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diff --git a/old/69801-0.txt b/old/69801-0.txt deleted file mode 100644 index 1e66f6f..0000000 --- a/old/69801-0.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,1159 +0,0 @@ -The Project Gutenberg eBook of The dread Apache, by Merrill Pingree -Freeman - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and -most other parts of the world at no cost and with almost no restrictions -whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms -of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at -www.gutenberg.org. If you are not located in the United States, you -will have to check the laws of the country where you are located before -using this eBook. - -Title: The dread Apache - That early-day scourge of the Southwest - -Author: Merrill Pingree Freeman - -Release Date: January 14, 2023 [eBook #69801] - -Language: English - -Produced by: David E. Brown and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team - at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images - generously made available by The Internet Archive) - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE DREAD APACHE *** - - - - - - 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. 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