Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1892 — RESCUED BY DAVY CROCKETT. [ARTICLE]

RESCUED BY DAVY CROCKETT.

An Exciting Adventure with Savage Apaches on the Western Plain*. “I was scouting with a party ’way back in the early ’sO’e," said a Western pioneer, “and had the misfortune to be captured by Apaches. They made a foroed march of sixty or seventy miles to their village, and there held a powwow. It was deoided that roasting was good enough for me. I was tied to a tree about a foot in diameter, and enough fuel piled round me to barbecue an ox. It chanoed that a number of the oopper-oolored devils were off hunting, ana it was decided to postpone the obsequies until they returned. They were expeoted b;.ck early in the morning, and I was left to pass the night trussed up like a turkey for the spit. About 'i o’clock in ihe morning, as I judged by the stars, I detected a dark object creeping toward me. He crept cautiously forward, out my oords, and motioned me to follow him. I made him understand by signs that the cords had been tied so tight that I had lost the use of my limbs. He ploked me up as though I were a feather, threw me on his shoulder and walxed, with catlike steps, out of the camp. After we had traveled a couple of hundred yards we were joined by four others, whom I reoognized as members of my soouting party. Their horses were tied in a ohaparral a mile away, ani we were soon making goo 1 time out of that neck o’ ‘Say, pards,’ said the man who ha i carried me out of the- camp, ‘we’re safe enough now. S’p- se we stop and llcker up.' We came to a halt, and he produced a canteen fuk of whisky. We drauhalf of it, and tHe accommodating § ranger rubbed my wrists and ankles with the remainder, and got the blood to flowing free onoe more. It was then I learned that I owed my rescue to Davy Crockett. My party had fallen in with him shortly after my oapture; and he had trailed the redskins to their lair and robbed them of their prey. Yes, sir, Davy Crockett ‘toted’ me, as ho called it, on his back once. ”