Show oooo oooo I 1 DICK I 1 I 1 the tb story tory of a ai abbt ba SOY 0 the writer owe owes to dick hayl a it debt not exactly of gratitude in a tie me story atu will demonstrate which she by 67 writ ing inc hi hia biography aks to discharge dick buyl a history will never dever be writ ten by me cor nor by any one e eba we who be knew him to adorn adom a sunday bunday sch school 00 I 1 if 11 arary be re wa wait not that kind of 0 boy dick was u an 10 apache indian with all he lie characteristics of total depravity bat that the th word apache conveys or sag ug seata beit we were children together dick and L I 1 we lived fought andalay and play td d together tor for two rear vars in the aam same troy army poet POOL on on memorable wes loa don dick by the devil devit tor for I 1 apsoly believe la in UK the dell if only tor for hotchee se dropped down the tb deck of uy la rock track coat ft a UT toad it wr vas the cam of ay my first fit lit ot hyst erfe and I 1 determined if it I 1 ever grew grow old enough I 1 would tell the whole what world bow bid bad ft a young rows apache could be la in 1372 it if I 1 remember tightly rightly central crook bad had succeeded locce eded after year years ot f bloody war lad and the th lou low of hundreds of t food men in tub dula mot most of the band hands competing composing the th apache nation of new NOW mexico and arizona Ar liona they bad dwelt in the stron of mountain and dehert from which they frequently emerged to rob and murder all into or n or emigrant emigrants that they could km am buh bush twins leaving nothing for the human mind to conceive of or in tha the way of cru elty city whenever a white man fell into their power at the reservation although they were well fed and mad quite decently treated it wai was Deceia ate ary to watch the them constantly conita aUy and larce large bodies of troops won detailed tor for that purpose never scarcely carcy a week passed but a small squad of apaches Apa chea usually led by some attractive attract lv squaw would alip alp quietly pait peat the gardi guards aad and escape the tb into their beloved cactus owns and mountain bubul bar reDi roll call nearly every morning dotel devel aped these benac ben tc ud and next day would come news of murder rapine aad and horror horrors sene eBe rall rally v A favorite fiT apache mod of dipoto dl poto of the un suspecting freighter miner or deml crant grant whole boat camp they bad had succeeded la 14 reiding wai was to tie the victim by the four to take and thea then ta to build a an clr on that portion of bli his body besig dated la in the old fashioned aa as alro rl ro there heaed road to be some abde DO par ticul arly fascinating to tb the apache temperament la in thu this tonn form of at toner torture death being abeln lone long la in coming conita fc it gar pro the squads and papoose osel plenty of chance to larent invent small torment oo 00 the ida aide u it were the women and children emigrant emigrants but Boti Bough but oce ace it to bay that the absolute abio loto hatred entertained by these indians for the th whites waa wait folly fully reciprocated especial ly by the soldiers eol dlen it was wa no easy matter to track aad am successfully to tot low the runaway runaways through the cactus and mesquite thickets over the barren deserts and demolat dee olat mount that make mak a op up be the topography of bat but la to that parched country water li Is only tobo to b found una at centala and ad water hot between which ay of travel 0 often intervene but which are equally well wall knows known to soldiers and to indians bo lo when the morning maiming report bowed showed to general crook that ao so many war flora more squads and pa papoose pooles oie were no feel at the re cria old warrior would make milk no so lip of pursuit bat but oa on the of bight slit ful fullow lowine or perhaps the next one a u 1 d m of mounted b men would oto e alog aan d file bently nt 1 y 0 out ut of tao ovation belair being bearing orders to mote move aa as rapidly ai as poe po albl to the water hole bole of palo pinto or to agna APA grand or to some other place where the presence of the precious pre cloa flum farond favored a caio place tor for the rene renegades gades the troop troops were always positively Tely instructed to bring back no prisoners all matten mattere of detail being left to the officers la in corn mand d one jun moraine there were reported mining missing 8 indian indians and 11 squads and including wah web demo semo than then whom a more depraved and true arnel indian dever existed even in to arl aona was two night nights afterward a quad of the twenty third infantry crook 2 own regiment tinder under lieutenant a splendid young fellow who has ha give loc Is left ft the service wt was sort out on a cout scout with the usual order orders no trace of fit the renegade wa was found but a burned ranch such and stage station and gad a cremated cowboy tare gave sufficient erl art dene deoc of indian at st largo let T tle next night t or rather jut just at dawn down after a long and god fitt fatiguing gUing march the a couf couts wined a natural mk bula at the loot toot of one of the and most inaccessible knob knobs to be found in dee des otate arisona Art sona till basin bad often collected a supply of at acrid water which boetter wa was drinkable enough in that country A thin TAPO ir of smoke mok rom a nearly pent spent IN convinced the trooper troopers that their nights maru man I 1 bad got dot been la 12 rala TAID and on 00 creeping 9 as a doe close aa As possible the hostile were outlined against the rocks boci fait fast asleep the little squad squadron rom alit may deployed out BO go ai go to bold farold missing a tingle single ehat and gad at the W word ord tt command and killing nearly very every one on of the indiana the others jumped bp up only to be cut down by the tills ros alre the only two unhurt were won and his hi 4 year old papoose oae ga the child be lie I 1 prang tor for the tb m mountain ou etain side ik alani the rock rocks like a it amail mid 6 how show or r of bullet ballets own oon br his I 1 par luen suen and getting oat out of range of tin rifle halting hitting on a ahelf shelf of rock be he not et the as child down anil and PW proceeded wed to indulge inthe inas la in ewy every exhibition of contempt and demon derision that bit imagination imagined on coald could invent to aggravate the discomfited MM M M bg wind ahalt abill wm gets et of teeth in rage mils it at the insults of 0 the th old heathen bt hn they mm were relieved at lift last by the arrival of 0 lieutenant leuyl who bore ID in bli his band a new target rifle ride received only the dy day be before tore the scouts started tar ted this wonderful gun wai was guaranteed luar to carry I 1 torget forget 1100 yarda yards with aora cartey aad d t the h 1 lieutenant 1 e u t en la t w who h 0 wl wai L s one of n t tb the 0 beet bea t fe fellow 1 1 0 w s la in t the be w world 0 ald t la a garrison biti alion but quite cold hearted and od bloodthirsty where apaches wire were con ceded announced that while be was w doubtful ot of bli his gun carrying near the indian yet he wa was going to try the apache feeling lecure secure against their carbine carbines continued his hi taunt taunts nuta ithyl taking deliberate aim with tight lights raised tor for I 1 BOO yarda fired ills aim alm wa was true and the gun am all that it was a boasted the old mage savage plunged face ace forward oter over the ledge and crash ed down the tt rocky mountain side at the very tet feet of bli big layer slayer the th attention ka of the soldiers wr was now directed to the papoose the tub sub eject ot of this sketch that interesting infant still calmly occupied toe the ledge and wai was evidently turning the boltus lion ow over la to his mind the broo trooper gem with lieutenant duyl at their be bead lowly and painfully clambered up the rock rocks and anally finally approached the orphan who instead of squal equalling ling ae as a el villA christian child would hart have done dons immen ced throwing botones at his hi pursuers bitting hitting lieutenant ithyl or jakely on the nose with a half bait pound rock and drawing blood copiously he its followed this success by other good throw throws causing its a nearly a panic pluto AS a possible at lait list by flanking him our out apache wa was knocked down by a blow from hom a labor saber and stunned itu nned HIS HI capture captors WM WAS now DOW easy but the lieutenants order orders were to return BO to prisoner ioner I 1 what hall shall we do with the little devil lit T asked one of the men man shoot shoat him or throw him oter over the cliff after bli his fa the attle devil had bad regained retained consciousness by tal this time and dellget dell bet abely let set his teeth into the calf alf of the old lert lees leg lieutenant hayl wiped his hi bloody noe nose and replied 11 A baby who fight this way ought not dot to be killed la in cold blood by boie SO III take him back to baa ban carlo carlos it if it cou costs aie me my commissioner nr A gag WAS wa put into the young one 6 mouth to prevent any more biting and with a soldier holding each had be he wu was landed on the plain below there be he wu was on horseback bo a lariat tied to one foot food passed onder under the borie borse and led tied to the other and d blui us be the t rn ere returned to the reservation LIeuten lieutenant sat buy wr was a great gnat favorite W ith general crook but be he bad had disobeyed 0 orden orders and cond confidently dently expected to be put under arrest but the general lad already beard something of the tone tons throwing affair aud and bad had enjoyed a hearty laugh over hubli a broken ft when the lieutenant to in making bli his report reached the point where wai was killed the general in to bib hita with I 1 by the way I 1 think you had better not let mo we know officially any mora more of toll this scout than you bare already told then lancing glancing at the swollen noa nose he be bunt burst into a roar 0 of f laughter in which all the other abil cen tero joined the young indian wai wass conflated conf laed isell in the armory until his ant fright wai was tho overcome the soldiers of Clomp company any A named him dick buyl and fitting him out with a uniform fashioned from the a old clothes clo regularly adopted him into the service in IM less than a month the small recruit learned to express himself bly in english and in a very abort time had accumulated all the inesti of tobacco chewing and ty possessed by the soldiers lol dlen lie also picked up a wonderful knowledge f bugle call calls and evolutions always torn turn lug ing out q at roll call calls and taking abts place at fit the extreme left ot of hi the compa comps ny ily when in to line when I 1 first knew aim him be he had been n under n der the refining influence influences of the belted pelted state service two year if that indian bad improved in that time s I 1 am very glad I 1 did not know him before beto to re he n wu was not beautiful according to classic standards itan dards the apaches batten the heads of their babler between board boards and ad th as in boch a eb as a anything ele toe served to render dick unattractive to us u chit dren dron then he be hod bad uch such a predilection tor for carrying mate snakes in his bl pocket pockett tb the 00 idlers polled spoiled him of courts and upheld bet it him in every villainy be he chose to perpetrate when be he hot shot the mule in an 11 ambulance filled fined with women and children cb children Ildren causing a runaway and a smash up one soldier thrashed shod him with a barrel stave and a dosen down more gay gave him 6 5 cent piece pieces to comfort him blin they alternately pounded and petted but it WM was cl all one ono t to him U seldom lan laughed glied and never cried ile H wu was aa arache I 1 sold be dever cried I 1 will not dot an exception livery every saturday day afternoon the men took him out behind the quok ten term and gar gave him a bath both this wai was very s ruple they 4 off at his hi cl clothing ano tamed turned the tb bow how on him on the occa cat doa ions the shrieks of the tb utu sarop rge could tx be beard all oter over the tb pot post I 1 hare bare not been dick line since I 1 wu wt 0 9 years old but I 1 like uke to think that he V grew row a ap p and regularly enlisted in the old re regiment and toll la in now an honor to the service new york tribuna |