The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-08-06
C0CHISE'S DUEL.
His Startling Revenge ON an Inter-
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From the St. Louis Dispatch. ]

The Apaches have had many chief
hone as desperately wicked as Cochise'
When / saw him last he was ffty-two.
Six feet tall, with delicate feet and
hands, sharp angular features, pierc.
ing dark eye, and great Roman nose.
wide about the nostrils and thin where
it curved. If his soul passes after death
into anything that has a face akin to
his own, instead of the Indian there
will be the bald eagle. He hated the
Americans so bitterly that if one OF
his tribe learned word of the English
language, Cochise expelled him or fore
ed him to forget it. He succeeded Red
Sleeves, great giant of butcher, who
took his name from the fact that every
time he killed an enemy he smeared his
blood over his arms from wrists to the
elbows. And thoroughly and terribly
in keeping with his character, too, was
Cochise's initiation or installation.
There had been feast in . the
village. Amid the general revelry he
refused to drink. While others got
dangerously and helplessly drunk, Co.
chise stood firmly by, watching the
furious orgy with look of sullen and
supercillious irony on his expressive
face. Finally young brave. too far
gone to be discreet, went up to him
with coiled RATA in his left hand and
a cup-full of whisky in his right. He
pressed Cochise to drink, but the newly
made chief refused abruptly. Some
words were had. and as an end of it the
warrior smote his leader twice or thrice
with his heavy rope. The unpardon-
able sin had been committed. 1t is safe
to knock an Indian down, pound him
with a club, beat him with a stick,
bruise him with bludgeon; but it were
better to beard the grizzly bear than
Law over his shoulder cowhide or any
thing that savored of the lash.
Chief as he was, Cochise sternly de-
manded that the young brave should
fight him at daylight the next morning
with rifles. The duello is not much IN
vogue with any of the Indian tribes,
and it is but rarely that individual quar-
rels pass so far beyond the point of set
Element that an exercise of something
of persuasion or resolute authority will
not serve to restore good feeling; but
in this instance Cochise would agree to
nothing short of an actual combat.
They met and fought. 1t was early
morning, and the measured distance
was thirty PAGES. Probably three hun.
dred warriors were in attendance. and
these, clad in full war costume, and
formed upon flank of the duelling
ground. presented picturesque adorn.
ment to a scene otherwise pitiless and
unforgiving. At the first fire Cochise S
bullet found the heart Of his antago-
mist. He leaped high into the air, and
before he reached the ground he was
dead.
In every way more notorious was Co.
c,..se's next feat of savage brovado and
proves. A Scotch Interpreter. named
Harrison Englehart, had fallen under
his displeasure, and he received word
from his desperate enemy that the feud
was mortal, and that he meant to kill
whenever and wherever found. Engle-
hart affected to laugh at the threat, but
he prepared himself for the worst, never
theless, and went about warily. without
however meeting with an opportunity
to kill or be killed.