They had a cattle roping tournament as a…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

will not soon forget. They had a cattle roping tournament as a part of their fourth of July celebration at Solo- monville, Arizona, and Billy Birchfield, a Dem- ing boy, took the first prize, fifty dollars ; aggre- gate time, one minute and eleven seconds in tying three steers. The Apache Indian prisoners, shipped to Fort Wingate after the abandonment of Fort Union, attempted to make a break for liberty the other evening, their intentions, however, were frustrated by a troop of cavalry being deployed around their camp, and all secured and confined in the post guard house. They will be transferred to Mount Vernon barracks, Alabama, in a few days. — Elk. Chas. Dickens and Mark Hopkins, Apache Indian boys who have been students at the Ra- mona school, left last week for Carlisle school, where they will remain for a year or two. Prof. Chase is proud of these two boys. They were among the Geronimo sympathizers who were sent from San Carlos to Fort Union, and a year ago they were brought to Santa Fe in shackles and turned over to the training of Ramona. They at once displayed deep interest in their studies and have so far progressed as to warrant sending them to a higher school.