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Show Indian Scouts With Pershing on French Front EL PASO, Tex., July 21. Indian scouts, mentioned in today's dis-patches, dis-patches, from the American army on ! the Marne, are Apaches, recruited from the White Mountain reservation of eastern Arizona. Many of them had been acquainted with the mountains, .deserts and trails of Chihuahua since the Geronimo campaign and were obtained by General Gen-eral Pershing in 1D16 when he went into Mexico after Francisco Villa ana his followers, following the attack by Villa on Columbus, N. M. A company of the Apaches was gathered gath-ered at Fort Apache, Arizona. Tho Indians, In-dians, garbed in their picturesque tribal tri-bal costumes and mounted on their own ponies, rode forty miles to the Santa Fe railroad at Holbrook, Ariz., held a war dance all night and entrained en-trained the following morning for Columbus, Co-lumbus, where they were given regulation regu-lation army uniforms. All were provided pro-vided with wrist watches, which they prized highly. The scout company did effective work in Mexico, both in trailing bandits ban-dits and in engaging them when encountered. en-countered. When Brigadier General Howze, in the expedition, was promt-ed promt-ed colonel from the lower rank, the Indians hammered out the eagles, his insignia, from Mexican silver dullars. When the expedition came out of Mexico, Mex-ico, the Indians, mounted on muleft. received a great ovation, which tJ s received with their customary stoicism. stoic-ism. When tho expeditionary forces went to France the Indian scouts manifested manifest-ed a willingness to go along to hunt Germans, and General Pershing took them with him. |