Graham guardian., 1897-06-04

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The torturng and mutilations were
inflicted.
The killing Of the Mexican end
I'd the murders by the Apache band
for the day. With his clothes pack
cd on his horse, together with the
loads of plumber that the Apache
squaws had before carried on their
backs, the Indians pushed on until
otter nightfall, and then went into
Damp in a hollow among the foot
hills that concealed the fire they
built for cooking their supper.
Next day, still travelling to the
northward, they surprised two
wood.choppers at work. One they
killed at the first fire, but the other
escaped to hiding place, and, al.
though the Indians hunted for him
for long time, they could not find
him. They gave up the search at
last and continued on their way.
On the third day they halted in a.
sheltered valley in the Mongollon
mountains a few miles west of
Cactus fiat, and here they went into
permanent camp. The squaws
made houses by sticking bushes in
the ground in circle, and then
bending the tops inward and fast
ening them together at the center.
Among these bushes. they inter,
wove twigs and long grasses and
covered the whole with blankets
and wagon cloths. These struc-
lures, although low and small,
Istere warm, and protected the in.
mates from rain and snow. Other
Indians joined the band, until there
was considerable camp in the
valley. With this as base the
bucks made marauding expeditions,
usually selecting distant localities
| for their operations, so that atten-
ton might not be drawn to their
camp. Here the Indians remained
four months, with no suspicion on
1.-THE part Of any white person, sold
| ier or civilian, as to their real
whereabouts.
| Indians did not organize war
/ parties, but would steal away from
,csmp in little bands from three to
ten in number to surprise and
! plumber isolated camps and ranches
or murder and rob prospectors,
emigrants, and travellers. Their
methods were cowardly and treach.
erous in the extreme. They always
attacked their victims from-am-
bush, or approach them with pro-
LESSONS of friendship to throw
them off their guard. They would
return to camp loaded with al
, kinds of plumber, the things which
they most esteemed being blankets,
gay cloths and trinkats, money,
liquor, coffee, sugar, arms, and
. ammunition. Once, after killing
an ola French peddler on the trail,
a raiding party ofApaches brought
part Of his goods to camp in the
shape of groceries and candy.
The candy they gave to the squaws,
who ate so greedily of it that they
all became very sick. For food
the bucks sometimes hunted game
in the mountains but their primer.
pal reliance was upon beef, mutton,
and horse and mule flesh which
| they obtained from the scattered
flocks and herds that wandered
INTENDED upon the ranges. Corn
or cornmeal was always welcome
addition to their larder, but -four
| they disdained, and whenever they
| captured lot of it they would
empty it upon the ground and
take away with them only the
sacks which had contained 1t.
i When, as occasionally happened,
q rnarauding party would return to
camp with little or no plundor, the
squaws would laugh and leer at
| the bucks,and call them boys and
women. This treatment the war
riors did net resent, but hung their
heads, shamefaced, aud got ont of
| sight as quickly as possible. But
to The band that returned from n
successful foray was accorded Il
Joyful welcome, and the warriors
OF the party devoted the evenings
OF several subsequent days 10 dis
playing their trophies, boasting of
their achievements, and in gambl-
ling. In severely cold weather, or
when the snow in the first days
after snowfall lay deep ON the
plan the bucks in camp would stay
in the houses and sleep or gamble,
and not venture out even for need.
ed food. Little Santiago, although
made to help the squaws in the
camp drudgery, and berg kicked
and cuffed about more or less by
them, also having to fight his way
with the Apache children, who
were little fends incarnate, Jared
on the whole, as we'll as any of the
Indians except the bucks, who al,
ways took the best of everything
Early in January the band broke
camp and started southwark.
From that time on they kept CON
stantly on the move. Their travel,
ling was one continuous RAID, with
the accompanlments of murder and
house burning, During his captivi-