The herald., 1893-12-03
MARSHAL CARDS NEXT BIG GAME
The Task He Contemplates of
Capturing Apache Kid.
Some Interesting Facts About the
Noted Arizona Outlaw.
Ten Thousand Dollars the Price Put on
His Head = Incidents Which IiIus-
trate the Apache Character In Gem
erai and Kids In Particulars.
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Correspondence Chicago Herald.l
ALBUQUERQUE, N. NJ, Nov. 26.-The
report that Marshal Gard has arranged
with General McCook to run down
Apache Kid, for whose arrest reward
OF $40, 900 is offered, causes considerable
amusement in this section, where the
doings of the bad Indian are 30 we'll
known. If by any stroke of good luck
the marshal should bag the much-sought
game, his success in capturing sontag
and Evans, the California desperadoes,
will pale into insight fcance.
Kid is full-blooded Apache, rather
undersized, but wiry and strong and
quite intelligent. In the campaign
against Geronimo he was sergeant of
scouts. He is dead shot at short
range, skilled in all the arts Of the saw
age warrior, with enough knowledge OF
the ways OF troopers to enable him to
keep out OF their reach.
Early in 1887 Kid applied to AL. Sieber,
chief of scouts at San Carlos. for leave
of absence in order that he might
perform pious duty imposed
upon him by time-honored tribal
custom. An Indian had killed
Kids grandfather, and, although the old
gentleman was not of much account and
his loss was hia family'a gain it waA
imperative that Kid should even up the
score by killing the Indian. The chief
OF scouts refused leave of absence and
made Sunday school talk to Kid con-
cerning the enormity of his purpose.
OF course Kid slipped away and killed
the bad Indian who had murdered his
respected grandfather. When he re-
turned on June /, 1887, Sieber called
him into Captain Pierce's tent and
placed him under arrest. Some of Kid 9
comrades outside the tent became ex-
cited and fred into the tent. Kid re-
covered his carbine, sprang outside.
jumped upon horse behind a comrade
and the mutinous scouts fed, after
shooting Sieber in the leg.
The mutineers went toward Old Mexi-
CO, killed two white men on the way,
but we're go closely pursued that they
doubled on their tracks and returned to
the reservation. All were arrested.
Some were hanged for murder, and Kid
and four other scouts were court-mar-
tailed and sent to Alcatraz. To the sur
prise of some military officers President
Cleveland soon pardoned Kid and his
companions, and they returned to Ari-
zous. In 1889 indictments for murder
were found against Kid and several 9TH
or Indians, and they were arrested by
Captain Bulls, agent at San Carlos, and
= 4 a.i;-a-ea 20 siao civil authoIitieu of Ari-
zona. Sheriff Glen Reynolds, Deputy
Holmes and teamster named Middle
ton took Kid, seven other Indians and
u Mexican and started in q wagon for
Yuma, where the Indian murderers were
to have been hanged.
KIDS BAND OF cUTTHRoATs.
On November 2, 1889, the outfit was
toiling slowly over hard road. To re-
lievs the horses the sheriff made his
prisoners walk up steep hill. All but
one was lame, or pretended to be. The
sheriff walked in front: the prisoners
followed, shackled in couples; Deputy
Holmes walked behind them, and the
wagon. containing Middleton and one
prisoner, brought up the rear. There
was bottle of whisky along, and the
officers became careless. At con-
certed signal the prisoners hurled them
selves bodily upon the two officers and
bore them to the ground, and the In
dian in the wagon seized MiddletOn;e
pistol and shot him in the face. The
officers we're beaten to death with stones,
Middleton was shot again and left for
dead and the Mexican made his escape
before the Indians got rid of their
shackles. They took the shackle KEYS
from the dead sheriff's pocket and re-
leased themselves. and also robbed his
body OF gold watch and $500 in cash.
Armed with the officers weapons the
Apaches fed into the mountains. That
was Kids original band of renegades, a
lot Of cutthroats who knew their lives
were forfeit and that any additional
crimes could not aggrsvate their offense
or it's punishment. They raided back
and forth across the Mexican line, kill
ing white men and Mexicans, stealing
stock, harrassing the troops and creating
panic in Arizona and Nsw Mexico.
But the eight did not stay together
long. Close pursuit forced them to
scatter, and some OF them drifted back
from time to time to the outskirts of the
reservation. Kid himself slipping into
San Carlos, stealing a girl and getting
away in spite of the watch that was
kept for him.
TREACHERY OF THE APACHE.
And now comes the part of the story
that shows the Apache to be low
lived, treacherous savage, without any
OF the nobility of nature credited to the
red man, and utterly devoid of sense of
honor or loyalty. 1t shows how Kids
band was wiped out, not by troopers nor
outraged settlers, but by Apaches who
were actuated. not by sentiment of 10y
atty or friendship to the whites, but by
the meanest or motives.
Josh, Nosey and medicine man were
renegades from Fort Apache. They
were anxious to be reinstated as good
Indians, renegading being dangerous
md otherwise undesirable amusement.
On the San Pedro they met up with
Wash -lau tab, Sayes and Curly, the first
two being the Kids band, and Curly q
new recruit from the reservation. The
Fort Apache renegades fraternized with
Wash-lau-tah's crowd and camped with
them. Soon it occurred to the Fort
Apache fellows that they could make
themselves solid with the authorities
by doing up the others, and receiving an
lntimation that their Burmise was cor
feet, they watched their opportunity
And treaoherously attacked their com
tanions. Wash-lau-tah and Saves
bought, but Curly ran away at the first
hfe. Wash iau-tah was killed and Sayes
Escaped badly wounded. Josh also was
rounded in the scrimmage. Josh cut