Apache raids & frontier conflict

bloody battles and massacres known to Indian war- fare. Soldiers, citizens and Indians met frequent- ly, almost under the shadow of the walls of Cummings, and some of the most desperate conflicts rec…

…way without furnishing the particulars of some brutal, blood curdling massacre, and Cook’s canyon will always be referred to with a shudder by those familiar with the scenes en- acted in its dark and bloody passage. Little reck we who live in sight…

…etter move their families a long distance from the agency, as a great massacre was certain. The half breeds are showing us what they think of this information by getting their families out of here with a rush. The government herder, John Dwyer, and iss…

…ered, through their Indian friends of years standing, that a raid and massacre has been fully decided upon and maturely planned. General Miles is thoroughly conversant with all these facts, and himself says that our situa- tion is extremely critical. Ther…

…tter move their families a long distance from the agency, as a great massacre was certain. The half breeds are showing us what they think of this information by getting their families out of here with a rush. The government herder, John Dwyer, and…

…red, through their Indian friends of years standing, that a raid and massacre has been fully decided upon and maturely planned. General Miles is thoroughly conversant with all these facts, and himself says that our situa- tion is extremely critical.…

…in receipt of news from southwestern Arizona that the White Mountain Apaches are very uneasy, and it is feared they will go on the war path. They are having much trouble among themselves.

…sleeping Mexicans, who rushed to Solomonville with the tale that the Apaches were on the warpath. A posse was at once formed and investigation disclosed the fore- going facts.

…t they were never more quiet nor doing better work than at present, Apaches as well as Tontos, Yumas and Mohaves.

…in receipt of news from southwestern Arizona that the White Mountain Apaches are very uneasy, and it is feared they will go on the war path. They are having much trouble among themselves.

…in receipt of news from southwestern Arizona that the White Mountain Apaches are very uneasy, and it is feared they will go on the war path. They are having much trouble among themselves. This morning Deputy Marshal Frank Por- ter came in from t…

…they were never more quiet nor doing better work than at present, Apaches as well as Tontos, Yumas and Mohaves. — Democrat. WILL BE SHOT A late El Paso telegram states that Bob Clayton, who, in company with Dr. W. S. Bolton, shot and killed J…

…their White Mountain fastness where they were preparing for a gen- eral massacre. Through his earnest persuasions they were induced to abstain from war, return to the agency and rely upon the good faith of the government to redress their wongs ; a hope, i…

…en removed to Fort Riley in Kansas. How he escaped with three other Apaches from prison, how they found their way back to the Mescalero reservation, a distance of twelve hun- dred miles, without being seen by a white man enroute, is the subject of th…

“There were four of us,” said he, “all Mes- calero Apaches; every day the soldiers would march us out to work; there were hundred sol- diers, thousand soldiers ; when Apache no work hard, soldiers hit him with gun, say ‘d— n Apache’.…

…e raw. Roman tells how they added a hog to their commissary although Apaches have a su- perstitious objection to pork. It must have been at an isolated station on the railroad in Kansas. “It was dark,” said Roman, “we come to one house, all dark and…

…s sand in a man to try and stand off single- handed forty or fifty Apaches, when he knows how the scrap will end, and that the end will be his own death. But that was just the kind of sand that Felix Knox had when he was killed by the Apaches…

…driver to whip them back to the ranch, and that he would stand the Apaches off. As the wagon turned and was furiously driven away, the Apaches, who now came in sight, fired a volley, but killed no one. Then Knox faced his foes and pumped the lea…

…eir White Mountain fastness where they were preparing for a gen- eral massacre. Through his earnest persuasions they were induced to abstain from war, return to the agency and rely upon the good faith of the government to redress their wongs ; a hope…

…n removed to Fort Riley in Kansas. How he escaped with three other Apaches from prison, how they found their way back to the Mescalero reservation, a distance of twelve hun- dred miles, without being seen by a white man enroute, is the subject of…

…serve his style. “There were four of us,” said he, “all Mes- calero Apaches; every day the soldiers would march us out to work; there were hundred sol- diers, thousand soldiers ; when Apache no work hard, soldiers hit him with gun, say ‘d— n Apach…

…raw. Roman tells how they added a hog to their commissary although Apaches have a su- perstitious objection to pork. It must have been at an isolated station on the railroad in Kansas. “It was dark,” said Roman, “we come to one house, all dark…

…om the May 15. 1891, Issue of The Enterprise HE HAD SAND Even the Apaches Respected Him and Did Not Mutilate His Body From the Arizona Republican. We were sitting one night at a freighter’s campfire, around which were drawn a score or more of t…

…sand in a man to try and stand off single- handed forty or fifty Apaches, when he knows how the scrap will end, and that the end will be his own death. But that was just the kind of sand that Felix Knox had when he was killed by the Apa…

es from Clifton, all right, but were told there that signs of Apaches had been seen, and that they had better go into camp there for a few days, but Knox, who had fought the Apaches dozens of times and didn’t know what fear was, said he…