Arizona silver belt., 1896-07-23
THE APACHE RENEGADES.
Facts Told by One Who Knows
 Their Haurts and Habits.

Their Hauiits and Habits. Ed c. Montgomery, the noted guide
 and scout, was in Globe the present
 week. He entered the government
 service in 1869, under Colonel McKen-
 zie, 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 Arizona, and the scars of arrow
 and bullet wounds on his body bear
 witness to the many exciting encounters
 with Indians in which he participated.
 Mir. 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 Arizona. He went to Sonora, Mexico, last spring on secret mission and penetrated far into the wilds of the Sierra Madre, where he learned many facts about the band of renegade Chiricahus, whose forays in Sonora and southeastern Arizona, the past few years, have been so destructive of life and property.
 Mir. Montgomery states positively 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 of 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 dan gerous Indian in the whole southwest He does net associate with the other and is always alone, except when he takes notion to steal a squaw, who IS as suddenly discarded when she becomes burden to him. Many of the murders attributed to the Kid during recent years were in reality the work of Masse.
 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 joined by ten young bucks from the San Carlos res ervation. For the past two or three years they have recruited their women from the Mexican villages raided. They have number of camps in the Sierra Madre, variously located from loo to 200 miles below the American line, and they seldom remain long in one place. Their main rancheria is | to be 200 miles south of the boundary line, on the southwestern slopo of the Sierra Madre, on fork of the Yaqui river. The Sierra Madre proper are about 400 miles long by 60 | miles wide, consisting of plateau similar to the Mogollon mountains, but | fully 1000 higher, heavily timbe-ed, and cut by deep ravines, almost impen- etrable and in which the Indians make | their camps. The Mexican rurales, to mountain trails, have | never been able to follow the rene yades into their strongholds, and it is , safe prediction that Uncle Sam's troops, strangers to the country and | not so well equipped for hard service IS the Mexicans, will meet with failure n their present expedition.
 The capture or extermination of the | renegade Apaches seems almost hopeless undertaking and certainly will l never be accomplished so long as in lian scouts are employed as guides, | for in every instance where they have been employed, in the history of Apache warfare, they have proved traitors. The only practicable plan to prevent Ihe incursions of the renegsdes into Arizona is to establish cordon of troops along the line and guard the | principle passes in southeastern ArI- zona.