The Coconino weekly sun., 1895-03-14

uai hness set In, to keep guard, ana iett the other two men at the head or the portage. We took this neces. sary precaution, for we did not know the whereabouts of the Indian we were In search of; and it was quite possible that he might be on the move during the night, either m ar down the river.
 The night passed without seeing or hearing anything to cause us anxiety, and at the first streak of dawn we ate a nasty breakfast and proceeded to arop quietly down stream, always Keeping in the shadow of the branches as much as possible and never round- ing point before scanning carefully the stretch of river ahead of us. Con- siderable fog hung about the edges of the water and helped materially to conceal our movements.
 At one of the points the man in the DOW went ashore to peer ahead. He hastily returned with the information that the party we were in search of was at that moment not a quarter of a mile from us on the same side of the river, making his morning fire.
 This was pleasing news, for it is much more satisfactory to hunt for person you see than for person you do not see.
 We had now only to go ashore, pull the canoe up on the beach, lie down on the point, watch his movements and devise way to capture him.
 The handcuffs and leg chains were oiled and worked several times to in- sure rapidity in snapping them on.
 She-ma-gan continued to crouch over the new-lnade fire, evidently warming himself before going to his fish net. This we judged was his intention, as we saw no pot on the fire for his break fast.
 From our position we could command his every movement; and with five pairs of eyes watching, nothing es- capped us.
 One thing in our favor was. he had evidently made away with his dogs, or they would have scented us ere now, as the light wind that was gradually clearing away the fog came from down the river and directly from our place of concealment to his camp.
 Possibly part of his insanity was that he imagined the dogs were human be- ings and had killed and eaten them. Quite suddenly, as if the thought had at that very moment just entered his brain, he got up, went down to the beach, turned over his canoe pushed it out into the water, got in and padded l down stream.
 Nothing could have happened more opportunely for us than this move on his part, for he had not taken his gun or even an ax. We saw him enter the canoe with absolutely nothing but his paddle.
 Two things we were sure of by his leaving the way he did: First, that he had gone to visit his net for something to breakfast on; and second, the net was not far away. And it behooved us to be up and doing.
 I at once detailed one man to re- main at the canoe and await the signal to paddle down to us; with the others of the party 1 hurried through the bush to Shema-gan's camp.
 The distance from the waters edge to the brow of the river bank upon which the camp was pitched was fully thirty yards, and on the upper side of the beaten path, over which he went to and fro to the beach, was clump of stunted trees and willows, carried about halfway over the sands by a spring landslide.
 Here l placed two of my men, with instructions to move only after he had passed their ambush and was on the point of clambering the crest of the hill; at that moment he would be with in arms length of us above.
 It appeared to me that we had only been a very few minutes in conceal ment when our man hove in sight around the point below us, and came paddling up to his landing-place, un aware of the presence of those waiting to receive him.
 My man and I were lying, one or each side of the path, on top of the hill, well hidden in the wild tea and blueberry shrubs. We allowed She | dh bO bC dlLhooO oNCI uo "iCl WV sprang up. He made a motion to turr and flee, but the men from the land slide cache were already behind him To secure him between us was tho work of moment. Poor fellow! Ht looked at us with such hopeless ex pression when the handcuffs were ad justed; but he made no effort to resist
 A single pistol-shot was fired tc bring down the canoe, and we marched our man ito the camp, where he wa placed on a log, with man on eacf side to guard him.
 On looking about, evidence was no wanting to confirm the story of canni balism, for we saw the skull-bones O his victims hung up on pole in th' same way the Indians do those of tn, bear; the larger bones of the limb I ,.o,, n, o1aap anl hid ir, ,