Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1909-07-13
KIT CARSON GOT
DEADW00D ON
RED DEVILS
Interesting Anecdote of Fam
Gus FrontierSman to Whom
Denver Would Erect Suitable
Monument,

Tales Of Kit Carson, the famous
pioneer n Indian fighter. whose
remains lie in an old cemetery al
Taos, are much in evidence apropos
or the proposition to disinter his
BODY, bury II with suitable honors
and unveil a to him in
Denver. The Denver Field and
Farm tells the following:
When Kit Carson went on to Cal
ifornia with Fremont in 1915 the old
scouts remaining in this country did
not hear from him FOR two years and
a half. He told the boys to take
good care of his wife and his stock
and they did so. When he got home
his stock vas doubled in numbers.
He walked in one night after supper.
when the scouts were all sitting
around the fire at Fort Beat. How
dye do. folks" he said and they
were almost paralyzed. because they
did not expect him. He was on his
way with dispatches from the ad-
miral of the navy who had sailed
around Cape Horn to give the Mexi-
"'o S'Ni'o az .'dn FIdItiSCV. Gar
son had Travelled most of the way on
foot with his dispatches. He had
some fine blooded stock and he took
a swift Kentucky mare and con
tinued his journey, taking four of
his scouts with him through the hos
tile Indian country.
They went down the Bijou out east
of Denver and n day five Indians
came along. They were not in war
paint n professed friendship. They
wanted to smoke the pipe of peace.
Kit Carson told the scouts in Spanish
that they meant devilment. He sent
n man off to the saddles and told
him when he raised his hand above
his head to shoot the Indians. He
sent Virgins off behind the bushes
in another direction and told him the
same Then he and the other two
scouts sat down to smoke the pipe
of peace with the Indians. Kit Car
son heard the Indians say in their
own language hat when the pipe
got around the third time to the
the Indians each one were to
grab a white man. When the pipe
went our everybody smoked but
when it came to Kit Carson the third
time he stopped and held it while he
said to the chief:
We'll, this is the third time round,
ISN'T it? | suppose when it gets to
YOU you will try to kill us all, won't
you? Well, you can't do it. My men
covering o with their rifles and
if | raise my hand above my head
you will all be dead" The Indians
were so taken back that they ard
down their arms and crawled away
on all fours. 1t was their way to
show their humility. Kit Carson
ave them a raking over that they
never forgot. He broke up their guns
gave them bach their bows and
The chief was so ashamed
he would not take his bow and
arrows, but n of his warriors took
It for him. They did not know Kit
was in the country and when
they found it out, they promised
never to modest any of his men or
stock. They broke their prom
Use a%fterward and got a good thrash
ing for it.
Kit Carson had another adventure
On that lonely return trip, which
was even more exciting than this.
He came across a ago train in
which twelve Indians had captured
everybody except n man and had
off the stock. Kit took the
man and pursued the Indians.
overlook and surprised them
He killed several and brought back
only all the stock that had been
but all that belonged to the
indians too. He vas a marvellous
man. He had a keen eye. The In
were simply so afraid of him
they never tried to fight. When
got to Washington with the dis
he was given a commission
as lieutenant in the Mexican war
and raised a company of sharpshoot-
ers in which he o a bunch of his
Did scout friends down to Mexico.
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