The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-07-27
AN INDIAN FEUD OVER
APACHEs AND PIMAs GATHER
 AND SHOW GOOD WILL.
Were Enemies by Heredity-Soften- ing Influence of Uncle sam's Training shown in tho For
 getting of Vengeance.
Phenix Ariz.N Dispatch to The Balti-

Phenix tAriz.O Dispatch to The Balti-
 To the few privileged onlookers 1t seem ed in truth a mingling of the 'lion and the lamb yesterday, when firm Apache and meek Pima Indians gathered for a feast. Only few years ago hereditary enemies, and now gathering to extend and receive the hand of friendship. 1t was deemed appropriate to have the cer- emony take place on the anniversary of American independence.
 The Salt River Reservation was the scene of the celebration, and for days beforehand the preparations went on in the painfully deliberate way of the In- dians. After the suggestion had been made by the missionaries, that the Pimas give evidence of their advance in civili- zation and ChTistjanity by Inviting their former fofs fesst h with ,snen them of Indians. They appointed a committee with a chairman, and funds were sub scribed to the amount of $50 to provide entertainment for the guests; This did Id not include the hours of work done by volunteers ready for the feast.
 r,e Indian Hospitality.
 Early on the morning of the Fourth the chosen workers assembled in an open space before the mission building and the schoofhouses Here was the old brush shed in which services were first held on the reservation before there was thought of building an adobe structure in which to worship new match of green branches had been given the shed. and beneath 1t tfIe ground was sprinkled and swept untirGit was as hard and smooth as a floor.
 Amateur butchers drove up a steer. which vvas-sla uhgtered on the spot As the skin was cut from the beef 1t was stretched out on either side of the car cass and served as table upon which the butchers cut up the meat. Deliber- ate in this. as in all things, the men worked with rude knives, which they would stop to whet frequently on round smooth stones picked up from the desert about them. An ax which at intervals did duty at the woodpile, was utilized as a cIeaver with which to separate the bones. The muscular parts of the beer were cut into small chunks, the Indians being careful to trim off the tendons, which were laid aside for future use in arrow-making. to fasten the feathers to the shaft of the arrow.
 Squaws Take a Hand.
 By this time the squaws had arrived and busted themselves with preparing the fires. There were soon a series of blazes on the ground. Each squaw carried an olla, which is a native-made earthen pot or an iron cooking pot. of which there chanced to be two or three on the reser- vation. Each pot was set up on stones. about which the fires of mesquite wood blazed merrily and soon had the water in the pots simmering and bubbling. Into
 
 was overhowing, and 1t kept the fat Squaws busy replenishing the fires and skimming off the scum that arose.
 In a nearby building were stored the other parts of the feast, including 430 loaves of bread, which were baked the day before by an Indian baker. an ex- pert workman, who had four girls to help him i'll the ovens of four kitchen stoves, which were lined up in the open like, battery of guns at rest with mug zles upturned.
 Meanwhile the individual preparations were going on all over the reservation. Children were taken to the ditch side, where there was luckily a sluggish stream of irrigating water, and here faces ana hands were washed and hair was wet and combed. Gala dress was donned, which meant for the squaws of the younger gen erauon the wearing of gay-colored or white dresses, trimmed with ribbons. in which blues and reds and purples and yell lows predominated. For the younger braves it meant clean overalls and shirt. with probably gay-colored handkerchief for a necktie.
 For these it was an occasion of smiles and evident enjoyment, but for the older | braves and squaws 1t was apparently a serious occasion, to judge by stolld coun- tenances, which seldom relaxed. even in greeting old friends with the inevitable solemn handshake.
 Nearly all of the 13O families on the reservation were represented, including a where, but had journeyed forty or fifty miles to be present at the celebration, and probably quite the Teservations 8 pop ulation of over 100 were present during the festivities. The tolling of the mission | bell called the Indians to that building where before its purchase they had been used to assemble, when a stronglunged brave shouted the summons from the top | of the squat, flat tower. The building | was quickly filled and the overflow look | ed through the windows or gathered in little groups in the shade, to talk, smoke l or Snooze.
 Apache Guests Approach. For a time it seemed that the hospit- able Pimas would be doomed to disap- | pointInent, as their Apache guests came not Finally a courier arrived and sald | the little party of visitors were on their | way from Fort Mcdowell, about thirty miles up in the mountains. So the mest- | ing was commenced with the singing oi America"
 so familiar with this as With some oi | the following hymns, as the dronlng | chanting of the Indian voices did not | drown the notes of the little organ. Later 1 they joined with spirit, but still with the | same peculiar resonance that marks their | singing, and the Doxology was sung with | spirited volume.
 | Men sat on one side of the little build | ing and women on the other, while up 1T | the side seats of the amen corner" sal | the chiefs anaAeld ITS Patiently the au' | dIeslce listened to a long address that l would have taxed the staying powers Of an audience of whites. Side by side with | inc speaker stood two interpreters. one | n pima and the other a Maricopa, for the