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Show ticii. Crook's Bravery. A man proud of' having served with Gen. Crook in his western campaigns was telling a number of stories of that noted general in an uptown club tho other evening, and, in speaking of his fearlessness of tho red men, said: "Wo had been fighting the Apaches, led by Mangiis Colorado, for several months in '8i, when one afternoon the hostile sent a squaw into camp to say that they were ready to parley. We all advised j Gen. Crook to tako no notice of the I offer. The Indiana had frequently made theso advances only to get our officers in their power and then attack them. The general said nothing, but took his gun, saying that he was going out to shoot ducks. Night came on and he failed to put in an appearance. A party was made up and a diligont search begun. After an hour's hunting hunt-ing Gen. Crook was found sitting under the lee cf an aroya idly whittling a chip of wood, while the hostile chiefs sat all around him trying to make satisfactory satis-factory terms of surrender. His informal in-formal mooting resulted in the surrender surren-der of Mnngus Colorado, one of the fiercest of the Apache chiefs. He was succeeded in tho command of tho Apaches by Goronimo." Philadelphia Press. |