The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-08-08
No GOOD APAcHes.
DO Says an Old Mail Carrier who KnUu1
All About tho SnvAwoS.

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30 Says an Old Mail Carrier who k1o66
All About tho ssvAges.
United States Marshal Hayes, Of Lo4
Angeles, CAL, who has lived for = num-.
Der Of years In Arizona, aud has had
considerable experience with the
Apache Indians, says In M interview
published in tho San Francisco Chron-
iclc: I'm 1861 I carried all tue mail b.
twccn Wilmington and Fort Yuma. la.
dams were thick, and they werc almost
always on the war.path. The hills were
actually alive with thcm, and no olp
knew when they would mako descent
upon the wagon trains, or with tLeit
rifles pick oil passing cmigrants ft9m
ono rocky point along tho trail.
FOR over years I was in Arizo.
no, during which timc I assisted In
buryins over thirty people who had boon
murdered by Apaches. Every ono Of
these had been scalped, and in somo
cases tho bodies had becn most shock.
ingly mutilated. The evidence Of .
struggle was usually observed, and tho
ground was strewn with rubbish. In
1853 and 1864 l was running the express
between Yuma and Tucson, and in those
two years some fearful outrages were
committed by tho savages. AT ono time
l found q whole family dead thirty miles
cast Of Tucson, tho mutilatcd bodies OF
parents and children alike showing
that Apachcs had done tho work.
"a party of twelve miners on the way
to Apache Pass was cut of md muir.
dcrcd in cold blood. No ono knew their
II or from what part of tho country
they came. All their valuablcs had been
taken and their naked bodies left
bleaching in the hot sun. I assisted tho
party that found them to scrapc away
sand along the road and bury tho poor
fellows.
Colonel McLain was ono of the best
Indian fighters in Arizona. lie is now
c~ommandant of the Soldiers Homo at
Napa. He knew that a mild policy
would not answer, and the Indians
learned to fear him. They kept pretty
quiet when he was out on m of his
scouting expeditions.
81 have had great deal of experience
in Arizona, and am under tho impress.
sion mat there are no good Apachcs Nv
ing. Tho removal OF Geronimo's band
W 1AlLpuuiu WdS u WISE Ou0. luis t3lk
of bringing them back should not BIO
tolerated. If they are permitted to re-
turn it will not DO SIX months before
they will be raiding and committing tho
samc dcpredations that havc marked
. their course in the past. There is .
sickly sentiment that calls for the -c-
moval of tho band from Alabama, whero
tho Indians are said to have become adj
dicted to chills and fever, which are car
rying them of. Better let them die
than bring them back where they will
kill ten mon for every brave whose lifc
is saved. Tho Apaches are tho worst
Indians in tho country, and the sooner
the race becomes extinct tho better for
the rest OF the people,"
MIR. Hayes carries the mark of a bull.
let on his scalp where a spent ball struck
him after killing two men in limo be-
hind him. During tho time he was car
rying the mails he was often shot at,
and the fact that he was not killed out
right is q wonder. Cochisc seemed to
have a special grudgc against Hayes, and
on moro than onc occasion sont a bullcl
after him, but never with sufficiently
good aim to leave a mark.