People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1895-11-28

Iof dlstrust OF Muncey, the eX-
partner, and of Manuel Cardoza, the
maternal uncle. They believed inplic-
lily Icons story Of his transportation.
The boy said that Uncle Manuel had
treated him fairly well until they were
south Of the ella river, Muncey had
left then and gone back to the Santa
Anita, after signing and exchanging
some papers with Manuel at ranch on
the Auga FRA. Leon could tell little
about his journey southwark. The
driver Of the blackboard had made
place for him among the mail sacks,
and there he cried himself to sleep at
night. But instead Of taking him back
to Aunt Carmen, OF whom his mother
had often told him, Uncle Manuel had
turned him over 10 this boss packer at
Tucson, and Leon soon found there
was something wrong. Instead OF tax
ing the southwark trail, the pack train
was travelling eastward day after day,
and he learned presently that they
were going to old Fort Crittenden-far
over where the Chiricahua Apaches,
under Cochise, their famous leader,
were then IN the height OF their bloody
work. Mrs Cullen had taught Randall
and him the beautiful consultations In
the oloudless Arizona skies, and from
the pole star by night and the sun by
day he knew they were never going to.
ward Hermosillo-his mothers far
Sonors homo Then be overheard
talk among the packers that BODIED III
for hin. Manuel had reasons for want.
ing TO yet him out Of the way" was all
he could mako Of It, and II he wasn't
'1ost," as they expressed II, before they
reached the Sierra Bonita, he must be
i"lost" there where It could be
laid TO Cochise and the Chiricahuas.
Terrified, the boy still kept his
vita They passed a wagon train,
. qusrtermasteys outfit" west.
ward bound, one day, and tina,
evening, soon after dark, be slipped out
Of camp, and all alone and sfoot, took
the back treok across the dssert, end
attsr'an al night tramp, caught the
train with its soldier escort Just Is Il
ives starting on the next stage. The
troopers gave him food and . place "a
sleep under the canvas cover Of one Of
the wagons Leon was carried back 10
Tucson safely, but from there home 10
the old post far up to the north was q
matter Of days and weeka he had got
there at last, worn and weary, but
something told him II wouldn't be long
before Uncle Manuel and Mnncey were
after him again, speedily learning that
be had returned to his friends instead
Of being lost" as the packers might
say, among their foes, the Chiricahuas
He warned his soldier friends, old and
new, that he would not and dare no,
return to his uncles control. This
problem, therefore, was what 10 do
with him until Capt. and Mrs Cullen
could be heard from, and the solution
came quicker than might have been
expected Senior captain Of his reei.
ment when 1t Left Arizona, Cullen was
looking forward TO promotion to the
grade Of major within the year, and
probably In his own old regiment But
one of those sudden and unlocked fol
opportunities occurred that are SO char
acteristic of army life. Maj Wharton
Of the til cavalry, the new regiment
Just reaching Arizona, concluded that
he would rather retire with the three
quarters pay of that grade after thirty
years Of hard service than go out TO the
desert and desolate land Of Arizona for
four years more. Capt Cullen, pro
NOTED major of the til cavalry, vice
Wharton, retired, would soon return to
the very station he had so recently left
Icons best friends were coming back,