| Show APACHES WORST INDIANS lUlled Killed Mexicans With ll Arrows row Sn Saving In lag Bullets for Americans Scarcely a tribe ot of our American Indians hut but n what have ha c their record of or crime and Infamy high up upon upon Upon on history's wall wal yet el above them all aU Is the Apaches Apaches From Front 1540 to 1853 1863 New Spain an arid and Mexico carried on omm a called so-called so-cled so warfare with wih these people The Apaches were vastly nty outnumbered by tho the Mexican soldiery but what they lacked In numbers numbers num num- bers was than made up In courage courage cour cour- age ge aT and ad craftiness The Apache ever er had a thorough contempt t for tOl the thc Mexican Mexican Mex Mex- ican soldier and In later years ears when they were fighting with wih firearms as aswell well vell wel as arrows the they would not waste cartridges on tho the Mexicans but would I kill ki them with wih arrows spears an and stones saving their cartridges for other and more worthy worth foes foes When this southwest sl region became a part of the United States the Apaches were a serious problem with which we had to contend Our government government gov gov- vacillated between a simperIng simper simper- In log Ing peace policy and the other extreme extreme ex ex- ex- ex tome their extermination Th Their lr zone of ot wandering being in intersected hum In- by b the International boundary boundary bound bound- ar ary line lne further complicated matters maters The They would raid rall down Into Mexico and then rush back with wih the plunder to our side of the line lne out of ot reach of the pursuing soldiers Next ext It I would be a 0 raid rid on tho the side and a n Into the time wild wil mountains of Sonora Sonora The Mexican government attempted to a assist their miserable army almy by giving a I scalp bounty and amid for years year thc they paid out their gol gold coin for COr Apache scalps Scalp hunting Scalp be became became be- be came camo a recognized Industry The herror horror horror hor her of this was that to the thc Mexican of official of- of tidal alt all al scalps looked alike whether from the head bead of a hostile hostle or a n friendly Indian Time The price was for a aman aman man 50 GO for fOl a woman and 25 for a child It I is small smal wonder that the tho tribe sank deeper into sava M a oy Iy than ever eer when we stop to think that themen the ilme hemen men knew know there was a price set Fet on the scalps of or their wives and to and there theme was a horde of 11 human man fiends fends white in color but i. 11 avage av- av vage v- v age than the savage who were seme hunting them thorn as the they would a cougar o of the tho mountains Magazine |
