Bisbee daily review., 1909-02-28
bECOOY HAS
 GOOD RECORD
 ON FRONTIER
Navajo Indian Chief Who Ran Amuck in Cincinnati Not as Vicious Redskin AS Was At First Reported

Declaring that Becods the ;achiess
 Navajo. who is in jail for running
 muck in Cincinnati. ohio. is 3 peace
 ably inclined. intelligent Indian, a ' ioImer Indian fighter and employe of
 Inc Indian service now living OF South Edith street in Albuquerque, told some interesting stories about the Ma
 jo to a Morning Journal representa-
 tive. The gentleman, who does not want his name mentioned, was farm
 Ter for the Moqui Indlans at kealns canyon twenty years ago and was a
 Warm personal friend of the> Navajo. Decody, then a subchief under Chief lGanymuche.
 My friendship for Becody dates from an unusual circuIustance.' said the old timer. "It was when he had 1Gst married a buxom young squaw. a ltomeiy Indian Tnsiids> tc whom the
 savaio vas doyotedly attached She Twas out riding a fractious Indian pony one day when she was thrown land being caught in the lariat was fragGcd 10 death by tbe frightened l,;ts use. The chief was inconsolabie. J he went at once to John II. Bowman, ! Navajo Indian agent at Fort Def- SnCe. and told hiu his truubles- Bow [ nan instructed me to look after tho i inattaF as much as possible. As was | t8e custom. the hogan In which the SqiaW had lived was pallcd down over ne tody which lay surrounded by the saddle and bride. silver trapping land other belongings Of the dead wo- man. The Iuliing down of tho hogan. however. was ECt a good jOS. gaping
 cracks being left between the logs. In great distress Becocy went again 10 ! bowman. declaring he had discovered i'i0bo devil tracks around the burial piace of his wife.
 1 The superstitious Nayajoe would
 not 20 within a mile of the hogan. and l Becody was equally afraid to approach ii' Bowman again told me Co use my @ood offices so l went and got a shov- ! q and spent a half cay covering mp the fallen hogan and heaping up dirt [ JuG rocks so that prowling animals could not get. to the corpse. I did inot see any devil tracks. which were presumably the product Of Becody ! Imagination. l rode fifteen miles To lO' the job for Becody and his grati- fude was something to sec. Ever aftsr | that he was my warm friend and coui1
 not do enough for me. lie was a yery intelligent. friendly kind of an Indian, quite peaceably inclined and of great Influence with his tribe. He was 9 1 great orator as Indians 20 and would t. aranEue his tribesmen for hours while they listened to him iutcntly. he was a sociable kind of fellow and ihuite wealthy in the Nasajo fashion, owning many cattle and sheep.si have not seen him for twenty years. lie must be now about siXty-five or scy- eaty years old and unless his disposi- .cn has changed nightly the trouble at Cincinnati was probably due to a Httle fire water and @ little Fl treat ment from white men. I understand r, claims some one stole lis railroad ticket and probably if the Indian ide Of the case were fully known be i5 not altogether to blame. He should be looked after by the government and his troubles straightened out. The Capture cf Msnqus Colorado. The old time Indian campaigncr
 2, no served through several strenuous ! campaigns against the NayajOs and | Apaches with the California troops
 was present at the capture of the no Q Al 1 Pinos Altos in Grant county and tells lmany other interesting stories Of the early days. His story of the capture iCi Mangus Is interesting
 ] This Apache had been holding the 5outhorn route for a long time. mur- | lGcring everything that came along. | iremember when we passed through | Apache pass on his trail. we found numerous skeletons, among them those of little babies which had been lutLlessly slaughtered with their par Cnts.
 "One day BIangUs and his men cap ured one of our troopers and tied him , Co one of tue giant cacd and roasted ! } in to death win a slow fire. We ! Immediately had business of a press 1 ing nature with the Apaches and after some hard work finally rounded him Irp at the foot of PinOs Altos noun ' tain. He was placed in an old cabin under my supervision with a guard at thc door and window. The guards complained at the responsibility, de- claring it was ridiculous fO sit up fJr hours guarding @ 'wUthiCss injun' told the guards they were instruct cd to hli the prisoner full of lead if i.g attempted to escape. l had no sooner rolled up iR my blankets un- lil 'bangi bang,' came from the cab
 'B and running over l asked what was tlc matter. Reckon the Injun was
 tryin' to get away drGwled one of the
 the troopers. so we carried out iu- structions. He's full of lead
 'Mangus Colorado was au enur
 nous Indian. six feet, six inches in his moccasiHs and an ugly brute He
 cisdained the bacon we gave him for
 hIs supper, demanding Fresh meat
 You won't get any breakfast old
 man. l said-for VIC were Co hang
 aim next day-'so you better take
 what you can get He ate the bacon
 all right"
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