Show IS s ANTONIO APACHE ONCE Or Of SAt SALT T LAL LAI I NEGRO NOT INDIAN INDAN I Is Antonio Apache well known in Salt Lake City an Indian or a negro Word comes from New York that the supposed suppose full full blooded blooded redskin is not an Indian at all but an African with kinky hair Probably Apache is not worrying worry worry- lug ing though for he ho has as become the pro pro- tege of Mrs John Jacob Astor and other other othor oth oth- er or leaders of the four hundred in New York i t i Apache first struck Salt Lake City in iii June 1905 1903 He lIe wor worp good ool clothes es and stayed at the Knutsford n hot hotel 1 He represented Worlds World's Work and the tho N New NewYork NewYork w York Herald on special assignments in the West J Apache was heralded as RS a former Rou Rough Hough h Rider an aD intimate friend of President Roosevelt and nd a Harvard graduate well known from front the desert desert des des- ert of Arizona to the esplanade in Havana Ha Ha- vana from the Alvarado in Mexico to tho Strand in London from the Bois Bois' de le Boulo Boulogne c in Paris to tho the Rialto in Sew York Apache pache had money and he left eft large ar e wads oi ot it in the slot machines of the thirst parlors He lie was regarded regarded-as regarded as a genius and because his skin was darker than that of most men he met mat he be was lionized He is still bein being lionized lionized- in Now York this time time but but the tho following fol lowing dispatch from the metropolis is Interesting 4 Is He a Faker k Antonio Apache Apach a hi highly educated Indian who has bas been c taken up UTI by Mrs John K U. el Mrs 1 John Jolin Jacob Astor stor and asid other leaders of New York society t. t has been masquerading according ac ac- ac cording to char charges es made today bv hi two prominent artists artist and is in reality a aI I negro the tho son of Airs Russells Russell's Sages Sage's j colored cook r A Apaches friends declare tho the accusation acen- acen is is false and malicious He is well known in Salt I Lake City Denver Demer j Los Angeles and other Western cities I where he went two years rears a ago o as representative of a large Eastern magazine The against Apache were sworn t to yesterday by William is M. M Gary Cary n I-n and Edwin N. N Demin Deming two well known painters of Indian life hife They declare that the supposed Indian w wears ars a wi wig to conceal his kinky y hair and tints his skin with a sort of bronze paint It is 18 about time that the true trite character of the the- impostor be made publicly pub pub- known said Mr Gary Cary He lie is s snot not only a faker but a scamp He is is the same negro who hio stole a painting from front me about nineteen years ago and iu ill consequence served two years in Sin Sing Sing prison I I Tho 10 alleged grandson r of Chief I Cochise is a fraud said Mr Deming Deception An Art Antonio Apache according ng to the testimony of Mr Cary Gary and Mr Ir Dom Dem in lug ing has be been n able to exploit the th cre- cre dulity of the smart st set t for the last ten years rears because he lIe has made deception an an anart art Not only did he ape the Indian in physical appearance appearance but he also studied the habits and aDd language of the redskin Those who have w won n his confidence confidence con con- say sar that lie possesses an ela elaborate dab dab- Q orate assortment of scalps with hair of various various lengths and that he lIe shifted from one wig to another as his hair was supposed tp grow lon longer er There is no doubt of the smartness of this impostor said sa Mr Cary at his studio at at 96 Fifth avenue In order to become versed in the habits and history of the Apaches of whom he claims to be bea I a distinguished representative he lie went d down wn in rite Ithe Southwest and lived among them lIe He got some som Indian woman woman to recollect E that she was his mother He Ife also brought a young Indian to this city from the Carlisle Indian school ana had the youth call can him uncle I I Iam am ant absolutely certain that this social lion is a negro contin continued ed Mr 1 Cary I found out his true r rice race ee my my- self I J know that instead of beng tIle the desce descendant of a renowned he lie is the son of a colored woman wh who for many years ears was as the cook of l us- us sell Sa Sage i About twenty years rears ago go I engaged him hint a as aa a a model but soo becam became be be- i came cam suspicious He did n not t hav l the tho Indian face I 0 v Wa Was Apache i One fOne day I saw sticking out from froni his forehead an el elastic loop I le leaned ined forward and gave that elastic elastic- such a avi vi vigorous orous jerk that I scalped h hint then and tl these there ele In an instant I saw paw that he was a oa negro ro and told him so H Hj Had Had- ad- ad h his s iii ih was a negro ro but said his fa father was wa a full full- blooded seminole One morning in the early part of 1888 I entered mv Iny studio to 1 find nd that I. I some thief had sto en The Buffalo Signal Signal Signal Sig nal which I had catalogued as worth 1200 2200 located the painting g which my my model had pawned for 35 3 03 Tony Teny was arrested It wa was then that I learned l Terms Term's was a neg by the name of Simpson who c l d for Mrs Russell Sage Sag Mrs Sag sent for me and asked me to withdraw tho the char charge 3 J declined and Tony was sent sentenced sen sen- t to two t years rears in Sing Slug Sing |