Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-11-03

nun when no uSdIS INC bbOTlSo bOlu
by New Mexican COW boys and sheep,
herders about the Apaches One
reads Indian stories in the East, but
they are stories afar off, or of people
who lived long ago. Here the story
is told by the side OF q fresh grave
so to speak, and ''So-and So, who
lives right over there" was one of
the principal characters.
While driving down the valley of
Tulerosa creek, Blunt Armstrong,
the stage driver, said. pointing to
the steep side Of a hat-topped noun.
tain on the right:
During the last raid of the
Apaches band of them came across.
the top of the mountain on their
way to destroy the improvements
be ow here. 1t happened that a
couple of Mexicans were herding q
flock of sheep right up there that
day. and neither herders nor Indians
knew of the approach of the other.
Well, as the Indians camo 10 the brow
OF that little precipice they saw the
herders and popped over the nigh
one at the first shot. The other one
started to run, and the Indians.
dozen strong. clam bered down tho
bluff and took after him, and made
three jumps to his two As soon as
they began to get close in. say with
in twenty rods or so. the Mexican
turned round and tried to shoot at
them with an old fashioned. muzzle-
loading musket he had carried to
shoot coyotes and panthers. But
something was wrong with the
blamed thing, and it wouldn't go off.
THAT made the Apaches laugh,
and with much noise they determined
to take him alive and torture him
But the Mexican as game, and kept
running and working away with his,
old musket until at last bang ste r.
went and over went the war chief of
the band with bullet in his head.
As luck would have it, the chief had
stopped chasing the Mexican-the
capture o! Il single fugitive was too
small q game for him, maybe, and
the rest were ahead of nim-and so,
although he was hit by chance, the
Indians concluded that all the mo-
tions and monkeyshines the Mexican
had been making with the gun were
but preliminary TO the magical de-
struction Of their chief With many
cries and EXPLANATIONS they at once
stopped the chase and with the body,
of their dead chief made haste to-
leave the valley.
al fbio Incident txyao
the upper part of the valley another
party of Apaches was hurrying down
Apache canyon on their way to the
Tulerosa The white people had
good warning of their coming, and,
all escaI ed, though eleven Mexicans
were caught in one banch and shot,
down. One white woman with her.
husband had close call, however,
owing to her regard for her chickens.
She lad recently come from the
East, and was so much o. a tender
foot as not TO understand the re al
danger.
1.-The Indians were reported to be
in place that seemed 10 her TO be a,
long way off. On hearing the report
she, with her husband. started for
the rendezvous OF Pat Higgins ranch.
but when well on her way she
thought Of her chickens that had
been left at home. Nothing wouldi
do but to return aud get them. The.
husband said the danger was rapidly
increasing, but she was determined
the Apaches should not have the.
chickens, and back the couple drove
and got them. Then they drove up
the trail again.
They had just passed the mouth
of Apache canyon when Geronimo's
band came out and started in chase.
1t was about three miles from the
canyon to the Higgins ranch. The
ranchman heard them coming. but
he had farm wagon aud less than a
mile the start. OF all the scenes in
the Tulerosa valley few wore ever
more thrilling than that, when q
turn in the road revealed to the peo-
pie at the Higgins ranch the ranch
man leaning out over the front OF
his wagon plying "a blacksnal1e whip
to the galloping team while tho
wagon leaped and swayed from side
W SluCs u lung VI QuSb EOlAC0
smoking into the air, and scattered
gang of illfavorcd savagos came gall
Looping behind. shooting thoir rillcs
and gaining at every jump. 1t was u
hard race, but the ranchman won. his
foolish wife lying in dead faint in
the bottom of the wagon box beside
the coop OF chickens.
A grave is pointed out as that of
an unknown white man, says the
New York sun. After the raid was.
over a skeleton was found across a
big red aunt hill. A man had been
captured and then, by means Of
stakes and cords bound alive across
the home of a colony Of red ants.
There he lay helpless while the ants
by slow degree stripped away his
living flesh.
A ranch over the way has two
iron hooks on the shady wall If the
house. These are pointed out 20 the
stranger The ranchman put them
there. that he might hang mp a deer,
on ollr mr. tho Qarcaaa Of "a at0or "A