Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-02-10
ABDUCTED.
A White Girl Alleged to be Held Cap tive by Indians in Coconino County.

A White Girl Alleged to be Held Cap
 tive by Indians in Coconino County.
 Capt. Jackson arrived Friday from Oak Creek, leaving there on Thurs day. He lives eight miles south of the Strahan ranch, and gives the following particulars as to the all legged abduction of Alice Packard by two Indians. He was informed of the case, by Mir. Holmes, on Monday night, and he then sent men to the Strahan ranch, viz: AL fred Dickson and Lee Van Deren, who, on their return. substantiated the report, and gave the following version, as told by Charley Strahan, Is years of age:
 ''On Friday, January 29, at II a. m. girl, giving her name as Alice Packard or Packer, came to the ranch with two Indians, almost naked, and bleeding, and asked for something to eat. She stated her name. and with tears i'll her eyes begged to be saved, piteously ap- peallng to young Strahan and in- quired if there were not some men around who could come to her res cue. She stated that she was on her way from school at Flagstaff to her uncle's, near there, when these two Indians approached, it being about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, nearly two weeks ago, and forcibly abducted her. The Indians remain ed only few minutes at the Stra- han ranch, fearing that some one would come to the relief of the girl. Being ready to depart, one of the Indians spoke in his own tongue, lilac ko yea" which in English means, "come, go." The girl imme- dia.ely commenced crying. saying she had to go, and left imploring him to seek aid and rescue her. The Indians were heavily armed, with rifles and six-shooters. While at the ranch she asked the boy to give her string to tie what was left of her shoes to her feet. A few miles from the ranch this string was found on the trail which they had made"
 Jim Roberts, deputy sheriff at Je- rome, - Scott, Jim Van Deren, the three Carols, Ali, Ed, and Bill Dickinson, A. Mason, Wm. Wilson, Isaac Jones, Frank Copeland, Wm. Hutchinson, besides others whose names could not be. recalled, aggre- gating at least fifty in number and composed of every available man in that section came forward with alac- rity to volunteer their services.
 The girl is i6 years old, and while at the ranch saw a piece of raw ba- con hanging on the wall, which she grasped and commenced to eat with a ravenous appetite. It IS feared she will be either dead or insane if not found soon.
 :. Deputy Sheriff Fairchild request ed the information to be given out to the public of this vicinity, in a letter to Sheriff Lowry. He was on his way home from Prescott with q prisoner when he heard of the oc- cuFrence, and immediately joined the pursuing party.
 s The occurrence took place on Fri day, January g. but the boy inform ed no one of it until last Monday, February 1st. =
 Captain Jackson says the excite ment is intense all over that portion of the country. Over 100 men will be in pursuit. s
 On Tuesday, forty men met at Captain Jackson's ranch and ar ranged program of search and capture. and elected Deputy Sherin Fairchild their captain. Their pt,r- pose is to ride over the whole of the country, and are divided into 10 squads, and are to be iu constant communication. At night part of them return to the ranch. Up to Thursday at 6 a. m. nothing was heard of the girl or her captors.
 Mir. Munds. 20 miles from Flag staff. sent man to town for relief and to arouse the people, but up to Thursday he had not returned.
 The boy was cross examined and his story found to be correct. The tracks of the girl, and moccasin tracks. were found, and trailed for a short distance, going south, but they evidently turned their coarsre, and it is presumed they are in the notorious Red Rock country, which is an old time rendezvous of the Apaches,
 The posse goes out at night and watches for light and smoke, and are in easy communication of each other.
 It is feared there are other rene gades in the Red Rocks under the rim of the Mogolfons, to whom 1t IS feared the captive has been taken to be further taanted with Apache bar barities,
 The story as recited is one that appeals feeiingly to every heart, and carries one back in vivid recollection to the eruelties of the Apache in the Oatman massacre of 1858 in South ern Arizona, when two young girls that bore that name were captured and held for years by these fends- the only human lives of that histor- cal party left to tell of the massacre and the subsequent heinons charac- ter of the existence they submitted to until death came to one and res cue party saved the other.
 The task of caring for such large posse is by no means pleasant one considering the accommodations the usual Arizona ranch offers, but with that spirit of generosity that has ever characterized the Captains threshold he and his amiabfe wife threw the latch string out for all. They deserve much praise and should