Arizona republican., 1908-03-07
General and Mrs. $. B. M.
 Young Guests of Phoenix
An Earlier Visit by the Former Head of the U. $. Army.

bestowed upon him, General Samuel
 B. NJ. Young. lieutenant general of the
 United States army from H2 to 'S4 ar
 rived In Phoenix yesterday morn
 ing accompanied by his wife. The
 trip is partly a honeymoon and partly
 for the pleasure of travel, the general
 having been welded to Mrs. Huntley
 on March Sd at the Grace church
 chapel at Chicago.
 Speaking to a Republican reporter
 yesterday at the Hotel Adams, the
 general related how he happened to
 come to Arizona and Phoenix the first
 time. He came to the territory in lS66
 with d detachment Of regulars, the
 first that were sent out to relieve the
 California soldiers in the Indian war
 fare They escorted to the territory
 Governor Mccormick, one of the early
 governors. leaving Los Angeles and
 marching overland to Prescott, which
 was at that time the capital
 His detachment, troop K, was sta-
 toned at Fort Mohave, near Hardy
 vile. commanding the upper Colorado
 basin district. The general came to
 Phoenix two years later, in 1868 and
 NlAC llllSSiOll Ol lllo AAA fNsAo ND ''NNeAN the services as a guide of Tom Hodge,
 who il was said was the only man who thoroughly knew the Santa Maria country, in which the Mohave Apaches
 were at that time perniciOusly active. Hodge will be remembered by many old timers as gambler and gunman, quick to quarrel and lightning with
 the trigger finger He had figured in a number of scrapes and was consid- cred as wild a frontier character as ever wore spurs. Phoenix was nothing but a few adobe shacks with a small Mexican population and desolate waste of mesquite and desert growths, in comparison to which its present commercial and fine residential mag nitude was to General Young an in- spring revelation.
 His recollection of Phoenix dates from that time and his association with Hodge began, born of necessity which required such a man. Some months before the Apaches had killed one of the generals men, creeping up to the camp while the soldier was moving along the picket line of horses. and blowing his breast open with a shot gun. General Young after locat- ing Hodge proceeded against these In- di1ns in the Santa Maria country, driving them through the canyons and finally tracking the band to the Mo- have village. A number of Indians were killed and the rest were com pletely sutdued. Hodge afterwards quarreled with and killed another guide and was later himself killed in Mexico.
 Barrier than this however. the general had his first great Indian fight with the Hual- apais at Beals Springs in Difficult Canyon. wherein they had a lucky es- cape from massacre through the dis action of the Indian who were surprised just at dawn. The troop had been divided up in four de- tachments. l. men each, and were in 10 proceed up separate can yons to locate the Hualapais. The horses were left at the entrance 10 the canyons, and well armed the sol diers set out. As it happened said General Young. it was his little band that came upon the Indians. complete ly surprising them just as the first grey streaks of morning were appear ing in the sky. The Indians were fifty in number and could have sur and overwhelmed the handful of soldiers. had they resorted to the use of the bow and arrow instead of few old style guns which they possess | ed. No white man was wounded by the bullets but some were injured by | arrows, the general himself receiving l a slight wound in the leg. But the In l iians were routed and about 20 of them killed. Another detachment met l | small band and were victorious also. l A few more skirmishes wound up the | campaign against the Hual ipais. who had infested that section,
 The Mohaves said General Young | were not troublesome after the mas sacre in the fifties, when they attack ed an immigrant train on the old | Beals road and slaughtered the entire | larty men, women and children, tray cling in seven wagons. using in the | bloody execution. war clubs with which | he victims were beaten to death. | Speaking of his recOllections of Apache | atrocities. the general said, that in ] those days it was necessary to send | l guard of two or three soldiers along | with the mail carrier from the Fort to | Willow Springs, and from there on soldiers from Prescott acted as escort. | Every forty miles was built a stone | 'orral and station, where the mail rider ,ould change horses. He recalled one | incident where his mali rider was at acked by Apaches and wounded, his soldier escorts killed. The general | with a few soldiers that day had been ut on a scouting expedition, and hap lened along in time to find the rider making his last stand behind some powders. with only three rounds of he expressed it, two Or the Indians and one for himself. The rider was rescued from his peril JUS position, and further on were found he mutilated bodies of the soldiers, with their hearts gouged out and stuck ID on a stick. The general recalls | many interesting stories Of the days when Bloody Basin was making his ory. such as might give foundation Or Bret Harte tales of the west. days md conditions which he now finds happily vanished, in the peace and prosperity of a highly civilized and commonwealth.
 General Young amply fulfills the popular ideal of the grizzled veteran ,f many wars, the Indian fighter and officer of a great soldiery. .