The Ketchum keystone. [volume] (Ketchum, Idaho) 1885-1899, 1896-03-14
AN INDIAN TERROR.
Record OF Apachs Kid. tho scourge
: Of the Southwest

Of the Southwest
| A Oaseer of Crime AID BloodtAlxstanee
That HISS No Equal In the Histoey
Of Thls Coansty-Aets Of :
Rsd Flsad.
The Apache Kid il wha they call tn,
Indian outlaw whose name has fas
cination, a terror for every dwelle1
upon the southwestern border OF Ari
zona and New Mexico. It's mentor
will make the most daring frontiers
man clasp his weapon with . firme1
grip. It will send children trembling
to their mothers from their play.
The person who thus sterrorizes thi.
wild region, where ordinary crimes
pass current, is renegade Apache In
dian. with all the devilish ingenuity
Of that hendish race. His Indian name
is Es-ki-bi-Nadel, and he is under &c
years VI Gge. He waa educated at the
Hampton Indian school, from which he
was sent to the government reser;a
tion atiSan Carlos, where he was
trained by q scout for the regular
army. His natural aptitude soon made
him familiar with the military tactics
and the mode OF scrutiny and fighting
of the United States troops. But
neither education ncr association with
white men could repress the savagery
of his nature, and he melted an out
break among the Indians on the reser-
vation and set fire to the schoolhouse.
This ofense was promptly punished
by the arrest ct the Kid and seven of
his followers. On the I'd of November,
1889, while they were being conveyed
to Jail In a stage coach by the sheriff
and his posse, they broke their bonds
near Riverside, a. T., killed the sheriffs
and escaped to the Sierra Madre noun
tains, IN the province of Sonora, Mex,
just over the line from Arizona and
New Mexico. N
That was the beginning of career
of crime that has no parallel in Indian
atrocity. Secure in these arid noun
tains, whose every approach is guard
ed by barrier of nature formidable
and awful, with trackless mazes of
desert sand hills, and having only at
great distances water. holes and
patches of cultivation-here the Kids
Band has been constantly increased by
disahected Indians from the reserva-
tions and from Mexico. They have
raided the borIer and penetrated far
into .hc interior, leaving a trail of
blood behind them. They are even
now destroying the homes Of ranch
men, waylaying travellers along the
desert roads, ambushing gold seekers
in the arid hills, picking off cowboys
on their lonely ranges, stealing into
settlements in the stiffness of night,
and killing the sleeping in
until hundreds of people
have h,et death by the hand of the
Apache Kid and his band during. the
past four years.
Though a reward Of $4,000 by the
governor of Arizona and $4,000 by the
governor of New Mexico have been
placed upon his head and repeated ex-
petitions of government troops have
been sent out for his capture, he has
thus far elnded pun suit, ranging over
q vast extent of country, comprising
thousands of square miles, where no
white n IN can follow for lack of water.
The Kid does not by any means con-
6ne himself to forays and mnrderous
Dutrnges. He has passion for steal
ing gi-'s for wives. His first achieve
nent in this line w9s the capture of
Jo-ash AZ, an Apache maiden, whom
he took from the door of her wickiup
IN the San Carlos reservation in Sep
.ember, 1890. He next secured the
nild-faced Satlieth-lay, who was but
l3 years old. He came upon the girl
Ind her mother at Cibicu crossing OF
he Salt river on the reservation, Mdy
Il. 1892. He killed the mother and
made captive the daughter, but re-
eased her shortly after and she re-
urned to the reservation. His third
-ictim was Nar-tah-go-yah, the daugh-
er of Indian Scout Jack Long. She |!
vas forcibly taken by the Kid from the
October 2s, 1892. While
,e was engaged in this abduction his
lrst wife. Jo-esh-ay. escaped from his
amp and made her way to the reser-
alton clone. She has since acted as
'uide for the troops in pursuit OF the
Kid. II was through her that Jack
long effected the rescue of his daug-
er. -
The most notable expedition hither-
o led against the Kid was in 1892 by
lieut.. Williams OF Fort Whipple, near
'rescott, ArizoEa. He took = detach-
1cnt ard 13 Apache scouts, keen-scent-
d as bioodhodnds. They struck the
rsll 6f the Kid and followed him for
7eeks, sometimes camping in the
vening where he had canped the pre-
ious night, till the trafl led farther
nd further into the arid region on the
outh, where they we're compelled to
their quest, not being per-
litted to cross the Mexican border
ito the fastnesses who're he sought
efuge.- Boston Traveller.
A Small Justice.
This story is told by Chauncey F.
lack, OF Pennsylvania: s'There il in
u town = member Of the Iegaf ffo-
.ssion Of very ilIminutive size who re-
ices in the name Of Chris Magee,
lodgh not of k3n To the Well-known
Of thA- same name. Some
Ane a0e AaGee,s Ma elected os1hesI
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