Arizona republican., 1898-01-23
The Kids Hiding Place in the
 Sierra Madres
NOR DEAD NOR SLEEPING
The Story of the Kidnapping or
 a Mexican Youth
Who was Opan-Eyed Attrs cd by the ityaw's Witchcraft Of Mar rations Of Hair Ere d-h EScap by Field nd Flood.

the OatIaw's Witchcraft of Mar
 rations Of Hair Ere d.h EScap .
 by Field snd Flood.
 Apache Kid is nCi- dead, but he might as well be. He never goe-t far from the seclusion of his noun tain haunts in old Mexico. The re- ward upon his life or body has grown to such an enormous sum that he will newer again risk a trip to civ ilization. It was not many months ago that Apache Kid visited a small pueblo in the foothills of the Sierra Madre mountains. He was received at the home of a poor Mexican with that hospitality which the Mexicans show to all. They did not know the crimes he had committed nor did they dare to know. He told them many stories of his life in the mountains, and the family listened with the rapt attention they always give. to tales of adventure. But the mos interested member of the family was a small boy 12 years old. He would crouch close to the Indian, his head lifted and his bright eyes looking straight into those yof the narrator as if to prevent the escape of a single word. His little face ~z ected all the emo tion a child's eel Pr nature awakens when stories of encounters with witd animals are told. He had never been far in the mountains. His father had taken him into the foothills to gather wood, and he had slept there with him, but the great mountains which seemed so close to his humble homie were as a fairy land to him. They were always chosen to furnish the scenes for his day dreams. He had desire to sscend their rugged heights and wander about in the can yons, and he could hardly wait for the day to come when he could go alone where and when he wanted to- So when Apache Kid came to leave the Mexican home it was not strange that the little muchacho consented to go with him. He was. admonished to guard his secret. Apache Kid left during the night, and in the morning the muchacho and his blanket were gone, too.
 It was through this incident that I heard of Apache Kid in the Sierra. Madre mountains. It was not known at the time he visited the pueblo that he was a desperado. He came and went without causing any suspicious. The Mexicans are not a suspicious people. But an American happened to stop at the Mexican home a few days after Apache Kid had left with the muchacho. He heard the story of the Kidnapping of the boy from the fathsr, and they gave him a good description of the Indian. It was Apache Kid be- yond question, and he had made bold move. The American had been waiting for him to come out of the mountains for months, and he had baen closer to his prize than he had ever gotten, and perhaps closer than he will ever again get.
 This was one of the first ventures the Kid ever attempted. He rods out alone, and it is thought by the Amer ican that he came to the settlement with the intention of taking a selc- rita away win him, but he could not get one of them to accompany him, and he would not kidnap her for fear that he might be captured before he could get to his camp by the angry young senors of the pueblo. But this of course is conjecture. He may have come for just what he took away with him, and perhaps he did. The Amer jean had heard the story of Apache Kids visits to the San Carlos reser- vation in Arizona, when he would al ways take the best looking squaw he could find away with him.
 While I was in the Sierra MaGre mountains I met two Americans who had come from the Aros district They had wandered in there prospect ing for mineral deposits, but they dii
 not remain there long. They strucl
 Q silver lead one day and were pros
 pecting it vigorously when an olt
 man rode up to them and demanded : that they leave that portion of tn,
 mountains He said he was chiaf O
 a band of white men and Indian
 who did not allow any one to remail
 in their country. The boys lost n
 time in getting out. On their way t
 a Mexican settlement they came upo
 prospector who was also gettin
 out of that portion of the mountain!
 They learned from him that his part
 ner had been killed the day before b
 an Apache Indian. He said the
 were riding along in canyon whe
 they were fired upon from the bushes