The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-06-13
RENEGADE APACHE KID
HE LEFT n TRAIL or MUTILATED
CoRPsEs BEHIND.
Learned the Methods of the whites
and Profited Thereby-S6,5 800
Reward for His Capture.

Apache Kid has "come to" again in tho
southwest, says the New York Press.
He was thought to be dead Passing the
Rio Grande from Mexico he has left
trail of mutilated 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 Businesses,
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 "a years old-has been
1 the terror of Arizona and New Mexico.
! All of his old band have been extermin-
| ated, and his present followers are but
/ recent pickups Probably the govern
ment has spent 100000 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. 1t 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 trl-
umphal tour west in clawhammer coat.
| and was "a lion among ladies'" that he
was a master of six languages; that he
was to be married to one of his fair SYM
pathizers; that when he reached home
he put off the genteman's 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
variousy 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. killed in an outbreak, and
the boy, left an orphan was brought up
on the agency. When he grew up he be-
came a scout for the army, and served
under Crook Here's where he learned
the ways of the whites.
His jumping the reservation late in 1885
was tho result of an unexpected occur
renee, and was not premedtated. An In
dian had killed the Kids grandfather,
and the Kid. after trying Vainly to get
permission of the chief of scouts TO so
out and avenge the old mans death, went
without leave. When he returned in June
All Siber chief of scouts, arrested him.
Some of the Kids comrades began firing
into the tent where the Kid had been ta-
ken Kid snatching a carbine, tore out
of the tent, leaped on the horse behind
the Apache, Masse, and with other m
dams got away.
| In the ARRAY several on edcn size 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 their trail, returning to the res
ervation, where all were arrested. Those
who We're 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
o itary prison on Alcatraz island, San
, Francisco bay.
Sheriff Glen Reynolds, Deputy Holmes
! and Teamster Middleton started with the
, Indians in a wagon for Yuma. Reaching
: a sandy stretch, the sheriff ordered the
, | prisoners out to walk beside the wagon
: himself in the lead and his deputy in the
! rear One Indian, who was supposed to
= be sick, was left in the wagon unman-
acled. The others We're coupled by twos.
This didn't prevent those on the road
. from fiingng themselves on the sheriffs,
. bearing them to the ground. At the same
! instant the sick Indian in the wagon shot
G the teamster. The sheriffs were beaten
5 to death with stones, ana, taking from
e Reynolds pocket the key to the hand
G cuffs, the Indians released themselves
5 Armed with the white mems rifles, they
= made for the mountains.
d Neither troops nor settlers nor cow
!, | boys wiped out the Kids band but
o Apaches, who, by this means, secured
immunity for themselves from the conse-
| quences of crimes they had committed
n AS proof positive. one of the renegades
e 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
r 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 a
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 tC
I San Carlos at night and sneaks a fresh
: one off from the reservation. Never vel
z has he been caught at this trick Dis
: tances don't bother him. He has gone
= from so to rs miles a day when crowded
! by troops.
He killed and mutilated little Charh,
> Doble in the Superstition mountains il
! June, 1892 In October he killed two vac
7 queros of the Turtle Cattle Company, AL
Z bert Dittmeyes and John Gardiner
J Thence he went to blackberry Springs
: where he killed a buck and added tn,
" bucks squaw to his collection.
I, In August. 1894, the Kid was reported
= dead, and for long time the rumor wa
: credited. To get the big reward on tn,
!, Kids head, Pawnee Carbohydrates
= Gossage of Green River, Wyo.-went OIL
i the trail. He gave up the search whel
= evidence satisfactory to him was pre-
scented that the Kid had been killed, an,
ie was buried Is miles from Nogales
Later events have proved Pawne
Charley to have been mistaken.
~ After the Iopo Arctfc Nfoht