Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1913-08-18

the chief Of police and myself took
her lodge down and loaded her things
N the wagon end placed her up on
top Of the load and took her up 90
the agency. She had n wonderful
collection. tho finest and best OF ov-
orything, a great abundance u food.
blankets, moccaslne, indian dresses.
and IN fact a very wonderful and val.
liable collection. n WAS her custom
10 go into an Indian lodge. wheFeup-
on the Indians would an run away.
She would then select such things AZ
she wanted and take them over to
her lodge. and IN this manner Ee-
cured her wonderful collection. IN
the meantime. old GnrRonlo WAS ex-
eTclsing the spirits that we're suppos-
cd 10 habit the witch. and he was
taking his toll. and exacting pay for
protecting them from the witch. when
the crisis wan reached and CarKonio
gave the signal, then the witch was
burned as tho last resort Well. they
ala not burn this particular witch.
but about midnight the second night
that she WAS up at the agency and
within iO0 yards Of my residence, We
were all awakened by discharge ~
firearms, and soon learned what the
trouble was. Some 10 or 30 Of the
bucks had crawied up within 20 or 80
feet Of tho lodge and literally shot
her a. pieces. An examination ~ the
body next morning. showed ~ bullet
wounds. aud the next niKhi. shertly
after dark they crHwlcd in, set fire 60
her lodge and burned everything up.
Including her body. which had not
yet been buried.
Terrible go the Apache Indians are.
and keeping In View their awful au-
trocitles. ! can yet say that they have
been more slnned against tnan sim
ming" ! found them possessed %
many lovable traits. They are deeply
attached t0 their families. They are
an ingenious people. They have
perfect system Of numerals, and can
count up into millions under their
system. Their principal industry isI
basket making, carried Vn entirely by
the females OF the tribe, Their bias
kots are made from natural nbre and
are uncOlored. The beautiful cOlora
In their baskets are natures cOlOra.
not artificial. cannot az this time
20 into a description of the wrongs
they have received az the hands OF the
white man. I have said they we're
ingenious. and will narrate an incident
which illustrates how ingenious they
can be. as well as how revengefuL In
1882 Nicholas Acosta, cowboy in the
employ OF Patrick Coughlan at Tuia-
rosa rode In to the Indian camp at
Three Rivers TO spend his noon hour,
as he had often Done before, always
being welcomed by the Indians who
knew him we'll. The chief Of this
band was an Indian by the name OF
Ma tu-go-i lingo, which means "siNe
me some good tobacco" Accosta UNI
saddlod his horse. dropped his Win
chester across the saddle, turned ana
shook hands with Na-tu-go-lin-go'
and while 80 doing Carpio, youns
Apache buck. picked up Acosta's gun,
and before anyone could Interfere
shot AcOsta through the heart. Ho
then took Acosta's two belts OF cart
ridges from his dead body and jump
ing on horse, lef' the camp. AZ that
time 1 he'd the government beef herd
on the RuldOso. The next night some
one raided the camp, taking all OF the
COW ponies. used by the men In
charge OF the cattle. Upon learning
of the Acosta killing. I went at once
To Three Rivers. and demanded OF Ma
tu-go-l lingo that they surrender Car
pio. Romon Chiquita, sub-chief
and lieutenant of the indian police
force. was unfortunately a brother oil
Carpios The next day he sent WORD
20 me at the agency that II ] made
any effort to capture his brother that
/ he would come over TO the agency
| with his band, cut my head on and
place Il on pole In front OF my res
ldence as "A warning "a future agents
who might interfere With any member
of his family. In the meantime, a de-
tachment of Indian police from an
other band. had followed Carpio into
the mountains. overlook and severely
wounded him. and brought him into
the agency prisoner He afterwards
died from his wounds. la the sail al
santa zee. New Mexico. In the mean
time. captured Roman Chiquita ana
sent him to Fort LeaVenwOrth where
/ concluded he had better remain at
least as long as ! WAS agent
Late In August of that year ! was
awakened one night by someone
throwing small pebbles against the
windows, / slipped out OF bed anu
listened. until I was satisfied who ever
Il was was intent on my going all over
the house, from room 20 room, be-
cause they passed around the house
throwing the small pebbles against
the windows. Not beieS able To sec
anyone. / went into the dining room
aud kitchen. saw that all the doors
were locked, and went back to bed
About . o'clock the next morning' one
of or boys Ia passing from the Kill
chen 20 the dining room heard a pes
ouliar noise and opening tho door,
which had swung back against the
wall. saw an immense rattlesnake' he
had forethought enough to close the
door. thus leaving MT snake trapped
az IL were. Mrs. IAeweilyn had been
ironing on the dining room table, ana
had passed back and forth man,
times with the irons from the kitchen
tn the dining room. had heard the rat
tie OF the snake. hut did not pay much
attention to u. I WAS called from the
ofice and securing stout stick, soor
killed the snake. As there are no rat
tlesnakes on the Tuiarosa creek, NJ OF
near the agency. ! knew at once that
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