The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-09-10
MURDEROUS APACHES
Echoes Of CerOnimO'S Bloody Raid in
New Mexico.

How a Greaser Owed His Life to a
Wfetched Old Muzzle-Loading Mus
ket-A White Woman Went Back to
Save Her Chickens and Narrowly
Escaped the Redskins Another
Woman Hung UP on Iron Hooks by
the AnkIes-Why Gen. Miles is Pop
ular Among Plainsmen.
Fromtho Chicago Times
Fort Tulerosa, N. M, Aug. 22.-There
is something in the nature of a shock TO
the mind of an eastern man when he
hears upon first arriving in this region
the stories told by 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 fresh grave, so to speak, and
s'So-and-So, who lives right over there,
was one of the principal characters.
While driving down the valley of the
Tulerosa creek the other day Blunt Arm
strong, the stage driver said, pointing to
the steep side of a fiat-topped mountain 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 i'm
provements below here. 1t happened that
a couple Of MeXicans were herding flock
of sheep right up there that day, and
neither herders nor Indians knew of the
approach of the other. Well, as the In
dams came TO the brow of that little prec-
ipice they saw the herders and popped
over the nigh one at the first shot. The
other one started to run, and the Indians,
a dozen strong, clambered down the bluff
and took after him and made three Jumps
to his two. AS soon as they began to get
close in say within twenty rods or so, the
Mexican turned around 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.
APACHEs LAUGHED TOO SOON.
"That made the Apaches laugh, and
with much noise they determined to take
him alive and torture him. But the Mexi-
can was game. and kept running and
working away with his old musket until
at last bang she went and over went the
war chief of the band with bullet in his
head. AS luck would have it, the chief
stopped chasing the Mexican-the capture
of a single fugitive was too small a game
for him. maybe. and the rest were ahead
Of hiln-and so, although he was hit by
chance. the Indians concluded that all
the motions and monkeyshines the Mexi-
can had been making with the gun were
but preliminary 10 Une magical destruc-
ton of their chief With many cries and
ordinations they at once stopped the
chase, and with the body of their dead
chief made haste to leave the valley
GAS this incident was enlivening the
upper part of the valley another party of
Apaches were hurting down Apache
canyon on their way to Tulerosa. The
white people had good warning of their
coming, and all escaped though eleven
Mexicans were caught in one bunch and
shot down. One white woman with her
husband had a close call, however,
owing TO her regard for her chickens.
She had recently come from
the east, and was so much
of tenderfoot as not to understand the
real danger.
SHE wENT BACK FOR THE CHICKENS.
THE Indians were reported to be in a
place that seemed to her to be long way