The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-06-14
FRED. LORING AVENGED.



ploring Expedition.
During the survey of 1872 Lieut..
Wheeler and party crossed the Colora-
do below the grand canon, in the vicin-
lty of Prescott, Arizona, and Wicken-
burgh. Near the latter place it was
that persisted the gifted and unfortu-
pate Frederick w. Loring, of Boston
1t Is satlsfaction to know that the
Indian tribe, the Apaches, to whom
belonged the perpetrators of the Wick
ehburgh stage massacre, are still suffer
ing retrlbution for that atrocieus crime
The discovery, of the murderers was
extremely dramatic. Loring had formed
friendship for one of the MOhave In
dams, man named Maimen, cool, reso-
lutte, reticent, with strong attachments
one of the best tyres of Indian char
acter. This Maimen after Loring's
death went and lived among the
Apaches-with whom his own tribe
was on friendly terms--for several
months, for the sole purpose of finding
out who were the young mans assas-
SINS. When he haG succeeded, Gen.
Crook, who knew of his plans, called a
pretended conference, the real object
OF which was the capture of these men.
The conference terminated unfortu-
nately. The plan was to give piece
OF tobacco to each of the assessing, so
that they might be recognized by the
soldiers stationed in the back part of
the house but these keen-witted
Apaches noticed that they were being
singled out from their companions,
and, suspecting snare, rose with hor~
rid yells and fell upon Gen. Crooks
party. The soldiers rushed in, and
general melee ensued, in which a
number of men on both sides were
killed and wounded; among the
Apaches almost all the murderers
fell. Hostilities were of course
renewed alter this. General Crook
assembled the friendly Indians
over whom he had control-the Pah-
Utes, Mohayes, Hualapais, and CHM
ehuevis, at Carp Besle Springs-and
they had fight with the Apaches in
the mountains northeast of Prescott.
The Apaches we're defeated, and, being
driven out o. this reservation, were
Obliged to take refuge upon the high,
cold plateaus of the mountains, the
desolate Mesas where it is almost I'M
possible to sustain life. They have
since sued for peace and permission to
return to Their reservation. Gen.
Crook holds that these savages will not
abandon their habits of lawless rapine
and murder until they have been
thoroughly beaten and subiugated,
and that the Apaches have not yet been
sufficiently punished to secure their
future good conduct.
With his keen wit, courage, high
spirits, and fund of anecdote, Mr..
Loring was just the person TO be popu
lar on wild expedition through saw
age country; and his associates and
friends remember him and speak of
him with the warmest affection and
admiration. One of his most intimate
friends has placed in my hands the last
pages of his jOurnal-pages SO full of
character, SO overlooking with life and
| wit, that it is hard to believe that the
hand which penned them was so soon
to be cold forever. Among other
things, he makes great sport of a Ger
tam EngllshmaD, who joined the expe-
dltlon with the idea that he was going
to accomplish miracles, but who, unable
to endure the hardships to which they
were exposed, soon beat a retreat.
Lorlng represents him as commanding
q new expedition, just sent out by spe-
cIal order of the War Demo- NUT, i'll
search OF the original site of the Gar
den of Eden. Here is quotation from
Loring's commissary bill and report OF
The Committee of Arrangements
1.-The mess will be furnished with
pate de fOie gr0s, canvas back ducks,
salmon, venison, dollhouse fruits, veg
etables, and all the common necessaries
of life. To avoid the fatigue of riding
on horseback, barouches will be pro
vlded. 1t is confidently expected that
the scientific and practical results OF
this expedition will be very different
from any which the Government has
yet sent forth. Cigars, tobacco and
the latest novels will be furnished at
each hating place. Further particu-
lars will be given in few days"
[ will merely add that Lieut.. Wheeler
expresses the highest opinion of Lor-
ing, ana has paid him deserved trib-
ute IN his report:
Here were three men," he writes,
"wlo had mastered all the tolls and
hardships Of a severe winter campaign.
who started homeward pleased with
the thought of dangers escaped and
duties well performed, who, after pass
ing what was supposed to be unsafe
ground, fell victims to an Indian am
buscade. One Of these, a young man
just entering upon his career, with
years of promise before him, one drop
of whose blood the whole Apache race
could not expiate, parted with his life :;
and forgetting all else, in the records
of humanity, this life, as well as that Of
others, should be charged to the Indi-
ans"