The new North-west., 1896-06-12
RENEGADE APACHE. KID
He LEFT A TRAIL OF MUTILATED
CORPSES BEHIND.
Learned the Methods of the Whites
and Profited Thereby-S6,5OO
a.m Reward for His Capture.

Apache Kid has come to- again in the
southwest, says the New York Press.
He was thought to be dead. Passing the
Rio Grande from Mexico he has left a
trail of rnutiated corpses wherever he
has been. He is more elusive than Cara,
whose tactics in crossing and recrossing
the International boundary he has fol-
| lowed When pursued by Uncle Sans
cavalry he rides hot and fast as far as
his horse will carry him. then kills the
animal, and goes on foot, with incredible
| swiftness, to the mountain fastnesses
where no horse can follow, and where
no white man can hope to catch him
| He never fights in the open-that would
| be unlike the noble Apache.
For 10 years the kid-in name, out not
| in years. for he is 81 years old-has been
! the terror of Arizona and New Mexico.
| All of his old band have been externain-
ated, and his present followers are but
| recent pickups. Probably the govern
ment has spent $1,ooo,o0o in futile chases
after him. There are rewards, territorial
and county, upon his head of nearly
| $1,000.
| Few Indians, perhaps excepting Sitting
| Bull, have had as many fairy tales Wo-
| ven about them as Apache Kid. It has
been said, much to the grief of the pro-
| motors Of that institution, that he was
| educated at the Indian school at Carlisle,
| Pa; that after graduation he made tri-
umphal tour west in clawhammer coat.
/
| was master of six languages; that he Z,
was to be married to of his fair sym
| pathizers; that when he reached homo
he put off the gentlemans evening dress
| and his gentle, courtly ways, threw an
agency blanket over him, let out three
| whoops, and began to kill, burn and rob.
All of this is untrue. Kid, who Is said
variously to be a full-blooded Apache,
and to be part Greaser. was born near
San Carlos agency, Arizona, on the
| White Mountain reservation His father,
it is told was killed in outbreak, and
| the boy, left an orphan. was brought up
on the agency. When he grew up he be-
under Crook. Here's where he learned
| the ways Of the whites.
His jumping the reservation late in 1885
| was tho result of unexpected occur
renee, and was not premeditated.. An In
| dian had killed the Kids grandfather,
| and the Kid. after trying vainly to get
| permission of the chief OF scouts to go
out and avenge the old mans DEATH went
without leave. When he returned in June
| A Sber, chief of scouts arrested him.
| Some of the Kids comrades began firing
| into the tent where the Kid had been ta-
| ken. Kid, snatching carbine, tore out
| of the tent, leaped the horse behind
the Apache, MasSe, and with other IN
dians got away.
| II the affray several on each side were
wounded. Making their way toward Mex
| leo, the renegades killed two white men
| who were in their path. They were pur-
sued SO closely, however, that they dou-
| bled on their TRAIL returning to the res
| ervation, where all were arrested. Those
| who were not scouts were hanged while
Kid and four others, including Masse.
who had been in government service.
| We're courtmartialed and sent to the mil
| itary prison on Alcatraz island, San
Francisco bay.
President Cleveland thought this a
chance for executive clemency. and he
pardoned the scouts a year or so. In
| 1889 Kid and his comrades were indicted
| in Arizona for murder, and they were
| arrested by the Indian agent at San Car
| los and turned over to the civil authori-
ties. Trial was had and the Indians were
condemned to be hanged at Yuma.
Sheriff Glen Reynolds, Deputy Holmes
and Teamster Middleton started with the
Indians in wagon for Yuma Reaching
| 4 sandy stretch, the sheriff ordered tho
prisoners out to walk beside the wagon
| himself in the lead and his deputy in the
| rear. One Indian, who was supposed to
| he sick, was left in the wagon unnlan-
| acled The others We're coupled by twos.
| This didn't prevent those on the road
| from hinging themselves the sheriffs,
| bearing them to the ground. at the same
| instant the sick Indian in the wagon shot
| the teamster. The sheriffs were beaten
| to death with stones, and, taking from
Reynolds pocket the key to the hand
cuffs. the Indians released themselves.
Armed with the white mems rifles, they
made for the mountains.
Neither troops nor settlers nor cow
boys wiped out the Kids band, but
Apaches, who by this means, secured
immunity for themselves from the conse-
quences of crimes they had committed.
As proof positive, one of the renegades
brought in TO the agent at San Carlos the
head of a member of Kids gang, and an
other whipped out the ears of one more
OF the Kids comrades.
But Apache Kid, himself never since
has been caught Masse, his old friend,
was killed by a long range shot from
squad of soldiers who were pursuing the
pair. The Kid got new companions and
continued his maraudings. When he tires
of the squaw he has, he steals down to
San Carlos at night and sneaks a fresh
one off from the reservation. Never yet
has he been caught at this trick. Dis
tances don't bother him. He has gone
from so to Is miles a day when crowded
by troops
He killed and mutilated little Charlie
Doble in the Superstition mountains in
June, 1892. In October he killed two vac
uueros of the Turtle Cattle Company, Al
Thence he Went to blackberry Springs,
where he Killed a buck, and added the
bucks sqnaW to his collection.
In August, 1884, the Kid was reported
dead, and for a long time the rumor was
credited To get the big reward on the
Kids head, Pawnee Charley-Chares
Gossage of Green River, Wyo.-went on
the trail. He gave up the search when
evidence satisfactory to him was pre-
was buried Is miles from Nogales.
later events have proved Pawnee
Charley to have heen mistaken.