Show It MILES VERSION Of the Capture of Geronimo and FellowOutlaws HENRY GEORGES DOMINATION The La Xascotte Explodes H Boiler with Dire Itexults Supplementary Sup-plementary lleport JKto General Miles Talks DENVER Colt October 5 Albuquerque Albu-querque New Mexico special Genera Miles was asked today by a representative repre-sentative of the Democrat what he thought of the published statements or bulletins assumed to have been written upon official information furnished at the War Department as to his capture of Geronimo Those reports replipd the General emanate from the brain of some unscrupulous and envious person per-son whose object appears to be to distort i dis-tort the truth with the intention of injuring in-juring me regardless of the just praise due the troops for their extraordinary services in achieving permanent peace in the southwest Many statements are entirely devoid of truth others are wattle arguments and labored theories The pretense that the surrender sur-render Geronimo and other hostiles was other than the result of gallant and i arduous operations of the troops in the field is simply childish Oge might imagine reading some statements that the redhanded Apaches have been nil summer trying to get up a cheaprate excursion to the yellow fever districts of Florida Surefy no intelligent man would believe that the Apaches who have been roaming over this mountainous moun-tainous region for generations masters of the situation would have thrown down ther arms sacrificed their prosperity pros-perity surrendered their liberty accepted ac-cepted perpetual banishment from their native country and placed themselves and their families at the mercy of government gov-ernment unless they had been subjected sub-jected by military forces the mildest punishment evidently in store for them far exceeding in seventy that over before be-fore inflictod upon any body of Indians in this country General would you mind giving a copy of your official report of the surrender sur-render was asked I am quite willing that every official act of mine in this enterprise should be known to the public i would much prefer that my official report should be published and then the extracts and distorted dis-torted statements should be thrown out The people of this country are quite intelligent enough to draw their own conclusions and ibis not necessary that official documents should be filtered through the personal brain of some ingenious in-genious enemy and then so colored in part as to best answer their personal interests It Would you mind saying in what respect your course has differed from your instructions 11 am glad to answer that question in order to put at i est a very inaccurate statement I was given absolute discretionary dis-cretionary authority to conduct the campaign Even General Sheridan who commands tho army and knows more about Indian matters and the topography of this country than all the army officers in Washington together declined to give any specific instructions instruc-tions tionsWhat What has been the effect of the removal upon the other tribes ot Indians In-dians It has stricken terror into those living in the adjacent countrv Even the powerful Navajoes of 2000J souls are now afraid they may do something for which they will be liable to be sent away from their native country I already al-ready regard it more effective than if forty executions would have taken place JI 11 I |