Arizona weekly enterprise., 1890-05-17

his team and burning his wagon, the assassins hastened away.
 "Three days before I reached San Carlos Capt. Bullis had arrested and disarmed all the disaffected and troub- lesome Indians within easy reach, and their families and all the relatives of l the five assassins-twenty-fi bucks and seventy-five in all-and started with them 10 Fort Union, N M, un- der military escort. This secretly planned and suddenly executed move ment powerfully affected the remain ing Indians, arousing vengeance in some and fear in others.
 RARE FACILITIES FOR MURDER.
 "On my way from Fort Thomas to San Carlos passed the deserted huts of most of the arrested Indians, some of them on high bluffs, with stone breast works overlooking the travelled road and affording rare facilities for shoot ing traveller.
 ''In my travels through twenty-five other Indian reservations I never saw Indians carrying rifles, and only few with hunting guns. But along this road for twenty miles saw In- dians with rifles, either in hand or strapped on their ponies. All Apach- es are we'll supplied with rifles and ammunition, sold to them by Mexi- cans and Mormons. The Mormons are very numerous between Solomon vile and Fort Thomas, and sell to the Apaches corn, from which they make their tiswin-a fiery, madden ing liquor.
 "I found at the agency general feeling of unrest For two nights the school buildings had been guarded against burning by the Indians. A friendly squaw had come to the matron, and said:
 Pretty soon tell Cept. Bulls h. dian burn all people up. Much fire The matron said, you go tell Capt Bullis.' The Indian woman replied, 1T fraid of Indians. Apache bucks kill me-
 "This squaw had before given warn ing which proved we'll founded In this case her story was confirmed, for the night before 1 arrived six Indian girls whom the matron knew had gone to bed as usual, were found in the night up and dressed. When asked why they did 80, they said they had been warned of danger The school buildings were nightly watch ed by patrol, and officers of the school were furnished with firearms from l the fort.
 'lhe evening that Herbert was kill ed signal fires communicated the in telligence beyond the agency before the first white messenger arrived The assassins had cut the telegraph wires.
 Constance Bread, Tonto Apache, who returned from the Carlisle, Penn, 1 school last July and was employed as an interpreter, was threatened with l death because he interpreted death sentence pronounced upon an Apache. So great was the hostility to him that it was necessary for him to resign his office
 Eleven Apache renegades are now committing depredations on the bor- ders of Arizona and New Mexico. The military are in pursuit. Another band of scouts is on the trail of Kid, a well-known Apache desperado. | EQUALS WILD ROMANCE.
 "The story of Mas-se, the only Chir icahua now known to be at large, equals the widest romances. He is one of Geronimo's band, carried East by Gen. Miles. He escaped from the train in Missouri and made his way back to Arizona, where his record has been that of fiend, killing cat tie, stealing horses and shooting stage.driver from a rocky bluff. Meet ing a squaw- and her l4-yeas-old daughter, he killed the mother and horse and bore away the daughter.
 When closely pursued he killed the
 horse, took to the rocks and carried
 the girl to Mexico. After keeping
 her year he returned as far as
 Bowie Pass, pointed out to her the
 Apache White Mountains, gave her
 beef and horse, and sent her home.
 The girl is now demented. About
 seven weeks ago he stole another girl. The cattlemen and the Govern ment have hQth offered rewards for his arrest On account of his murder.
 Even the Indians are afraid of him. "Es-kim-in-zin, 90 or 60 years old, , is the war chief of the San Carlos Apaches, but a compound of decep- , ton, treachery and blood thirstiness. } Some years, ago, after eating with his
 best friend and the only white friend , he ever had, he stepped behind his } host and shot him. When asked why : he did it he replied;
 r "To prove my bravery. Any man f can kill an enemy, few can kill 8
 friend" He strangely appears and ) disappears, giving aid to renegades t between Sonora and Apache. He l has been indicted at Florence fol r murder and burglary.
 : "These cunning kpaches have ways 9 ef communicating information which 8 sharply compete with telegIaphs r Many of them even in Government e employ as scouts, set treaeherously t Many are the examples of heartless + ness and cruelty to their old people e stealing their food and annuity goods j.. so that the agent is sometimes obliged s to reissue rations to keep the old In r dians from starving. They destro. e deformed children at birth. WomeI e work hard and earn money, but tn, ,- bucks often take it and gamble l > away, and the women thiIk it al > right. Faqa day while at the Agency
 | saw as many as thirty or forty wo
 men, young and old, seated on tn
 bare ground gambling. The stalk e was usually $l, which lay with tn ,i cards. They are such inveterSt II Il gamblers they stake their beans sn' . clothes. rolygamy abounds anon :" the Apaches to a larger degree thai among any other tribe have visited
 Three and four wives are eammor Q in some instances five or six, and i "a one case ten, the old fellow sayin Y that the purchase of wives had kep
 him poor. Girls are bargained ava o for ponies when 6 to 10 years old, an as 's taken for wives at II and l2 Thi = it will readily be seen, is a serious in 70 " pediment in the way of education an " elevation of the Apaches. No girl