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08 - 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 eight of the Dread Apache That Early Day Scourge
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  Speaker 1: of the Southwest by doctor Merle Pingree Freeman. This libribox
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  Speaker 1: recording is in the public domain Stoicism of Indian through
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  Speaker 1: Clark Vow's Vengeance Stoicism of Indian. The following incident shows
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  Speaker 1: something of the character of these ishmaelites of the desert.
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  Speaker 1: On one occasion, five of them had been tried at
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  Speaker 1: Florence for the killing of someone in the Superstition Mountains,
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  Speaker 1: and sentenced to be hanged the night previous to the
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  Speaker 1: day of the hanging. While in their cells with the
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  Speaker 1: death watch outside, three of them, to avoid the ignomy
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  Speaker 1: of death by hanging, committed suicide by self strangulation. This
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  Speaker 1: they could do only by each putting a cord around
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  Speaker 1: his neck and deliberately choking himself to death. The three
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  Speaker 1: were found dead in the morning when the guards entered
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  Speaker 1: their cells. Of course, it is not possible to recall
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  Speaker 1: the names of all of the many whose lives were
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  Speaker 1: sacrifice to the safety and prosperity of the great commonwealth
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  Speaker 1: that was to follow. But I have in mind that
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  Speaker 1: on June seventh, eighteen eighty six, Thomas Hunt, a prospector
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  Speaker 1: was killed near Harshaw And on June nine of the
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  Speaker 1: same year, Henry Baston was killed near Arvica. On September
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  Speaker 1: twenty two, eighteen eighty eight, W. B. Horton, post trader
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  Speaker 1: at San Carlos, was killed by one of the Indians
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  Speaker 1: on the reservation. But in this case punishment was swift,
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  Speaker 1: as the Indian police almost immediately killed the murderer while
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  Speaker 1: he was attempting to escape from the reservation. Walapie Clark
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  Speaker 1: and the Kid, one of our early frontier characters was E. A. Clark,
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  Speaker 1: familiarly known as Wallapie, having gained the title years ago
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  Speaker 1: when in the government service as chief of the Hulapie Scouts.
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  Speaker 1: Clark was a giant in stature, measuring six feet three,
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  Speaker 1: absolutely fearless and in those olden times equally tireless. Coming
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  Speaker 1: to the territory in sixty nine, his life and experiences
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  Speaker 1: here would fill a volume of intensely interesting reading. But
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  Speaker 1: in this limited article I can mention only a few
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  Speaker 1: of his closing Indian experiences, the culminating one the one
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  Speaker 1: of the greatest service to the territory resulting in the
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  Speaker 1: death of that outlaw and terror of the border. This
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  Speaker 1: same Apache Kid. Clark's first experience with the Kid was
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  Speaker 1: on June three, eighteen eighty seven, two days after his
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  Speaker 1: shooting of al Cyber. At the time, Clark was living
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  Speaker 1: at his ranch, the Oak Grove in the galai Yura Mountains,
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  Speaker 1: about twelve miles east of the San Pedro River, but
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  Speaker 1: was absent, his two partners, John Scanland and William Deal
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  Speaker 1: being at home. The Kid and his followers, coming across
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  Speaker 1: the country from San Carlos, stole fifteen horses from William Atchley,
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  Speaker 1: then came on to Clark's place three miles further on.
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  Speaker 1: At the time, Deal was about a hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: yards from the house cutting some poles for a corral
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  Speaker 1: when Scanlan, who was in the house, heard three shots and,
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  Speaker 1: seizing his gun, ran out, and as he did so,
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  Speaker 1: saw three Indians coming towards the house and firing at them.
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  Speaker 1: They immediately sought shelter. When Scanland fired at the Indians,
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  Speaker 1: one of them lost a big somburrow which he was
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  Speaker 1: wearing and which probably very much to his regret, he
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  Speaker 1: was unable to recover. Then they rounded up a number
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  Speaker 1: of Scanland's horses not far away and seemingly tried to
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  Speaker 1: get Scanlon to come out to protect his horses and
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  Speaker 1: thus enable them to get a shot at him, but
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  Speaker 1: being unable to do this, they left, taking the horses
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  Speaker 1: with them. As soon as they had gone, Scanlan went
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  Speaker 1: to where Deal was and found him dead, the Indians
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  Speaker 1: having shot him. Clark vows vengeance. Clark, returning home a
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  Speaker 1: day or two later, and finding his partner dead, vowed
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  Speaker 1: vengeance on the kid, and this several years later he
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  Speaker 1: found opportunity to gratify a few months later. Clark and Scanlon,
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  Speaker 1: having occasion to be away, left a young engineer, j A. Mercer,
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  Speaker 1: at the house with a caution to be on the
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  Speaker 1: lookout for the Indians. Soon after, Mercer discovered three of
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  Speaker 1: them crawling up towards the house, but was in time
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  Speaker 1: to seize a rifle and fire at them, and as
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  Speaker 1: he did so, they broke and ran. However, they took
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  Speaker 1: five of Clark's horses in exchange for three of their own,
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  Speaker 1: which they killed before leaving. For several years, Clark impatiently
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  Speaker 1: bited his time to him The mills of the gods
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  Speaker 1: were indeed grinding slowly, but they were grinding, and the
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  Speaker 1: time was approaching when the grists should be delivered. In
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  Speaker 1: the meantime, the kid was continuing to lengthen his trail
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  Speaker 1: of blood. Now here, now there, the wily outlaw was
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  Speaker 1: ever at his work a murder here today he has
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  Speaker 1: heard of one hundred miles away tomorrow, leaving a trail
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  Speaker 1: behind him, marked by where he had changed his mount
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  Speaker 1: by the stealing of a new one at some ranch,
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  Speaker 1: leaving his old one dead in exchange. This was his practice,
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  Speaker 1: killing the animal he might leave by stabbing in the side,
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  Speaker 1: thus avoiding the sacrifice of any of his ammunition, which
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  Speaker 1: he could ill afford to lose. Being an outlaw with
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  Speaker 1: his own people, he found it difficult to replenish his
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  Speaker 1: bill and of section eight