The Terrible Fate of the Apache Renegade Known as "The Kid"

Earlier, at Deming, sixty bucks, squaws and papooses were en route to Fort Union to be “eddicated”; among that lot was the Kid’s family, who had been committing depredations in Arizona ^[1]. An officer in command gave it out cold that there were seven Apaches on the war path, besides the renegades in Old Mexico ^[1].

Captain Keys, a veteran Indian chaser, reported to the *Liberal* that his head scout believed the two Indians they pursued down in the Hatchets were none other than the Kid and an old man ^[2]. These two fiends had waylaid two unfortunate souls, stripping them of several hundred dollars and taking a saddle from one victim named Williams ^[2]. For miles they rode, carelessly scattering pieces of leather cut into circles and stars, as if amusing themselves ^[2]. Indeed, the Kid is evidently pretty well civilized to want a pillow on a killing expedition ^[2]. Captain Keys received notice from Colonel Bliss at Fort Bayard that thirty days’ rations had been sent, and he was instructed to go to Alamo Viejo and scout for Indians; he left for there Sunday morning ^[2].