Morris tribune., 1901-04-20

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The writer owes to Dick Huyl a deb
not exactly Of gratitude, as the story
will demonstrate. which she, by writ
ing his biography, seeks to. discharge
Dick Huy's history will never be writ
ten by me nor by any one else who
knew him to adorn Sunday school Ii
brary. He was not that kind of boy
Dick was an Apache Indian, with all
the characteristics of total depravity
that the word Apache conveys or sug-
! gests. We were children together,
i Dick and l. We lived, fought. and play
ed together for two years in the same
| army post. On enc memorable occa-
sion Dick, instigated by the devil for
I. firmly believe in the devil, if only for
Apaches-dropped down the neck of
my frock coat live toad. 1t was the
cause of my first fit of Mysteries, and |
determined if ever grew old enough
would tell the whole world how bad a
young Apache COulQ De.
In 1872, If l remember rightly, Gen
eral Crook had succeeded, after years
Of bloody war and the loss of hundreds
Of good mem, in subduing most Of the
bands composing the Apache nation of
New Mexico and Arizona. They had
dwelt in the strongholds of mountain
and desert, from which they frequent
ly emerged to rob and murder all min
ers or emigrants that they could am
bush, leaving nothing for the human
mind to conceive Of in the way Of cru
city whenever white man fell into
their power.
At the reservation, although they
were well fed and quite decently treat
ed, it was necessary to watch them
constantly, and large bodies of troops
were detailed for that purpose. Never
theless, scarcely q week passed but
q small squad Of ADaches, usually led
by some attractive squaw. would slip
quietly past the guards and escape
through the darkness into their beloved
cactus plains and mountain barrens.
Roll call nearly every morning deyel-
eped these absentees, and next day
would come news Of murder. rapine
and horrors generally. A Il favorite
Apache mode of disposing of the I'm.
suspecting freighter, miner or emf
grant whose camp they had succeeded
in raiding was to tie the victim blythe
four limbs to stakes and then to build
O fire on that portion of his body desig-
mated in the old fashioned almanacs
as virgo"
There seemed to be something par
ticularly fascinating to the Apache
in this form of torture.
Death being long In coming. It gave
the squaws and papooses plenty of /
chance to invent small torments on
the side, as It were. The women and
children emigrants- But enough Suf-
fee 1t to say that the absolute hatred /
entertained by these Indians for the
whites was fully reciprocated. especial
" by the soldiers. 1t was no easy
matter to track and successfully fol-.
low the runaways through the cactus
and mesquite thickets, over the barren
deserts and desolate mountains that |
make up the topography of Arizona.
But In that pached country water is
only to be found at certain springs and |
water holes. between which days Of |
travel often intervene, but which are
equally well known to soldiers ana to
Indians. .S
So when the morning report showed |
o General Crook that so many war
Tors, squaws and papooses were
Missing the grim old warrior would
make no sign Of pursuit, but on the
light following or perhaps the next
me squadron Of mounted men would |
lie silently out Of the reservation bear
ng orders to move as rapidly as pos
'ible to the water hole of Paio Pinto
IF to Agna Grande spring or to some
'ther place where the presence of the
precious fluid favored camping place
or the renegades. The troops were
Ilways positively instructed to bring
Jack no prisoners, all matters of de-
nil being left to the officers in COM
nand. One June morning there were
eported missing 8 Indians and II
quaWs and papooses, including Wah-
emo. than whom more depraved and
rRel Indian never existed, even in Ari-
ona
Two nights afterward a squad Of the
'Wnenty-thiRd infantry. Crooks own
eginlent. Under Lieutenant Huyl. a Y
plendid young fellow, who has since
sft the service, was sent out on a
cout with the usual orders. No trace.
{ the renegades was found. but a II
urBed ranch and stage station and I!
renated cowboy gave sufficient cyl.
ence of Indians at large The next
light, or rather just at dawn, after a
ing and fatigufng march, the scouts
cached natural rock basin at the{
Dot Of one of the steepest and most
inaccessible knobs to be found in des,
late Arizona. This basin had often
objected supply of acrid water, !