Arizona citizen., 1874-08-22
CACHISE AFTER DEATH.

| Ot. LOUIS DlSpaJcn lOb or lleS aOOuG Ca-
 chise, and did it in such serious style that l The Dispatch man, with his limited in
 formation of Indians and exaggerated
 notions of their capabilities, accepted the
 whole string of falseheods as so many truths, and the live Herald of New York
 and other great journals of the cities, ap-
 prOvingly copied them. The story is
 pretty long, for TEE CITIZEN, but owing
 to its local interest and the fact that it
 has been so widely copied in whole or in
 part, we give it a place as follows:
 The Apacnes have nad many cnIef-
 none as desperately wicked as CachiSe. When l saw him last he was fifty-two.
 Six feet tall, with delicate feet and hands,
 sharp, angular features, a piercing 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 d face akin to his own, instead Of the
 Indian there will be the baldeagle. He
 hated the Americans so bitterly that if one
 of his tribe learned a word of the English
 language Cachise expelled him or forced
 him to forget 1t. He succeeded Red Sleeves,
 great giant of a butcher, who took his
 name from the 1act that every time he kill
 ed an enemy he smeared his blood over
 his arms from the wrists to the elbows.
 And thoroughly and terribly in keeping
 with his character, too, was Cachise's ini
 tiation or inStalment There had been a
 feast in the village. Amid the general
 revelry he refused 10 drink. While others
 got dangerously drunk and helpleSSly
 drunk, CachiSe stood firmly by, watching
 the furious orgy with a look of Sullen and
 supercilious irony on his expressive face.
 Finally young brave, too far gone to be
 discreet, went to him with coiled riata in
 his left hand and cup-full of whisky in
 his right. He pressed CachiSe to drink, but the newly made chief refused abruptly. Some words were had, and as an end of it the warrior SmOte his shoulder twice or thrice with his heavy rope. The unpar- donable sin had been committed. It is safe to knock an Indian down, pound him with club, beat hlm with stick, bruise him with bludgeon: but it were better to beard the grizzly bear than lay over his shoulders a cowhide or anything that SaVOred of the lash.
 Chief as he was, Cachise sternly demand ed 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 quarrels pass so far beyond | the point of settlement that an exercise Of | of persuasion or reSOlute au- i thOrity will not serve to restore gOOi feel ! ing; but in this instance Cachise would | agree to nothing short of the actual com | bat. They met and fought. It was early | and the measured distance was thirty paces. Probably 300 warriors were in attendance, and these, clad Tn full war i costume and formed upon the flank of | the duelling ground, presented a pictur- | esque adornment to scene otherwise pitt | less and unforgiving. At the first fire Ca | chiSe'S bullet found the heart of his anta- | goniSt. He leaped high into the air, and | before he reached the ground he was dead. |
 In every way more notorious was Ca chise's next feat of savage bravado and | prOWeSS. A Scotch interpreter named | Englehart had fallen under his | and he received word from his desperate enemy that the teud was mortal and that he meant to kill him whenever and wherever found. Engle- heart alice ed 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.
 One day news came to Tucson that Ca chiSe, at the head of small war party, was in camp thirty miles to the southeast. A federal captain took thirty men, an Ind lansagent and Englehart as interpreter, and went out to have a talk with the A pa cheS 1t is supposed that the Captain was ignorant of the feud existing, for upon Englehart making some objection to the expedition the officer insisted 1 and finally prevailed upon him to go. { The meeting was most friendly and lasted >CNCIeil HOuIS. NClJuGI OdCllSc nor EIDSle- hart referred to the subject of the quarrel between them, and sat upon their horses m friendly converse, while the soldiers of he escort and the Indians of the war party were getting ready to march and to separate. Of a sudden, and with wild yell that had hatred and vengeance in it. JachiSe leaned from his saddle, seized Englehart by the collar, drew him up clear from his StirrupS and over upon his
 left leg and thigh, and then dashed of at a furious rate, partially dragging and par ,ially carrying his struggling victim. So was the attack, and so un- was the escort for any immediate rescue, that some distance had been gain ed by Cachise, followed by his entire band, before the Captains presence of mind re- turned to him, and charge was ordered. It was too late, however, to save the poor Taken at the terrible dfsad- vantage he was he yet strove desperately md tried to draw his revolver and make ,he best fight he could for his life. Once he nearly succeeded, but, with the strength )f giant, and rapidity that almost de- jed calculation, CachiSe stabbed his victim seven times in the neck and breast and even while holding him up upon his horse, md that horse rushing along over broken ground at the top of his speed manag- ed to tear the reeking scalp from the still breathing yet dreadfully mutilated inter- DTeter. Waving this three times in the ace Of his pursuers, and dropping the gory corpse like log in the road, he easily , Oaf11ed the detachment of soldiers, and made his escape without the loss of a single follower. 2 kar this deed the price of S2 ,0OO was put lpo4 (AchiSe'S head, and many was the . 3oU1ff and the plainsman who entered ptH13 domain to look for him, and to