The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-08-20

Now the unhappy mother is jolted over tho
country as chaperon on q straw ride
Now the husband and father comes down Of
Lapse when she secs the heels Of his hosiery.
Now they confer together and find there are
two moro weeks before September
Now they wish almost that they we're dead.
WHAT TIRE STAGE DRYER TELLS you
Stories or tho Apaches Told Among the
Monntains of New Mexico.
FoRT TULERosA N. M. Aug. S.-Thero ID
something in the nature OF a shock to tho
mind of IN Eastern man when he hears upon
first arriving In this region the stories told By
cowboys and sheep herders about the
Apachcs. Ono reads Indian stories in the
East but they are stories afar of or OF people
who lived long ago. Hore the story Is told by
the side OF fresh grave. so to speak. and Sos
andso. who lives right over there" was one
OF the principal characters.
While driving down the valley OF tho Tule-
rosa Creek the other day. Blunt Armstrong.
the stage driver. said. pointing to the steep
side of tiat-topped mountainlon the right:
During the last raid of the Apaches band
OF them came across the top of that mountain
on thor way to destroy the improvements be.
low hero. 1t happened:that a couple of Next
cans were herding a flock Of sheep right up
there that day, and neither herders nor Indians
knew Of the approach OF the other. Well. as
the Indians came to the brow Of that little
rrecipice theyl saw THE lherders and popped
over the righ.one at the first shot, The other
one started to run. and tho Indians. a dozen
strong clam bered down the bluff and took
after him. and made throo jumps to his two.
As soon as thoy began to get tcloso in. say
within twenty rods 80. the. Mexican turned
round and tried to shootiat' them with an old
fashioned muZzle-loading musket he had car.
rted to shoot coyotes and panthers. But some>
thing was wrong with.the blamed thing. and ID
wouldn't go of.
That made the Apaches laugh, and with
much noise they determined tot take him alive
and torture him. But!the Mexican was game,
and kept running and working away with his
old musket untilIat last bang she went and
over went the war chief 'of the band with
bullet In his head. Az luck would have it. the
chief had 'stopred chasing the Mexican-the
capture Of a single fugitive was too small
game for him. maybe. and the rest were ahead
OF him-and So although no wa hit By chance.
the Indians concluded that all the motions and
monkey shines the Mexican had been making
with tho gun were but9preliminary to the
magical destruction 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.
As this incident was enlivening the upper
part OF the valley another party Of Apaches was
hurrying down Apache canon their way to the
Tulerosa The white people had good warm
and shot down. One white woman with her
her regard for her Chickens. She had recentiS
come from the East and was SO much Of a ten
mot tn Se be Daes
b.arDS the to e sbs MS on on
StuFtAi Fapia/ynns a "a
ranch. but, when well on the way she thought
Of her chickens that had been left at home.
The husband said the danger was rapidly in.
creasinR, hut she was determined the Apaches
couple drove and got them. Then they drove
W.. the trail again.
canon when ,tieronimo's band came out and
started In chase. II was about three miles
farm wagon and less than a mile the start.
on all the scenes IN nth, the Tnlerosa Valley. few
turn in the road revealed to the people at the
Higgins ranch tho ranchman leaning out over
whip to the galoring team, while the wagon
leaped and swayod FROM side to side. long
a scattered gang Of iI-iavored suvages came
GailopinG behind shooting their rifles and
& SErs @ Won his Gosh Me yns
in a, dead faint on the bottom, of the wagon
box beside the coop OF chick ems"
over north OF here a grave Is pointed out as
that OF an unknown white man. After the raid
wa. over 4 skeleton was found across a big
then. by means OF stakes and cords. bound
alive across tho home Of "a colony Of red ants.
degrees stripped away his living flesh.
tb r%nGn 9 w fab way has To iron
out to the stranger. Tho ranchman put them
there that he might hang ny deer, an elk; OF
h ams
surprised the woman ut home alone, splitting
I open her ankles !nst above her heels they
tho, Sits and lott her there. Her husband.
with part party of p!ainsmen' returned in time TO
Whom ono talks here OF Gen Hatch or Gen.
Crooks ,t as an indian hghter the R!ainssSmen
officers employed Apache scouts to find the
and d aS wsHa mot Ss
on The scouts went out with full cartridge
belts and came back with belts empty. having
really od s9 Tnsg sHys . ths
war path. but lurking near by. When men
San francisco told Crooke OF It the General
snid it could not be So. for his scouts had been
there and found mono lie would not send
Gen. Miles. however, employed Pueblo
ralloring around the mountains giviag orders
with buElc. The most popular army onicer
from Indians in the ella liver region. The
Indians are supposed to 10 at peace. and cons
tented. but there are some desperadoeS among
the Apaches as among mine camp whites. The
Apache Kid as wild youth is known. is cited
he might carry off u girl with some ponies, not
long ago, and when me Gg,r eventually
story OF his having holt with $1,000 IN gold.
which he wore constantly. Tho money was
f. G% Ts s h he BE- S
ing as whini or the proximity of pursuers die
tate He has had narrow ESCAPES; several OF
hia mi mn n iOna hnya bean Killed. Eut he Ia
still at large.
Now and then prosportors go out into the
mountains and fail to return. Cowboys riding
the frontier range fail TO report. Skeleton,
sometimes singiY and sometimes two or three
together. are found lying l"side tho romans
OF a camp fire. There is still a region OF the
United States whore the stock must DO staksd