Arizona republican., 1921-04-13

railing the Apaches on a reservation. MT. Perry made the trip from Fort Lyon in Colorado to Camp Verde on 1 horseback via the old Santa F'e trail to a point near Flagstaff, where he | turned south to Camp Verde. Failing 1 to find Major Dorne at Camp Verde, | MT. Perry said, he left for Fort Whip | pie, near Prescott, after remaining tt Camp Verde for two days.
 Camp Verde in those days, he said, was a tent settlement e several ranchers who had staked out claims on the river. They lived in one set tlement, he said for protection against the Indians. The settlement consisted of about 100 people. he person he met at the camp. That was Judge Wells of Prescott, who was then a boy of 15 or 16 years of age.
 The orders he carried to Major Dorne, he said, was information about a band of Apaches who were in the s. H. mountains, northeast of Yuma. After delivering the dispatches to Major Dorne at Fort Whipple. he said, he and the major started for the camp of the Apaches. On the road to the $. H. mountains. he said, they passed through what is now Wickenburg. At that time it was the home of "Old Man" Wickenburg, who lived alone and was plaeering gold there. They spent the night with him, he said, and pushed ol, camping the next night just south of the Salt river near what is now Phoenix. There was no town there then. he said, but only a saloon and a tent or two. Major Dorne, he said, came up and visited the saloon, but he re- mained in camp.
 They found the Apa che band he said, and succeeded in rounding them up, but had to kill one member of the band in doing so A day or two before they came upon the Apaches, he said, the Indians had had a fight with some Mexicans and with one exception, the Indian killed. they were out of ammunition. The one Indian he said, began firing at them and fearing he would pick them off, they were forced to shoot him. The band, he said, consisted of 12 mem bers, and they were taken to the res ervation. On that trip, Mir. Perry said, he remained in Arizona about three months.
 While in Prescott, then a small settlement, he said. he came upon a
 woman making bread in a large "Dutch'' oven. The loaves. he said. were about twice the size of an ordi-
 
 from the woman for S1. A few days before this, he said he and Major Dorne had secured some honey and while he was sitting in their camp eating bread and honey, Major Dorne
 came in and requested at once that he go and get another leaf of bread from the woman She had only one | loaf left, he said. but finally consent ed to sell it to him for the major. During the intervals between the l chases made after Apaches, Mir. Perry said Major Dorne whiled away the 1 hours by banning gold near Prescott. One afternoon, he said, he and the major each banned about $30 in dust.
 Early in the spring of 1867, MT. Per ! ry said, he returned to Fort Lyon and made second trip to Arizona with | dispatches in 1872. In 1873, he said, I he made a trip from Fort Lyon to 1 San Francisco on horseback He crossed the Colorado. river near Nee dles he said, and started late in the l afternoon through the Mojave desert That night, he said, he had the l first real scare of his life. He said he was riding along a row of Yaqui 1 palms and the leaves of the palms l waving in the breeze appeared to l him to be the feathers of a large band of Indians. From the number
 of feathers he thought he saw. Mir Perry said he estimated that there were thousands of Indians in the i band. Knowing he had no chance 1 against such a horde of Indians, he 1 said, he kept riding further away | from the row of trees and finally i succeeded in losing the band. It was