Roman Chiquito inherits the valor of his…

chunk 698 · paragraph 542

tte,” the last great war chief of the Mescaleros and the nephew of “San Juan” the late great peace chief of that tribe. Cadette led five hundred Mescalero warriors on the war path; San Juan led them to cultivate the soil, live in houses and send their children to school. Roman Chiquito inherits the valor of his grandfather and the progressive ideas of his uncle. From his boyhood the voice and ex- ample of Roman Chiquito were always found on the side of peace ; and when Victorio, sweep- ing down like a whirlwind on the unprotected settlements of southern New Mexico deluged our soil with the blood of three hundred slaugh- tered citizens, it was Roman Chiquito who rode day and night to warn the settlers in the vicinity of the White and Sacramento mountains of their impending danger. When Victorio defeated Hatch and whip- ped the ninth cavalry at San Andreas, it was Roman Chiquito who tenderly nursed and cared for his friend. Captain Henry Carrol, of the Ninth Cavalry, when that gallant officer was shot through the body, a victim of Hatch’s “su- perior generalship.”