The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-12-26
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GOOD INDIAN.


The Life and History OF Kid, the
Apache, the Graduate OF the Gov
eminent School, Who Left Society
on a Mission-He has Killed More
White People Than ANY Other BED
Devil in America.
FTom the San Francisco Examiner.
Once there was an Indian baby on the San
Carlos reservation who was lucky enough 70
attract the attention Of the agents wife.
His Apache mother used to tilt his basket
up against tree while she worked in the
agents house, and leave him IN charge of a
certain yellow dog until il was time to take
him back TO tie uepee at night. He had a
name that meant Yellow Wolf, or EAGLE
thau-Tears, or something like thnt, but the
Apache sounds were too hard fer the white
folks. and he was soon plain Kid. He was
the smartest Indian baby ever on the reser-
walton, and really noticed the eastern lady
who watched him from the veranda and
thought he was the funniest thing in the
whole wild country.
There was not much humor there then.
There was death in hundred hideous
shapes always threatening, for every yesr
had its uprising, and those nearest were
most likely to suffer when the Apaches
started away on their raids.
But Kids father had the fortune to he
killed during one bit of numbering and
burning. and Kid, outgrowing his basket Of
| wicker and buckskin, tramped markedly
about the agency until he was quite a boy.
Then the agent and his wife decided to do
something for Kid. The people were getting
tired of the regular spring overflow Of
| devils from the reservation the soldiers
killed many and brought others back, but
the Indians only stayed during the vet
weather, and when out of doors became
| pleasant again away they went, fresh from
months of lazy living, with new blankets
and a hunger for blood whetted by sea.
sons abstinence. The government in its
| wisdom decided that if these benighted peo-
| pie could only be shown the hopslessness Of
killing all the whites they would become
| discouraged and quit.
| So they determined TO take away off to
the east number of young bucks, educate
them up to proper appreciation of the
value of a white mans life and ultimately
to send them back as missionaries to spread
the knowledge they had bestowed on them.
1t was a good idea, and on the other saw
ages it had worked well
That was the chance to do something for
| Kid. He was SO bright, SO different from
the other Apache spawn that the agent
| picked him out for the governments pupil,
and away he went to the Indian university
at Carlisle. From there came back all
manner of good reports. He learned easily.
| He took to cultivation with as much readi-
ness as any child Of twenty generations of
civilization. He came out of the Indian
school an educated, finished gentleman with
q college training and all the rest of it.
His native brightness and the culture he
| had come by SO strangely made him q great
| fevorite. Society took him up and he was
lion at receptions. His was presence
| that would make any such show a success
His strong Indian face and tall, well-knit
frame set off good clothes splendidly.
Women particularly were interested in this
reclaimed savage with a high mission, for
| he knew the purpose the government that
| had done 30 much for him intended him for,
and he spoke OF it with enthusiasm. He
lived the white mans life, said pretty things
| to the white mans women in romantic con-
servatorles. Surely the education of Kid
| was a great success
There was story of a prospective we'd
ding with one of the fairest and gentlest of
those who listened to his stories of his life
on the desert reservation, but his mission
called him back, and he came to teach his
fellows that there was more in life than
murder and theft.
used him for text in their sermons, and
pointed to him as solution Of the Indian
question.
At last he reached the reservation, and
the whole country watched TO see the result.
1t came quick enough. One night Kid
doffed his good clothes and his school-tea
ing manner, Drained a souaw who would
have betrayed him, and at the head of half
a hundred others broke from the reserva-
ton, and tore through Arizona, killing, tor.
turing and burning. Through they went
over the line and into Mexico, driving be-
fore them cattle and horses, the spoil Of the
raid and leaving behind them men and
women and children dead in their blood
amid the blazing ruins OF their homes On the
| ranches.
And at the head OF the band rode Kid
naked as the rest, with the black war
streaks on his cheeks and the white ven
geance lines painted across his forehead.
That was ten years ago, and ever since
| Kid has been the scourge and the terror OF
the southern mountains. Scores OF those
| who have ridden with him have been killed
aud captured, but they have never sue
ceeded in putting back the bonds on Kid.
He has slain 100 white men and women.
| The soldiers of the United States and Mex
leo have hunted him over thousands OF
miles, and every time he has escaped from
them, and turning back has time and time
again crawAed into Cnelr camp and cut the
| throats of one or more.
When Geronimo made his last raid Kid
joined him among the rocks of the Sierra
Madre. There we're 200 of the red fiends on
the war path that time. and the record of
their awful crimes Is a long one. But al
last they had to quit, and Gen. Crook
brought them back to San Carlos, but not
all of them. Kid would not agree to the
surrender and slipped away like coyote
into the brush. They sent Geronimo and
his chiefs back into the Florida everglades.
whence they could never hope to come
back to the mountains and deserts they
| knew so well.
One Of these chiefs was Masse. He es-
capped from the train in Kansas. and, savage
though be was, he made his way back
through the states inexperienced into Ari
IONA. He found Kid, probably by the
same instinct by which freed wolf find,
the pack, aud together they murder cd
through the years. at intervals they
descended on the reservation and carried of
women. These women do not come back.
Kid has an easier way of getting a divorce
than through the courts.
| Less than q year ago the soldiers got
Masse. They were pursuing the pair as they
had often pursued them before, and luck ,
long shot knocked him froti his horse, He
fought on the ground until the life was