The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1893-12-27

the gun and John jumped upon the rene
gade with a big knife and stabbed him
twenty-nine times.
Late that night somebody knocked at the
agents door Captain Bulls leaped from
his cot, stood between the door and win
dow, out OF range, and hailed. The voice
OF the Interpreter answered the nan anu
the Captain opened the door. In stepped
the lad and Big John. the latter Spattereu
al over with blood Big John stood silently
fumblinS in his Scanty clothing, while Inc
blood trick ed from wounds on his face ana
battered on the floor. Presently he brought
out roll OF cloth, ana, slowly unwin T,hlts
were the ears of the renegade and Big
Johns potent plea for restoration TO MS
Another of the band was an Indian known
at the San Carlos reservation as h. 9 The
system of Identification there is similar 10
that employed in our penitentiaries. Il.
had been wounded in the leg and the wound
did not heal. Il. travelled with Kid and
Saves when the band scattered and was
with them in old Mexico. Kid did not like
B. 9 'too plenty" and the fellows bad leg
lmpeded the progress OF the gang. one day
Kid shot him in the back and killed him.
So says Sayes.
ORIGINAL BAND DIFFERENTIATED.
Another of the gang was killed by Mex
lean soldiers in skirmish with raiders in
Sonora. They found upon him Sheriff Rey-
nolds's gold watch, in which was an in
scription showing that 1t had been given to
the sheriff by friends in Arizona The
watch was sent to Washington by the Mex
lean authorities. and finally was returned
to the sheriffs widow.
San Carlos b. 60, another of the band,
surrendered to Chief Antonio and was tried
and sent to Yuma for twelve years. J. 30
was killed by the Mexicans and only the
Kid. who seems TO bear charmed life,
remains of the original band.
But new recruits are constantly being
made by the Kid. Whenever an Indian
go after him he will fly to the mountains
and head for the Kid. The Indians on the
various reservations usually know the Kid $
whereabouts Some mysterious system OF
communication will tell the Pima Indians
on their reservation forty miles from Tue
son all about the Kids operations of a few
days before hundreds of miles away: The
Indians all fear him. He has habit or
swooping down and capturing woman now
or stealing the best horse he can lay hands
on The half-breeds and MeXicans in the
small villages Of northern NJ exico give him
and his band occasional shelter and food.
But the Kid distrusts even his own people,
Apache Indian will murder his own
father for rifle or a horse, let alone
81 900.
Captain Bynum, of the army, has a two
years rowing leave of absence, and with
a picked band of scouts is now pursuing
the Kid. Marshal Gard, who captured the
notorious California train robbers, Sontag
and Evans, has announced his intention
Of bringing him into camp Arizona peo-
pie simply laugh at Cards assumptions
If men who know the country thoroughly
and make a business of capturing desper-
ate men have found their efforts to be flu
tile for four years, they argue that a coun-
try sheriff from another State will stand
but little chance. In order TO appreciate
the difficulties to be encountered in his
capture, an idea of the country in which
he operates Is necessary. 1t is vast beyond
measure, league after league of land, bar
of vegetation save for the prickly and
giant cactus, stretch away in an iimitable
sand desert, where the SUMS rays on
summers day would stifie anything on
earth but an Apache Indian. 1t is broken
by ranges of mountains wilder, grander
and more secluded in their fastness than
geographers conceive. The Kid is what is
known as Coyote Apache" You can lock
a coyote Apache in the vaults over at the
treasury, turn your back, unlock the
vaults, and not find him with search war
rant in thirty days