Show GENERAL MILES It looks as if General Miles were about to be come up with The General is not at all popular in the army His reputation is not in harmony with his achievements but have been greatly 5 i enlarged by luck and cunning methods meth-ods which lire not approved by the true soldier We have heard that soldiers say hf ties fame as an Indian fighter is 1 I greater on paper than in fact i that the A 1 general has been fortunate at times in stepping in to close up the excellent E t work begun by others when he would i i reap the credit for the real work pert per-t + Jojrmed by better officers than he Jr again if is said of Miles that he knows 1H l wellthe value of publicity and never H iseglees to have his own praises itt sounded far and wide 11 l General Miles went to Arizona and tl enteredupon the chase of Geronimo r e Viith a blast of trumpets and a wild < c 11 hurrah General Crook the blest nit n-it dian fighter in the army and one of 1 1 the bravest and best men who ever wore U I the blue had for months been follow r 1 lag the wily old warrior hart assing him t almost b ° yoHd endurance and slowly h but certainly reducing him to a condition condi-tion when he would be glad to 1 i surrender On two or three occasions l 1 Geronimo sought to make terms with Grook but the only terms that the latter t lat-ter would accept were unconditional fi surrender of the chief This was the I t f answer of the true soldier who understood ilt under-stood Indian warfare and who realized tl that anything except unconditional surrender 1t t t render by the chief would secure a partial i par-tial ictory for Geronimo and a corresponding I corre-sponding defeat of the army and of justice I j i l jus-tice e It was at the time when Crook would soon have brought the renegade in dead or alive that the general was j t I relieved and Miles assumed command ye J i The latter in the main pursued the i t t course marked out by Crook and if he I I I had continued to the end would have J > 4 I been deserving of high praise But he t 1 i 1 did not continue to the end when 1f t r Geronimo saw that his race was about I t I 1 run that he could hold out only a little 1 i longer the wily old chief attempted t 1 with Miles what he had tried with 1 i t Ml t t Crook and this time he succeeded In I I i his anxiety to get control of the person I I of Geronimo to be the hero of the warriors I t war-riors capture and get the credit i 11 1 fur bringing the war to ant ii an-t t end Miles accepted the terms of surrender sur-render proposed by Geronimo humiliating it i humili-ating as thosa terms are t6 the army a and nation and satisfactory as they 1 i must be to the chief who thus cheats J i the scaffold and fastens himself upon t I the government as a ward if not a pet r The terms of the surrender have not fl a I t P been made public but they are understood I i under-stood to bj that Geronimo and his followers shall not be surrendered to the civil authorities that he shall not be 4 tried in Arizona the only place where 1 it would be possible to convict him and I whatever else may be done with him he shall not be executed for his crimes r There was no tim after General Crook c b began the pursuit of Geronimo that the 1 latter would not gladly have come in on I 1 i i i such generous terms it was understood F Ytt that he offered even better ttrms to I I t Crook but anything less than unconditional t r r i uncon-ditional surrender would not be conJ i t con-J siaered by the soldier who had h I a proper regard for the dignity of the army and who realized that anything I i I I any-thing short of the execution of the murderous f mur-derous savage would necessarily be condemned con-demned by the public and be a mockery J f i of justice It appears also that General Miles C llt disobeyed orders in granting Geronimo l i 1 his Jwn way and making it impossible s F for the government to punish the i vicious hero of many murders and outrages o out-rages If this be tree Miles will at l I 1 I least be reprimanded if not reduced P l from his command in which event ti neither soldiers nor citizens will tJ grieve f |