Graham guardian., 1896-07-31
THE APACHE RENEeADEs.
Facts Told by One who Knows Their
Haunts and Habits.

Ed. c. Montgomery, the noted
guide and scout, was in Globe the
present week. He entered the
government service in 1859, under
Colonel Mckenzie, of the Fourth
cavalry, at Fort Richardson, Tex.
and although not constantly in the
government employ, his life since
has been spent amongst the Indians
In Texas, New Mexico and Ari-
zona, and the scars of arrow and
bullet wounds on his body bear
witness to the many exciting en-
counters with Indians in which he
participated.
Mr.. Montgomery is familiar with
Apache history, and was personally
acquainted with nearly all the
great war chiefs of the past twenty
years, under whose leadership the
Apaches have from time to time
devastated New Mexico and Arr
zona. He went to Sonora, Mexi-
co, on a secret mission and pene-
trated far into the wilds of the
Sierra Madre, where he learned
many facts about the band of rene
gade Chiricahus, whose forays in
Sonora and southeastern Arizona,
the past few years, have been so
destructive of life and property.
Mr.. Montgomery states positive
ly that the Kid, the most dreaded
of all the Apache desperadoes, has
cast his lot with the Yaquis and is
one of the sub-chiefs ef that tribe.
He is a man of family, having two
squaws and three children. He
claims that the Kid has not been IN
Arizona for several years and that
| there is no probability of his ever
returning. Masse, he says, is the
Apache Ishmaelite and the most
dangerous Indian in the whole
southwest. He does not associate
with the other renegades and is al
ways alone, except when he takes
La notion to steal squaw, who is
as suddenly discarded when she
becomes a burden to him. Many
of the murders attributed to the
Kid during recent years were in
reality the work of Masse.
4 The band of renegades who
make their rendezvous in the Sierra
Madre number eight Chiricahuas
and one White Mountain, together
with their families, and, according
to Colonel Sumner, they have been
Ijoined by ten young bucks from
the San Carlos reservation. For
the past two or three years they
have recruited their women from
the Mexican villages raided. They
have a number of camps in the
Sierra Madre, variously located
| from 100 to 200 miles below the
American line, and they seldom
remain long in one place. Their
main rancheria is supposed to be
1900 miles south of the boundry
line, on the southwestern slope of
the Sierra Madre, on a fork Of the
Yaqui river. The Sierra Madre
proper are about 400 miles long by
go miles wide, consisting of q
plateau similar to the Mogollon
mountains, but fully 1000 feet
higher, heavily timbered, and cut
by deep ravines, almost impene-
trable and in which the Indians
make their camps. The Mexican
rurales, accustomed to mountain
trails, have never been able to fol-
low the renegades into their strong
E holds, and it is a safe prediction
: that Uncle Sans troops, strangers
to the country and not so well
equipped for hard service as the
q Mexicans, will meet with failure
in their present expedition.
, The capture or determination Of
! the renegade Apaches seems almost
$ hopeless undertaking and GER
tainly will never be accomplished
so long as Indian scouts are en-
ploYed as guides, for in every in
: stance where they have been EN-
ployed, In the history of Apache
l warfare, they have proved traitors
= The only practicable plan to pre-
vent the incursions of the rene
gades into Arizona is TO establish
a Gordon of troops along the line
re and guard the principle passes in
,e southeastern Arizona. Globe Belt