The Opelousas courier., 1893-03-18
DOWN AN APACHE
~vroUs WARFARE ON OUR
aouTHERN FRONTIER.

bTHCE AS .
". His Apache mother used to tilt
y. hasket up against a tree while she
..ssd in the agents house and leave
" IN charge of a certain yellow dog
80 X wss time to take him back to the
nnss 4 night. He had a name that
.p.r+ yellow Wolf, or Eagle-that- Tears,
somothing like that, but the Apache
.ands were too hard for the white folks
"a he was soon plain Kid. He was the
s'.rtast Indian hby ever on the reser-
atom. and really noticed the Eastern
NM who watched him from the veranda
nj thought he was the funniest thing
|. the whole wild country.
There was not much humor there then.
rhere was death in a hundred hideous
names always threatening, for every year
s.d It's uprising, and those nearest were
noqt likely to suffer when the Apaches
ea,tad away on their raids.
But Kids father had the fortune to be
tnled during one bit of numbering and
burning, and Kid ~outgrowing his basket
# wicker and buckskin, tramped about
tbs agency until he was quite a boy.
Kid was 50 bright, so different from
he other Apaches that the agent picked
! him out for the Governments pupil, and
and away he went to the Indian Uni
varsity at Carlisle, Penn. From there
ZANE back all manner of good reports.
he learned easily. He took to cultivation
nwith as much readiness as any child of
I twenty generations of civilization. He
came out Of the Indian school an edu-
Gated, finished gentleman, with a college
raining and all the rest of it.
His native brightness and the culture
hs had come by SO strangely made him a
great favorite. Society took HIM up and
6e was q lion at reception. His was a
presence that would make any such
Ihow q success. His strong Indian face
and tall, well.knit frame set off good
elothss splendidly. Women particularly
were Interested In this reclaimed savage
with q high mission, for he oknew the
purpose the Government that had done
% much for him intended him for, and
be spoke Of it with enthusiasm. His
mission called him back, and he came to
leach his fellows that there was more
An life than murder and theft.
His return was a triumph. Ministers
used him for a text in their sermons and
] pointed to him as the solution of the
indian question. At last he reached the
hasnwratrnn and thu -hNIn oAT1nkr-
watched to see the result. 1t came quick
enough. One night Kid dotted his
good clothes and his school teaching
manner, Drained a squaw who would
have betrayed him, and at the head of
half a hundred others broke from the
reservation and tore through Arizona,
killing, torturing and burning. Through
they went over the line and into Mexico,
driving before them cattle and horses,
the spoil of the raid, and leaving behind
them men and women aud children dead
in their blood, amid the blazing ruins of
their homes on the ranches.
AT the head of the band rode Kid,
with the black warstrea&s on his cheeks
and the white vengeance lines painted
across his forehead.
q That was ten years ago, and ever
since Kid has been the scourge aud the
terror of the Southern Mountains. Scores
OF those who have ridden with him have
beer killed and captured, but they have
never succeeded in putting back the
bonds on Kid. he has slain a hundred
white men and women. The soldiers of the
United States and Mexico have hunted
him over thousands of miles, aud every
time he has escaped from them, and
turning back has time aud time again
cEawled into their camp and cut the
threats of one or more
When Geronimo made his last raid
Kid joined him among the rocks of the
Sierra Madre. There were 200 of the
red fends on the warpath that time, and
The records of their awful crimes is a
long one. But at last they had to quit,
and General Crook brought them back
20 San Carlos, but not all of them. Kid
would NOT agree to the surrender and
slipped away like a coyote into the
brush. They sent Geronimo and his
chiefs back into the Florida everglades,
whence they could never hope to come
back to che mountains and deserts they
knew go WE'LL One of these chiefs was
Masse. He escaped from the train In
Kansas, and, savage though he was, he
made his way back through the States
unprecedented into Arizona. He found
Kid, probably BY the same instinct by
which q freed wolf finds the pack, and
together they murdered through the
Years.
Less than a year ago the soldiers got
Aasse. They were pursuing the pair rs
shey had often pursued them before, and
! lucky long shot knocked him from his
horse. He fought IN the ground until
Vie life was gone, but Kid got away.
Usually there are four o. Ave rene
AIDES with this evil spirit of the noun
sainA. Just now there are supposed to
be ak or seven, and for each one dead a
thousand dollars ID offered and the Kids
head 10 worth many Thousands.
The great cattle ranches Of New and
old Mexico have been his hunting
grounds. He has slaughtered many men
MaeA Within q few months 40 less
than SIX vaqusros have fallen By his
bullets. He lies by q trail or near q water
hole and waits for some man TO come
along. Al the traveller passes . shot In
The back sads hlrn. From his victims
lid keeps supplied with whatever he
needs. His horses are the best in the
two TERRITORIES, for he has all there are
y choose frosn.
When he ID alone hs covers his tracks
behind him and no one can trail him.
They Nnlx lknavo that he haa nassed from