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ATTACKED BY APACHES fAn Adventure at Zcm. and were out on a raid. They As his companions watched bim to pass over a thouddBof vere coming now to butcher the from the housetop, they oroK ' EY JOHN WILLIS HATS V. S. Geographical Surrey, W3sHlngtont N. C In the northwestern corner of Kew Mexico, and nestling in one of 'the fertile valleys that dot i hose great deserts, is found the Indian village ot Zuni. Around n aro high table-lands and those ' bu i tea" so peculiar to the West, nnd not far away the horizon is bounded by the Zuni Mountains,a part of the great continental back bone. Emigrants have gradually f ettled wherever a fertile valley has invited a plough-share, or a grassy hill-aide a ranch, but this reservation for the most part has rsrnained intact. The village where the Zuni formerly dwelt was built upon the top of the butte which stands ne-ir by the reservation. It was a i impregnable strong-holctjand i r untold centuries these people !( hi it against the hostile tribes around thni. The meadows Jan the river at the foot of the i uti u supplied their wants with iif !e labor, and as fast as the har v st ripened, they were stowed . vr y ' i i . the 1 granaries ::t on the top of the mountain. Lut in their security they lost t ajir warlike qualities, and just im proportion as agriculture and to ruder arts progressed among t i -m. tiicv have grawn less sav age a nd more timid; T;;oir houses are built of etone v. iid u n -b.-tked brick,with the en-traiR-o through the roof, just as ! : ,v-ie a thousand years ago. ' ! ;u ?cholder climbs up upon r i i. Id -r, and then draws it after i. -h. i'ne dwellings were so conr trui:tt'd at 'first as a precaution a z ;u i x o mies, and even now vdih all the protection that the Fed raj Governnient can give i J 3 custom is otten useful, as the ; : : .vmg incident will show. ' ia August, 1881, a party of ye,':;.;:; m n connected with the IVriitor.ai .-urveys was stationed j-r wwks at this place. The ti -.y heiore their arrival a band ol maraud jug Mexicans had grossed i tin iiird-r, and made a raid upon r e .diccnt ranches, and driven iVA iy some ponies and cattle. T.io Zuni, having recovered from i ..oir in.iht as toon as the Hex- us disappeared with the booty, h i I ii-iatiiy summoned their white eigrhbnrs, and were organ izing lor pursuit. st mere were only a lew good weapons in the whole party, end when the young men arrived with their rifles and heavy revolver they were requested to lend them to the Zuni Indians during the lew days necessary for pursuit. Owing to the bad feeling' which u ni tersally prevails against the thieving border Mexicans, and the hospitable reception ? which nau ueen accoraea tne young men, they were easily persuaded to lend their arms. Oneot them, however, refused to part with his rifle, and several of them retain e l their revolvers, while allowing Uie Indiana to take their other lu ms to aid in recapturing their property The fol lowing. day, whijothe young men were scattered around he town, some reading come sketching the quaint objects .around them, they were startled Middenly by a woman howlin and screaming from one of the housetops. Immediately the cry v;!5 caught up and repeated, as -iiifcr women hurried out upon hioir houses, until it seemed that die whole town had; gone mad. From cue end of the villsgo to i ho other arose the cribs; eight hundred women and children howlhig, screaming, beating their breasts and tearing tneir hair. i tie young men gathered at i h Ar camps in alarm, and inquir ed th-? cause of the uproar, A band Oi Apaches was coming I wc Ht en --had espied them defenceless women and children j into a hearty cheer. It was ,tru and carry off whatever plunder rly a gallant deed. A soldier may they could, una. i i) mo distance down f he f river, 1 .towir. .stealthily .upon the .evidently they; had loarut;- L (.hat the men were away, an.1,.'i;:od'. oi' ; beiii ejood, they iu;d pi on war-paint, left their reseivaton in i4ucolu Countv There was a hurried consulta tion. Some of the young men advised that they should mount their horses and escape as quick ly as possible, leaving the women and children to look out for them selvesj fox if they remained what defence could half a dozen boys, armed with revolvers, make against seven times that number of men ? v.a But one young fellow, whom we will call Stonewall W , remonstrated so vehemently against deserting the women and children that the rest of the party yielded, and they resolved to re main and make what defence they could. 'Hastily collecting their weapons and ammunition they climbed upon one oi the highest houses in the village, and drew . the ladder after them There, sheltered behind the rais ed delencts of the roof, they would be most secure, and able to do some' damage' to the assail ants, f -V -l; ' ' , J The party of Apaches could be seen plainly in the clear atmos phere of this region yet some dis tance down the river, but ap proaching still, one behind the other, lit true Indian filet -It is no disparagement to those young men to say that they were thoroughly frightened It is one thing to read of brave deeds and dangers laced while seated safely at hflme but . quite another to find yourself in the .heart of a wild country, .with two score of painted savages creeping upon youi jIt was not death alone that Apaches might inflict, but torture and mutilation too horrible to mention. It is doubtful if there exists a people more devoid of human leeling, more cruel and iiendish than these Apache Jtudians. For merly, fin, their long marches across the country, thev would kill the old and inlirm when they began to impede their progress; and on v one occasion; when a squaw could carry no more of her husbarids trappings on account of the pappoose in Her arms, the father took the child from her, and swinging it about him by the heels, dashed its head against the ground; then point ing to the luggage, moved on. TTT1 -1 .1 rriuie me young men were watching the ap proaching :f IndiaLS, some one suddenly remembered thai two white men and an infant were n a house outside the lown.and m the direction of the savages. They were wholly unconscious of im pending dai ger, and unles- warned; would surely fall in the nanas ot the Apaches. But bow were they to be in- iormed of itT - At that distance ihey could not hear a call, and a pistol-shot would not attract their notice. The house stood in the level plain, about a mile from the viN lage and a thousand yards or more from a defile in the rocks through which the approaching Indian would have to enter the valley. Already thVsayages hSd "disap peared , hihdi the rocks and stunted shrubbery beyond the pass, and in a few minutes more they would be in the valley. While they hesitated, Stone wail W sprang up, and de claries that he would see no wo man murdered without making an efibrt to save her, threw . the ladder over the wall and began to descend, riflo in hand, for it was he who had retained his rifle. His companions called to him to come back, that it was too late to reach the women and return be lore the Indians would be upon him. I But they might as well to have called to a whirlwind. Every spark, of chivalry was aroused in the young lnan,and had he known the Apaches would capture him'? it doubtful if he would have re turned then. Tr n imiU A . - , xii. auuiuer moment ne. was charge the "cannon's mouth with out flinching when two " armies are watching, and he knows his gallantry will be blazoned to the world; but to dare such fiends as these, almost alone in the great wilderness, for the sake of two unknown womenywas truly hero- ic. These women were the wife and daughter of , a man named Dan Dubois. This v- man had come from Wheeling, West Vir ginia, a number of years before, and having married , a Mexican woman, settled here upon the Zuni River. t ' '" Throughout the frontier coun try Dubois had made such n name for bravery and daring1 that his presence carried more terror to Indians and -thieving Mexi cans than a whole - regiment of soldiers. Many marvelous feats are accredited to him, but certain it is that he could draw his revol ver, and Bhoot so quickly that the eye could not detect th-j move ment, pf his - hand. . He rarely missed his aim, arid fear was un known to him. The Mexican woman whom he married was of a family who fer generations had suffered from the Apaches. Her ancestors as far back as tl.e records show had been killed by them, and the natural timidity oi the Mexican had been so intensified in her that the sight of an Apache was suflicient to throw her into terror. Stone walis companions watch ed him till he had ridden across the' intervening plain to .Dubois' house; they saw him spring from his horse and enter the house,and as yet the Apaches had not ap peared in the pass. 1 found the Mexican women engaged in some household work,' said Stonewall , afterwards, ''while the baby was playing near her on the flooi. . Her daughter, a handsome girl of aboui sixteen years,, was seated by the door thrumming a guitar 7 4 i 4Ruh Jor your lives V. Vl ex- claimedi 'the: Apaches are ! com irin ' - ; v. 'Snatching the baby, in her arms, the woman dashed out cf the door, never pausing for a question, nor once looking back for the girl. "I turned to follow her, for each moment; I was expecting to hear the yells ot the Indians about the house, . but glancing back, I observed the giriJcasting after her mother sucli a look of scorn as I have never seen on any other face, and instead of follow ing, she quickly took down a ri fie from the wall and fastened a belt of : partridges about her waist. " 'Bun T I called to her in Span ish, thinking she had not under stood; 'the Apaches are in the passl' " I will not run 1 she replied, in Spanish; T will fight them here T r "Frightened as I was, I almost forgot the danger in admiration for this girl. Born of a Mexican woman, she was afire with her level plain, and : with the two rifles we hoped to do some exe cution among them before they reached the house, and then de fend ourselves as long as possi ble from behind the wall upon the roof. ' "When the savages had enter ed the valley they paused as in consultation. There were forty three of them. They were evi dently surprised at seeing a white man there, and were considering if it were Dubois, for had they not thought him to be in pursuit of the Mexicans, they would not have ventured to make an attack. '-'Presently they began to ad vance very cautiously, creeping upon the ground so as to expose as little of their persons as possi ble to our fire, i "They knew the man they saw was not Dubois. I was aware that we were in imminent dan ger, with scarcely a chance against those savages, but so thrilled was I by the bravery and determination of the girl standing near.me that I did not feel afraid. She had not spoken since coming upon the house-top, but, dressed in her Indian costume,was stand ing, rifle in hand, watching the painted forms as they crawled nearer, her lips compressed, and her fine Spanish eyes flashing a3 if she had been some wild animal at bay. I carried an excellent rifle, and hesitating no longer,fir ed at one of the savages. A lit tie cloud of dust showed where the bail had ..struck the alkaline sand near a sage-bush so'rhe feet Virsrinia: father's - blood. A mo ment before I had been thorough ly scared, but her spirit was con tagious, and now I was heartily. ashamed of my fears. "I remembered now to have heard of this girl at the fort, and that she was a fine shot with the rifle. " '111 remain with you, Isaid, for no mau could have left so brave a girl to fight alone. - No time was to be lost,and we quick ly barricaded the heavy door. . "Nothing further was said, but her quick, nervous movements showed her alive for the fray,and I do not believe a thought of fear had crossed her mind. "The door securely fastened, we climbed out upon the top of the house; which like those of Zuni, was flat and had ;a stone - - v.- - -. parapet for defence, As we came out above, the leaders of the 4 1 , 1 - v. . ? i pacnes were - just appoann is upon his horse, flying acrosS the , through the defile' in the rocks. . Djain toward the solitary house.- To approach us they would have J . T axTAW ir.m TV. J- 1 I " T mpn ami cuiiucu. wiw- - i iiinnrnnni i n stance the heart was taken cut, f iUUlilUif i M-jblllg fliiAthebodv itself was multilat- - y i a -S and the body ed in a roost shocking manner. Youth's Companion. : 000 Caiilal $75, Tickete only $5, Shares in Pro j RichODd find BanYilii the flrk-nrl'nctf' Roll Arlnl t May 2d1886i Trains Bun by 705 S . v -. . umu -Lime. portion. I SoatHbouna. imm State Lcttcry Essposj "We do hereby certify that we su pervise the arrangements for all the Monthly and Quarterly' Drawings of The Louisiana State Lottery Com pany, and in person manage and con trol the Drawings themselves, and that the same are conducted with honesty, fairness and in good faith toward all parties, and we authorize the Company to use this certificate, with facsimile of our signatures at tached in its advertisements." DART, f ic: Lve New York, 1200n,ti Philadelphia, 7 30 iuil A "Baltimore, 50 " Washington, It 15 i 4 Char'tesville . 3 50 p.m, j J h Lynchburg, 6 15 " - D " Keysville, 6 05 Jj 44 Burkeville. 5 20 !J 4 Danville, .9 25 44 Goldsboro, 44 Raleigh, 44 Curham, 44 Cfiapel Hill, 44 HiHsboro, 11 50a,in 5 00 p. in 6 07 4 4 55 6 47 44 44 Greensboro, 1121 Salem, 6 55 Commissioners. We the undersigned Banks and Bankers will pay all Prizes drawn in The Louisiana State Lotteries which may be presented at our counters. J.H. OGLESBY, PRES. LOUISIANA NATIONAL BANK. . " J. W. KILBRBTH. PRES. STATE NATIONAL BANK. A. BALDWIN, PRES. NEW ORLEANS NATION AL BANK. from the Indian. A derisive yell was the only response. u 'Bad shot!' said the girl, and taking a deliberate aim, she fired. No shout answered her rifle, for one of the Indians was wounded. They seemed somewhat discon certed by thisand paused again: ben, spreading out their line,be- gan to approach once more. "Presently there was a whiff of smoke among them, and a ball whistled so near mv head thai: instinctively,! dodged. The girl aughed at me. The Apaches evidently had the best rifles made, and they knew how to use them. We both 3hielded ourselves some what behind the parapet. ' "1 was sufficiently acquainted with Indian tactics to know that when they had approached in fair range of our rifles they would make a rush for the house, and under the shelter of the walls try 4- - 1 - - 1 ll 1 At 1 w oreait mrougu ine aoor or climb up to where we were. "That our last hour had come I could not doubt, and it was horrible to think of dying by those fiends and being cut to pieces afterwards. "But the girl stood observing them as coolly as though they had been rabbits, waitiug till they should be within better range of her rifle belore wasting " -W more ammunition, l was pre paring to fire again, for in anoth er moment the savases might o rush upon the honse when a clatter of hoofs sounded behind us, and turning, I saw Dan Dubois galloping up. "The girl hurried down, and letting her father in, both were with , me . to. another moment. Springing: upon the parapet in full view of the sava sos,- Dubois , s w openea a rapia nre upon tnem. Instantly they recogniied him, and began a hasty retreat. The distance was so great that little carnage was done amonirthp.m. , ; o : i but quite a number, as was af terwards learned, were slightly wounded. r WOt VI iUUUUU pifcj I was only a short distance behind with the recaptured ponie and cattle. As soon as they reached the town they started pfter the Apaches, and some miles away from Zuni joined a party of troops under lient. Gilfoyle, who hav ing learned that the Indians had left their reservation, waa in pur suit of them. , "The ght which followed a few days later is a matteK of history wnicaat;is- not .necessary to re late here. Before being over- taKen, the Apaches had murder ed and scalped lorty men,wo Incorporated in 18G3 for 25 years by the Legislature for Educational and Charitable purposes with a capital of $1.000.000 to which a reserve fund of over $550,000 has since been added. By an overwhelming popular vote its franchise was made a part of the ' , VI 44 Mign jfoint, li 55 " iaT 4 4 Salisbury, 1 10 a.xa i -Concord, ,1 57 44 J 44 Charlotte, r 300 ij 5 56 44 ifc-t 714 ii 1 40 p.m. ig( "Spartan Durg, ooo 44 GreenviUe, Ar. Atlanta, Northbound. DAILY. . No. 51. s!' 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