Arizona republican., 1910-03-03
CAPT. 1. C. SCH|lL|nG REWS|TS OLD SCENES THE ADOPTED SON OF KIT CAR.
 SON.
He Accompanied Fremont Through
 Arizona in 1S45.

II Arizona certainly looks different
 from what il did when l marched
 through il m lS' and saw fifty Of
 my comrades fall by the wayside Il and die for want of water" The | speaker was Capt. Louis Char .es Y Schilling. adopted son of Kit Carson
 and one of the scouts that marched in advance of the exploring army of | General John C. Fremont when that ! intrepid soldier led his command from the Mississippi rvier to the Pacific over bowling wilderness.
 'I dug the Maricopa wells. or rath- er. the wells were dug by Blackfoot ] Indians with the command. and thus saved the lives of General Fremont
 and about 500 of his men" said Capt. Schilling General Fremont was a ! typical commander and the only time ! that | ever saw him in the attitude Of prayer. was when his tongue was an ] inch thick and all or his command were expecting [" die for want "f
 water. Nearly fifty had already died. | If it had not been for the Blackfoot ! Indians and for my knowledge even i IS boy. of the desert generally Gen.
 eral Fremont would never have been the nominee of the republican party : for the presidency or, afterward. gov | +rnor of Arizona"
 i The story of Capt Schllling reads 1 like q page torn from the Arabian 1 Nights. He ran away from home on i Galveston Island at the age of eight
 and was adopted by Kit Carson in ! Omaha when he was nine years old. | From that time to the present he has i been child of the desert and the ! boot of an owl. the howl of q coyote. ! the scream of an eagle or the war i whoOp of an Indian is music in his
 ear and. although he is now nearly 1 7s years old he would rather respond 10 the "call of the wold' than to sit
 down to turkey and champagne when ] he is hungry and athirst.
 'I was chief of the Blackfoot i tribe around old Fort Benton. al the i head of the Missouri river said the i captain last night at his rooms in the 1 Fairmont house. 'I was with my adopted father. Kit Carson. one of | the bravest and best United States : scouts that ever lived. in more ' fracases than was any other scout | l know l have been shot with bullets ] i hut have managed to send more of ] the other fellows to the happy hunt 1 ing ground than they have of me" l At the time Capt. Schilling came through what is now Arizona in 1895
 he was only l3 years old He was with Fremont throughout the expedi- | ton in the southwest. Sometimes the
 expedition almost starved then almost l died for water and it had to fight blood thirsty Indians and wild beasts
 other During the civil war Capt. l Schiliing was captain in an Ohio reg | iment and served with the late Pres
 ident Mckinley. He has number of letters of most cordial nature from ! the martyred ex-president. The cap tain also has a number of medals voted to him by congress for bravery on the battle field
 Asked about his later life Capt I Schilling said he had been in San | He comes to Phoenix this time to make his home in Arizona. "I am | going to end my days on the desert, he said. as he fondled his two big. ld-fashioued Colts pistols last night. "I am a mining expert and l know where to connect with the ore. He laughed as he said this. ''l know all
 the pioneers here about and l don't expect to he very lonesome"