| Show ENE E RENEGADE CHIEF r s 1 It 1 i t Our Indian War 0 t GERONIMO I HoerILE > PAC1IE I CHIEFTAIXWHOSr OUR SotDKEs FAIL To GAPTCBB o I5 A force of United States soldiers hag Wn operating against Geronlmo the Celebrated Chiricahua Apache chIeftain ftnceMay 16S5 With odds as to numbers num-bers Bnd material terribly against him LI e Indian has more than managed to 1 his own against his powerful one i s A few months ago negotiations opened between him and General Crook and tho hope was Indulged that he troublesome Apache would surrender unKlf and his little band to the United JUtes officers but he dexterously made 0 a and according to latest accounts Is fll Meiieo probably tiro hundred miles btant frjm any American troops nere ii a report that General Miles Ibo I-bo sc ceded General Crook In com and If 11m Arizona Department of the Uitjrv Division of thaPacific has sent ned Apaches with a message to Go Diuao proposing his surrender ou con iU t favorable to him There Is not jVLhEiMtary glory In chasing Indians nd putting an end to a wearisome cam aiv 1 tho way stated probably would e a 0 nee course feoalno is said to be a Mexican by rtL but he Is manifestly an Indian In lood He is unscrupulous and cruel hre uyearsao he surrendered to tho utsd States troops after a campaign the Sierra Madre when the late illant Captain Crawford at tho head of force consisting of one hundred andy and-y lldlo scouts defeated hm He J5 now suffering from a wounded a aid tho body of forty Indians of oclis nt the head are anxious town i to-wn to their own country Such is < report which certainly presents feats f > lavorable to the expectation that ar palgn agalritt Oferonimo is draw t < a close The women In his party e in fI with rifles and are sal 1 to bo fcfnj I + t warriors as the men but i f rtv persons under his leadership luldren a conflict between them L tile tnlte States cavaky could 1I1f reult in an Indian 9tbory and err t < xl retreat must be a dull j b oul i Geronlmo again come under tho Jed of American power it is to be hoped fe 1 t < rill be prevented the opportune a e ipc from it and > < omuiit such 3y < atrocities as are associated wit |
