The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1881-08-11
A TEXANS REVENGE.
TRUTH STRANGER THAN FICTION.

TRUTH STRANGER THAN FICTION.
COLONEL PELroN, THE SLAYER or FINE
APACHEs-A TERRIBLE TALE on TIRE
CAPTURE OF HIS YOUNG WIFE, AND
HOW SHE WAS FOUND PERFECTLY BIINp.
Colonel Albert c. Pelton. whose beau
tiful 20, 0O0-acre rancho is out toward
the Rio Grandc, near Laredo. has been
the Peter the Hermit OF the Texans
for years He has believed that he has
/ held a Divine commission TO kill Apache
Indians. Colonel FELTON, came To Texas
/ in 1874, Il common soldier. BY talent
and courage be gradually arose to the
rank of Colonel, and finally. in 1886
commanded Fort Macrac. That year
he fell in love with beautiful Spanish
I girl at Abequin, New Mexico. Her
I parents were wealthy and would not
consent to their daughter going away
/ from all her friends 10 live in carri son
The admiration Of the young people
was mutual, and parental objections
only intensified the affection OF the low
ers. The nature Of the Spanish girl is
such that once in love she never changes.
Finally, after two years of cutrcaty and
devotion, Cob,ncl Poltou won tho con-
sent of the parents of the
BEAUTIFUL SPANISH GuL,
and they were married. Then com
menced honeymoon such ~ only lovers
shut up in beautiful flower cnvironed
fort can have. The lovely character of
the beautiful bride won the hearts Of
all the soldiers at the fort and she
reigned a queen among these rough
trontiersmen. One day, when the love
Of the soldier and his lovely wife was
at its seVerest the two, accompanied
by the young wife's mother and twenty
soldiers, rode out to the hot springs, SIX
miles from the fort, to take a bath.
While in the bath, which il near the
Rio Grande, an Indians arrow passed
over their heads Then shower of
arrows fell around them, and band
of wild Apache Indians rushed down
upon them, whooping and yelling like
band of demons. Several of the sol
diegs fell dead pierced
WITH POISONED ARROWS.
This frightened the rest, who fed An
other shower Of arrows, and the ncauti-
full bride and her mother dropped in the
water, pierced by the cruel weapons of
the Apaches With his wife diving be-
fore his eyes, Colonel Pelton leaped up
the bank, grasped his rifle, and killed
the leader Of the savage fends. But
/ the Apaches were too much for the
Colonel. Pierced with two poisoned
arrows, he swan into the river and hid
under an overhanging rock. After the
/ savages had left the Colonel swan the
river and made his way back 10 Fort
Macrae Here his wounds were dressed
and he finally recovered, but only to
/ live "a blasted without love, with
out hope-with a vision Of his beautiful
wife, pierced with poisoned arrows, dy-
/ ing, perpetually before his eyes.
AFTER THE DEATH or Ills WIFE
change came to Colonel Pelton. He
! seemed to think that he had a sacred
/ mission from Heaven to aycngc his
young wife's death He secured the
most anerring rifles, surrounded himself
with brave companions, and cOnsecrdted
himself to the work Of revenge. He
was always anxious "a lead amy and
all expeditions against the Apaehes.
Whenever any Of the other Indians
were at war with the Apaches, Colonel
Pelton would soon be at She head Of tho
former One day he would be at the
head Of his own soldiers and the next
day he would be at the head IF "a band
of Mexicans. Nothing gave him pleas
ure but the sight Of dead Apaches
he DEFIED rSDIAN AERows
and courted death. Once, with band
of the widest desperaaoe,. he pcnctra-
ted hundred miles into the Apache
country. The Ap2ches never dreamed
that anything but an entire regiment
would dare to follow them ID their camp
IN tie mountains So when Colonel
I'elton swooped down into their camp
with ten trusty followers, firing their
Henry rifles at the rate Of twenty times
a minute, the Apaches lied in consterna-
ton, leaving their women and children
behind. 1t was then that there darted
out Of lodge "A white woman.
"Spare the women. she cried, and
then she tainted 70 the ground.
When the Colonel Jumped from bis
ooNuiS ~ M uP 1i.+ "'Atdu $50 i'Ah't
she was blind
How came YOU here, woman, with
these damned Apaches ?" hc asked
- was wounded and captured, she
said, "ten years ago. Take, Oh, take
me back again -
Have you any relative. in Texas p
asked the Colonel.
"No. Ny father lives in Albequin.
My husband, Colonel Pelton, and my
mother were killed by he Indians"
"Great God Bella Is it you-my
wife :"
"Oh, Albert. ! knew you would
GOMEZ" exclaimed the poor wife, blind
+ ly reaching her hands to clasp her hus-
band.
OF course there was JOY in the old
rancho when Colonel Pelton got back
with his wife The Apaches bad car
ried the wounded woman away with
them. The poisoned arrow caused in
fammation, which finally destroyed her
eyeaight.
| When / saw the Colonel he was read
{ ing a newspaper to his blind wife, while
+ in her hand she held a bouuet of fra
grant cape jessamines, which he had
gathered for her Il was a picture Of
absolute happiness. Antonio Cor
respondenoe Chicago Tribune.
Ak Austin clergyman, not long since.
met prominent saloon keeper, with
whose family he was acquainted.