Show 1 t j This Is Ills Unusual j jm m m m m mA t A railroad grade STade crossing in Texas claimed th the life the other day of ot another of the human links connecting connect connect- ing tog the present day with its lost frontier fron Iron tier epoch An Indian known as Old Roque having attained the ripe age of ot was killed by a n. passenger train near El EI Paso Old Roque belonged to 10 a bygone era He was one of Geronimos Geronimo's band of ot Apaches who harried the southwest southwest south south- west in the old days until tou tough touch h General General Gen Geri- I eral Nelson Miles MUes crushed them in 1886 Thereafter Old Roque became a 0 good Indian herding sheep on the Texas plains and in the last years of or his life lUe making bows and arrows for the white children of El EI Paso and teaching them archery and woodcraft All AU In all the old chaps chap's life spanned great events He was born when Texas was a part of Mexico and he kept on taking white while mens men's scalps and burning homesteads for tor a whole decade after Custer went down at nt the Little Big Horn and In his old age he became came the friendly counselor counselor coun coun- Clor of white children a survival in twentieth century civilization direct from the stone age It was strange that he should be killed by a a. railroad train train this this old warrior who had donned war paint so 50 many times and had t faced d the rifles rilles of frontiersmen and horsemen of the United States army Strange and and yet rather fitting |