Show LG S tories 0 e s J j GREAT EA T INDIANS N A wn B by EL ELMO mo SCOTT co WATSON s t 1922 western newspaper New paper union COCHISE WHO TRUSTED ONLY ONE WHITE MAN TF r THE white man believed all I 1 apaches red devils it will be interesting terest te ilig to know opinion ot of his pale faced brothers it could not have been high back in 1837 a party of trappers invited some of his people to a feast and then calmly murdered them the governor of chihuahua was of offering for every apache scalp and the trappers needed money but cochise had a more personal grievance ile he had been friendly to the americans until 1801 when he went into an army camp I 1 under ander a flag of truce to deny that his people the Chirl cahuas had stolen a white boy the council was a long one and the officer in command became convinced that cochise and his chiefs were lying turning to a sergeant he snapped arrest deml in a second the council tent was a whirlpool of action co alses brother was killed hilled and four chiefs made prisoner C cut his way through the canvas tent and escaped in the darkness with three bullets in his body bodi As tor for the four chiefs they were hanged cochise went on the warpath karpath war path in the words of capt john G bourke for the next ten tell years he made art arl rona and new mexico and the northern parts of sonora and chihuahua about the liveliest places on gods footstool the account it if put down by a treasury ex expert perti would read something like this dr the united states to cochise Coch lse to one brother killed maille resisting arrest cr by ten thousand men bomell and children killed wounded or tortured to death seared scared out of their senses or driven out of the country their wagons or pack trains destroyed st ranches burned and all industrial development stopped but there was one white man whom cochise respected this was capt thomas jonathan jeffords owner of a freighting outfit had burned jeffords wagon trains and in retaliation tile the captain had killed many apache warriors finally deciding that it was was time for a truce jeffords Jef forda boldly entered stronghold in the dragoon mountains and convinced the astonished chief that both would benefit by calling off on their war so they made mada a verbal peace treaty and became warm friends later through Jefford sr influence cochise settled upon a reservation there june 8 1871 1874 he died aled peacefully a singular anticlimax anti antl climax to the career of a man whose warlike activities had once devastated an empire Cuti cura for sore sere hands soak hands on retiring in the hot suds ot of Cuti cura soap dry and rub la in cu cicura ointment remove surplus ointment with tissue paper this Is only one ot of the things Cuti cura will do it if soap ointment and talcum are used tor for all toilet purposes advertisement |