Rensselaer Union, Volume 11, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1878 — An Instance of Indian Daring. [ARTICLE]

An Instance of Indian Daring.

An instance of an Apache Indian will do in the way of cool daring, when the prize is worth the risk, once occurred on a ranch in Arizona. The owner of the ranch was an, American. To guard against the Apaches he had built a block-house, and, adjoining it, a court-yard and corral, surrounded by an adobß wall eight feet high and two feet thick. Jn the corral the herd was nightly secured. He had a contract to feed and guard 400 head of beef cattle belonging to the United States fort, some thirty miles away. More than one attempt had been made by the Apaches to capture the herd, while feeding two or three miles from the blockhouse. But the vigilant herdsmen had driven the cattle at a gallop into the corral, before the Indians could “stampede” them, One night there came a fearful storm. A solitary Apache, unarmed, and with nothing but a blanket to protect him from the cold rain, climbed over the corral wall; crouching ijft the corner, he waited for day. Early in the morning, the storm having passed away, eight herdsmen, mounted and armed, waited at the corral’s gate for the herd to be turned out. The gate was opened. The stock poured out. Suddenly up sprang the Apache; vaulting on the nearest horse, he clutched his mane with one hand, while with the other he waved his red blanket, and yelled like a demon, .in an instant every hoof made a rush, and the stampede began. The hcrse, frightened, darted into the midst of the flying cattle. As in a frenzy they went through the gateway, the Apache clasped his arms around the horse’s neck, and, throwing his body on one side of the maddened animal, disappeared from view. A thousand men ranged in column could not stop that rush of the crazed herd down the val\ley. The herdsmen fired a volley which wounded and lolled some of the cattle. Two bands of Apaches, darting out from opposite sides of the valley, closed up from behind the herd. Four hundred head of cattle were thus captured and run off - by tjhe-daring and cunning of one Apach e.%-'Beaver (Utah) Square Dealer. - - .... —A son of Mr. Richard Henry Dana, second, has just finished a trip on a velocipede from Boston to Brattleboro, Yt., a distance of almost one hundred miles. ■V' ' 1i.... . .