Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-12-06
A DELAYED MAIL.
CHANGE DISCOVERY OF AN APACHE
 RELIC.
Col. ColemRn's Surveyors Discover a Sack of '. s. Mall Eleven Years
 old.
santa Fc New Mexican.

places but the mail matter was well pre- served, only slightly tinged with yellow from age. Among the territorial news papers in the sack were copies of the Mesilla Independent and the Grant Coun- ty Herald, published at Silver City, in which it was announced that the A. T. X s. F. line had reached Trinidad in it's southwestern march, and it was predicted that it would 'pass within about seven miles of Fort Union" in reaching out for the Rio Grande valley. The bag was found in the mountains some distance off the main highway between Silver City and Clifton and between the former place and Richmond. It is probable that 1t was left there by some pioneer mail carrier who fell victim to the Apache hostiles that in those days so thickly in tested that locality.
 Another incident of the trip occurred yesterday a week ago, which serves to il- lustrate how thoroughly the residents of western Socorro and Grant counties have organized for self-protection against the rowing bands of Apaches that have of late been seen in that locality. CoLCole- mans party came down out of the noun tains and struck a camp on the San Augustine plains. In the party were sev- eral Laguna Indians, employed as labor CTS. At daylight on Friday morning ten men well mounted and with Wiuchesters drawn. surrounded the camp. They ap- proached cautiously and Col Coleman, who at first had taken the new corners for Indians, presently heard one of them say: "Why, these are white men, when the leader came up and explained to Col. Coleman that his camp had been taken for Apaches and was at that moment sur rounded by 100 armed men who had watched it all night. But one thing oper- Rted to postpone their approach until daylight, and that was the camp had been pitched on the plains instead of in q cafion, few miles distant. The settlers informed the campers that had they by any mischance set their camp fire in the canon they certainly would have all been slaughtered in the night under the impression that they were Apaches.
 ITS PRoBABE HISTORY.
 Silver Belt
 The foregoing probably finds a solu- tion in the fact that blackboard, coming vest from Silver City, belonging to D. B. Lacey. about that time, was attacked by Indians, four miles west of Burro Springs. The driver Charles Batchelder, was killed. IUc uldll tdhtu hul nOl IttONtTetL l Qt deceased, when found, had twenty eight bullet holes in his body. After one Of the mules was shot Batehelder retreated to the cover of live oak. That he made q gallant fight is attested by the fact that where he stood upwards of twenty shells were discovered. The attacking party, it is alleged by Mir. Al. Seiber, were five Mescalero Apaches.
 UsnfOr,A uf fhaf tttan ,us, southwestern New Mexico and south eastern Arizona, and continued his raids until killed in Mexico by Mexican troops in 1880. Mana, vertiable hyena, upon the death of Victorio, succeeded to the command, and instead Of being drawn and chartered, as he deserved, Is now living ig Alabama upon the bounty of the Gov ernment. The bloody work of Victoria and Mana ran through series of years. They were tireless in the execution of their fell purpose. Their appetite for blood and rapine was unsuitable, and like the daughter of the horse leach, their cry was still for more. But during those years the army was not idle, they studied fheir tactics and drew their pay.
 The day previous to our leaving Silver City, N. NJ, for Globe, was witnessed 6 sight for sympathetic tears. The tolline of the church bell announced the ap proach of funeral, not an ordinary one The shceted dead numbered nine persons who had been killed by Indians few days previous. near Burro Springs, and had been disinterred from temporary graves or the hill above the spring and brought tC Silver City for christian burial. In tha bloody massacre two Mexican boys wer, wounded, and shortly afterwards died Also, woman belonging to the party who had received a severe scalp wound made her escape, with a babe in hel arms. and was subsequently found, wilC from fright and in half starved condi tion. Such calamitious deeds were 1T those days, however, of such frequent oc currence that they left no lasting i'm pression.
 Our party consisted of Alexander H Morehead. A. W. Harris, man who wa recognized by the cognomen of Pass, wh, was on a matrimonial venture to Sonora Mexico. and A. H. Hackney. As the wood were full of hostile Indians, We were givel q military escort, but while On onr way " saw them but opce, and that was or ou first night out, when in camp at Burrc Springs, then solitary place; and al though the spot was cursed, We enjoyed ; blstD HCdJu luC MlbCnSi1 Ol H Sb1A lit sky. When dreams had vanished W engaged in the fretful stir of cookin breakfast, "hitching up," and resumin! ouy trip, still two hundred miles througl an Indian country. A year later, Charle BatcheLler, the mail carrier, whe traveling tue same road was called to hi account, but he is only one of hundred of Arizona pioneers who have gone dow to dusty death at the hands of ruthles savages. Peace hath her victories. an soy that the Indian Messiah is st Wake Lake, Nevada, although not the bibica Christ, 1t is hoped he may imbue all th savage tribes with a meek, patient ah tranquil spirit, and love of honest labor
 That raids were continued in the vicir ity of Silver City, as late as 1888, by Ir dians, is evidenced by the fact tha citizens offered money inducement fo scalps of raiding Apaches. This step wa not taken until horrors had accumulate on horrors head, and wasteful war ha impoverished the country, drenched tE land with blood of slaughtered citizen md the question had resolved itself as whether the whites CT Indians were tl inyincibles. The conditions have changes The land of which the Apache was mol arch of all he surveyed and yielded oB a harvest of blood. is now the home of il dustry; peace reiRBs where murder WI king, and churches and school houses a seen where war dances prevailnd; but n through the agency of rantipg seHtime talists has thesurviyal of the tittest bet preserved.
 Mana, Victories lisutaraut, plannt the ambuscade which enabled the MeN cans, under General Terrassas. to q eomplish the death of Victorio. At u time of his death, Victoria was about
 years old, heavy-set, broad faced, squa under jaw, prominent cheek bones, al bore bullet mark in the cheek rsceiv at the hands of Barney Conly, at "t bean soup treaty" which occurred
 Pino5 Altos, N. NJ. in 1866.
 The Evil Influence of Medicine men,
 Silver Belt.
 The religious craze" is the theme mc