Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-28

out at the quartermaster's stables shouted,
"Courers coming from the west"
They proved to be Sergt. Hickey of Tu-
ners troop, and two men, with spent and
nearly shCeless horses, with the captains
compliments, and he was rounding up the
last of the renegades and hadn't time to
write" He had forty prisoners mostly
wounded Tontos and Sierra Blancas, and
would return to the post by easy marches
as soon as he had turned over his victims,
as orders required, to the guard at the
agency. Before the wearied men could sta
Die their horses or get a mOuthful to eat,
the major demanded full account of the sit
uation, and then at last the suspense was
ended and the tale of the Tontos, as told
by Trader Poole, was verified, and more.
Farnham, Schmidt, Welch and Sinclair
were the four the Indians knew to be dead,
and dismembered, though the latter fact
had not hitherto been mentioned 1t was
left to Hickey and his fellows to tell the
reSt-that for forty-eight hours Fane's lit
tie force had stood off perhaps thirty times
their weight in mountain Apaches; that
Doyle and Murray had died of their dread
full wounds; that Hayden's leg was broken,
and he was half dead; that Fuller and Hg-
gins We're very low; that Dolan, Sutton.
Field and Mullins had been painfully, and
almost all the others slightly, wounded,
and that Lieut. Fame himself was nearly
blinded from Inflammation resulting from
a cash along the eyebrows and that his
left arm shattered close to the Shout
der. DR.. Evans had sad 'Teniente Chi
iullO WouIo plODdplS never nc iDie "
spar AGAR.
But what's this about Solalay and other
Indians escaping? How did that happen?"
asked Maj. Piggott whereat ii is said cd
Hickey looked daZed for moment before
he answered. We nivir aXed about that,
sorr, when we saw the fix they were in
| The wonder was how our fellows escaped,
e'er of EN-, wild SO much as a piece
of his skim
But this was the dispatch Major Piggott
sent the next day, and by way of Mcdowell
this time, for now he had nothing to boast
of. This was the dispatch the clerks at
post headquarters used to show, as its copy
stood for weeks in the letters sent book,
to comrades who could hardly believe their
eyes especially such comrades Dolan,
Scott and Fuller, when Fuller able 10
be up and about again, and that little Hay
den came limping over from the hospital to
see, some six weeks later, and seeing said
things that might have cost him six
months pay and concomitant hard labor in
charge of the guard. This was the letter,
report, dispatch or whatever 1t might be
termed that, in his bitterness and chagrin,
"Ould Spigots' sent on to department
headquarters, without requesting the COM
handing officer of Mcdowell to open and
read. but sealed against such intrusion, and
this was the report that in garbled form,
got into the columns of the California
press, and in condensed and worse form
into the Geographic news from the Pacinc
slope as reproduced in the journals of the
Atlantic and middle states:
Fort PiCrna a L.
November 18TH 1877.
Assistant Adjutant General.
Headquarters Department of Arizona,
Whipple Barracks, Prescott.
Sir: I regret to be compelled to an
nounce that, after their brilliant capture by
the cavalry from this post while acting
under my instructions Chief Solalay and
the Indian renegades under charge of Lieut..
Fame -th Cavalry, who had strong
guard, succeeded in making their escape
and are still at large. Capt. Turner. with
eighty men, is in pursuit. and cannot but
hone that this energetic officer may sue
coed in recapturing such dangerous and
desperate characters. Lieut.. Fame appears
to have led his men into an ambuscade, IN
which several were killed and many, IN
Guiding himself, were more or less severely
wounded have sent surgeons ambulance
attendants ETC., with pack mules, 10 Tonto
pass and will report further when the
party returns. Very respectfully your
obedient servant JOHN S. PIGGOTT,
Major Commanding.
my Cod" said little Hayden. THAT for
the man that dared hell to save me! That.
when old Spigots has the medal of honor!'