The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-10-28

revolvers, ] started to make the trip
alone, as the whole country was familiar
to me, and had travelled over the route great
many timee. i overlook party of seven pros
pectors on arriving at the line between arizona
and Sonora. 1t was on the 9TH OF July, and l
found them camped near Peter Kitchens ranch.
They started out at p. NJ but l stayed and
refreshed myself and horse by couple of hours
more rest promising to overtake them. AS soon
as the moon rose, took the saddle and pro-
ceeded on my journey.
ment Station my horse SHE'D at an object Just
ahead in the road. / dsmounted, and found it
TO be the dead hodyof a man--one of the party
that had preceded me. Within hundred yards
and three Of their horses. They had
been stripped of their clothing Things
looked little squally, and i hesitated some
time before decided to go forward. j pro-
ceeded cautiously on foot, and within a
mile found another body, which, upo eXami-
nation, proved to be that of Juan Innego, a
Spanish merchant who resided at Altar, forty
miles distant. He was probably on his way to
Tucson. knew him well when / was down
there in 1852 and 1858. About twenty rods
from there ! found the body of Spaniard,
known as Cipriano, who lived in Magdalena.
little further on ] came upon the bodies of three
unknown men, There is no mistake about it, 1
was now thoroughly frightened. Death seemed
to stare me in the face every way turned.
while considering what was best to be done
| was startled by voice, near at hand COM
manding me in loud English to halt. My Henry
rifle was brought up for use, and | now made
up my mind to fight to the death. | looked
cautiously in every direction, but was unable to
discover the person who hailed me. Again l
was hailed with, who are you? Still could
not discover where the voice came from, and
knowing / stood at the mercy of the person
speaking, replied, "A friend to all nations:
was then commanded to drop my arms, and did
so. At this, stalwart Mexican whose name
afterward learned was Juan Montoia, strobe out
of the bush, and, taking my horse and arms,
ordered me to follow him. He led me to a camp
of Apache Indians only few rods distant,
where was placed under guard. Montoia was
the leader of the band, which was composed of
fifty-six warriors, and his orders were all obeyed
promptly. That night and the next day talked
to him in both Spanish and English, aud tried
to learn from him what was to be my fate; / told
him had served through the war as an officer
in the United States army, and showed him my
papers, and told him the object OF my mission to
Sonora
1.-THE next day "a number of them started off
up the road. and in short time we heard seve-
raj shots, and / knew they were numbering
other travellers. l remained q prisoner twenty
eight days. and was then released, and pro-
ceeded on a mule which Montoia gave me- to
| Uriz, the capital of Sonora. While remained
with the party they continued their numbering
held under complete military discipline by
! Montoia, and were trained to obey commands
which he gave by the bugle when in
action. All were armed with Henry and
Snarpes rlnes, and reVolvers Iney were
well mounted, and fought like veterans
| when it came to close contest. Montoia told
| me he had scouts on the hills as lookouts, and
that they sgnalled to him the approach of par
ties, and everything of importance regarding
them. have no idea why they spared my life
when they killed everybody else on sight. They
always had big pOw-wow and scalp.dauce
after killing, and then the spoils were divided.
| They took all of my clothing, and gave me
| some old articles taken from some of their
murdered victims in place of them. AfterI had
visited Uriz I returned to Guaymas by way OF
| HermOsilla.