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02 - Dread Apache- That Early-Day Scourge of the Southwest by Merrill Pingree Freeman · Dread Apache- That Early-Day Scourge of the Southwest

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  Speaker 1: Section two of the dread Apache, The Early Day Scourge
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  Speaker 1: of the Southwest by doctor Merle Pingree Freeman. This libre
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  Speaker 1: box recording is in the public domain. Judge Macomas and
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  Speaker 1: wife murdered through little boy taken from Gaslow Ranch. It
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  Speaker 1: is scarcely more than a quarter of a century March
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  Speaker 1: eighteen eighty three since Judge Macomas, his wife, and their
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  Speaker 1: little son, Charlie, about seven years of age, coming from
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  Speaker 1: Silver City, New Mexico, to Lordsburg, were ambushed by a
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  Speaker 1: band of Apaches from San Carlos. The judge and his
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  Speaker 1: wife killed and poor little Charlie carried off to the
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  Speaker 1: Sierra Madres in Mexico were a few years later, an
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  Speaker 1: Apache squaw reported that on their camp being attacked by
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  Speaker 1: United States troops, Charlie, being frightened, ran off into the mountains,
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  Speaker 1: where he is supposed to have died of hunger and exposure.
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  Speaker 1: On July third, eighteen eighty five, Frank Peterson, who was
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  Speaker 1: carrying the United States mail between Crittenden and Lochiel, was
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  Speaker 1: killed by the Indians while returning from Lochiel to Crittenden.
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  Speaker 1: A sad feature in connection with this killing was that
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  Speaker 1: he had just been married. Doctor Davis shot to death
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  Speaker 1: on June third, eighteen eighty six. Doctor C. H. Davis,
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  Speaker 1: a brother of W. C. Davis of Tucson, coming from
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  Speaker 1: the San Pedro River over the pass between the Catalinas
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  Speaker 1: and the Rencons with a wagon and span of mules,
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  Speaker 1: was waylaid and killed by a band of these outlaws, J. P.
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  Speaker 1: Hohuzen and W. H. Wheaton, coming from their homes on
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  Speaker 1: the San Pedro. The Davo met doctor Davis going out
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  Speaker 1: and warned him against the Indians, but having been in
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  Speaker 1: the country but a short time, he failed to appreciate
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  Speaker 1: the danger and made light of the warning. It was
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  Speaker 1: subsequently learned that Hohussan and Wheaton narrowly escaped the same
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  Speaker 1: band themselves as they were coming into Tucson. When Hohussan
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  Speaker 1: returned home, he learned from his man that the Indians
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  Speaker 1: had been at his place the night before the killing
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  Speaker 1: of Davis, and attempted to drive off some of his
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  Speaker 1: horses from the pasture. But the man, seizing his rifle,
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  Speaker 1: jumped into a well which was partly caved in, and
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  Speaker 1: which naturally furnished him an excellent defensive position, and from
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  Speaker 1: this he fired at the Indians, but without apparent effect
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  Speaker 1: other than to force them to leave the place. After
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  Speaker 1: the killing of doctor Davis, the Indians, taking the two mules,
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  Speaker 1: went to Walter Vale's Happy Valley ranch in the Rincons,
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  Speaker 1: where they left the mules in exchange for a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of Vale's horses. Shooting but not killing cal Matthews, the herder.
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  Speaker 1: From Happy Valley, they passed south into the Whetstones, where
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  Speaker 1: they shot and killed Marcus Goldbaum. Edward L. Vale, one
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  Speaker 1: of the party, going out to the scene of the killing,
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  Speaker 1: found that the Indians had been gone but a few hours,
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  Speaker 1: having also killed a partner of goldbamb as he was
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  Speaker 1: en route to Benson. Little boy taken from Costello ranch.
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  Speaker 1: It was not long prior to this that a band
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  Speaker 1: working from the Sierra Madres to the San Carlos Reservation
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  Speaker 1: attacked the ranch of Juan Costello, not over fifteen miles
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  Speaker 1: from Tucson, near Tank Verde, and carried off with them
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  Speaker 1: a little Mexican boy. The news coming to town, a
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  Speaker 1: volunteer company was immediately formed by M. G. Semenego, now
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  Speaker 1: dead and R. In Leatherwood R. Bob Semenego, having had
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  Speaker 1: a brother killed by the Apaches a few years before,
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  Speaker 1: was more than keen for an opportunity to avenge his death.
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  Speaker 1: The volunteer company, led by Leatherwood and Semenago, came upon
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  Speaker 1: the band encamped in the neighborhood of tang Verde. The Indians, however,
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  Speaker 1: being alarmed by the premature firing of a gun, scattered
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  Speaker 1: like a flock of quail and got away, but the
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  Speaker 1: boy escaping was recovered by the volunteers. On another occasion,
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  Speaker 1: a band killing a rancher named Lloyd four miles north
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  Speaker 1: of Pantano, stole the horses of Edvale and George Schofield
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  Speaker 1: near Rosemont, and passing on south, killed a man named
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  Speaker 1: Whimple near Greaterville. End of Section two.