Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1893-01-19

tie and horses, the spoil of the raid
and leaving behind them men anc
women and children dead in tbell
blood, amid the blazing ruins Of thell
homes on the ranches.
And at the head of the band rode
Kid, naked as the rest, with the
black war-streaks on his cheeks anc
the white vengeance lines painted
across his forehead.
That was ten years ago, and ever
since Kid has been the scourge anc
the terror of the Southern noun.
tains. Scores of those who have
ridden with him have been killed and
captured, but they have never sue
ceeded 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,
and turning back, has time and time
again crawled into their camp and
cut the throats 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 fends on the war
path that time, and the record OF
their awful crimes is long one.
But at last they had to quit, and Gen.
Crook brought them back to 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 ever
glades, whence they could never
hope to come back to the mountains
and deserts they knew so well. 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 un-
apprehended into Arizona. he
found Kid probably by the same IN
stinct by which freed wolf finds
the pack, and together they mur-
dered through the years. At inter
walls they descended on the reserva-
ton and carried off women. These
women do not come back. Kid has
an easier way Of getting a divorce
than through the courts.
Less than year ago the soldiers
got Masse. They were pursuing the
pair as they had often pursued them
before, and lucky long shot knocked
him from his horse. He fought on
the ground until the life was gone,
but Kid got away.
Usually there are four or FIVE rene
gades With this evil spirit of the
mountains. Just now there are sup
posed to be six or seven, and for
each one dead 2 thousand dollars is
OF cred, and the Kids head is worth
many thousands.
The great cattle ranches OF New
and Old Mexico have been his hunt
ing grounds. He has slaughtered
many men there. Within few
months no less than six vaqueros
have fallen by hiE bullets. He lies
by trail or near later hole and
waits for some man 20 come along
AS the traveller passes Shot in the
back ends him. From his victims
Kid keeps supplied with whatever he
needs. His horses are the best in
the two territories, for he has al
there are to choose from.
His shrewdness surpasses belief
Every trick of the fugitive he knows
A squad of cavalry followed his trai
for miles and finally found a dead
horse that had given out under him
and the horses shoes were turned
wrong end foremost. They had fol
lowed back trail.
When he is alone he covers his
tracks behind him and no one car
trail him. They only know that ne
has passed from place to place by the
bodies of his victims. Kid never
touches food he finds in camp
Even whiskey he will not touch fol
fear of poison. Whenever he likes
he goes into the towns. He speaks
half dozen languages, thanks to his
college education, and no one knows
him. He passes for Mexican then
and buys what he likes.
Not long ago there was in the EN-.
ploy'of one of the cattle companies
down Dona Ana way, a splendid va
quero. He was a Mexican, but SC
expert with the rope and so much oi
a rider that even the tail Texans had
to admit him as good as the best o.
them. He had worked along fol-
some weeks when he was sent with
another vaquero to round up some
stock in one of the distant valleys
Neither of them came back. They
found the body of the cowboy where
they had camped. His throat had
Ebeen cut while he slept; The expert
.yaquero was Kid, This was merely
one of his grim surprises.
After each outrage the soldiers
have come out after the Apache
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