The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-24
DEEDS OF APACHE KID.
AN OUTLAW REDsKIN WHO HAS
COST THE GOVERNMENT 4
FORTUNE.

He Escaped from Cnpt. Pearce's
Tent After Being Arrested For
Murder-He Is SIM at Large and in
Hfding-A Large Reward on His
Head-some of His Deeds.
From the St. Louis GIobe-Democrat.
Since the Apache chief Geronimo has
been taught the habits and manners Of
his white brethren at the Indian prison and
school in Alabama, there has been no red
skin who has had so much attention as
Apache Kid For some six years he has
made sanguinary history along the Rio
Grande and the Mexican border. A recen
report by the war department at Washing
TO shows that the depredations of thi
unique savage outlaw have cost Uncle San
altogether over $4,000, and that troops il
! President Diaz's government across ii,
border have been harassed by the XII,
| since 1898, when Kid became a more per
manent dweller in the republic of Mexico
AT different times there have been as man,
as 400 trained soldiers of the plains, boil
| on the American and the Mexican sides
| the Rio Grande, in search of Apache KID
while military scouts and United State
marshals and government police officer
| by the score have labored and scheme,
| long and vainy for the arrest of the In
| dian and the attainment of the prize OF
| 5000 offered for the taking of the OUTLAW
| For about seven years, or since the ear
| fali OF 1885, the telegraph columns of tn
| daily press all over the union have hac
! frequent mention of the doing and where
abouts of Apache Kid. From 1889 unit
1898 there were weeks when a column OF
| Two of dispatches concerning the lates
| murderous raid of the Indian were pub
| nshed every few days. In the campaign
| of 1892 when the troops from the garrison
| IN Texas and New Mexico united In a cam
| paign against the Apache Kid and his
| cruel band of cutthroats, there was no sub
! ject, not even the presidential canvass
| that quite so absorbed the attention of III,
! people this side of the Missouri river a
the news from the border line between the
union and Mexico.
There has been a good deal writer
about Apache Kid that is not true Tht
stories that have many believers are wild
| weird tales, and, except for the fact thai
| Apache Kid and his followers have com
! mitted many of the most dreadful muir
| ders and cruel thieveries on the border
| between the union and Mexico, there is
! not a word of truth in them The truth
| as told among the reliable army officers
and citizens who live adjacent to the San
| the villain well, and have a dozen differ
! ent photographs of the savage, is tina
| he is short, stocky, full blooded Apache
| lie is wiry and bold, and has never haC
an hours education in any government
| or private school. He never went out of
| Arizona until he became an outlaw, anC
| never dressed in any garb of civilization
except the cast-of clothing Of people in
! Phoenix and Mesa, who took an Interest
| in the lad some twelve or thirteen years
| ago when he was the best arrow and rifle
| shot on the San Carlos reservation. He
| is remembered by some of the non-com-
! missioned officers in the United States
! army in the southwest as a participant
| in the campaign against Geronimo, wher
| he was a sergeant of Indian scouts under
| Crook, and those who believe that the
| scouts didn't fool Crook may also believe
| that Sergeant Kid rendered valuable SER
! vice in that campaign. He is skillful in
! Indian warfare, which is bushwhacking
dead shot at short range, like most
| Apaches. brave anywhere, except in the
! open and in the dark, where all of his
tribe are towards; and he has seen enough
of the ways of troopers to be able to out
| wit and keep away from them.
In March of 1888 Apache Kid asked one
| Albert Sebring. who was chief of the
| scouts at the San Carlos agency, for leave
! of absence from the troops. The Kid said
| he wanted to go and perform a pious tri-
| bal duty, and that he would be spit upon
| by his relatives and friends if he did not
| fulfill the traditional custom of the tribe
A Pima Indian had killed Kids grand
father, and although the old gentleman
was not of much account, and his loss
was his family's gain, it was imperative
! that Kid should even up the score by kill
ing the Indian.
| Chief Scout Sebring ought to have
! known that If Kid had it in his mind
to kill the other fellow that other fellow S
! doom was sealed, leave or no leave But
! Sebring comes of a race that blithely and
without twinge of conscience Sits the
weasand of the absolute stranger, at COM
mand of him who has brass buttons on his
coat and bullion on his shoulder, and
holds 1t wicked, savage and altogether
| improper to kill at command of ten CEN
turtles of ancestors, backed up by the au-
| thority of whatever gods or supreme being
those ancestors had the pious ingenuity
to invent. Wherefore, the chief of scouts
refused leave of absence and made a
moral talk to Kid concerning the awful
! wickedness of his purpose.
No one among the older soldiers in In
dian campaigns who knew the circum-
| stances either at the time or since was
| surprised that Kid escaped from the
troops one night, and soon shot and killed
| the murderer of the grandfather. savage.
| Along in the following June Kid came
back, and, being Immediately put under
! arrest, was taken TO Capt. d. e. Pierce's
| tent. Immediately there was excitement
| among the Indian friends of Kid, and
several shots were fired through the can
| vas into the tent. Amid the confusion
Kid recovered his carbine. sprang aside,
jumped upon a horse behind a comrade
and the mutinous scouts fled, after shoot
ing an army corporal in the leg.
The mutineers went toward Old Mex
leo, killed two white men in the Gealluro
| mountain passes on the way, but were so
closely pursued that they doubled on their
tracks and returned to the reservation.
| All were arrested. Some were hanged FOR
murder. and KID and four other scouts
were court-martialed and sent to Alca-
traz. To the surprise of some military Of
| fcers, President Cleveland soon pardoned
| Kid and his companions, and they re-
| turned to Arizona. In 1889 indictments for