The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-10-10
OWE LOVE aroKr.
why He sat IN n Rock DerylnE Four Troops
OF Federal Cnyntrr,

OF tho scouts spread out fan-shnped three miles
across their front. The scouts under the imme.
diato guidance of the Kid, who had not then
gone bad, were stripped down to head handkcr-
chiefs, q strings and moccasins. Dusky
brown. lean as hounds and blood-hungry as
mastiffs on n hot trail. they were threading
every path and hollow OF the shimmering sand
dunes, working up under the skeleton shelter
of each clump of chnlmisa and mesquite AMI
searching each ,clump of Juniper and pinon ,as
they advanced. The troopers knew il was not
much that would get through the line of scouts, SO
they rode Of case, scattered out over half n milo
or so of desert, just In occasional sight OF ono
another as they passed over the rises and in
carbine distance of the head OF tho column.
Picket duty under such circumstances is a
good deal better than tho ceaseless tramp.
tramp, tramp OF o cavalry column through the
sand with the dust hanging in a yellow cloud
over everything, sitting into blanket rolls and
gritting under. the, dry, creaking saddle feathers,
and filling every throat from the Colpncl's down
with drought and profanity. The red and white
guidons hung limp and listlcss from their stats,
faint blurs Of color In the yellow haze Of dust,
one troop tclescoped itself on the rear of another
in the choking haze. Even the troop horses
SdGi sRTaeef% %hS t tn be bear as Il tie f fTi.n oE t tS1lG da iSTs
Still the scouts glidod ahead over the desert
toward the dry ford beyond. which on the over
hanging ledge, of tuta perched the rebeDious
pueblo that they were marching to snbduo.
s las t mopn sSa R1sKS' more ltns S So as pfi 4 ssspf over
sand dune after sand dune and across arroyo
after arroyo with WITH meyer q sign from the Apache
massacre, and the blame for that bloody anon.
ally the Mrthodists laid on the Catholics and
the Catholic on the Mcthodists, while in the
Pueblo ;Moki-thcrc was no missionary Of any
who had sent word TO headquarters that mis-
whole, reservation was in rebellion and that he
m serF n%TG %T arlsony and s%pRFq piTate Hooper lrow rp
together, IN the shelter OF the dusty pines on the
near side Of the dry ford. which was a river
they saw at the foot or the narrow trail up
the other bank n curious sight, An old Moki.
rows slung In the war, CULVER over his back.
sat on "A boulder and chantod a death song.
geant, who knew Indians through twelve years
OF frontier campaigning. Private Hooper, OF
less e.perienee E said nothing, but listened as
"Ah abe, atah ihe, me tab me tab e!''
1t was sad and IL was solemn, despite its
Hes got it bad" remarked Private Hooper
with uniting leyity as the chant echoed faint
Hes, out TO be Killed, that's what he is"
right up against it, or he wouldn't be sitting
out in the open singing that hymn. know
1 nrSoms psso Ppndi S Se' s nGssi hhki s Syar tsSm' scI Plss1 led
saddle.
There. were, no scouts in sight. They had
and the Sergeant-knew there was no use in
looking for them, so he took it out in listening
and WATCHING the. solitary figure on the other
pressntly from behind the boulder on which
head with a red handEerehief bound around SIand
the forehead just under the black shock Of
hair Like Ii a ct the Apache Kid had sprung
on the sand. the Kids knees gripping the old
man under the armpits. while one hand graspcd
Then Carlson broke cover. driving his spurs
into his horse behind the cinch and yelling:
That's ali right. don't Xii him ma Bring GSe'f him
The Kid desis,ed snlIsnly, rsm95kine only,
sat heavily .astride Of his victims chest.
The trouble had been brewing in the Moki
pueblo ever since there had been II change of
agents. y change OF agents frequently breeds
trouble, especially when i comes with I change
ledge Of tufa overlooking the dry bed OF the
lower Brazos. All the water there is in the
ably be closed on the score of surface drainage
II Moki had n Board Of Health and a biological
Iha n'sGan is,d which mhoI it has not; Down on the
qnently. the Indians, with the aid OF a high line
ditch from the hills. raise a scantv crop of beans.
fathers fathers have done for many generations.
They have their green corn dances and their hay
and tho later rains. They ask but little of
Nature, and in that lit;lc They are seldom dis
| IllDbiltel. % lHty arc HAPPY, or were nnIDN
til the change OF agents came.
The first agent they had did nothing for many
ssn Nan Hs was "a aceordinr .EpV we'll in" hei nrnw ms rs
medicine, chest and he taught them the value
But there came a change: There was an agent
sent Them, who had lived long in the East, lie
Indian as n man and brother and had fixed
ideas on the subject OF land in scveralty. Land
in scvcrnlty is u subject over which The East.
ern friends Of the Indian have broodcd long and
debated much, failing only to consider that
from long 1Sc " Ssisr before or ,h ever Wc., spanish G1Iayel
dians had lived, dividing land after their own
fashion; But the new, agent did no, consider
Aloki point of view. 50 his first report spoke of
the pueblos as ungratcful and intractnble and
subdivision in seyerulty. The agent had some
Influence at Washington; That was what got
divided it into townships and sections and half
and N q q@daG Inr sections One And the Mok lis Looked .% ;Gi
reservation held tho well and the communal
orchard, and a half a section more covered all
the arabic land along the bottom. while the re-.
mainder would not have supported a Jack ran.
bit to the acre. But the agent knew land in
scvcralty was q good thing and he was deter
The Mokis were not so sure, and when they
With stadia rods and sa"tintine through trar'
sits they decided II was some religious .ccrc'
m9ny or incantaiion;, When they saw stakes
49,, go N''''''
where their running course lay. where their
crops were planted; and where the dead Of The
fathers were buried they knew that il was sor'
Gerry. and they went ont with potent counicI
charms and pulled ny the stakes. Then they
burned them, for tirewood is nj a premium IN
that country.
The agent noted this Righteousness and he
sent off At once to rcgimcntal headquarters fm
"A detachment OF soldiers to enforce his orders,
Old. Scar Face. who had the distinction Of be
ing:thc uglicst officer in the army, did not think
much OF the warlike character OF the PncblOs. 81
he sent II scrgeant with half a dozen troopers NJ
70 tho pueblo TO support the agent: But thu
MOkis were thoroughly aroused. and they cor
rallied those soldiers, took away their carbincs
and six:shooters, and assembling them in Tho
plaza OF the pueblo sang them the Song OF tn,
Earth Father and the Earth Mother, both o
whom were notably opposed to the driving O
stakes in pueblo gTGvcyards. Then the.
slrinkled the soldiers with sacred meal ground
from the blue corn by the maidens OF the puc
bio. and suggested 10 the sergeant that il hi,
men had any swccthearts and wives NJ HON,
IL would be n good thing to take a walk ant
visit them. Tho soldiers accepted this wei!
meant advice, and their appearance at head
quarters more than the urgent appeal of Tho
agent led Scar Face 10 believe that there was 4
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