The Arizona sentinel., 1877-07-07

rom the Star
 1 will here state that was an eye witness of and participation to some extent in the drama.
 In the fall of 1860 the Chiricahua Indians made raid upon the So- noita Valley near Fort Buchanan and drove off a lot of stock, and also carried away a boy of some eight or nine years of age, whose mother was the woman of Johnny
 Ward. Ward was much attached to the boy and used every en- deaVor with Col. Pitcairn Morri- son. commanding Fort Buchanan 10 get him to undertake the re- covery of the boy. From causes not necessary to the interest Of this history to mention. no action was taken in the premises until about the 1st of February, 1861, when Col. Morrison dispatched company of soldiers commanded by Lieut.. Bascom to 4 Apache Pass, with orders to try and get hold of Cachise, and some of his Indians, and keep them as hostages until the boy was returned; in pursu- ance of his orders Lieut.. Bascom arrived at Apache Pass, about the 9th of February. marching past the overland mail station with his command, he only calling to get a drink of water, and in reply To question Of the station keeper Culver, saying that he was going towards the Rio Gra ande; marched down the caNOn about of a mile and struck camp; shortly after the troops left the mail station, Cachise who had probably seen the march of the company all day, came down to the station and asked the keeper where the soi- dierS were going, and Culver re- piled that the officer had told him they were going towards Rio Grande; upon receiving this an- sWer Cachise accompanied by three bucks, sq0aw and a boy, started down the eaton, towards the soldier camp, supposing that if they were going to the Rio Grande they had no business with him, he marched into the camp voluntarily, and without being beguiled by a white flag, Gas has been stated) arrived in the camp. he inquired for the officers quarters, which being shown him by a soldier, he walk ed straight into Lieut. Bascom's tent, in which were the Lieu tenant, Johnny Ward, and the in terpreter Antonio. Before reach. ing the tent, however, he was rec- ognized by Ward, who remarked to the lieutenant, There comes Cachise." Cachise sat down in the tent and entered into conver- satiOn with the Lieutenant through the interpreter, and Ward went out, and letting the soldiers know that it was Cachise who was in the tent with the off, cer, they at once surrounded with out noise the tent, and as soon as the Lieutenant was aware that everything was ready. he told the interpreter to tell Cachioe that he would hold him and his people as hostages until Wards boy was delivered. The words were scarcely out of AntOniO's mouth when Cachise sprang like a tiger, at the same time drawing his sheath knife, with which be made @ rent in the tent, and his head following the stroke of the knife, he landed outside among the astonished soldiers, who, being recruits with no Indian eX- perience, let him escape in tie furry, and although they fired 90 or more shots after him, he es- capped unhurt. Another of the bucks leaped through the hole in the tent, but @ different fate befell him. A soldier knocked him down with the barrel of his mus-rI ket, and another pinned him