The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-02-03
Calls, ShettBe5, 9netOOtrs, Nt.
A SINGULAR STORY.


ent Of the New York Mars, while sitting
in the porch of the hotel in Santa Fe, New
Mexico, a party of twelve horsemen APP
preached. Their horses were jaded and
gaunt as from long and difficult journey.
The riders were dressed in buckskin over-
shirts, cavalry pants, heavy boots and
large Mexican spurs. Dismounting at
the hotel, the horses and men were cared
for. A tall, slim, hickory-iron sort Of a
man, who seemed TO be leader, made ar
rangemenls aside with the landlord
After supper, falling into conversation
with the party, / learned, in the course of
the evening, that they were party of
pr0spectors sent out 10 the mountains IN
the northern part Of New Mexico and
Arizona, in the interest of a company Of
st. Louis capitalists.
The captain, as he proved to be, and
so | shall hereafter call him, was an educa
ted man, and "a member of the company,
and went on this perilous and toilsome ex
pedilion to satisfy rowing and restless
disposition. They had gone beyond their
intended limit at starting, and they pene
trated into the edge OF the Apache country,
They had numerous fights with the Indi-
ans; but, being all old Indian fighters,
had brought all their number back, though
not without some ugly scars. At one
time their whole number wee taken
prisoners by a midnight surprise and
double their number of Apaches They
were held prisoners two days, and march
ed toward the Apache chief town, where
they were TO form the subject of a grand
roast. But, the second night, they escap-
ed by a stratasem, taking with them the
leader of the Apache band, whom they
after released on certain conditions. This
leader is tie bIoodthirsty Apache chief,
the chief who murders men, women and
children.
The white party, before their escape,
understanding some of their captors' Ian
guage, unknown to them, learned, from a
~ysrd let fall here and there, that the In
dians had knowledge or sUmu ,v,y rieL
mines, which the specimens that they had
with them showed but, from the desulto-
ry character of ths remarks, could not
learn the location of the treasure, and it
was 10 this fact that the chief owed his
| life. This chief they spared when max
| ing their escape, at which time they sent
! the rest Of the band to their long hemes
! They promised the chief his life and lber-
| ~ if he would show them the Golden
1 Mountains" and tell them the ''sacred
/ legend of his fathers" which seemed TO be
! in some way associated with the Golden
Mountain. To this he finally assented,
, as the price of his life and liberty.
The riches of the Golden Mountain are
even greater than the extravagant stories of
the savages had led them to believe but
it is located in the heart of the Apache
country, and utterly inaccessible till the
Apaches are subdued. The guarding Of
this Golden Mountain, the keeping of the
whites out of gold fields of absolutely ines
timable wealth boarded and piled up in
the mountains Of Arizona, is the first and
greatest cause of the implacable hostility
Of the Apaches, even greater than the sec
ond cause-reYen9e. This chef showed
them this wealth, guarded by the whole
Apache nation, Of which Captain -- is
prepared to take possession, with mills and
mining apparatus, as soon as the a Apaches
are subdued. The chief gave them his
legend, and they, as men Of homer even TO
a captive, set him free.
And the legend, says the captain, 'it
being late, I'll give you in the morning"
SO, here's to bed. Good night
In the morning the captain and walk
ed apart on the outskirts of the towr, TO
a grassy knoll, and sitting there he rela-
ted to me the following strange, weird
story.
A party of Apaches, while lying in am .
bush one day in the latter part of Decem-
Der, 1925, in chihuahua, Mexico, on the
Rio Graade, across the river from what
ia now the town Of Passo, Texas, watch