The morning call., 1890-06-13
KID, THE APACHE.
The Notorious Indian Who Is
Now at Large.

A lady, who has but recently arrived in
this city from Arizona, in an interview gives
the following details concerning the pre-
yOus record of Kid, the Apache, who is now
off the reservation and with band commit
ting depredati0ns:
The San Carlos Apache Indian, who,
with n few followers is reported to be OH
the warpath closely pursued by Grierson's
troops through the mountain passes of
Southeastern Arizona, was for three years
peaceable, well-disposed scout in the United
States service. Remarkable for his beauty
of person-tall, straight as an arrow, and
with an almost purely Grecian profile
with winning manners and intelligence,
Kid was favorite alike OF soldier. Govern
ment emplOye and his own tribe, and TO
those who knew him thus 1t seems impos-
sible TO reconcile his past with his present
accredited career The events that led up
to his flight from his friends and home, tie
Apache Indian Reservation Agency on the
Gila River, Arizona, are OF a strange char
acter.
Picturesque in dress, his long, black,
shining locks gracefully bound with
knotted handkerchief of red OF white
silk, and with a refinement of man
ner that would put to shame many
white man, one would hardly have be-
lieved him to be OF that tribe of Indians
supposed to be the widest and most un-
tamable-an Apache.
The facts of his first outbreak, as we'll
known on the reservation and doubtless in
tuencing his subsequent career, are these:
About MAY, 1887, some of the Apache
tribes held, as 1t were. festival in the
neighb0ring mountains, where the reserva-
ton Indians are at times allowed to hunt
deer. gather acorns and other foods, and on
which occasion it is their custom to kill the
fatted OK, dance about campfires the night
long, chanting their monotonous songs and
beating their crude musical instruments
and practicing their peculiar rites generally.
Kid ana his companions, chlld-llke, over
stayed the time OF their passes and the agent
since resigned, undertook to disgrace these
Apache youths by demanding their guns and
consigning them to the reservation prison
at the agency. As Kid was proud-spirited
and had always been Al Sieber'S Qhe chief
scouts pet and, until then, played the other
role Of himself guarding prisoners, this unex-
pected indignity was more than his nature
could brook. He and his companions at
once snatched their guns and started
to run, whereupon the agent and Sieber
fired at them. To cover their retreat
the Indians returned the fire, but shot low,
and escaped. KID was one of the best shots
among the scouts, yet he only wounded Sic
Der in tho knee AS the wires were down,
the direction Of their flight was not at once
traced. My companion and l were acct
dentally the only witnesses OF their depart
ure. That night, being in temporary quar-
teIs near d uestIteu oiu wen, anu ny clldnce
rising and stepping out into the moonlight
unseen, perhaps fortunately, we observed
them file by, some leading horses which
were ridden by more than one Indian. Like
ghosts they went to the old well and then
silently disappeared
The next day the band was heard of
thirty miles away; they then doubled on
their track, and, when next reported, were
in different direction. Kid and his friends
were finally captured and sentenced to con-
tinement in distant prison, where he re-
manned yea- or more, coming out, no
doubt, burning for revenge and hating the
reservation.