Arizona republican., 1910-07-18
DR. CARLOS MONTEzUMA
 10 VISIT OLD SCENES
Expected to Be in Phoenix About the
 Middle of September.

| Colonel J. H. McClintock has re- ! ceived letter from pr Carlos Monte
 zuma of Chicago saying that about the
 middle of september he is coming to
 Arizona with a half dozen of his friends on an outing trip The doctor | says: tit.
 From Phoenix we shah say good bye to civilization and head for Me Dowell, where most of my people are living. They will escort us to where
 l was sold near Florence to where l
 was captured (Iron Peak and then
 give us q week of good hunting in the
 mountains, after which we will jour
 ney interiorly across ito San Carlos,
 Fort Apache, and then to HolbroOk. l
 hope We may meet you as we land in
 Phoenix"
 Dr. Montezuma is a genuine "Arizo-
 ma boy" in the fullest sense of the
 word, who has made good. for he is d
 full -bloOded Apache Indian, rescued
 from savagery through the most tragic
 events, given a university education,
 and is now a highly regarded practice
 ing physician of Chicago. The doc
 tors story is an old one to pioneer resi-
 dents of Arizona, but there are many
 here now who have never heard it, and
 it is worth repeating
 During the troublous days If the eos in Arizona, there was constant warfare between the whites and the hpaches, the Maricopa and Pima Indians being aligned with the whites by reason of d long existing feud between the river Indians and the Apaches. On one oc- casion a force of white soldiers, ac- cOmpanied by a band of the river In dians. pursued a war party of Apaches into the south end of the Tonto Basin country. near the Salt river. some dis tance this side of Roosevelt dam There the Apaches took refuge in one or more big caves. The soldiers from a vantage point some distance away di- rected their bullets to the mouth of the caves and by direct shots and carom- ing missiles they either killed or wounded all of the warriors and most of the women and children.
 When this was evident, on request. the Pimas and Maricopas were given permission to reconnoitre and finish the job if they wanted to. They ap- preached the caves and, it is said, killed the wounded. But hidden under one squaW they found a little baby and a Pima squaw took possession of it. That baby is now known as Dr Carlos Montezuma When the Pimas returned after their against the Apaches. they settled down in the villages on the Sacaton reservation. One day the squaW and her Apache pappoose, ac- cording to the best information obtain able here now, were in Adamsvile | which was the earliest white settle ment in the Gila valley and was few l miles west of the present town of ! Florence. A tourist happened along | md bought the baby of the squaw, | Ook him east and educated him. He | las lived a life of usefulness since | hen, not only among the better class | If the American people, but he has be- 'ome a close student of Indian politics | md has allied himself with every move | Ie believed to be effectual in the up- i fitting of the native races. Very much | part of the same story is that of he career of Mike Burns, an educated Apache, who is now a rancher in the 'icinity of Mayer. Yavapai county He s the only other Indian survivor of hat celebrated fight at the caves, so ar as known. He was captured out m mesa not far away by a scouting 'arty in company with relative. whose fate the writer never learned The boy was then quite a lad, but not i'd enough to be regarded as among hose responsible for the Indian out ages He was taken east by Captain ohm Burns of the Fifth cavalry and ducated by Burns and Wesley Mer- { itt, who later became a general and
 distinguished cavalry leader.