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Show do this •>'• Of courae 1 answered affirmatively. He then said Your Zuni name is now Too-loosh-too-loo." After all had shaken hands with me they filed out of the room. Sometime after this some of my Apache friends-Chief Escapah and ten or twelve of his men-came along and hearing I was in the village they came to see me. I told the Chief if he and his people would help me on and off my mule I would go in to Wingate with them. But before leaving, the Zuiiis held a council with the Apaches at which the Apaches were told that I was a Zuni, and if any harm came to me, the Zuiiis would hold them responsible, and that not one of them would return home alive. The Apache Chief said in reply that I was his friend and brother and they need not fear on that account In a day or two we started for (old) Fort Wingate, the Chief riding on one side and one of his men riding on the other side to keep me from falling off the mule. At night I slept between two of them that I might not freeze to death being only skin and bones. In due time we reached Wingate and I entered the U. S. Hospital where I remained a month. Of course I had a ravenous appetite which the Doctor thought it well not to gratify. At the end of the month I asked to be let out and went to the Rio Grande along with Don Santiago Hubble." The judge wanted me to stay at his house until I fully recovered, but I would not stop longer than three or four days, and then went up to Albuquerque At this time I could walk a little with the aid of a cane and it was eight more months before I regained my usual strength. For a short time I worked for the government at the Bosque de los Pinos; from there to Ft. Union; thence to Fort Sumner at the Bosque Redondo, the Navajo reservation. Colonel Oscar M. Brown « had the Post Trader's store at this post and I worked for him that summer. In the fall, Jim A sk5e0;chDoOfnttnfagnHU.bb t e11 W a S J a m e S ^ H u b b e " ' P i ° n e e r N e w * « * » » merchant. Frank A w ^ u L ^ ^ C&n * f ° U n d i n t h e biographical account of a eon Frank A. Hubbell in Charles F. Coan. History of New Mexico, 2:44-46 (The American H,»tor,«l Society, Inc.. Chicago and New York, 1925) A mention of his ttadtng activity in Arizona in 1857 credits Don Santiago with hauling freight Jrom the HefaJ zeman m.ne in Arizona to the steamboat landing at Kansas 5 F ^ h W lie et:r^,;h^riB,ative Assembiy -a - °< -c- ™- Gia c. £ i r i s e s tr^izzzz sthe -coun* - 34 Porter and self left the Fort on a hunting and trapping expedition into the White mountains and the Captain [or El Capitan] mountain. We put in the fall and winter trapping for beaver on the Rio Bonito, Ruidoso, Hondo and the Pecos. The Mescalero Apaches of that country were no friends of mine. Porter and I had more or less trouble with the red devils. Being well armed with Hawkins rifles we did not fear them to any extent. At this time there was no settlements on the Hondo, and but a few white settlers near the Pecos at the mouth of the Hondo called the "Missouri settlement." The present city of Roswell is now somewhere in that neighborhood, I am told. Returning to Fort Sumner I went on up to Santa Fe sometime in the latter part of March. After blowing in at Santa Fe I struck Mr. Ritter, the corral boss, for a job to work for the government. He said there was no room for me, that he was full just then. The next day I tried again with the same result. The third day he said I have no place for you, but if you want work so badly go into the back corral and chop wood into stove lengths. I chopped as hard as I could and pretty soon both hands were solid blisters and I had to hold the axe handle with the ends of my fingers. Just then Ritter came out and looked at me for a minute and said, "What's the matter." I showed him my hands and he said you go up to the Colonel's office and report to him. Of course I supposed I was fired and went to Colonel M. I. Ludington's 52 office; he was chief quartermaster of the department. The colonel says what have you been doing. I showed him my hands and he wanted to know how they came to be in that condition. I said trying to chop wood, but with very indifferent success. He said there is some printing material stored away in the Q. M. building. I want you to get it out and put up the office in the adjoining room, and if you can find any soldiers in the companies here, get their names and I will have them detailed to help you; your pay will be $100 per month and rations. I was getting thirty in the corral. Here I worked for sometime, and in the meantime the telegraph had reached Santa Fe. Manderfield 52. Marshall Independence Ludington enlisted as a Captain of Volunteers from Pennsylvania, October 20, 1862. He retired, April 13, 1908, with the rank of Major General. Heitman, Historical Register. 35 |
