St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1893-04-01
HUNTING DOWN AN APACHE
A CURIOUS WARFARE ON OUR
SOUTHERN FRONTIER.
The Life History of Kid, an Educated
Indian, Who Has Became the
ScOurre of the Southwest


Scourge of the Southwest.
~ nee there was an Indian baby
on the San Carlos Reservation
Y who was lucky enough to at
tract the attention of the agents
wife. His Apache mother used to tilt
his basket up against tree while she
worked in the agents house aud leave
him in charge of a certain yellow dog
until it was time to take him back to the
tepee at night. He had name that
meant Yellow Wolf, or Eagle that Tears,
or something like that, but the Apache
sounds were too hard for the white folks
and he was soon plain Kid. He was the
smartest Indian baby ever on the reser-
walton, and really noticed the Eastern
lady who watched him from the veranda
and thought he was the funniest thing
in the whole wild country.
There was not much humor there then.
There was death in a hundred hideous
shapes always threatening, for every year
had its uprising, and those nearest were
most likely to suffer when the Apaches
Sldllcu away Ou tutlt ldluS.
But Kids father had the fortune to be
killed during one bit of numbering and
burning, and Kid outgrowing his basket
of wicker and buckskin, tramped about
the agency until he was quite boy.
Kid was so bright, so different from
the other Apaches that the agent picked
him out for the Governments pupil, and
and away he went to the Indian Uni
versity at Carlisle, Penn. From there
came back all manner of good reports.
He learned easily. He took to cultivation
with as much readiness as any child Of
twenty generations of civilization. He
came out of the Indian school an edu-
Gated, finished gentleman, with a college
training and all the rest of it.
His native brightness and the culture
he had come by so strangely made him
great favorite. Society took HIM up and
he was lion at reception. His was
presence that would make any such
show success. His strong Indian face
and tall, well-knit frame set off good
clothes spleudidly. Women particularly
NtLc lUleicSttA LII tAl1s lcCldiLucu savage
with high mission, for he knew the
purpose the Government that had done
so much for him intended him for, and
he spoke of it with enthusiasm. His
mission called him back, and he came to
teach his fellows that there was more
in life than murder and theft.
His return was a triumph. Ministers
used him for text in their sermons and
pointed to him as the solution of the
Indian question. At last he reached the
reservation and the whole country
watched to see the result. 1t came quick
enough. One night Kid dotted his
good clothes and his school teaching
manner, Drained a squaw who would
nave betrayed him, and at the head of
half hundred others broke from the
reservation and tore through Arizona,
killing, torturins and burning. Through
they went over the line aud into Mexico,
driving before them cattle aud horses,
the spoil of the raid, and leaving behind
them men and women and children dead
in their blood, amid the blazing ruins of
tuclr homes on Tue TauCuCS.
At the head of the band rode Kid,
with the black warstreaks GA his cheeks
and the white vengeance lines painted
across his forehead.
That was ten years ago, and ever
since Kid has been the scourge and the
terror of the Southern Mountains. Scores
of those who have ridden with him have
been killed and captured, but they have
never succeeded in putting back the
bonds on Kid. He has slain hundred
white men and women. The soldiers of the
United States and Mexico have hunted
him over thousands of miles, and every
time he has escaped from them, and
turning back has time and time again
crawled into their camp and cut the
Threats 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
red tiends on the warpath that time, and
the records of their awful crimes is
long one. But at last they had to quit,
and General 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 everglades, /
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
into Arizona. He found
Kid, probably by the same instinct by
which freed wolf finds the pack, and
ogether they murdered through the
ears.
Less than year ago the soldiers got
hasse. They were pursuing the pair as
hey had often pursued them before, and
lucky long shot knocked him from his
lorse. He fought on the ground until
he life was gone, but Kid got away.
Usually there are four or five rene
;ades with this evi! spirit of the noun
aims. Just now there are supposed to
re SIX or seven, aud for each one dead a
housand dollars is offered and the Kids
cad is worth many thousands.
The great cattle ranches of New and :
Id Mexico have been his hunting :
rounds. He has slaughtered many men
here. Within few months no less
han sly vanuoroc have f,llo, Nv b;o 1