Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-06-07

them. mounted on good horses and
 upon plain, fresh track, when they certainly had not over five hours the start of us and it would often take us
 four days before we came up with
 them, if we found them at all. It is now well known fact that an Apache can travel over 50 miles of ground a day for weeks and do this with an in significant amount of food and a minimum oftwater. They have well organized signals, by day through smoke, by night through fire; for the latter the Giant or Candelabra cactus (Cereus giganteus) is especially adapt
 ed. It grows almost everywhere in these regions and attains a night of from 20 to 50 feet its auted columns contain rows of thickly set resinous thorns which ignite immediately upon the application of a match and the whole plant, although perfectly green and in it's full juice, then presents the beautiful aspect of q pillar of fire. These sons of the desert have however, many more means of silent communi- cation; the above mentioned guide, Marigildo, has often described to me how few twigs or stones laid in a peculiar manner, a twisted branch, a hacked catus and other contrivances along the usual route of a war party form pretty complete telegraphic system.
 When the Apaches contemplate the surprise and driving off of herd of horses or cattle they suddenly emerge with terrific yells from the nearest canyon or gulch and fire upon the herders; the animals become ter rified and are driven by the robbers in the most suitable direction with break neck speed. A herd thus stampeded has been known to run a distance of eighty miles and was only brought to a stop through complete exhaustion. One of the most successful expeditions of this kind was undertaken by the Indians (probably Ohiricahuas under Cachise) in May 1866, when they made a descent upon the government herd of New Post on the upper San Pedro river They killed one herder and captured every hoof-80 fine cavalry horses, 40 mules and about 200 head of beef cattle, all of which they drove in the direction of the Huachuca mountains where they disappeared forever.
 Of the many paraphernalia of war dress generally attributed to the In- dians of North America, 1 have seen 1r,hil Ia called war-path. With the exception of hip cloth, red rag around the forehead to keep the long hair from over the eyes, sometimes pair of crude moccaSins, a mere sole of raw hide fastened with thongs, and in cold weather perhaps an old blanket, the Apaches whom we saw, hunted and very rarely captuTad, were naked. Their long thin arms, fieshless calves, dirty blackish-brown skin, faces de- faced by vertical red and blue lines, salient cheek bones, their coarse black hair reaching to the shoulder, flat noses and small yellow eyes-all this makes a tout-ensemble which is by no means attractive. They also eXhale very disagreeable odor which Is especially noticeable during the hot season. My attention was called to this fact for the first time n August, 1868, when we had 2 number of them confined in the guard house at Fort Goodwin, They were veFitable hyenas of the desert. After oapturinga small train of Mexican wagons they drove the animals into a secure place and began to feast upon their favorite dish, mules meat roasted on the coals, de- vouring like the inveterate gluttons
 that the are, paunch, intestines, etc.
 Unfortunately for them they had also captured barrel of mescal, very strong, fiery liquor distilled from the
 Mexican Agave of which they are ex- q6adingly fond and which f great
 many of them know how to dlstill
 quite well in a.crqde fashion. They had
 become intoxicated and failed to use
 their customary precaution against
 attack our soldiers found them dead
 drunk and brought them to the fort.
 The bad odor which the exhaled in
 the small guarl-room where they were
 placed on account of heavy rains, was
 almost unbearable During the night
 two of them asked to be taken to the
 Fear; four HeR Qf the guard were sent
 with them after a few moments some
 shots were heard and the returning guard reported that the prisoners had attempted an escape and were by them fired at The would-De fugitives were brought in dead and laid in a corner of the guard-room; their comrades contemplated them in stoic silence ,, or the 'fQliQwlng dfY they EaFe bgriee and we had then the opportunity O observing that during the captivity o the band they were most careful no to approach the corner where thei dead comrades had lain. All Apache' have superstitious fear of darknes and some indefinable feeling of dread respect? awe? for the dead.
 < combat with Ahaches' is pnssihl 2 only in the case of coming upon then , unawares and even then they vii n fight only when in greatly superio numbers or when every chance o
 escape is cut of from them. On leve , ground they will soon outrun the bes ' infantry on steep incline they vii leave g good horse far behind and ol , rocky hfils. I te{ily tsleiEs, thsY VI a U even ouicliEib g goat. Tn the sum rer of 1868 we followed, guided D. 4' Marigildo, the fresh tracks of ban that had killed three men in th ', Sonoita pass. Alter g ride of five day v the trail led us to rancheria in tn Ii Chiricahua mountains, which consist 7 ed mainly of aqgouts, huts coysre' = over with branches ard grass. .1h q q Indian sentinel must Have espied | l. from afaF, faF upon eur arrival dt | piaysd as sksprnisheps We found tha $ the Indians had already climed tn <, y surrounding very steep and rock v mountain sides; they saluted us iron s their secure high position with shots
 gestures and sarcasms in fairly con il1 prshergiYe language, but Of go 4ndeceI ,, Il mature thet notiestF fdrbids to" |, z peht tHsm Refs: They Kept d8dgia ,s among the rocks like 89 many gFoAh'