Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-01-26
WHAT HE WILL DO.
An Acquaintance of Geronimo
 Expects Trouble.
From Long Knowledge of Him He Outlines What May Be Expect ed-Apache Treachery on
 the Reservation.

It now seems nearly a certainty ths, Geronimo will be brought to Arizona
 because he is ''so old that he can do nc more mischief"
 | I met Frank Porter here at Riverside
 who was chief of the reservation police
 at San Carlos for years and knows the
 Indians of Arizons better than they
 know themselves. He says that Geron-
 mo is not very old-not above sixty.
 fve-and an Apache Indian is never
 too old to be bad. During the last out.
 break old Ma Ma left the reservation leaning on two sticks.
 Porter thinks that the move of letting | Geronimo and bis fellow cut-throats re. turn is very inadvisable. He says the
 Indians will do somewhat as follows:
 They will behave themselves for from
 six months to 8 year, when suspicion
 against them is somewhat allayed. By tho' tiuO thCy VIII notc idi0 b kOOQ
 supply of ammunition. Then it will be the young Indians who will make the trouble. The outbreak will probably be by about half dozen or dozen, in- cluding some of the Chiricshuas of
 Mexico. The outbreak will probably
 occur after few of them have been
 locked up in the guard house. Old Geronimo and others will incite them to devlltry, but will themselves probsb- ly take no visible hand. Then again
 will begin the old experiences of which the earlier Arizouans are so familiar The soldiers will make another chase and another million dollar hunt will be made. Old MsRnus and others of the Geronimo party will probably want to go in pursuit of the renegsdes, and if they are permitted to they will aid and abet the pursued in every possible way. These are the old tactics.
 AS for Geronimo having reformed or being anything else than the wIly old devil that be is, Porter laughs at the idea. No one but ths sentimentalists of the east, who do not know the Apaches, would believe in such a thinR as his reformation.
 AN INSTANCE OF APACHE CRUELTY.
 Porter gives an instance of Apache cruelty and and treschery. About ten years ago, when he was chief of the rec ervatlon police, & squaw came running to him saying her husband had been beating her. Porter locked him up, hIs place of incarceration being one of series of strongly bull: cells. In Q day or two the Indian wanted Porter to send his wife to him. The request wss compiled with.
 Later the woman came to Porter and requested that she De permitted to stay that night with her husband, that being his request. This, too, wss allo 1ed.
 At 3 o'clock next morning there was & hurrsh by that Indian and screams by his squsw. Porter was awakened and told that the Indian had killed the woman. On hasiening to the cell he found it indeed, true. The woman lay dead on the cell floor, her body full of knife wounds. The babe too had been foulIy murdered. The Indian was a Il perfect bowling maniac, and wanted to kill Porter. He struck at him with the knife through the bare. Porter demanded the knife but was refused. The bodies were then left undisturbed till daylight.
 Day break came and revealed @ horri- ble sight. The cell floor was covered with the blood of the woman and her babe, and the father was shaking the door. Porter again demanded the knife. He was again refused. Porter than told him that the bodies were to be left to ret with him, and that be was to be given DO food or water, if he did I not give up the knife. With this Porter | walked away. The Indicn screamed | after him, and threw the knife at | Porter's feet.
 Porter then constituted himself judge, jury, witnesses, lawyers and all. He quietly told the scouts CD guard to shoot | tue prisoner at sundown, and to shoot to | kill.
 The day passed on. Hour after hour that buck saw the ghastly work he had done. the horrible faces in their agonies, he blood, and the awful expectation la lPorters threat, hat they should stay there before him. At 3 o'clock it be- came unbeareble. With superhumsp strength and desperation he rushed against the cell door, springinR it open. Bang! bang! went the report of two guns, and he fell dead. His sentence had been executed, an hour or two earlier than otherwise.
 CHILD MARRIAGE AND PoLYGAMY.
 Child marriage is very usual with the Apsches. MT. Porter says that half of the students of reservation school are young girls of from to 15 years who nave already been married. Many of hem are pollgamons wives. Another instance of Apache cruelty is given by Porter in this regard.
 A buck had espoused a young sister ,f his wife's girl of 10 years. She was ,aken from him and placed in the school. A few months later, while she was at 1er home her lord and master came and demanded that she go with him to hie lomicile, which she refused. A day or ;wo after the girls mother rushed to Porter and told that her son-in law had murdered the girl. Such was the case. He had cut her literally to pieces.
 Asked why the Indian said it was she would not live with him.
 ''KID" ON THE RESERVATION.
 Porter is of the opinion that the note 'ious 'Kid" is on the reservation. He ays that he saw Kids tracks frequen- ly around that wor.hy's sisters cabin,