September 2018 22 seeing the other miners make light of the warning decided to ride back to the Log Cabin Mine. In all, the group that left for Kingston numbered five. Their horses were restless and chomping on their bits. Jimmie knew the horses scented Apaches. A short way down the trail from the Log Cabin Mine where they had left the Kinney boys they heard a shot. In an instant, Pete Kinney rode up to them calling out, “I’m shot!” Blood was streaming down his face. An Apache bullet had shot his ear off. Just then, a huge blast was heard. The Apache raiders had blown up the cabin that had dynamite stored in it. The noise from the blast was heard all the way to Kingston and a rescue party was sent out led by a man named Ed Doheny. The group running from the Apaches met the rescue party headed to the battle scene at the halfway point. They carried word that old man Shaw had ignored Jimmie’s warning and had been found dead in his garden. Jimmie got Old Hog, packed him with supplies and the wood for the windows and door frames and set out for Pigeon Springs. There had been no sign of Apaches there. They got the doors and windows in the cabin and the spring walled up to make a nice cool tank of water. Springs No Refuge Jimmie got his call from Taylor to go work in the mine. He hired a man named Davenport to take his place with Johnny at the Pigeon Springs site. It was November and the ground was covered with snow. The Army reported that the Apaches had scattered into small bands throughout the black range for the winter. Jimmie had only been working a week at the Superior Mine when the foreman came to him and told him a man named Davenport was there to see him. Davenport was pale. He said simply, “the Apaches got Johnny.” Davenport related that Johnny was not dead. He had a bad wound in his thigh and could not walk so Davenport pulled him into the brush and rode for help. He said he did not take him to the cabin because they heard a lot of shouting on the mesa and Johnny insisted Davenport leave him and save himself. Davenport was pale, scared and shaking all over. Jimmie told him to go into Kingston and see if he could get the doctor to come out to Pigeon Springs. He then grabbed his rifle and set out to rescue Johnny. It took Jimmie two hours afoot to get to Johnny’s side. The closest cabin to where Johnny fell was owned by Dad Perkins. Jimmie got him to that cabin despite Johnny’s six foot, 175-pound bulk. Johnny told Jimmie he wanted him to go back down to where they were attacked and get the guns, canteens and everything else they had left behind. McKenna did, then gathered some Juniper wood, barricaded the cabin and started a fire to heat water to clean Johnny’s wound. Bad Doctoring McKenna found Johnny’s wound to be about the size of a teacup with a 14-inch gash running down from his hip. It appeared that the Apache bullet had hit and penetrated Johnny’s cartridge belt, setting off some of the cartridges as it passed through. The cartridges in the belt caused the gash in Johnny’s thigh. McKenna managed to get several pieces of copper out of the wound while cleaning it. He then Apache Terror continued from page 20 dressed it and decided the wound was not fatal if treated properly. Johnny was in severe pain and it would not be long before the copper still in the wound would begin to poison him. Jimmie made him some tea and crackers and again washed out the wound getting a bit more copper out of it. Then he told Johnny he was going to ride to Kingston and get a doctor to come out and treat the wound properly. Getting Help Jimmie hit the trail once again and at Danville’s boarding house he found two friends, Andy Kinney and Dan McWilliams, who set out to go stay with Johnny. There was little luck in Kingston. Jimmie could not find anyone to ride back with him to old Dad Perkins’ cabin. About every man he talked to in the packed saloons was half drunk and the women in town were just standing in the street together, afraid to be alone. He did get the doctor to pack his bag and prepare to ride out that night. The doctor said he would leave about 9 pm. Harry Calvick loaned Jimmie a horse and he rode out for the Perkins’ cabin. By midnight the doctor had not shown up. Jimmie took the horse and again rode to Kingston. At Danville’s Boarding House he found the doctor and a party of his friends who had ridden out with them. All of them were drunk including the doctor. Jimmie rode back to the Perkins’ cabin, rigged a stretcher and they carried Johnny the three miles to the doctor at Danville’s. They put Johnny on the mess table and the doctor took an instrument that looked like a long spoon to scrape the copper Main Street Kingston, circa 1890