Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1895-01-15

d promotion which IN0..I r0gImfN
from OIfoIy. who ENiI In uI
ltIl rou. DanI Di haitH It t0 ~ In'r1
lad punished UidNitNHCnn0ImoMf
For rs company Of SCOUTS me0n nIrof
aneee not met wish 50 lNt manu. mr
~ ordinary troop IcuI|na butte a1 its
coupsntaticn in orrorIsh't0 ior deId
service
Noushh1 omeiaat1shtfiI tnd top
ufy. guarding prisoners from Globe 70
Florence he'd htfn ofclpuNtrtd ara
killed Hod9son was lo take the iIal AZ
onca ia q itW yours tie aeonia had
found IL leading from the old NIuIeuca
road noar tho oiIn crossing whore Che
killing bad ocotrfcI II led through ihc
Superstition mouniaIna which De had
not had occasion to visit since Chris
tcrhcrson'e death Soon BE f1und Dim.
1oll een.n on lho same rugged trail and
Ihad passed Che point whore before DO
had Lost it Tho Indians were evidently
heading for the Icnto basin and trying
TO return 70 thcir own reserve Once
among thoir tribe only tho released
prisoners could bo Identified, and thc
perpetrators Of this lost outrage would
10 lost
Tradition worms you that if % en-.
tors far into the Superstition mountains
he win never return. the country boing
too rough for animals and too dry fos
man Prospoctora who have penetrnfcd
tho edges Of this range say that 10 q
filled with mineral, Improbable fol
want az water. Cattle do not range
there. and mon hunting large game @
10 the timberod mountains, so n troil
across this chain would lead where "a
one wished to 70 save Hudgsou, who
now went for sake q duty. Hopushod on.
with sullon, dogged courage. over Tax
stony trail used ns q lost time goininf
refuge by hunted savaees ia these mos
arid mountains Of onr most arid land
until ho emerged, almost mad witt
thirst on the Rio Salinas IN the Lowei
Tonic basin. Thence The trail led int'
the eierras Auchas, aud ia this grca'
altitude 70 was lost undcr tho first fnl
Of autumn
There was nothing ieft for Hoo1soi
to do nov bat to return to the reserYa
ton, ns tho Indians wero evidently try
ing to do. for the eastern foothills o
this sierra border tho San Carlos reserve
and tho Indians would not remain loni
in the snow. HodFson must mako q dc
tour, see their squaWs among the CHI
; Gus on tho western edge Of the reserve
and IL their bucks had not already re
turned DO might hope to cut their trai
whore SC left tho SNOW line and intercep
, them from their hnvcn, the reservation
He had found from thoir squaws o.
Cibicu that they had not yet returned
It twas all ho wanted to know. but o. b
was leaving d squaw's tcpce his ey
caught sight Of q faded pink letter, ca
2 riously embroidered by way Of colo
3 ornament onto tho face Of a buoksll.
garment. The writing was familiar
Re seized it eagcrly-in faded letters b
3 q fading light he read her answer.
He tore her letter from the Carmen
and pushed it into the pocket Of his jel
o sey and stood for 0 moment near "a
door Of the topee. looking abscntl
Q across the bare hills Of the brown II
d serve. Ho was thinking Of the wonsq
who was not his wife and Of caildre
; not his own. Then he turned quick
and mounted his horse.
1T was all my fault. be said, ''bI
q 1 must not loso the trail today IshauI
g have followed Il closer when I had It b
I foro.
And ns 10 spurrcd his horse towai
% tho snow limo Of the siorras he W
/ laughing as one should not laugh whs
one is young.-C. Oyorton in San Fra
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