Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1893-01-19
KID, THE BANDIT APACHE.
A PRIZE GRADUATE OF THE GOV
ERNMENT SCHOOL.

/ OICS w iS all 1HNioh ObCJ va
the San Carlos Reservation who was
lucky enough to attract the attention
OF the agents wife. His Apache
mother used to tilt his basket up
against tree while she worked in
the agents house and leave him in
charge Of a certain yellow deg until
it was time to take him back to the
tepee at night. He had a 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 reservation,
and really noticed the Eastern lady
who watched him from the veranda
and thought he was the funniest
thing in that whole wild country.
There was not much humor there
then. There was death in a hun
dred hideous shapes always threat
ening, for every year had its upris-
ing, and those nearest were most
likely to suffer when the Apaches
started away on their raids, says the
San Francisco Examiner.
But Kids father had the fortune
to be killed during one bit of mur-
derins and burning, and Kid, out
growing his basket of wicker and
buckskin, tramped nakedly about
the agency until he was quite boy.
Then the agent and his wife de-
cided to do something for Kid. The
people were getting tired of the regu-
lar spring overflow of devils from
the reservation, the soldiers killed
many and brought others back, but
the Indians stayed only during the
wet weather, and when out of doors
became pleasant again away they
went, fresh from months of lazy liv-
ing, with new blankets and hunger
for blood whetted by seasons ab-
stinence. The government in its
wisdom decided that if those be-
nighted people could only be shown
the hopelessness of killing all the
whites they would become discour-
aged and quit.
SO they determined to take away
off to the East a number OF the
young bucks, educate them up to the
proper appreciation of the value OF a
white mans life, and ultimately send
them back as missionaries to spread
the knowledge they had bestowed
upon them.
1t was a good idea and on other
savages it had worked well.
That was the chance to do some
thing for Kid. He was so bright, so
different from the other Apache
spawn, that the agent picked him
out for the governments pupil, and
away he went to the Indian Univer-
sity at Carlisle. From there came
back all manner of good reports. He
learned easily. He took to cultiva-
tion with as much readiness as any
child of twenty generations of civili-
zation. He came out of the Indian
school an educated, finished. gentle
man, with a college training and all
the rest of it.
His native brightness and the cul-
ture he had come by so strangely made
him great favorite. Society took
him up and he was lion at recep-
tions. His was a presence that
would make any such show a sue
cess. His strong Indian face and
tall well-knit frame set off good
clothes splendidly. Women particu-
larly were interested in this reclaimed
savage with high mission, for he
knew the purpose the government
that had done SO much for him in
/ tended him for, and he spoke of it
with enthusiasm. He lived the
white mans life, said pretty things
TO the white mans women in roman
tic Conservatives. Surely the edu.
cation of Kid was great success.
There was story of a prospective
wedding with one Of the fairest aud
gentlest Of those who listened to- bis
stories of bis life on the desert res