bob. Samaniego,
-having had a brother killed by the
-Apaches a few years before, was more
-than keen for an opportunity to avenge
-his death. The volunteer company, led
-by Leatherwood and Samaniego, came
-upon the band, encamped in the
-neighborhood of Tanque Verde. The
-Indians, however, being alarmed by
-the premature firing of a gun, scattered
-like a flock of quail and got away,
-but the boy, escaping, was recovered
-by the volunteers.</p>
-
-<p>On another occasion a band, killing
-a rancher named Lloyd, four miles
-north of Pantano, stole the horses of
-Ed Vail and George Scholefield, near
-Rosemont, and passing on south, killed
-a man named Wimple, near Greaterville.</p>
-
-<h2>Mexicans Attack and Rob Wheaton.</h2>
-
-<p>A trying experience in the life of
-Wheaton, who narrowly escaped the
-band that killed Dr. Davis, was when
-four Mexicans came to his ranch on
-the San Pedro river one evening, he
-being entirely alone at the time, and
-demanded his money, which they said
-they knew him to have from the sale
-of some hogs. He, however, denying
-that he had any money, they proceeded
-to put a rope round his neck, and
-strung him up three or four times,
-each time demanding that he tell
-where the money was concealed, and
-he still denying that he had any. During
-all this time they were trying to
-find where the money was hidden, and
-finally discovered it, about $60, in the
-window casing. Then the question
-was debated as to what they should
-do with Wheaton; whether or not they
-should kill him. This they evidently
-hesitated to do, but finally decided to
-take him out and throw him into his
-well, probably having in mind that
-this would not kill him, but would
-make him a close prisoner for a time.
-On taking him to the well, however,
-they found it to be a bored one and
-therefore only eight or ten inches in
-diameter. Of course this frustrated
-that plan, and they returned him to the
-house, and throwing him on his bed,
-proceeded to tie him, and after threatening
-to kill him in case he at any time
-made them any trouble over the affair,
-they left him. As soon as they were
-gone Wheaton succeeded in releasing
-himself and went to the home of J. P.
-Hohusen, not far away, naturally nearly
-prostrated from his fright and the
-terrible ordeal through which he had
-just passed. The next day Wheaton,
-accompanied by Ira Davis, a brother of
-Dr. Davis, came to Tucson and reported
-the case to Judge C. H. Meyer, an
-old-time justice of the peace.</p>
-
-<h2>“Old Charley Meyer,” Law Unto Himself.</h2>
-
-<p>Old Charlie Meyer, as he was familiarly
-called, was indeed a character,
-and had the well-earned reputation of
-meeting out justice with an iron hand,
-and, due in a large measure to his eccentric
-methods of administering justice,
-was quite popular with the well
-meaning, but certainly a terror to the
-evil-doer. Judge Meyer’s conception
-of justice and the language of the
-statutes frequently failed to be in full
-harmony, but that, of course, was not
-a matter for which he was responsible,
-and should not, and did not, interfere
-in the slightest degree with the administration
-of justice in his court. Meyer
-recalled that four Mexicans had that
-same day come into his court and, by
-the deposit of $60 as bail, had secured
-the release of their friend, one El
-Zorra, who was being held for some
-offense, having been unable until then
-to secure bail. Three of these four
-men were immediately found and arrested.
-The fourth, having started for
-Mexico, was followed by the officers
-and overtaken at Boley’s Well, where,
-in resisting arrest, he was shot and
-killed by Bob Cannon, one of the officers.
-On trial of the other three, Hohusen
-was able to fully identify one
-of the bills in the $60 turned in to
-Judge Meyer’s court as one that he had
-personally paid to Wheaton a few days
-before. In addition to this, one of the
-men, Pancho Gomez, having turned
-state’s evidence, they were all three
-convicted and sentenced to the Territorial
-prison, Gomez, however, for a
-shorter term than the others.</p>
-
-<h2>“Tommy Gates Displays Magnificent
-Nerve.”</h2>
-
-<p>While serving their terms, on October
-27, 1887, in an attempted outbreak
-at the prison, in which these men participated,
-the prisoners succeeded in
-getting hold of the superintendent of
-the prison, Thomas Gates, familiarly
-known as Tommy Gates, and threatened
-to take his life if he permitted the
-guards to fire on them. Notwithstanding
-this, he ordered the guards to fire,
-when one of the Wheaton convicts, one
-Puebla, thrust a knife first into his
-shoulder and then into his back, seriously
-but not fatally wounding him.
-Barney Riggs, a life-termer, then succeeded
-in getting hold of a pistol, shot
-and killed Puebla, and for this was
-subsequently pardoned out, in response
-to the almost unanimous sentiment of
-the Territory. In the emeute four of
-the prisoners were killed outright, and
-Tommy Gates’s display of nerve on the
-occasion goes into history as a heroic
-example of self sacrifice in the discharge
-of duty.</p>
-
-<h2>Brutal Murder of Mrs. Peck and Baby.</h2>
-
-<p>On April 27, 1886, a band of Indians
-appeared at the ranch of A. L. Peck,
-about twenty miles from Oro Blanco,
-where they found Mrs. Peck, her baby,
-about eleven months old, and her
-niece, Jenny, a young girl of about 11
-years. Killing Mrs. Peck and the baby,
-they took the young girl away with
-them. It was asserted by some at the
-time, including Peck himself, that the
-leader of this band was Geronimo, but
-I think this could hardly have been
-possible, for the reason that the leader
-was too young and spoke good English,
-whereas Geronimo did not speak English.
-In giving the “Story of His Life”
-to S. M. Barrett, at Fort Sill, not many
-years ago, it had to be done through
-an interpreter. Besides, Geronimo had
-escaped from General Crook, sixty-five
-miles south of Fort Bowie and 125
-miles east of Oro Blanco, on the night
-of March 29th, only a month previous,
-and gone into the Sierra Madre mountains.
-It is my opinion that Geronimo
-was never seen in Arizona subsequent
-to that time until he surrendered to
-General Miles and was brought to Fort
-Bowie the following September.</p>
-
-<p>At the time of the killing of Mrs.
-Peck, Peck and a young man by the
-name of Charles Owen were a mile or
-two away from the house, both being
-mounted but unarmed, and were in the
-act of catching a steer. The Indians
-surprising them, Peck’s horse was shot
-from under him and he was captured
-and held prisoner. Owen, being well
-mounted, made a dash for his life, but
-ran into another part of the same
-band. His horse was shot from under
-him, and Owen himself was shot
-through the neck and arm, killing him
-instantly. Those that had Peck were
-apparently waiting for their leader for
-instructions as to what to do with him.
-The leader soon coming up, after taking
-from Peck his boots, knife and tobacco,
-they released him, telling him,
-however, not to go home. Before releasing
-him, one of the Indians, for
-some unexplainable reason, gave him
-65 cents in money. A squaw with this
-band had little Jenny on a horse with
-her. Jenny was crying bitterly, and
-when Peck attempted to talk with her
-the Indians intervened and prevented
-his doing so. About six weeks later
-she was rescued from the Indians by
-some Mexican cowboys, at a point
-about forty miles from Magdalena, Sonora,
-where she was delivered to Peck,
-who had gone after her. As soon as
-released, Peck went directly home,
-where he found his wife and baby lying
-dead.</p>
-
-<h2>Shanahan Killed, “Yank” Bartlett
-Wounded.</h2>
-
-<p>The day following the killing
-of Mrs. Peck and her baby, John
-Shanahan, who was unarmed, left
-“Yank” Bartlett’s ranch in Bear
-Valley, about eight miles from Oro
-Blanco, for his own place, about
-three miles distant, leaving at the
-ranch with Bartlett his little son Phil,
-about ten years of age, who was there
-visiting Johnnie Bartlett, of about the
-same age. Shanahan had been gone
-but about ten minutes, when Johnnie
-ran into the room where his father
-was, telling him that he had just heard
-three shots, and that he thought maybe
-the Indians had shot the “old man”.
-Bartlett, who had not heard of the Indians
-being in the vicinity, scouted
-the idea, but on going outside saw
-Shanahan approaching, and ran to him
-and assisted him into the house, Shanahan
-telling him that the Indians had
-shot him. Bartlett immediately seized
-his gun, and on going to the door a
-bullet fired by one of the Indians whistled
-past his head. There were but
-three of the Indians, but having placed
-themselves in different positions, it
-was hardly possible for Bartlett to get
-a shot at them without exposing himself
-to their fire, and one shot from
-them passing through his shoulder,
-only missed the head of Johnnie by
-about an inch, blinding him from the
-dust of the adobe wall as the bullet
-struck it. The fight between Bartlett
-and the three Indians was kept up
-until dark. Shanahan, fatally wounded,
-was constantly calling out for water.
-Bartlett thinks that in the fight he
-wounded one of the Indians.</p>
-
-<h2>Little Phil Saves Mother and Sisters</h2>
-
-<p>Shanahan’s story is that a short time
-after leaving the house, being totally
-unconscious of any danger, he was suddenly
-shot by an Indian, whom he then
-saw only about thirty feet away. Picking
-up a rock and starting for the Indian,
-Shanahan received another shot
-from behind that knocked him down,
-but he was immediately up again and
-ran back for the house, Bartlett meeting
-and assisting him in. Shanahan
-saw but two Indians, and said he could
-have killed both if he had had a gun.
-During the time Bartlett was keeping
-the Indians at bay, realizing the danger
-of Mrs. Shanahan and her two
-young daughters, at their home three
-miles away, he told Phil, Shanahan’s
-little son, to steal out of the house by
-a back way and go to his home and
-notify his mother of their danger and
-of the shooting of his father. Phil demurred
-at first, wanting to stay with
-his father, who was suffering intensely,
-but being told that unless he went his
-mother and little sisters would surely
-be killed, the little fellow courageously
-said he would try to get to them, and
-good fortune favoring him, he succeeded
-in doing so. Finding them in the
-garden, they all, including Phil, immediately
-started for the mountains,
-where they concealed themselves until
-the following day. In the meantime
-the Indians had come to the house and
-carried off or wrecked everything in it,
-and would undoubtedly have killed
-Mrs. Shanahan and the two little girls
-had not brave little Phil, at the risk of
-his life, warned them of the danger.</p>
-
-<h2>Brave Little Johnnie Bartlett.</h2>
-
-<p>Bartlett kept the Indians off until
-dark, when it is probable they left, as
-they were not seen again. Soon after
-dark, Bartlett told Johnnie that he
-must go to Oro Blanco and notify the
-people of the shooting of Shanahan
-and himself, and that Shanahan was
-probably dying. When little Johnnie
-was told that he must do this, like the
-little hero he was, he simply said: “All
-right, papa,” and immediately started,
-first taking off his shoes and going
-barefoot the first mile or two, to avoid
-making any sound. Johnnie, on foot,
-reached Oro Blanco, eight miles away,
-about two o’clock in the morning and
-gave the alarm. A posse was immediately
-made up and started for the
-scene of the troubles, where they found
-Shanahan dead and Bartlett wounded,
-and the Indians evidently gone.</p>
-
-<h2>General Crook Relieved.</h2>
-
-<p>Gen. George Crook came to Arizona
-in 1870, remaining in command of the
-department here until 1875, when he
-was transferred to the department of
-the Platte, and was reassigned and returned
-to Arizona in 1882. In 1886,
-evidently taking exception to an implied
-criticism from the Department
-at Washington, and, as he expressed
-it, “having spent nearly eight years of
-the hardest work of his life in this department”,
-he asked to be relieved.
-Crook was criticized in Arizona at the
-time for a too abiding faith in the loyalty
-of his Indian scouts, and many of
-us believed this criticism to be fully
-justified. There is hardly a doubt that
-much of the ammunition used by the
-renegades was supplied them by these
-same scouts. It was but a few months
-prior to Crook’s being relieved that
-Capt. Crawford, a zealous and gallant
-officer, while engaged in his thankless
-task of ridding their own country of
-these pests, was treacherously killed
-by Mexican irregular troops in the
-Sierra Madre mountains. It is true
-that these irregular troops were Tarahumari
-Indians, possibly as wild and
-uncontrollable as the Apaches themselves,
-and that may extenuate the
-treachery to some extent, but the fact
-remains that the officers in command
-were not Indians, but Mexicans.</p>
-
-<h2>Geronimo Surrenders to General Miles.</h2>
-
-<p>On April 2, 1886, Gen. Miles, superseding
-Crook, took command of the
-Department of Arizona, and in his
-“Personal Recollections” he speaks of
-finding here, stationed at Fort Huachuca,
-a “fair-haired, blue-eyed young
-man of great intellect, manly qualities
-and resolute spirit, a splendid type of
-American manhood”. This “fair-haired,
-blue-eyed young man” of 1886 was
-at the time Assistant Surgeon in the
-Army. He is now Major General Leonard
-Wood, late Chief of Staff, U. S.
-Army.</p>
-
-<p>On the 4th of September following
-Miles’s assuming command, Geronimo
-and his band surrendered to him, and
-on September 8th they left Fort Bowie
-for Fort Marion, Florida. The point
-of surrender to Miles was at Skeleton
-canyon, in Mexico, about 65 miles
-south of Fort Bowie. The surrender of
-Geronimo may be fixed as the date of
-the termination of the many years of
-warfare between the whites and the
-Apaches as a tribe, a warfare marked
-with a cruelty on the part of the
-Apaches probably unparalleled in the
-history of the four hundred years of
-strife between the whites on the one
-side and the redman on the other.</p>
-
-<h2>Apache Kid Begins Bloody Career.</h2>
-
-<p>I have said that the surrender of
-Geronimo terminated the many years
-of bloody warfare with the Apaches as
-a tribe, but the Indian tribes may, and
-do, have outlaws in their own tribe,
-outlaws for whom as a tribe they are
-in no way responsible, and for whose
-acts the individual and not the tribe
-should alone be held amenable. Even
-the white tribe is not altogether immune
-from this infliction. In this
-class, among others, was the “Apache
-Kid”, who, following the surrender of
-Geronimo, with a few lawless followers
-made independent warfare on isolated,
-helpless settlers, leaving the footprints
-of his bloody work wherever he went.
-The Kid, sometimes called the Apache
-Kid, and at others simply Kid, was an
-Apache scout occupying the position of
-sergeant under Al Sieber, chief of
-scouts. On June 1, 1887, the Kid shot
-Sieber on the San Carlos reservation,
-wounding but not killing him, and this
-marks the beginning of Kid’s series of
-bloody crimes.</p>
-
-<p>Immediately following the shooting
-of Sieber, Kid, his squaw and sixteen
-other Indians, left the reservation.</p>
-
-<h2>Capt. Burgess, Old-Time Scout</h2>
-
-<p>An interesting old-time scout is Captain
-John D. Burgess, who came to
-Arizona in 1873 to look after some
-mining interests for General Kautz and
-Colonel Biddle of the army, subsequently
-becoming a guide and scout
-for the government, and in 1882 was
-chief of Indian police at San Carlos.
-At the time the Kid started out on his
-career, Captain Burgess was working
-some mines of his own at Table Mountain,
-in the Galiura mountains. The
-officer in command of the troops sent
-out from San Carlos in pursuit of the
-Kid and his followers, knowing Burgess,
-immediately secured his services
-as guide and trailer. Following the
-Kid and his band, they trailed them
-through to Pantano, where they had
-crossed the railroad, and going up
-Davidson’s canyon, and passing E. L.
-Vail’s ranch had accommodated themselves
-to a bunch of his horses. Passing
-down the east side of the Santa
-Ritas, they killed Mike Grace, an old
-miner, near old Camp Crittenden. Here
-Captain Lawton, with a troop of the
-4th Cavalry, heading them off and forcing
-them to turn back, they passed by
-Mountain Springs, near the present
-Vail station, and were run over the
-Rincon mountains, where they were so
-closely pursued that while in camp
-they lost all the horses they had stolen.
-They now headed for the reservation,
-which they succeeded in reaching before
-Lieutenant Carter Johnson, who
-was immediately behind, could overtake
-them, and here they surrendered,
-and in due course were tried and sent
-first to San Diego barracks, passing
-through Tucson on September 3rd, and
-subsequently, in February, 1888, were
-transferred to Fort Alcatraz, in the bay
-of San Francisco. Subsequently, the
-United States Supreme Court, having
-decided that the trial of an Indian devolved
-on the county in which the
-crime was committed, ordered that all
-Indians sentenced by other than the
-territorial courts should be returned
-to the Territory and tried by such
-courts. Under this order the Kid and
-several others were returned and tried
-by Judge Kibbey, at Globe, and on
-October 30, 1889, sentenced to imprisonment
-at Yuma, and were being taken
-there by Sheriff Reynolds and his Deputy,
-“Hunky-Dory” Holmes. They were
-being conveyed by stage over the Pinal
-mountains, via Riverside and Florence.
-In the stage were Reynolds, Holmes, a
-Mexican who was also being taken to
-Yuma, the Kid and seven other Indians,
-and Eugene Middleton the driver
-of the stage, making twelve in all.</p>
-
-<h2>Killing of Sheriff and Deputy and Escape
-of Kid</h2>
-
-<p>The Indians were handcuffed together,
-two and two, and had shackles on
-their ankles. They stopped over night
-at Riverside, about half-way between
-Globe and Florence. Leaving Riverside
-early on the morning of November
-2nd, while passing up a heavy sand-wash,
-the pulling being quite heavy, in
-order to relieve the team, the two officers
-and six of the Indians got out to
-walk, the Indians probably having had
-their shackles loosened from at least
-one ankle to enable them to do so; the
-Kid and one of the Indians still remaining
-in the stage. Suddenly the six Indians
-that were walking seized the two
-officers, whom they overpowered and
-killed with their own guns. As soon as
-Middleton discovered what was taking
-place, drawing his own revolver and
-covering the Kid and the other Indian
-still in the stage, he kept them quiet
-until, on standing up to look back, he
-was shot through the face by one of
-the other Indians. In the meantime
-the Mexican, taking advantage of the
-opportunity, escaped. Middleton, although
-badly wounded, was not killed;
-the Indians, however, evidently thought
-he was dead. He was, however, sufficiently
-conscious to realize what was
-taking place and avoided disabusing
-their minds of their belief, and in due
-course was rescued and taken to Globe,
-where he finally fully recovered.</p>
-
-<p>The eight Indians, now armed with
-a shot-gun, a Winchester rifle, and
-three revolvers, partly stripping Middleton
-and the two officers, hastened
-to get away. Stories of the manner of
-their relieving themselves of their
-shackles do not agree. One story is
-that, finding a blacksmith-shop near
-the mouth of the San Pedro river, they
-succeeded in cutting the shackles
-loose. Middleton’s statement is that,
-finding the keys in the pockets of the
-Sheriff, they easily freed themselves
-of their irons, and the plausibility of
-this is quite evident, as the officers
-must necessarily have had the keys
-with them. After their escape the Indians
-are supposed to have come along
-the west side of the Catalina mountains,
-and passed near the Half-way
-House, between Tucson and Fort Lowell,
-as their tracks were seen there
-crossing the road, going south.</p>
-
-<h2>Sword Presented to General Miles.</h2>
-
-<p>The people of Arizona, having been
-finally and, it was felt, permanently relieved
-of this black incubus that had
-been hanging over them for the many
-years dating back to their early coming
-to the Territory, and General Miles
-having contributed so largely to the
-result, decided to do something marking
-their appreciation of the services
-rendered them, and this found expression
-in the presentation of a sword.
-Through a popular subscription a magnificent
-sword costing $1000 was procured
-through Tiffany &amp; Company of
-New York, the blade being of the finest
-steel, beautifully etched, and the hilt
-of solid gold. The presentation took
-place on November 8th, 1887, at Levin’s
-Park, at the foot of Pennington
-street. It was originally intended that
-the ceremony should take place on September
-4th, the anniversary of the
-surrender of Geronimo, but that day
-falling on a Sunday, it was fixed for
-Monday the 5th. General Miles, however,
-having been injured by the overturning
-of the carriage in which he
-was out riding at Santa Monica, California,
-on August 8th, the presentation
-was delayed until the date named.
-Many notables in our country, also the
-Governors of neighboring Mexican
-States, were invited to be present. A
-distinguishing feature in the very long
-procession leading to the Park was
-three hundred mounted Papagos, under
-their chief, Asuncion Ruiz, in all
-their barbaric splendor of feathers and
-paint. The Papagos had always been
-the consistent friends of the whites
-and the inveterate foes of the Apaches,
-so they were more than glad to participate
-in this event. In addition to
-the conventional combination usually
-found in parades, there were the 4th
-U. S. cavalry band and a platoon of
-United States artillery, William Zeckendorf,
-one of the very early pioneers,
-acting as grand marshal. One of the
-photographs suggesting this article is
-of this procession, evidently taken
-from the roof of one of the buildings
-on the west side of Main street, looking
-up Pennington street, and shows
-the parade the full length of the street,
-the head not having quite reached
-Main street. The presentation was
-made on a platform erected for the
-purpose in the Park. Royal A. Johnson
-was president of the day, I having
-the honor of acting as secretary, and
-Judge W. H. Barnes making the presentation
-address. One of my duties
-as secretary was to read the letters of
-regret from those who had been invited
-but were unable to be present.
-Among these I now recall letters from
-Secretary of War Wm. C. Endicott,
-Gen. Sherman, and R. G. Ingersoll.
-Among those present were Major
-Chaffee, subsequently Lieutenant General,
-and Lieutenant Wood, now Major
-General. The other of the two photographs
-is of General Miles and those
-on the platform with him, taken as
-the general was delivering his address
-accepting the sword. In the evening,
-following the presentation, there was a
-reception and ball at the San Xavier
-hotel, since burned down, near the
-station; this hotel at the time was
-kept by Wheeler and Perry.</p>
-
-<h2>Johnny Greenleaf Mistakes Scouts for
-Kid.</h2>
-
-<p>As illustrating the trying experiences
-that one might be subject to during
-these troublous times when the
-fear of the Kid was in the very air, I
-may relate one of a friend of mine,
-Johnny Greenleaf. Johnny was sinking
-a well on his ranch, some distance
-from the house, and had just ridden
-to where his two men were at work,
-one in the well and the other on top.
-Suddenly a number of Indians came in
-sight, approaching the well. Recognizing
-them as Apaches, he naturally
-assumed them to be the Kid and some
-of his followers, and obeying the instinct
-of human nature, that of self-preservation,
-cried out, “Here comes
-the Kid!” quickly mounted his horse
-and started to escape. He had gone
-but a short distance, however, till that
-chivalrous spirit which makes one sacrifice
-his own life rather than cowardly
-desert his comrade, asserted itself, and
-he immediately turned and rode back
-to his men, both of whom were now on
-top, realizing at the same time that
-there was absolutely nothing that he
-could do, neither he nor his men having
-a shooting-iron of any kind, all of
-their weapons having been left at the
-house. The Indians now approaching
-the well, Johnny asked them in English
-what they were hunting and where
-they were going. One of them, speaking
-English very poorly, in trying to
-make himself understood mentioned
-the Kid in such a way that Johnny understood
-him to say that he was the
-Apache Kid. This simply confirmed
-what Johnny had thought, but it so
-startled him that for a while he could
-barely speak; for if this were the Kid,
-there was little chance for the lives of
-either Johnny or his men. Finally, recovering
-his nerve and asking something
-else, the Indian succeeded in
-making it understood that they were
-scouts from San Carlos and were seeking
-the Kid. You can well imagine the
-relief of the three men when they
-realized that they were in no danger.</p>
-
-<h2>What Would You Do?</h2>
-
-<p>I think I hear one of my readers
-saying that Johnny’s attempt to escape
-was a cowardly thing to do. Yes?
-What would you have done, and what
-would I, under the same circumstances?
-Unless idiotic, or too frightened
-to mount the horse, we would have
-done just what Johnny did. Assuming
-that this had been the Kid, as Johnny
-firmly believed, his escape meant the
-loss of but two lives, instead of the
-loss of the same two and the sacrifice
-of a third—his own—if he remained.
-But no man knows just exactly what
-he would do under a certain trying
-condition until he has been subjected
-to the test of that very condition. He
-may think he does, but he doesn’t. But
-having gone less than 100 yards,
-Johnny’s mind has had time to react,
-and the chivalrous spirit asserts itself,
-and he turns and rides back—to what?
-To his death, he has every reason to
-believe. But having gotten the 100
-yards away, would you or I have turned
-and ridden back to our own certain
-death? Is there not a possibility that
-were the world wide enough and the
-horse strong enough we might still be
-going? In your imagination don’t
-place the standard too high for the
-nerve you think you possess, if at the
-time you are absolutely in no danger.</p>
-
-<h2>Stoicism of Indian</h2>
-
-<p>The following incident shows something
-of the character of these Ishmaelites
-of the desert. On one occasion
-five of them had been tried at Florence
-for the killing of someone in the
-Superstition mountains, and sentenced
-to be hanged. The night previous to
-the day of the hanging, while in their
-cells, with the death-watch outside,
-three of them, to avoid the ignominy
-of death by hanging, committed suicide
-by self-strangulation. This they
-could do only by each putting a cord
-around his neck and deliberately choking
-himself to death. The three were
-found dead in the morning when the
-guards entered their cells.</p>
-
-<p>Of course it is not possible to recall
-the names of all of the many whose
-lives were a sacrifice to the safety and
-prosperity of the great commonwealth
-that was to follow, but I have in mind
-that on June 7, 1886, Thos. Hunt, a
-prospector, was killed near Harshaw,
-and on June 9 of the same year Henry
-Baston was killed near Arivaca. On
-September 22, 1888, W. B. Horton, post
-trader at San Carlos, was killed by one
-of the Indians on the reservation. But
-in this case punishment was swift, as
-the Indian police almost immediately
-killed the murderer while he was attempting
-to escape from the reservation.</p>
-
-<h2>“Walapai” Clark and the Kid</h2>
-
-<p>One of our early frontier characters
-was E. A. Clark, familiarly known as
-“Walapai”, having gained the title
-years ago when in the government service
-as chief of the Hualapai scouts.
-Clark was a giant in stature, measuring
-six feet three, absolutely fearless
-and in those olden times equally tireless.
-Coming to the Territory in ’69,
-his life and experiences here would fill
-a volume of intensely interesting reading,
-but in this limited article I can
-mention only a few of his closing Indian
-experiences, the culminating one—the
-one of the greatest service to
-the Territory—resulting in the death
-of that outlaw and terror of the border,
-this same Apache Kid. Clark’s first
-experience with the Kid was on June
-3, 1887, two days after his shooting of
-Al Sieber. At the time, Clark was living
-at his ranch, the Oak Grove, in the
-Galiura mountains, about twelve miles
-east of the San Pedro river, but was
-absent, his two partners, John Scanlan
-and William Diehl, being at home. The
-Kid and his followers coming across
-the country from San Carlos, stole
-fifteen horses from William Atchley,
-then came on to Clark’s place, three
-miles further on. At the time, Diehl
-was about 150 yards from the house,
-cutting some poles for a corral, when
-Scanlan, who was in the house, heard
-three shots, and, seizing his gun, ran
-out, and as he did so saw three Indians
-coming towards the house, and firing
-at them, they immediately sought shelter.
-When Scanlan fired at the Indians
-one of them lost a big sombrero which
-he was wearing, and which, probably
-very much to his regret, he was unable
-to recover. They then rounded up a
-number of Scanlan’s horses, not far
-away, and seemingly tried to get Scanlan
-to come out to protect his horses,
-and thus enable them to get a shot at
-him; but being unable to do this, they
-left, taking the horses with them. As
-soon as they had gone, Scanlan went
-to where Diehl was and found him
-dead, the Indians having shot him.</p>
-
-<h2>Clark Vows Vengeance</h2>
-
-<p>Clark, returning home a day or two
-later and finding his partner dead,
-vowed vengeance on the Kid, and this,
-several years later, he found opportunity
-to gratify. A few months later,
-Clark and Scanlan having occasion to
-be away, left a young engineer, J. A.
-Mercer, at the house, with a caution to
-be on the lookout for the Indians. Soon
-after, Mercer discovered three of them
-crawling up towards the house, but
-was in time to seize a rifle and fire at
-them, and as he did so they broke and
-ran. However, they took five of Clark’s
-horses in exchange for three of their
-own, which they killed before leaving.</p>
-
-<p>For several years Clark impatiently
-bided his time. To him the mills of
-the gods were, indeed, grinding slowly,
-but they were grinding, and the time
-was approaching when the grist should
-be delivered. In the meantime the Kid
-was continuing to lengthen his trail of
-blood. Now here, now there, the wily
-outlaw was ever at his work. A murder
-here today, he is heard of one hundred
-miles away tomorrow, leaving a
-trail behind him marked by where he
-had changed his mount by the stealing
-of a new one at some ranch, leaving
-his old one dead, in exchange. This
-was his practice, killing the animal
-he might leave by stabbing in the side,
-thus avoiding the sacrifice of any of
-his ammunition, which he could ill afford
-to lose. Being an outlaw with his
-own people, he found it difficult to replenish
-his belt.</p>
-
-<h2>Kid Nears End of His Trail of Blood</h2>
-
-<p>But at last the end of his career of
-robbery and bloodshed is approaching.
-The opportunity that Clark has been
-waiting all these years is nigh at hand.
-The Apache Kid’s race is about run.
-Clark had been away from home, and
-when returning, on February 4, 1894,
-passing by the house of Emmerson, a
-neighbor, about a mile from his own
-home, he noticed the tracks of three
-Indians about the house, and going inside,
-found they had robbed it of its
-contents. Going on home, he found his
-partner, Scanlan, whom the Indians
-had not disturbed, and said to him,
-“Scanlan, your old friend the Kid has
-been around again.”</p>
-
-<p>Soon after, Clark, taking his gun,
-went out of the house for the purpose
-of “scouting the country around” and
-seeing whether he might get sight of
-the Indians. Going to the top of a
-peak near by, where he could overlook
-the surrounding country without unduly
-exposing himself, he awaited
-events, not realizing what an approaching
-one should mean to himself, and to
-an old enemy on whom he had vowed
-vengeance for the death of his old-time
-partner, and that this event would
-mark an era in a life ever filled with
-its dangers, not one of which had ever
-been shirked, but always bravely met.
-The opportunity for which he had
-waited, and in his way—a way probably
-familiar only to the “old scout”—had
-prayed for, was but a few short
-hours away. The language of his prayers,
-except for its fervency, may not
-have been up to the orthodox standard,
-but he knew what he wanted, and in
-asking for it used the language with
-which he was familiar—the language
-of the desert and the mountain, the
-camp-fire and the trail.</p>
-
-<h2>Closing Act in Great Drama</h2>
-
-<p>Clark had been there for probably
-twenty minutes, when, looking off
-across an intervening canyon, he noticed
-three Indians approaching his
-horse where it was grazing, about 1500
-yards away. The Indians not having
-discovered Clark, who, knowing it
-would be impossible to get across the
-canyon in time to save his horse,
-raised the sights of his gun, and fired
-at them, not expecting, however, to
-hit any one of them at that distance,
-but hoping to frighten them away from
-his horse. On firing, Clark immediately
-ducked into the canyon, out of sight
-of the Indians, who were evidently
-frightened by the shot. Waiting there
-until dusk, he cautiously crawled towards
-his horse for the purpose of taking
-him to the house, and was within
-about seventy-five yards of him, it being
-too dark to see an object distinctly
-at any distance, when he saw two Indians
-approaching the horse, and only a
-few steps from the animal and about
-50 yards from where Clark was. Owing
-to the darkness it was impossible to
-more than distinguish the two Indians,
-who were but a few feet apart, one
-ahead of the other. These were subsequently
-found to be the Kid and his
-squaw, the squaw in front and nearest
-to Clark, but owing to the darkness it
-was impossible to distinguish one from
-the other. Clark instantly raised his
-gun and fired at the one nearest to
-him, but, being unable to see the
-sights, could only take a quick aim
-along the barrel. By his long experience
-with a gun he knew the danger
-of overshooting in the dark, and made
-allowance accordingly. As Clark fired
-there came a simultaneous report from
-the Kid’s rifle and an outcry from the
-squaw, and from the character of this
-outcry, Clark knew that he had made
-the mistake of firing at the wrong Indian.
-The ball from the Kid’s gun
-whistled alarmingly close to Clark’s
-head, but fortunately did no harm. Following
-the shots, the two Indians immediately
-dropped to the ground, and
-as fast as the old scout could work his
-rifle he “pumped the lead” into where
-they had dropped, firing several shots.
-The Indian, however, fired but the one
-shot. Clark then made a run for his
-horse, but the animal being frightened,
-he was unable to catch him.</p>
-
-<p>Not knowing how many of the Indians
-there might be about, Clark immediately
-set out for Mammoth, on the
-San Pedro, where he procured a small
-posse, and was back at the scene of the
-shooting by morning, finding the squaw
-dead a short distance from where she
-had been shot. Following the Kid’s
-trail, they found that he had hopped on
-one foot to where he had left his horse,
-one of his legs evidently being broken.
-Scouts from San Carlos, following his
-trail, found some bloody rags where he
-had built a little fire, and probably
-dressed his wounds.</p>
-
-<h2>Kid’s Career Ended</h2>
-
-<p>Thus ended the murderous career of
-the Kid, the terror of the Southwest.
-Clark had undoubtedly hit him with
-one or more of his shots. Where or
-how soon after he may have died, no
-white man knows, Clark being the last
-one to see him, as the two shots simultaneously
-rang out on the silence of
-that night. Had it been the Kid instead
-of the squaw, Clark would have
-earned the large reward that was offered
-for him dead or alive. Tom
-Horn, an old scout, who spoke the
-Apache language like a native, came
-from Denver subsequently, hoping that
-by some chance the Kid might still be
-living somewhere and that he might
-earn the reward. The mother and the
-sister, however, both assured him that
-the Kid was dead, but beyond this
-would say nothing.</p>
-
-<p>It would seem that there could be no
-more fitting ending to this little sketch
-than its dedication to the memory of
-those old-timers, makers of early-day
-history, the old pioneers. Each well
-played his individual part in that great
-border drama. On them the curtain
-has rung down for the last time. To
-them the succeeding generations owe
-much.</p>
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