Arizona republican., 1895-12-18
KILLED AN APACHE CHIEF Miniature War on the
 CibiCu, Indians Who Resisted County
 Officers. A Running Fight In Which the Posse Quickly Sought Tall
 Timber.

By the Globe Silver Belt particulars are now alt hand respecting the Indian fight on the Cibicu before touched upon in late press dispatches It appears that he cowboys" referred to consti- 'tllted a sheriff s posse, headed by Dep uty Sheriff E. L. BenFbrook, one of the nerviest officers in the employ of Sher- if Thompson of Giila county. The re- gion referred to lies in the northeast ern part of Gila county and well within the Apache reservation.
 At the October QS95) term of the district court of Gila county, two h. dians, Tonto c 24 and Tonto o 8, were indicted for burglary committed at the Vosburg ranch, in the vicinity of Pleasant Valley. The warrant for the arrest of the Indians wanted was de- lIivered ito Deputy Benibrook, who left Globe December i flor Cibicu to make the arrest. Arriving alt Pleasant Val ley he was joined by Bill Voris, Frank Ketcherside and Huse Kyle. The party left the Gentry ranch, three miles above Ellisons, on Thursday morning, December 5, and arrived at Cooley's camp Cooley being head chief of the band of Inslians) on Cibicu creek, thirty miles distant, about sundown.
 Nan tan go-tayz, the chief then in authority, brother of Chief Cooley, upon being informed through an in- teTpreter what the officers wanted, consented to the arrest of the two h. dians. Tonto "A was identified and placed under arrest and the officers had started to ride away with their prisoner when Ke.icherside recognized the other buck wanted, Tonto o 8, among the forty or fifty Indians in the camp At this juncture Loco Jim hailed the off, cers and asked what they wanted with the two Indians, and Captain Jack, the interpreter, rode up and said they could not take the Indians away.
 While they were parleying the other Indians began to gather in around the officers and Nan-tan-go-tayz, the chief came up close to Ketehersides horse and made a grab at the TbridIe rein, but missed it, as the horse jerked his head away. The chief then went up to Voris and with both hands grasDei the Winchester hung on the side of Ehe side of the saddle, and attempted to draw the gun from its holster.
 Voris thereupo1 caught the Indians WI lSt -Wuul UUAu uduuS duu UTUhS UuG . hold of one hand on the gun, when the Indian, retaining his hold on the gun with one hand, grasped the lhridle rein of Voris' horse with the other. Just then Tonto c 24, one of the Indians whom the posse went to arrest, fired shot from a distance of about twenty yards, and Voris, seeing that the situa- tion was desperate and that the chief was getting the better of him, drew his siXshIooter and fired at his adversary. The Indian threw his head back and avoided the bullet, whereupon Vor.s placed the pistol close to the Indians breast and fired again. iNan-tan-go- tayz fell forward on his face without UEering sound. About twenty-five Indians standing on the side of hill. some sixty yards away, then fired yo.ley at the officers, which passed over their heads. and the latter re- turned the fire from their pistols. !
 The officers put spurs to their horse and a race for life began, the Indians who were mounted and armed giving chase. After hard run of half mile the trail made an abrupt turn and the Indians in the lead, by a flank move ment got ahead of the officers, who, seeing they were cut off, took ito the cedar brake to the right of the trail and lzp the steep side IoIf the mountain. ; Here the posse got scattered; Voris was in the lead, and, dusk having fallen, he regained the trail, forged ahead alone and reached Ellison's ranch about 1; 80 o'clock on Friday morning. Benbrook and Kyle soon came together again in the timber. Benbrook's pony was winded, and go- ing up the mountain, fell and caught the riders right knee under the saddle, causing him a painful injury. Having returned to the trail, they were again headed off by the Indians and forced once more to take ito the timber and were joined by Ketcherside. |
 Voris, when he reached a na7roW defhe near Canyon creek, twenty miles from Cibicu, saw a signal fire a short distance from the trail, and when Ben brook, Ketcherside and Kyle passed, the embers of the fire were plainly to be seen. Tn Indians who had got ahead of them on the trail had proba- bly made the fire to signal John Dazin's band of Indians, and had gone on to the main crossing of Canyon creek, with the intention of ambushing the officers Suspecting this, Voris left the main trail and crossed Canyon creek lower down, and his companions under the guidance of Ketoherside, took an old trail that crossed the creek higher up, and they arrived at Ellison's ranch at o'clock Friday morning. |
 When the fight commenced at Ci- bicu the officers were compelled to abandon their pack mule which was carrying their blankets, sixty rounds of ammunition provisions and camp utensil. That any of the men escaped with their lives seems providentiaI,