Arizona weekly citizen., 1895-08-03

| on the Indian reservation and set fire to the school house. This offense was promptly punished by the arrest of the Kid and seven of his followers. On the 2d of November, 7SS9 while they were
 being conveyed to jail in 8 stage coach by the sheriff and his posse, they broke their bonds near Riverside, Ariz., killed the sheriff ard escaped to tine Sierrs Madre mountains, in the province of Sonora, Mexico, just over the line from Arizona and New Mexico.
 That was the beginning of career that has no parallel in Indian atroclty. Secure in these arid mountains, whose
 every approach is guarded by barrier of nature formidable and awful. with trackless masses of desert ssndbills, and having only at great distance water boles and patches of cultivation-here the Kids band has been constantly In- | cIeased by disaaaifected Indians from the reservations and from Mexico, They nave raided the border and penetrated far into the interior, leaving a trail of
 blood behind them. They are even now destroying the homes of ranchmen, way laying travellers along the desert roads, ambushing gold in the arid hills picking out cowboys on their lonely ranges, stealing into settlements in the stiffness of night, plundering and kill ing the sleeping inhabitants, until hun dreds of people have met death by tke hand of the Apache Kid and his band during the past four years.
 Though rewards of S5000 by the gov- ernor of Arizona and 5000 by the gov ernor of New Mexico have been placed upon his head and repeated expeditions of government troops have been sent out for his capture, he has thus far elud- ed pursuit, ranging over a vast extent of country, comprising thousands of square miles, where no white man can follow for lack of water.
 Every day repeats the story of his crimes. At unexpected times the Kid appears in many different guises, but he is usually dressed as Mexican. with a drooplng sombrero, a flannel shirt. belt, trousers and top boots or shoes. In this attire, with his square, swarthy face, compact figure and careless grace, he looks more like a Mexican thaR an h. diau, and this effect IS heightened by his perfect Spanish speech. He rides in advance ot his bard, solitary on a wild mustang, scanning the horizon and planning his raids, often making his attacks entirely alone.
 The Kid does not by any means con- fine himself to forsys and murderous outrages. He has passion for stealing girls for wives. Ills first achievement in this line was the capture of Jo ash -ay. an Apache maiden whom he took from the door of her wickiup on the San Carlos reservation in Septem Der. 1890. He next secured the mild faced Ma theth-lay, who was but I3 years old. He came upon the girl and her mother at Oibicu crossing of the Salt river on the reservation May IT, 1892. He killed tbs mother and made captive the daughter. but released her shortly after and she returned to the reservation. His third victim was Nah -tahgo~ysh, the daught- CT of Indian scout Jack Long. She was forcibly taken by the Kid from the res ervation October D, 1892. While he WAS engaged in this abduction his first wife, Jo-ash-ay, escaped from his camp and made her way to her reservation alone. She hes since acted as guide for the troops m pursuit of the Kid. It vas through her that Jack Long effect ed the rescue of hls daughter.
 The most notable expedition hitherto led against the Kid was in 1892 by Lieut. Williams of Fort Whipple, near Prescott Ariz. He took 6 detachment of thir- teenlApsche scouts, keen scented as bloodhounds. They struck the trail of the Kid and followed him for weeks sometimes camping in the evening, where he had csmped the previous night, till the trail led further and fur ther into the arid region on the south, where they were compelled to abandon their quest, not being permitted to cross the Mexican border into the fastnessss where he sought refuge.