The evening times., 1896-12-28
ANTONIO APACHE's CAREER
Romantic Story Of a Young In
dian New in the City.
TOOK HIS TRIBES NAME
Captured When a Little Fellow by
T.. S. Soldiers and Given to Nir-
ginfa Family-Ran Away ana
Taught HiiDself English-Became
q Scientist-W VIII Enter Harvard.

Antonio Apache is an Indian now visit
ing in Washington, who has remarkable
experience. He is the guest of Mr.. and
Mrs. Claude E. Clifton at their hCme, No.
444 Stoughton street northwest. He is
student at Exeter Academy, in Massa-
chusetts, where Daniel Webster and Lewis
Cass were schoolboys, and expects In
year or two to enter Harvard law school.
Antonio is a big fellow, a little over six
feet tall. well proportoned, muscular and
sinewy. lie has the red color OF his race,
black eyes; straight, black hair, and prom
inent cheekbones- His manner and dress
are those 9l a polished citizen OF the world,
although IT'S less than twenty ycarssincehe
was u boy with nomad tribe on the Mex
lean border-sometimes in Arizona. some
times in Chihuahua. lie told his story
simply and directly to Times reporter
who called to see him.
HIS father was Juan. No other name was
necessary to him. He was part of small
band who roved through the cactus plains
year in and year out. They rarely saw or
cared to see more than hundred people
year whom any OF them knew
Each one had q name unlike that OF any
body else in the comradcship, and there was
with any other Juan. He was the only one
of that name.
The Tribe Name.
1t is a part of AntOnio's originality and
good sense that he has adopted for his
last name that of the tribe to which he
belongs. 1t also suggests the business in
which he has been employed for the past
five years. He has been engaged in max
ing chronological collections in the region
where he was a tribesman, and has been
much Interested in anthropology, so that he
has theories about the tribes and their no.
menclature.
Antonio, with his father, was a member
OF CoclIise' band. Cochise was his uncle.
He remembers only a little OF the wild life.
They often made long trips at nil ght, and de-
pended largely for subsistence upon what
they could catch in rude traps or bring
down with the bow and arrow.
The use OF firearms had not become so
general as now among the untamed war
riors of the arid plains. The Modoc
war had not been fought and the fierce
struggle with Geronimo was eight or ten
years ahead. II often happened that they
had scant rations Of game. and had TO live
on the meagcr vegetable products OF that
region.
What game did you depend on?'' he was
asked.
Bear and decr-and a stray mule now
and them The latter part OF this answer
was accompanied by peculiar smile which
suggested methods OF supply employed by
the Indians when they swept down upon
Mexican village or an American ranch.
They were to a considerable extent veg
etarians he said, using the mescal, a va
riety OF the cactus, which was roasted or
boiled and then freed Of its coarser por
tons, So as to make food that served them
in an extremity, as-the banana does the
natives where It grows Wild. iH
Ibid your people atteinpt to raise any
thing i'll the valleys which they might
camp; potatoes or corn?'
Not very much,' and again Antonio
smiled in a manner that indicated that the
Indian prefers to allow the settled races
to do the farmiugi 'while he supplies him
self when he can from their fields or crihs.
Captured by Soldiers.
Antonio was captured by a party OF Ameri-
can soldiers who were operating under
Gen. Crook Capt. Burke was in irnnIc-
date command, Gen. o. o. Howard was
| instrumental in bringing about the settle
rent of difficulties which followed soon
after his capture.
He was taken to a town, San Carlos, so
far as he can rem cmber the name, andafter
a little while was given in charge OF Viz
ginia family, who brought him TO the old
home in Virginia. He began to go to
school, but everything was so new to him
| that, in his own words, ''It was a farce"
He became so disgusted with his condition
| that he ran away. He worked in various
places in the Atlantic States, and grad
ualiy acquired the use Of the English
language. AS soon as he had learned to
| read he began TO study and obtained a wide
| range Of Information.
When Prof. F. W. Putnam of the de-
partment of Anthropology at Harvard was
put is charge of the same department at
the Worlds Fair at Chicago, he had become
acquainted with Antonio and his history.
He Judged that the young man must know
good deal about the region where he
| was a boy and would be able to make
greater progress in collecting material than
! would any person not perfectly familiar
| with the country to be traversed.- Accord
| ingly he gave Antonio a commission to go
| to Southern Arizona and New Mexico ard
| gather material for the Worlds Fair eX-
| bibit.
| For the past two years and half An
tonic has been with the Field Columbian
Museum at Chicago, engaged in the same
| work. He has done a good deal Of news
| paper work, and last winter acted as cor
respondent OF several New York papers
outbreak at Jackson's Hole and in the