The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-04-28

dreds of white men of the valley
turned out and searched all day
without finding a sign of the little
one. Finally it was suggested that
Ute trailers at the camp some twenty
miles away be sent for, and this was
done. The Indians got on the ground
twenty-four hours after the child was
missed and then the whole country
had been so tramped over by the
white searchers that all hope of find
ing 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 most systematic
manner covered the ground thorough
ly and soon found the direction ia
ken. Foot by foot they went over the
ground, noting a broken twig here,
an overturned stone there or a small
impression on the damp earth. Some
times they would go for mile with
out finding single thing to indicate
that the child had passed that way
and then they would find the impress
sion of little bare foot in a patch
of wet earth
The child was found eight miles
from home, and hid so closely when
the Indians passed her that they pas
/ sed her and were almost at fault.
They had to double back several
times before they espied her hidden
under fallen tree. | was reminded
of the work of an old and conscien-
! tious pointer when he is following the
trail of scattered covey of quail by
| the manner in which these Utes fol-
! lowed the child through eight miles
of trackless mountain covered with
underbrush.
Lost Camel Story.
The old story of the man who de-
scribed a lost camel so accurately
that he came near being jailed for
having stolen it finds it's parallel in
the Apache country, where an Indian
boy SO accurately described a horse
and rider that the soldiers who were
after the deserter took the boy into
| custody for having 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 meet
ing an Apache boy they asked him
| if he had seen a man on horse go
by that way. He asked if it was a
sorrel horse, lame in the right hind
leg and ridden by a tall man who
belonged to the army. On being an
swered 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 steal
ing the horse. The boy protested his
innocence and told how he knew the
horse was 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 mud
dy place and showed that the impress
sions made by the right hind foot
were not SO heavy as those of the
other feet. He showed another place
where the man had got down off of
the horse, leaving the mark of his
heavy army boot on the soil and
| showed where he had reached up
and broken the limb of a tree at a
height which could have been reach