One night the Indians crossed just below…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

pest, which Uncle Sam’s boys seemed unable to do. One night the Indians crossed just below Duncan, and rounding up what stock they could, headed for Carlisle. The news telegraphed to Clifton, and some of the boys from the Copper camp there came down on an engine. ( 51 ) The cowboys got together and secured mounts for about forty and started for Carlisle. All that night they beat about in the Mayflower district. They cut the trail of the Apaches, but not before they had killed two miners, and fol- lowed them rapidly. The Apaches doubled and divided into two parties, one crossing above and the other below Duncan and uniting in the hills west of the Gila. The cowboys kept on and struck their trail at Horseshoe canyon, and after a three days and three nights’ ride came up with them just about dusk in Doubtful canyon, near Stein’s peak. The fight was a hot one while it lasted. After it was all over Little Doubtful was found hiding like a young quail under a bush and taken back to Duncan, where he is growing up to give Uncle Sam’s troops some valuable exercise in the future. GRAND FOURTH OF JULY BALL We guarantee everybody will have a first- class time, the best of order will prevail and the best of company will be in attendance. John Sharman, W. H. Twomey, John Gillett, Milt Warner, floor managers.