The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-07-23

are governed by men whose wisdom i
more fully concealed than tbs comets tai
on cloudy night, viii, as We hope, insiS
; on less harmony and humbug. and NOR
slncerity and seuse on thePart of ther
} represen tatives.
cOchise's Dusl-His Startling Re.
venge On an Int&rProtsr.
4 fFrom the st. Louis plspatchl
The Apaches have had many chief
none as desperately wicked as Coehise
When l saw him last he was ffty-tWo
Six feet tall, with delicate feet and hands
sharp angular features, q piercing darI
eye and great Roman nose,' wide about
the nostrlls and thin where it curved, i
his soul passes after death into anything
that has face akin TO MS Own, instead O
the Indian there will be the bald EAGLE
He hated the Americans so bitterly t6si
II one OF his tribe learned a word of Eng
lish language, Cochise expelled him OF
forced him TO forget it. He succeeded
Red Sleeves, a great giant of q butcher
who took his name from the fact that everv
time he killed an enemy he smeared his
blood over his arms from the wrists 10 the
elbows. And thoroughly and terribly in
Keeping with his character, too, was Co.
chaos initiation or installmsnt. There
had been a feast in the village. Amid
| the general revelry, he refused to drink.
| While Others got dangerously drunk and
helplessly drunk, Coohise stood firmly by,
watching the furious orgy with a look Of
sullen and supercihous irony on his ex-
preesiTe face Finally young brave, too
far gone to be discreet, went up to him
with a coiled Yiata in his lett hand. and a
cupfull of whiskey IN his right. He
pressed Cechise to drink, but the newly
made chief refused abruptly. Seme words
were had, and as an end Of il the warrior
smote his leader twice or thrice with his
heavy rope. The objectionable Gin had
been committed. 1t is safe to knock an
Indian down, pound him with club, beat
him with a stick, brulse him with blud-
geon; but it were better 10 beard the
grizzly bear than to lay over his shoulders
a cow-h:de, OF anything that savored Of
the lash.
Chief as he was, Cochise sternly deman-
ded that the young brave should tight him
at daylight the next morning with rifles.
The dVeAo is not much IN vogue with anv
Of the Indian tribes, and it is but rarely
that individual qusrrels pass 30 far beyond
the point Of settlement that an exercise of
something of persuasion or resoiute au-
ing, but n this instance Coohise would
agree to nothing short Of the actual com.
bat. They met and fought. Il was early
morning, and the measured distance was
thirty scant pacee Probably three hun
dred warriors were in attendezcS, and
these, clad in full war costume and formed
upon the flank Of the dueling ground, pre-
sented a picturesque adornment to scene
otherwise pitilsss and unforgiving. At
the first fire CechIse's bullet found the
heart of his antagonist. He leaped high
into the air, and before he reached the
ground he was dead.
In every way more notorious was Co
chise's next feat of savage braVado and
proves. A Scotch interpreter named
Harrison Englehart had fallen under his
displeasure, and be received word from
his desperate enemy that the feud was
mortal, and that he meant to kill him
whenever and wherever found. Englehaft
affected to laugh at the threat, but be pre-
pared himself for the worst, nevertheless,
and went about warily, without however
meeting with an opportunity to kill or be
killed.
One day news came to Tucson that Co.
chlse, at the head of small war party was
in camp thirty miles to the southeast. a
Federal Captain took thirty men, an Indian
agent, and Englehart as interpreter, ard
went out to have talk with the Apeches |
1t is supposed that the Captain was igno-
rant Of the feud existing, for upon Engle-
hart making some objection to the pro-
posed expedition, The officer insisted and |
finally prevailed upon him to 60. The |
meeting was most friendly, and lasted sew
eral hours. Neither G chise nor Engle- |
L., ,-EN i
between them, and sat upon their horses |
in friendly converse while the soldiers of |
the escort aid the Indians of the war party 4
rate OF q sudden, and With q wild veil /
that had hatred and vengeance in it, Co
chise leaned from his saddle, seized Engle-
hart by the collar, drew him up clear from 1
his stirrups and over upon his left leg and /
thigh, and then dashed off at sfurious rate,
partially dragging and partially carrying /
his struggling victim. So instantaneous /
was the attack, and go unprepared was the |
escert for any immediate rescue, that some /
distance had been gained by Coohise, fol-
lowed by the entire band, before the Cap
tain's presence of mind returned to him,
and charge was ordered. It was too late,
however, TO save the poor Scotchman.
Taken at the terrible disadvantage he was,
he yet strove desperately and tried to
draw his revolver and make the beat fight l
he could for his life. Once he nearly sue
ceeded, but, with the strength OF the giant |
and rapidity that almost defed calcula.
tion, Ccchise stabbed his victim seven
times in the neck and breast, and even
while holding him up upon his horse, and
that horse rushing along over broken
ground ct the top Of hisspeed, managed to
tear the reeking scalp from the still breath
ing yet dreadfully mutilsted interpreter. /
Waving this three times in the face of his |
pursuers, and dropping the CORY corpse |
like log IN the road, he easily baf1ed the /
of soldiers, and made his es-
cape without the loss of single follower. |
Fer this deed the price of $1,000 was /
put upon Cochise's head, and many was |
the bordereE and the plainsman who en-
tered into his domain to look for him, and |
to lie in wait upon the road that he some |
times travelled. They did not find him |
certainly none ever returned to claim the |
blood money, and many there who return |
ed not at ALL
In q report made to the War Depart
ment some three or four years ago, the |
actual statistics were given Of Cochise's
own killing, and from the figures there
presented the most incredible total was
figured up of twenty-seVen Americans,
four Apache Indians, three Germans, two
Englishmen, one Frenchmen and ioYty-
nine Mexicans and balf-breeds who had
come TO their death at the hands of this
monster alone.
A Sell, Not Sale.
Amiable shopkeepers deserve 10 be can
onized, Here is an illustration Of the tri.
ais to which they are continually subjected.