Arizona republican. [volume] (Phoenix, Ariz.) 1890-1930, 1894-09-18
A MONTH OF FUN.
Hunting and Adventure at
Camp Apache.
Return of Sun-BroWned and
Game-Surfe cited Party of
PhOeniCianS.

A thrilling novel might be founded on
the adventures of Messrs. j. E. Walker,
Joe Pratt and Frank Prothero who re-
turned on Sunday night from twenty
eight DAYS tour to Fort Apache. To
say nothing of the hardships of the
Journey they had surfeit of fish and
wild turkey and fun and that is what
they went after.I
They were kindly received and enter
tanned by Maj. Carroll, commandant at
the fort, Capt. Glassford and the other
officers.
Among the other persons they met
was Mr.. Van Allen who enjoys mOnop-
DIV of the meat market at the fort. On
the strength of an earlier acquaintance
with Mr.. Prothero he decided that
nothing was too good for the tourists.
Everything was free to them and not
wishing to impose upon his friendli-
ness and hospitality they had to sneak
away to avoid an offer from him at the
last moment of an interest in his bust
ness.
The intricacies of the U. S. A. can
teen aystem was thoroughly explained
to them by the officers and the last day
of their stay there was spent in per-
fecting their information upon a SUBJ
ject which lie, alas, imperfectly under
stood.
The tourists had heard nothing of
the murder of Horace Philley until
they reached the Tonic country on their
return.
Though here was a slight suspicion
in that vicinity that Philley's death was
a belated incident of the Pleasant VAL
lev war, the prevalent opinion was that
he had been murdered by the Kid or
at least by an Indian. A cattleman in
the neigh borhood of Mt. Reno or Mt.
Ord had observed "Indian signs" a
week before the murder was committed.
He had found calf from bis herd
butchered on the mountain. The side
had been cut out after the manner OF
an Indian butcher. There were half
dozen places where fires had been kim
died and the economy shown in the
matter of ashes and smallness of the
fires proved that they had been kindled
by Indians. The location of the camp
was such that the Indian could see
down the road for miles and could have
observed Philley and his pack animals
which alone would have tempted the
renegade to add another murder to his
list.
On the way to the reservation Messrs.
Walker, Pratt and Prothero encountered
a troop of cavalry out on hunt for the
Kid. Word had been brought to the
Post by the scientist, Montgomery, who
said he had met the renegade and
Tha Co. !
gomery's possessions consisted only of
two mules and an almost exhausted
pack probably saved his life, for it is
said that even the Kid will not commit
murder out of pure wantonness.
The soldiers had but little faith in
Montgomery's story for the reason that
when the Indian was last heard from he
was in the southeastern part of the ter
ritory and they were unable to conceive
that he could have reached the reserva-
ton without being observed at some
point along the route. At the time
they were hunting for him he must
have crossed the Sierra Anchas and Ton
to Basin and have been lying in wait on
Mount Reno.
The day before the party reached
Fort Apache an exciting episode
occurred at the camp. An attempt
was made by Chiricahua In
dian to steal squaw. He kidnapped
her, mounted pony with her and
made OF. Tier cries alarmed other
squaws in the vicinity and they in turn
alarmed the camp. A pursuit was
hastily organized by party of scouts.
The pursuers came 60 close upon the In
dian that he was compelled to drop his
prey. This Chiricaua was member of
Geronimo's band anu had been cap
tured with the murderous old chief.
When the Indians were taken east this
one jumped from the train near Albu-
querque and escaped. He had been
known to be on the reservation for
some months, but had not before at
tempted any sort OF depreciation.
This pleasure trip of Messrs Walker,
Pratt and Prothero was marred by only
one unpleasant incident. On their re.
turn they were shocked by a rude
Apache who violated all rules of decency
by presenting himself before them clad
only In cartridge belt and Winches-
ter.