Western liberal. (Lordsburg, N.M.) 1887-1919, 1890-07-18
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Southern Pacific. There we're tvs other
men with him one day when The Apaches
raidsd the station. The two nen whs
we're With hin we're killed asd the Sight
lasted two days, he Saith killed three In.
dions snd Woundpd several. Upsu the d.
parturo Of the Indians Saith west 70 Tue
son bat it seems the news Of the 6ght
had reached that place bsisre be arrived
aad everybody thsHght that he had net
the same fate as his c~Ompaniens. They
we're greatly pleased however that he had
net and began to ply questions to him for
tull particulars. ''Shot Gua." ~ be is
nov afsstonstsly called nodsstly answer.
Cd all the queriss put to him and related
every cireuaitansS ~eonnected with lhe
battle wherein it was shown that the poor
fellows who had fought to the death, had
diIPlaysd hat nerve characteristics Of the
frontisrsmaH.
Shot Gan' having told al about the
affair preceded to attend to some businsSS,
Whsn = psrSon prssent who had heard the
entire report asked him how in thunder
did you kill 90 many Indians and get
aWay2' ''Bhot aun" responded after
glvisG the crowd \ quizIieal lock. "Oh
yes, forget to tell you, l did it with a
great big shot Eun," and from that day
on be has ever bees knsWn as shot Qua"
Smith. ". A. are hlS initials.
He is frem the ptate Of ILLNESS and ssrv-
ed during the war in the 6lst Illinois vol.
untsSr' as An enlisted mas aAd, as a com
niSSionsd officer. 10 was severely
wounded and was rendered a eemmisSiSn
rs 2nd Lieutenant for Eallantry and now
draws a pension. He lives on bis ranch on
the camp Thomas and Fort Grant road in
the feet bills Of the Graham mountains.
1t is said the Apache knows as the kid"
was q sergent Of scouts at tbs time he and
others mutinisd on the 18th of June 1887.
It was thea that. AL Seiber. chief OF
scouts, was severely wounded. Out ef the
number that mutlnied then two have been
hung, tWO shot and one is in the penitsA-
tary at Yuma. Thu balance are supposed
to be with the kid. ALI mlnnrr of stories
are told about the kids exploits and how
sharp he is. Your correspondent has been
told that he received an acadt mieal course
at the Indian soheol at Carlisle, PeHns,l-
vsnia, and that he 10th reAas, writes aud
speaks the Spanish language Auently, and
that among other things understands the
system Of signals that is used by the mill
t"ry authorities in operating the writer
heard that the kid had signalsd an order
to several commands to return to their re.
s%peeti7s posts and that enc company bad
actually retained.
Coming up the ella valley the writer
learned that Al Seibsr was at the Hot
SprinEa and concluded to stop aud see
Mr.. Soibsr and learn what he would say
about the kid being such an accomplished
desperate. Mr.. Slehsr told the following
Ia substance. That the KID was bright
for au Indian but was nos educated as re-
ported; that he was a sergeant of scouts
aud a leader OF the mu-
tiny, bat that he did not shoot him Sic
Der. That the two Indians who did shoot
bi,n we're NA-gou-sin-,ay and As-ki-sny-
la-ha. That he kid Immediately after
the nutiny left the rsservatlen but sub
u'qssutly came in land gave himself sp;
that the kid "A tried by a military court
was convicted and sentenced for the period
Of ten years. That President Cleveland
set aside the iudgnent of tho mill AIRY
court in order that the civil authorities
could get Il Nhaek at him. The civil au-
honLies did get a %harpOou int him and
sentenced him to Yuma fer the period Of
his natural life. 1t was while being taken
to the penitsntiary that the kid and other
Indiana murdered Sheriff Reynolds, ell Of
which everybody is cogRizant of.
On being asked what he thought Of the
HardlO affair, as to whether or not the kid
had anything to do with that murder, he
(SisberJ promptly replied ''no,' c%ontinu
ing be said, lit would have been a physi-
cal ia possibility for the kid TO have Seen
in The Rueker san9n at the time Mr.. Har-
die WAS killed because the hid WAS sesn
about that tins on the San Pedro" The
writer did net question him as 10 his
knowledge concerning the whereabouts Of
the kid at the lime Of tho murder in
Racksr eahon for the reason that the au-
thor Tea at San Carlos, 50 the writer has
been informed by reliable parties, has
what is called a secret service fierce Of In
dams, and perhaps it WIS through uuch a
channel that the commanding Office of the
department W no is at Los Angeles Califsr-
mia, 500 mils' away, gained his informa-
tien which led him to assert that it was
others thAS Iadisns that nurdsrsd Mr..
Hardis.
Mr.. siobsr also said, in the way Of sE-
plaiHinE his belief that il was net Ind
ianS, that # 1t had have been Indians
who committed the crime Or. Haynes
would never have got away as he did"
Mr., sisbsr was not well he had GONE to
the Hot springs for treatment as hs is suf-