Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1896-02-27
AN INDIAN TERROR.
Record of Apache Kid, the Scourge
Of tho Southwest.
A Career of Crime and B1oodthirstiness
That Has No Equal in the History
of This Country-Acts of
Red Fiend.


Red Fiend.
The Apache Kid is what they call the
Indian outlaw whose name has q fas-
cination, a terror for every dweller
upon the southwestern border of Ari-
zona and New Mexico. Its mention
will make the most daring frontiers
man clasp his weapon with a firmer
grip. 1t will send children trembling
to their mothers from their play.
The person who thus terrorizes this
wild region, where ordinary crimes
pass current, is renegade Apache In
dian, with all the devilish ingenuity
of that fiendish race. His Indian name
is Es-ki-biNadel, and he is under 30
years of age. He was educated at the
Hampton Indian school, from which he
was sent to the government reser IA
tion at San Carlos, where he was
trained by 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 nor 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 o1rense was promptly punished
by the arrest Of the Kid and seven of
his followers. On the I'd of Novem Der,
1889, while they were being conveyed
to Jail in 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.
That was the beginning of a career
of crime that has no parallel in Indian
atrocity. Secure in these arid noun
tains, whose every approach is guard
ed by a.-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
disaffeeted Indians from the reserva-
tions and from Mexico. They have
raided the border and penetrated far
into the interior, leaving 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,
plundering and killing the sleeping in
habitants, until hundreds of people
have met death by the hand of the
Apache Kid and his band during the
past four years.
Though reward of $4,000 by the
governor of Arizona and 1000 by the
governor of New Mexico have been
placed upon his head and repeated ex-
petitions of govel hment troops have
been sent out for his capture, he has
thus far eluded pun suit, ranging over
vast extent of country, comprising
thousands of square miles, where no
white II an can follow for lack of water.
The Kid does not by any means con-
fine himself to forays and murderous
outra9es. He has passion for steal
ing girls for wives. His first achieve
ment in this line was the capture of
Jo-ash ny, an Apache maiden, whom
he took from the door of her wickiup
on the San Carlos reservation in Sep
tember, 1890. He next secured the
mild-faced Natlleth-lay, who was but
13 years old. He came upon the girl
and her mother at Cibicu crossing of
the Salt river on the reservation, May
II, 1899. He killed the mother and
made captive the daughter, but re-
leased her shortly after and she re-
turned to the reservation. His third
victim was Nah-tah-go-yah, the daugh-
ter of Indian Scout Jack Long. She
was forcibly taken by the Kid from the
reservation October 25, 1892. While
he was engaged in this abduction his
first wife, Jo-ash-ay, escaped from his
camp and made her way to the reser-
walton clone. She has since acted as
guide for the troops in pursuit of the
Kid. 1t was through her that Jack
Long effected the rescue OF his daug-
ter.
The most notable expedition hither-
to led against the Kid was in 1892 by
Lieut.. Williams, of Fort Whipple, near
Prescott, Arizona. lie took detach-
mont ard 13 Apache scouts, keen scent
ed as bloodhounds. They struck the
trail of the Kid and followed him for
weeks, sometimes camping in the
evening where he had camped the pre-
yious night, till the trail led farther
and farther into the arid region on the
south, where they were compelled to
abandon their quest, not being per-
mitted to cross the Mexican border
into the Businesses where he sought
refuge.--Boston Traveller.