Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-11-29

the white searchers that all hope Of
finding a trail was seemingly lost
Three Indians, stimulated by hope
Of big reward which was offered,
went to work, and before night they
found the child, unhurt but almost
dead from fright and exposure. They
did their work in a most systematic
manner, covered the ground thorough
ly and soon found the direction taken.
Then began an ideal bit Of trailing.
Foot by foot they went over the ground
noting a broken twig here, an over
sion on the damp earth. Sometimes
, they would go for mile without find
ing single thing to indicate that the
child had passed that way and then
they would find the impression Of a
little bare foot in patch Of wet earth.
The child was found eight miles
from home, and hid so closely when
the Indians approached her that they
They had to double back several times
before they espied her hidden under a
fallen tree. / was reminded Of the
work Of an old and conscientious point
sr when he is following the trail of
scattered covey Of quail by the manner
in which these Utes followed the child
through eight miles Of trackless noun
tain covered with underbrush.
The old story Of the man who de-
scribed lost camel so accurately that
he came near being jailed for having
stolen 1t finds its parallel in the Apache
country, where an Indian boy so accur-
ately described horse and rider that
the soldiers who were after the deser-
ter took the boy into custody for hav-
ing murdered the man and secreted the
horse. But for the fact that the boy
offered to guide them to the real thief
he would have been shot. The horse
had been stolen by deserter, who was
trying to make his way out of the
country. A squad Of cavalry was sent
after him, but had missed his trail and
meeting an Apache boy they asked him
II he had seen a man on a horse go by
that way. He asked II It was a sorrel
horse, lame in the right hind leg and
ridden by tall man who belonged to
the army. On being answered in the
affirmative he said he had not seen the
man or the horse.
This made the sergeant in command
angry and he ordered the arrest Of the
boy for killing the man and stealing
the horse. The boy protested his in
nocence and told how he knew the
horse was a sorrel and that he was
lame. He showed where the horse had
rubbed against a tree and had left
some sorrel hairs. He pointed to where
the animal had crossed a muddy place
and showed that the impressions made
by the right hind foot were not so
heavy as those left by the other feet.
He showed another place where the
man had got down off the horse, leav-
ing the mark Of his heavy army boot
on the soil, and showed where he had
reached UP and broken off the limb Of
q tree at d nelBnt WHICH Couio hd'e
been reached only by tall man. The
soldiers were unconvlnced and the boy
offered to trail the man and find him
II he were released and paid for his
services. This was agreed to and he
led them to the deserter, who had been
compelled to stop and rest on account
NJ the lameness of his horse
In the west every ranchman must be
a trailer to a certain extent II he ex-
poets to keep his stock. He must be
able to pick out the tracks left by his
own straying animals among the hun
dreds and maybe thousands Of others
which roam over the country. The re-
suit that follows is that the ranchmen
learn to do what the Indian has been
compelled to do from his childhood and
watch for imprints on the earth
changed positions OF stones and broken
and bent sticks and grass.