| Show JIM MAHONE BIG BRAVE PENSION jim mahone one ot of the big walla pal braves who came here from se ligman to attend the Wal lapal cry Is seeking a pension mahone is 13 now an old indian and should be recognize rec ed by the government for the able services he performed during the apache wars he was with crook in many of the important engagements of the later seventies and tor for years carried a letter from gen crook which stated that the bearer jim ma hone had been with him as scout in many campaigns and was the bravest man he ever knew mahone was very proud of this letter but it probably became lost during the years that have passed since it was written nevertheless jim mahone was all that crook said he was and more no man could face death more un flinch angly than he and during the year that he served the army in the field against ast the worst toe foe the whites had ever known mahone was unafraid and did his perilous duties without a murmur he also had a letter from general miles who succeeded crook during the campaign against gero gera nimo owing to the long lapse of time and the deaths of nearly all the old timers who knew his war record mahone Is having a hard time ob kalning the necessary affidavits from those who were here in those earls and trying days kineman miner |
