The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1890-04-03
NO GOOD APAcHES.
10 Says IN Old Mail Carrier Who Knows
All About tho SavsEos.

30 Says IN Old Mail Carrier Who Knows
All About tho Ssvsges.
United States Marshal Hayes, of Los
Angeles, CAL, who has lived for q num-
Der of years in Arizona, and has had
considerable experience with the
Apache Indians, says in an interview
published in the San Francisco Chron-
icle: I'm 1851 1 carried all the mail be-
tween Wilmington and Fort Yuma In
dams were thick, and they were almost
always on the war-path. The hills were
actually alive with them, and no one
knew when they would make descent
upon the wagon trains, or with their
rifles pick off passing emigrants from
some rocky point along the trail
"For over seven years was in Arizo-
ma, during which time assisted in
burying over thirty people who had been
murdered by Apaches. Every one Of
these had been scalped, and in some
cases the bodies had been most shock
ingly mutilated. The evidence of
struggle was usually observed, and the
ground was strewn with rubbish. In
1868 and 1864 was running the express
between Yuma and Tucson, and in those
two years some fearful outrages were
committed by the savages. At one time
found whole family dead thirty miles
east of Tucson, the mutilated bodies of
parents and children alike showing
that Apaches had done the work.
"A party Of twelve miners on the way
to Apache Pass was cut of and mur-
dered in cold blood. No one knew their
names or from what part of the country
they came. All their valuables had been
taken and their naked bodies left
bleaching in the hot sun. assisted the
party that found them to scrape away
sand,, along the road and bury the poor
fellows.
Colonel McLain was one of the best
Indian fighters in Arizona. He is now
commandant of the Soldiers Home 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 one OF his
scouting expeditions.
II have had a great deal of experience
in Arizona, and am under the impress
sion that there are no good Apaches liv-
ing. The removal of Geronimo's band
to Alabama was wise one. This talk
OF bringing them back should not be
tolerated. If they are permitted to re-
turn it will not be SIX months before
they will be raiding and committing the
same depredations that have marked
their course in the past. There is
sickly sentiment that calls for the re-
moval of the band from Alabama, where
the Indians are said to have become ad-
dicted to chills and fever, which are car
rying them of. Better let them die
than bring them back where they will
kill ten men for every brave whose life
is saved. The Apaches are the worst
Indians in the country, and the sooner
the race becomes extinct the better for
the rest of the people,"
Mr.. Hayes carries the mark Of bull
let on his scalp where spent ball struck
him after killing two men in line be-
hind him. During the time he was car
rying the mails he was often shot at,
and the fact that he was not killed out
right is a wonder. Cochise seemed to
have special grudge against Hayes, and
on more than one occasion sent bullet
after him, but never with sufficiently
good aim to leave a mark