Arizona silver belt., 1895-12-14
A RACE FOR LIFE.
Fight Between Gua County Off, cers and the White Mountain Apaches at Clbiou- Chief Nan tan-go-tayZ Killed

Probably few, if any readers of the
 item published in last Saturdays l SEWER BELT that an Indian had been
 killed on Cibiou by cowboys, enter tained the least suspicion that the par ties referred to as cowboys" were Deputy Sheriff F. L., Benbrook and | posse. Few, in fact, were aware ofhis departure from Globe, or of his mis- sion to the Cibicu country The facts in regard to that trip, as related by Mr. Benbrook, are about as follows:
 At tine October I1s95) term of the District Court of Qila county, two h. dians, Tonto c 24 and Tonto o 8, were indicted for burglary committed at the Nosburg ranch, in the vicinity of Pleasant Valley. The warrant for the arrest of the Indians wanted was de- livored to Deputy Benbrook, who lef, Globe, December l, for Cibicu to make the arrest. Arriving at Pleasant Val ley, he was joined by Bill Voris, Frank ketcherside and Huso Kyle. The party left the Gentry ranch, three miles above Elisou's, on Thursday morning, December ., and arrived at Cooiey's camp, Cooley being head chief of the band of Indians), on Cibicu creek, 50 miles distant, about sun down.
 Nau-tan-go-tayz, the chief then in authority, brother of Chief Cooley, upon being informed through an in- terpreter what the officers wanted, consented to the arrest of the two Indians. Touto c 2I was identified and placed under arrest, and the off cers had started to ride away with their prisoner, when Koteherslde rec ogui2cd the other buck wanted, Tonto o s, among the forty or fifty Indians in the camp. At this Juncture Loco Jim hailed the officers and asked what they wanted with the two Indians,
 and Captain Jack, che interpreter, rode lp and said they could not take the Indians away.
 While they were parlcyiug tho other Indians began to gather in around the officers, and Nau-tan-go-tayz, the chief came up close to Ketcherside's horse and made 8 grab at the brldle rein but missed it, as the horse ierked his head away The chief then went up to NoTis and with both hands grasped the Winchester hung on the side of the saddle, and attempted to draw the gun from its holster.
 Nors, thereupou, caught the h. d.ans wrist with both hands and broke the hold of one hand ou thoguu. when the Indian, retaining his hold on the gun with one hand grasped the hrldle rein of Voris' horse with the other. Just then Tonto c 2i, one of the Indians whom the posse went to arrest, fired a shot from a distance of about 20 yards, aad Voris, seeing that the situation was desperate and that Che chief wgs getting the better ofhim, drew his aiE-shooter and fired at his adversary. The Indian threw his head back and avoided the bullet, whoregpon Voris placed the pistol close to the Indians breast and fired again. NaH-tan-go-tayz fell forward on his flca without Uttering a sound. About twenty-five Indians atandiug on the side ofa hill, some sixty yards away then fired a vouay at the off cers, which passed over their heads. and the latter returned tho fire from their pistols.
 The officers put spurs to their horses and a race for life began, the Indians who were mounted and armed giving chase. After a hard run of half @ mile Che trail made an abrupt turn and the Indians in tho lead, by flank mova mont. got ahead of the officers, who, seeing they were cut off, took to the cedar brake to the right of the trail and up the steep side of the mountain. Here the posse got scattered; Voris was in the lead, and, dusk having fallen, he rcgained the trail, forged ahead alone and reached Ellison's ranch about 1:3O o'clock on Friday morning. Benbrook and Kyle soon came together again in the tmber. Benbrook's pony was winded, and going up the mountain fell and caught 1 the riders rigst knee under the saddle, causing him a painfuliniury. Having returned to the trail, they were again ! headed off by the Indians and forced once more to take to the timber and were joined by Ketcherside.
 | Voris, when he reached a narrow deGIe near Canyon creek, twenty miles from Cibicu, saw a signal fire a short distance from the trail, and when Benbrook, Ketcherside and Kyle passed, tho embers of the fire were plainly to be seen. The In. | dians who had got ahead of them on the lrall had prODaDiysmad the fire to signal John Daziu's band of Indians, and had then gone on to the main crossing of Canyon creek, with the
 intention of ambushing the officers.
 Suspecting this, Vors left the main
 trail and crossed Canyon creek lower
 down, end his companions, under the 1 guidance of Ketcherside, took an old
 trail that crossed the creek higher up
 and they arrived at Ellison's ranch al l 9 o'clock Friday morning.
 l When the fight commenced at Cib
 leu, the officers were compelled tc
 abandon their pack mule which wa
 carrying their blankets, sixty rounds
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