The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1893-12-09
Marshal Gard and Posse After the
Apache Renegade.
A TERROR TO THE PEOPLE
Ten Thousand Dollars Is Set Upon the
Head of the Indian Who Has Kept
His Section i'm Fear.


with General Cook to run down Apache
Kid, for whose arrest a reward of S10,-
900 is offered, causes considerable
amusement in this section where the
doings of the bad Indian are so well
known. If by any stroke of good look
the marshal should bag the much sought
game, his success in capturing Sontag
and Evans, the California desperadoes.
will pale into insignihcance.
Kid is a full blooded Apache, rather
understood, but why and strong and
quite intelligent. In the campaign
against Geronimo he was a sergeant of
scouts. He is a dead shot at short
range, skilled in all the arts of the
savage 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 Seiber,
chief of scouts at San Carlos, for leave
of absence in order that he might per-
form pious duty imposed upon him
by time honored tribal custom. An
Indian had killed Kids grandfather,
and, although the old gentleman was
not much account and his loss was his
family's gain, 1t was imperative that
Kid should even up the score by killing
the Indian. The chief of scouts refused
leave of absence and made a Sunday
school talk to Kid concerning the en-
ormity 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
Kids comrades outside the tent became
excited and fred into the tent Kid re-
covered his carbine, sprang outside,
Jumped upon a horse behind a comrade
and the mutinous scouts fed, after
shooting Sieber in the leg.
The mutineers went toward Old
Mexico, killed two white men on the
way, but were so closely pursued that
they doubled on their tracks and re-
turned to the reservation. All were
arrested. Some were hanged for MUIR
der, aad Kid and four other scouts
were court-martialed and sent to AL
catraz To the surprise of some military
officers President Cleveland pardoned
Kid and his companions, and they re-
turned TO Arizona. In 1889 indictments
for murder were found against Kid and
several other Indians, and they were
arrested by Captain Bulls, agent at
San Carlos, and delivered to the civil
authorities of Arizona. Sheriff Glen
Reynolds, Deputy Holmes and teams
ter named Middleton took Kid, seven
other Indians and a Mexican and
started in a wagon for Yuma, where
the Indian murderers were to have
been hanged.
On November ., 1898, the outfit was
toiling on slowly over hard road. To
relieve the horses the sheriff made the
prisoners walk up steep hill. All but
one was Ia me, 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 a bottle of whisky along, and the
officers became careless. AT a con-
certed signal the prisoners hurled
themselves bodily upon the two officers
and bore them to the ground and the
Indian in the wagon seized Middleton $
pistol and shot him in the face. The
officers were 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 ant
released themselves and also robbed
his body of gold watch and $500 il
cash. Armed with the officers weapons
the Apaches fed into the mountains
That was Kids original band of rene
gades, lot of cutthroats who knew
their lives were forfeit and that an.
additional crimes could not aggravat
their ofense or it's punishment. The,
raided back and forth across the Mex
can line, killing white men and Mex
cans. stealing stock, harrassing tn
troops and creating a panic in Arizon
and New Mexico.