The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1896-01-25

Ter to show where 100 Apaches had
ade their stronghold for two months.
ne Indian looked down upon the
acc and couldn't understand it. He
4 Ia only been gone few days to see
II the soldiers were coming from the
est, and when he left his 100 fellows
were still enjoying the fruits OF their
sexeat raid. They had as many horses
I and oxen as they could drive be-
fore them, and the squaws were
Rsy with the rings and watches that
had been torn from the bodies OF
those who had met the column on It's
Wild ride from the reservation to the
Mexican mountains.
II didn't take him long to under
Z ntand. There were tracks there never
made by moccasins, and he followed
the broad trail until he comprehend
Cd. The soldiers had come and were
taking the renegades back to San Car
luo. He looked for signs of battle,
: Int found none. The cactus was not
torn up. there were no empty cartridge
nhells, no graves and no blood stains.
Tho last raid before this one that he
was on the soldiers had also found them.
\ and many were killed in fight, and
when they got the rest back to the res
ervation some were hanged and some
were sent away with iron rings fasten-
Inn their hands and feet. So he did not
follow the back trail long. Maybe they
would break away from the soldiers.
IL they didn't they would be sure to
como back in the spring, after they got
their blankets and when the white men
Began to crowd the road with their
teams So he made up his mind to wait.
He did not GO back to where the big
camp had been. That was hard to reach
and we'll hidden in the mountains, but
the soldiers knew whereas was now and
the strongest article in his faith was to
keep out of the way of the soldiers.
Soldiers he could not understand. They
were always after him and his kind
when they left the agency, and yet
when they had him there they derived
neither amusement nor profit from him,
for they neither tortured him nor made
him work. He never stole the soldiers
horses. and did not kill them, except
when they pursued him, because they
went too many together, so h. could not
zee why they were always after him.
He had kept away from them pretty
successfully so far, though he did limp
from rife ball that had got him during
one raid. That is why his fellows called
him ''Coyote-That- Drags His Foot
Thirty years ago, when he was only
little boy, man in n black dress at the
mission had thrown few drops of
water on him and then said something
IN Spanish. and ever since that time
The white people had called him Jesus,
and ii was against that name that the
1ations he drew were entered.
81 He had assisted at the burning of the
mission and the killing of the priest
some years after.
N Back he turned into the mountains.
Tor week or two he waited to hear
rom the rest of the band. but no orders
emo back. He would wait until spring,
when some of them would surely break
oYny from the reservation and take the
tkr trail back into Mexico. Old Geroni-
40 and Chatto and the rest always
brpke away in the spring. He didn't
know that the incomprehensible white
men would send the bad chiefs off in the
railroad train so far that they could
never get back.
y 90 Jesus started out alone. There
ote not many people about the Sierra
Xadre, but he knew trail where the
inspectors sometimes Travelled, and he
Uttered along this trail. AT last he saw
e. mounted man against the sky on top
~ a hill. He knew it was not an In
IAN, even at that distance, because
@peches do not ride along ridge