Fort Wrangel news., 1898-07-13

Government police officers by the score have laborcd and schemed long and vainly for the arrest of the Indian, and the attainment of the prize of S6,OOO offered for the taking of the outlaw.
 The Apache Kid Is Il short, stocky, full-blooded Indian. He Is Wry and bold and has never had an hours e,lu- cation in any Government or private school. Until he became an outlaw he never left the State of Arizona. and he was attached as q scout to the san Car los Indian reservation. Pack i'll 1SSS tho Kid asked permission Ia attend to T tribal duty. for which leave of absence Was necessary. This was tO kill an- other Indian who had slain the Kids grandfather, Permission was, of course, denied. hut this did hot trouble the kid much. One night he escaped from the troops and shot and killed the slayer of his grandfather. The following June he returned to the reservation and be ing immediately put under arrest. WIs taken to Capt. D. l.. Pirrcr's tent. Inn me1iately there Was excitement among the Indian friends of kid. and several shots were fired through the canvas into the tent. Amid the confusion Kid recovered his carbine, Sprang aside, jumped upon horse behind comrade. an1 the mutnouS scout fled, after shooting an army corporal in the leg.
 The mutneerS went toward old Mex. leo, killed two white men ill the Geal- luro Mountain passes on the way, but were s2 closely pursued that they dou- bled on their tracks and returned to thr reservation. All were arrested. SOmr were hanged for murder, and Kid aad four other scouts were cOurt-mar.idled and sent to AlCatraZ To the surprise of some military officers President Cleveland pardoncd Kid and his com panions. and they returned to Arizona. In 1889 indictments for murder Were found against Kid and several other Indians, and they were arrested by Capt. Bullis. agent at San Carlos, and delivered to the civil authorities of Ari- zona. Sheriff Glen Reynolds, Deputy Holmes and teamster. named Midlle-
 
 Mexican, and started in wagon Tor Yuma, where the Indian murderers were to have been hanged.
 One day early in November of 1SS9 the outfit was toiling slowly oyer hard road. To relieve the horses the Sheriff made his prisoners walk ED Il steep hill, all but one. who was lame. or pretended to he. The Sheriff walked in front; the prisoners followed. shackled In couples: Deputy Holmes walked behind them. and the wagon, containing Middleton and one prisoner, brought up the rear. There was a bot tie of whisky along, and the officers became careless. At concerted signal the prisoners hurled themselves bodily upon the two officers and bore them to the ground, and the Indian in the Wag on seized Middleton's pistol and shot him in the face. The officers were beat en to death with stones. Middleton was shot again and left for dead and the Mexican made his escape before the ln- dlans got rid of their shackles. They took the shackle key from the dead Sheriff's pocket and released them selves, and also robbed his body of gold watch and $500 in cash. Armed with the officers weapons, the Apaches fled into the mountains. That was Kids original band of renegades, lot of cutthroats who knew their lives were forfeit and that any additional crimes