Arizona republican., 1894-05-13
ANTI-APACHE.
Fatality of Imprisonment at
 Yuma.
A List of the Hardy Mountain In. Indians Who Have Succumbed
 to Tuberculosis.

Cover nor Hughes yesterday received from Superintendent Gates and Dr. P G. Cotter, prison physician at the peni- tentiary, an application for the pardon of En-des-so-da, an Apache prisoner under ten-year sentence from Graham county for manslaughter.
 The prisoner is in the last stage of consumption. Dr. Cotter thinks that he cannot live much longer and that the danger from infection should war rant the pardon. The Indian himself realizing that he is near his end, wishes to die among his kin and the mount aims where his early fierce life was passed.
 He was received at Yuma on FebrI- ary 5, 1890, and has been good pris- oner. He has served something more than four years, so that after having the benefit of the usual reduction for good behavior, he would have little more than two years more to serve.
 Being an Indian he cannot make ap- plication under the general rules and in the regular way but upon the recom- mendation of the superintendent and physician the governor has decided to issue the pardon.
 It is a remarkable fact though one easily accounted for that i'm prison ment at Yuma for any term not less than five years of an Apache or any mountain Indian is equivalent to im- prisonment for life and the cause of death is invariably consumption. There In other Apaches, Gis-Gah-Ah and Dil-Z- Hay, the former for assault with 8 deadly weapon and the latter for man. slaughter. Each was put in for five years and both are dead of consump- tion.
 This is a disease almost unknown among the Apaches under normal con- ditions of climate and habit. The change however from the high attitudes of the mountains and the bracing mountain air to the lower level of Yuma with It's more than semi-tropical heat, wears away what mountain storms and exposure cannot even indent.
 On March 29 of this year Say-es, a Tonto Apache, died at Yuma. He was a mem Der of the Kids band and was one of the murderers of Sheriff Key Reynolds and his deputy who were guarding them on journey to Yuma. The murderers, along with the Kid, es- capped. Saves alone was afterward recaptured and all the rest of the band except the Kid have since been killed. Saves was sentenced for life from Pinal county by Judge Kibbey and was re- ceived at Yuma in October. 1890.
 Two months before the death of Saves Dr. Cotter pronounced his case hopeless and recommended his pardon on account of the danger of infection. As further inducement to the gov ernor to set him free Say-es promised to devote the few remaining days of his existence to hunting the Kid; no one else certainly knew so much of the haunts and habits of the renegade as Saves and it seemed to the authorities that his assistance would enable them to accomplish what the federal and ter ritorial governments had failed i'll for years.
 The governor accordingly decided to grant the pardon but vigorous protests came up from Pinal, Graham and Gila counties. It was feared that clemency would only result in leaving two renegades in the field instead of one. One Kid was @ sufficient scourge for Arizona and it seemed natural to the objectors that Saves, the second surviving member of the murderous band, would hasten to join his old com. mander and double hls capacity for mis- chief. The pardon was not granted and Saves died two months later.