Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1884-1886, 1886-02-27
THE HEROIC INDIAN BOY.

Last November the hostiles attacked
camp Of peaceable Indians, situated near
Camp Apache. There was no warning
given OF attack. The poor Indians
were totally unTreparei, when sub
denly like the bursting OF q thun-
dercloui the Arachcs swarmed in upon
them and commenced an indiscriminate
slaughter. Men. women and children were
ruthleSslv shot down. There was no mercy
shown or expected. Not till the entire camp
was ex;erminated did the Apaches pause to
review their dreadful work. From fifteen t.
twenty women and Us many men, weltered
in their blood, and did any Of them show
the faintest symptoms Of life, they were
hacked and hewed at till death took them
from out of the power Of their tormentors
As the Apachcs turned 70 depart from
their work Of devastation their attention
was attracted to three children who had IS
capped the general massacre Their ages
were H. 1 and , years What should be
done with them WAS the question that arose
1t was their first impulse 10 kill them. but
kiudler counsels prevailed, and finally it
was deter. mined to take the children along.
The children were well trea I'D. and soon be
gan 10 evince fondneSS for their oaptors
Bat the brutal instincts of the Apackes were
only for a time dormant. Soon murinurs
were heard as u the :oolishness of carrying
about illren and iinpeding the rapidity Of
travel with such incumbrances- Again
weapons we're pointed at them. and again
turEed aside by friendly in;erposition.
abandon them was the demand, and
X them find their way home. or where they
Wis o 60 They can net live long. They
Viii soon become "A prey u wild beast.
tn ese three young children We're abandoned
h. perhaps, still more cruel fate than
death at the hands of an Apache Night
was approaching wien the resolve was taken,
and 50. without food or clothing, these three
unfortunate were left on the desert 10 be
preyed upon by wild beasts or die of hunger
Covering with fright and cold the three
clil.iren hutidled together-too young to
realize the fiendish nature Of the crime that
had b,en commit "A against them. Ba: one
thought was in their minds. and that was TO
re sea the pot where the white man dwelt,
and which they knew was near their home,
ia the direction where the sun sank at night
Ere they had dried their tears and looked
about them the hand of Aaaches bad dis
appeared Before them, IN the direction Of
home, arose rampant Of mountains, with
It's bleak aud dismal gorges and caverns irr
habitei by bears and wolves. Through
thee, pest COUNTLESS dangers, lay the track
which wOull lead them 20 the camp Of the
merciful white man. Then all the bravery
d the eldest boy cane to his aid He
checroi his younger brothers with soothing
,vortls,t old them that there beyond the black
mountains were the men who would give
them to eat and drink and let them play
and lie merry. His noble example fortified
the little ores, and giSin; him their conf
dcnce they start 4 for TIE mountains For
four OF fivc miles the two tTotted beside him,
till at last lot, weary hungry and footsore
the 2-vear-oid child threw himself on the
sarth and said Re could walk nor more En-
treaties were in vain. He showed his biisterei
fee:-an answer which admitted Of no reply.
Then, with the all II his brother, the elder
boy managed - drag The tired boy on his
hack and pursusi for few hundred yards
his wearis1me Journey. he couli walk but
9 few yarls az time he, too, was hungry,
weak ard foytsoTe, and the rests be had u
make were many. Still he would not hcsi-
tate Homo was before hiIn--home, with
all its comforts and happiness He wouIi
not let his courage flag, nor permit that Il
his younger brotLers 70 fail
Whsa the mountains were reached the
three took refuge in an abandoned cave, and
there passed the night, 20 wait the dawn Of
day again the journey was undertaken
unie= yet more distressfpl Circumstances
They a:s the wild berries that
they found, and breaking OF the tender
tvizs chewoi them % procure some nour-
ish.neut Bat not once dif determination
desert the Mttls heso he persuaded and
threate.aed alternately carried and made
his lizzie char-ez walk. until, after forty
hours q alrr.1st saE~s human exsrtzon AMI
forty-fve mills q travel, the post Wa
reachad
Once there, ever thing was done to make
tie little ca forget The dangers throngb
which they bad passed: food was given
tbsm. their wounds we're dressed AMI elotbss
supplied them And nov 90 three happ.sr
children car - zen in eli Ari11sa
There is but one feeling in the rcs. re-
ga-siin- thsse chiatrea, AID that il that tn
government sbogii take tlissa as IL warts
e-izca.e thsm an tsaiz them, for the b~ro-
ism which tAsy have already sAorn gives
the rro-sss. that II tzTBsi IN to- rizh; dfrsc-
ton there = IN AL three tie st1S II which
bersez are Fraia-Saa FFsncsS-o Cali