Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1906 — CATTLEMAN’S GHASTLY FIND. [ARTICLE]

CATTLEMAN’S GHASTLY FIND.

Slcelctona of 200 Indiana Dlacovered in an Arison* Cave. Jeff Adams, an Arizona cattleman, found in the Superstition mountains a few days ago a cavern 35x100 feet in area, heaped up with the skeletons of 200 dead Indians. The cavern Is up in the side of a precipitous gorge, reached only by a dangerous trail. In Phoenix Adams learned that he had rediscovered the long lost cave where, in December of 1872, the Fifth cavalry accomplished the' greatest job of Indian killing tn the history of the army. The Indians, Mojaves and Apaches, had fled to the rare, pursued by five troops of cavalry and a company of Maricopa Indian scouts. The besiegers had settled down to starve the aborigines out, when one of the troopers discovered that by shootinc at an overhanging rock bullets could be made to glance into the cavern. Firing in this manner was kept up until the glancing. bn)h>ts had killed or wounded every Apache within. Then the Maricopas led the way and finished the bloody job. Under the body of its. mother was found a year-old babe, which was adopted by a Maricopa squaw, later to be sent to eastern schools, and to become the famous Indian physician, Dr. Carles Mon texunfl. * Cowestrken for Trolley Cars. The Metropolitan Street Railway Company of New York is experimenting with new car fenders designed much like the cowcatchers of the steam locomotives. It comes to a point in front 2 inches from the ground, and is so constructed that a body caught by it will be shoved Co aithar side dear of the forward trustea.