St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-04-24

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than any dog. Over the flintly bowld-
ers of the mountain canyons. Wnere
there is not a spoonful of earth IN
square rod of the surface, ana the rocks
are so hot that yOu\ cannot bear your
hand upon them, they will take the
trail OF man Il day old aud successfully
follow it.
Not only that but they will be able to
tell whether it was made by white man
or an Indian, and If the pursued IS on
horseback they can still tell whether he
is an Indian, owing to some peculiar
difference in the riding of the two races.
They will follow this trail for hours
without either food or water. and II
night OvertakeS them they will 20 to the
top of the highest peak in the vicinity.
from which point they can distinguish
fire, though it be miles away.
Those who are i'll the East. sitting by
their fireSideS and criticising the action
of the soldiers in the late Arizona cam
palgns, knew nothing of what they
talked about. The soldiers secured the
services of the Mohaves. branch OF the
Apache family and the best trailers In
the world: but, Notwithstanding this,
scarcely mile was passed in going
through the MOgOllon mountains with
out some cavalryman dropping, the vic
tim of an Indians bullet, fired from
cleft in the rock or behind some stunted
fir higher up the mountain.
When such incidents as this occurred
it did no good TO follow the concealed
one. Like a partridge he would hide
away in the mountain or double on his
trail. and in half an hour repeat the
deed. The army deserves much credit
for getting them at all, for it was like
hunting rabbits when each rabbit was
armed with a rifle ami knew how to
use il.
The manner in which they mutilated
their victims was most horrible. Some
times the pursuers came upon grinning
skeletons from which the flesh had been
stripped slice by slice after the eyes had
been burned out with hot irons. In many
| cases the hearts of the murdered per-
sons had been cut out and stuffed IN
their mouths. One instance, so horrible
that will never forget the impression
| it made upon me, l will relate:
We were in pursuit of Geronimo's
band, then raiding in ella county. Tie
day before we had overtaken and killed
several Of them, but night came and we
| had to stop. Next morning. with the
! coming of light. we took the trail and
| about two hours by sun reached ranch
that they had pillaged.
! On the ground in front of the house
) lay the mother and two small children.
! all horribly mang!ed, while just outside
| of the gate was the body of the father,
! literally hacked to pieces with spears.
| On going around the house looking for
the point where they left the premises
we came upon the body of young
lady about eighteen or twenty years OF
age. TIE ranchman had fastened an
| iron hook to cottonwood tree, and
| from it suspended sheep and cattle
while dressing them. 1t was only up
about seven feet from the grodnd, and
the Indians had thrust it through the
| back of the young lady's head, SuS-
pending her alive.
! EThey had then burned her eyes out,
! and afterward actually disembOweled
her. When we reached there the body
was hardly cold, and that incident ac-
counted for the fact that two lie2ten-
| ants were court-martialed for allowing
the soldiers to kill SquawS in the fight
that occurred later in the day. The
Squaws, by the way, are the leaders IN
! the most atrOclOuS tOrtureS.
The scouts had much to do with the
almost complete determination OF these
people, and it was precious little quar-
ter they gave. The officers always told
them not to kill an Indian that wanted
to surrender, and l do not know that
! they did, though they always succeeded
in getting them to fight. Anyway,
they never brought back any prisoners.
! These scouts, of whom the Indians
were more afraid than they were of the
devil, were nearly allreared i'll Arizona,
and we've good trailers, as we'll as dead
shots.
ARIZONA Charlie" or Charles Mead
ows, the best trailer in the Southwest,
and who is said to have killed more
than 100 Indians, came with his parents
from California in an early day and
settled in Tonic Basin. During the
! Victoria campaign his family were all
! killed by the Apaches, and he only es-
capped by not being at home. Though
he was only boy of fourteen he began
| fighting Indians, and kept 1t up until
peace was made and the United States
government declared it murder to kill
| one.