Show 4 11 i I 1 i 6 1 1 FORGOTTEN 0 HEROES 9 BY y eimo elmo scott watson I 1 1 1 4 4 u Coch lc friend IN TN 1 there came to 0 o the terri 1 tory of arizona a candy ruddy bearded giant named capt T J jeffords ex steamboat coptain on the ex stage coach driver on the butterfield line osbo engaged as cis a free trader fligh the indilla In Jiani from whom he picked op up some knowledge kno uledge of the apache tan ian next axt be took oe a lub sub contract from tho the Batter fields for carrying the tile niall mail liet between licen silver city and I 1 luma uma ilia ills mail route ran through the heart of the apache cOull country tri acre Coch cochic lie the great war chief of the had find declared undoing vengeance against the captain jeffords boon soon realized that his line was uns doomed to failure unless something could be done about the apaches to try to con quer beia by force was out of the ill stion the she only other chance chanc e was diplomacy known everywhere us nn an utterly fearless man and ani one who never broke a promise captain jeffords believed that cochise was of the same caliber so he arranged for a meeting with the chief and agreed to ride alone and unarmed into cochise ses a strong bold hold but bettor ds took the chance and was uns so impressed by the nu an of the white roan man that he would not permit his warriors to in jure the captain then the two men got down to business pointing out the fact that the constant fighting was costing the lives of both white men and end indians jeffords made a strong plea for peace between them it cochise would leave his mall car biers alone he in turn would male no effort efort to harm the apaches this meeting ons as the beginning of a strange stran gt friendship which was to male make the name of jeffords known throughout the southwest 11 hen president grant sent gen 0 0 howard to m mike mile ile peace with the apaches after the army bed failed to subdue them it was captain jef fords who took general howard un arniel armed and accompanied only by his tide captain into C for a ca conference ference with that chief the people of arizona howards rewards mission a one and said that he would never co cotie cone ne back alive gut but jeffords Jel lords knew that the apache chief having baying given his word not to barm harm the general pe would beep keep it IL the result was a treaty of peace pence which cochise act until his death an ani the credit of bringing to an end for a time the reign of teror geror by the apaches in the southwest wua was due to the efforts of one brave man who alwa always a kept hept his word we had a fight TOR directness and conciseness in r telling a thrilling tale of high adventure adren aden ture lure you can I 1 beat the lie united staled states ermy officers of the old in dian than fighting d ays in the dust covered flies files of the atar department at washington Is the story of a bat tie tle as told by capt L L williams illiams of the birst oregon infantry which took tool place on sillies river la in oregon in lie ile starts out by say in ing to th tip commanding Off iier sir I 1 have the honor to report that we had a fight with the indians which commenced at noon septem ber 23 and ended at 7 p m then he lie goes on to relate in a matter of tact fact way the story ot of that day captain williams ams had set out with a detachment of 12 men to cut wild hay tiny rol lofting a fresh indian trail trall leading toward harneys lake hey they discovered a small party of indians a mile an away ay and gae gaie chase vier a pursuit of sean miles orae ome mounted appeared and bore the fugl fugi thes away I 1 ut the indians soon reappeared eared greatly reinforced and immediately a body of mounted indians rode hard to us circling us and firing into our ranis ranks laws or dered a retreat toward a mountain but the savages cut them thora oft from their objective there was but one alternative to turn directly right travel parallel to the mountain an I 1 make tor for selvius river five miles away finally they reached the river slaked their thirst and started up the valley ill under continuous tre fre two men were wounded and lad ad to be helped along by their comrades at sundown the camp BBS vias still four tour miles ausy a and as coon soon as it was dark darl the indians set fire fre to the grass gross across their the line of march then managed to break breal through but finding that thy would be silhouetted against the V blimes lines and an easy target for the in vains fire are they had hod to ba backtrack and travel five miles away from camp ve we then made a large circle sue cess fully reaching our camp at 2 a BI in having traveled 45 lilies afoot without rest without food with one dink hill d ink of water and wing I 1 ing been is t fler der fire tor for oer seven hours by in alons who outnumbered us bis six or to one it Is certain we killed 15 indians and wounded a number as well as horses and all this capt 1 L 4 L IN gillams summed up in n his first sentence sea tence e had a 0 hv a 1 estem ct ero News DaDer union I 1 |