Arizona republican., 1896-12-13

shower of arrows. They were am
 pushed behind large boulders in front
 of the cave, the squaws and children
 having taken refuge inside. The
 white soldiers were in the open and in
 plain view of the Indians.
 | The shower of arrows was answered
 by a volley of bullets that rattled
 against the rocks. The fight was be-
 gun and as often as soldier dropped
 pierced by an arrow a yell of pain from
 behind the boulders told that equal
 damage had been done to the Indians.
 The fight had been in progress for
 over two hours when the Indians
 yelled for quarter. The Mexican scouts interpreted the remarks and the firing
 ceased. While Major Brown, through
 one of the interpreters, was denoting the terms of the surrender, one of the | Indians fired an arrow and a trooper
 dropped dead in his tracks. The treacherous act was revenged by a
 deadly volley in return and hostilities were resumed with renewed vigor
 As fast as a warrior fell squaw
 would pick up his bow and quiver of
 arrows and take his place.
 | One Indian isolated from the others
 was doing considerable mischief to the troopers, as he was at more advan- tageous point. He wore a soldier S cap which he would raise on stick
 until it showed above the rock behind
 which he was hidden, and when a vol ley was fired at it, he would send an arrow in return.
 The noise of the conflict attracted
 the attention of party of white men and Maricopa Indians of Fort McDow- ell. The friendly Indians joined the : troopers in the effort to dislodge the : Apaches. The new arrivals devoted most of the time to exchanging arrows
 with the Apache with the soldiers cap. } By a clever ruse the Apache succeeded
 in killing one of the Maricopa Indians
 and the others, picking up the body of
 their companion, retired to a safe spot and would not return to the conflict : Becoming weary of the persistency of : the solitary Apache the troopers di- : rected thier fire in his direction. To remain in his position meant inevit- r able death, so the Apache rose from } his place of concealment and made a } dash through the lines, discharging : his last arrow with deadly effect as he ran. A volley was fired at the fleeing : Indian. With a blood curdling scream he jumped in the air and, turning a : complete somersault, fell to the earth : pierced by a score of bullets. A Dutch 3 trooper rushed up to the Indian and = was attempting to pull off beautiful ) pair of moccasins worn by the Indian
 when the supposed corpse raised tc t a sitting posture and made a feeble l effort to resist. The Dutchman club. bed his gun and let it fall with thud on the unprotected head of the savage t It was seemingly cruel deed but hu . mane compared with the methods o1 y torture practiced by the Apaches. s AS the sun was slowly sinking il s the western sky the firing became de- e sultory and at last ceased entirely e Armed with only bows and arrows tht e Indians could not cope with the raiI d of lead poured in upon them all day n The squaws fought and fell with tht
 stoicism of their race, dying withou d a murmur beside the lifeless bodies O }, the braves.
 e From behind the rampant of boulder e the suppressed grGans of the wounded t could be heard by the troopers an( d when they dashed over the fortifica : tions horrible sight met their gaze 7. The dead and dying were wallowin. d in their own blood. The rigid form e of a sQuaw held bow in her stiffenet e hand and pappoose also dead, wa > pressed closely to her bosom. In he = dying struggles the mothers instinc J. to protect her offspring was upper d most.
 Inside the cavern the form of a pow 'f erful Indian was outstretched wit n five dead bodies lying across his body IS One of the Mexican scouts intently eX n amined the undermost Indian for -e second, then his face lit up with cum y ming and cruel smile. He deliberate l. ly pulled revolver from it's holste le and fired ball straight through tn h heart of the prostrate Indian. le A yell that stilled the blood in tn s, veins of those present and which ech ir oed and re-echoed against the wall T. of the canyon followed the shot; tn IFS Indian rose, rolled the five dead bodie Tt from him and with a convulsive shut Id der, died
 5hi The keen eyes of the scout ha ir quickly noted that the Indian wa