COCHISE DEAD

New York Daily Herald

June 15, 1874, page 7

Transcribed by Jean Walker

The famous Apache Chief Departs for the “Happy Hunting Ground.”

San Francisco, June 14, 1874.

Cochise, the famous Apache chief, died on the 9th of June.

The Defunct Chief

The above dispatch will be of some interest to those who have watched the history of our Indian affairs in the West. The tribe to which he belonged is one of the most ferocious and warlike in character of all those which have survived to be removed from their old to new hunting grounds, and Cochise was, up to a few years since, on of their most violent warriors. After a series of murders, robberies, scalpings and outrages on white settlers he turned “good Indian” in his old age, went on a reservation, drew government rations regularly, and made a show of restraining the restless “young men” of his band.

He has been for some time back in poor health. His life, so full of sanguinary incidents, has ended peacefully. Doubtless he has gone to the “Happy hunting ground” from whose bourne no Cochise has ever returned to tell the story of its game and its wigwams. The recent conduct of the Apaches has been much more docile than formerly, but still occasional rumors are heard of restless and savage inclination on their part, and their quietude is not entirely to be trusted.

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