| Show 1 tbt t Salt Cake tak B i PUBLISHED EVERY DAY BY t TItrE HERALD D COMPANY OLD GERONIMO And so 01 Geronimo has become a raving maniac at his Fort Si prison irison No amount of thaw his cold reserve no amount of punish punishment I ment could subdue his For Ear fourteen years he has been in custody eIght iiI In and iii Oklahoma constantly guarded by troop carried off orf most or hl his fellow prIsoners with consumption Moo Mood I d dir d and unyielding even with ag and Weighing upon t hIm the old savage ha grown more more sava savage e UntIl it has taken the ferocious form of Geronimo laid the tho f of a bad which made him the f b gl gi mano man of the l Without Without claiming a right to o the soil or to set et up for a local government for his people who vho I wanted anted no government and recognized no law Geronimo became a leader of the tho worst bund band of red with Ith which the buffalo soldiers ever had to cope Ope In 1876 he wd OT or of three groot chiefs who ed the Dragoon and mountains Old e of was fIne ne of these Gen Oliver O 0 Howard and nd a single le aide had entered the den of o ln and succeeded In making a treaty dC C peace with the venerable Indian which the tho noble red red man honorably kept till tUl his death Geronimo Q pressed a da lre to be Included in the treaty and wu was accepted When the on or of CochisE were sent to San Carlo he appeared terribly anxious low ious W to so gO with them and b begged p 1 pass of Agent John Joh P Clum Clum to fetch his family from his camp M As soon as he got there he gaVe mar hing orders i the logs dols were were killed that their ba baing l might not detection and the whole trIbe skIpped to the which for years were the hid hidIng lug Ing plAce and 6 of the renegade Geronimos whole life seems to have been a serIes c cf surrenders and es 08 i apes In 1888 1883 General Crook penetrated the mountain stronghold of the Chi Chii i I and brought the entire tribe numbering to a reservation In mArl ri zona There they were given farms and taught t to cultivate the land But in Inthe the spring of 1886 and Geronimo led an outbreak and th they with about liH men women and children fled to Mexico i p In March 1 6 after n ii continuous campaign the whole body of hostiles 11 to General Crook accepting as punishment for their crimes ban banI I I C for r a term of years Two days later however and Geroni a no loo with a small smaIl party escaped in hi the night AU All the rest were sent as orison I to Port Fort Marion Flu Fla But and Jeronimo with eighteen men and ii n women with their children were ivere still at large The fhe worst evil hadnot had hadi i not been bean dealt so 80 to General Miles assigned the arduous and dan dangerous ot 01 retaking the bloodthirsty remnant With General Lawton JIt in charge ot of one troop and General Miles leading S another Geronimo and his band were surrounded In the basin o of the Four Peaks near noor Prescott i they surrendered In S September 1886 on conditions that their lives should hould be beI 1 I I spared that no harm should come corne to them p pat t offenses and that tj I they should be sent to jOIl their families who had alread surrendered The Themen TheT T men we vore s sent nt to Fort The women and children to Fort l Marion arlon According to a list compiled by bj the Society of PIoneers of Arizona seven hi white men women and children were killed b by Geronimo and his band bandl f the last raid ft t Is said that in the years 1869 and persons were l f and according to a record kept by Herman Ehrenberger a civIl and fj mining engineer 4 persons at that time the tho AmerIcan population r j or of Arizona fell vIctims to the scalping knives of the Apaches between s sj j 1 and 1862 iii Two years after aCter their final capture Geronimo and their people I i wore taken from Fort Pickens near Pensacola and Port Fort Marion near St to Mount Vernon barracks Ala Six years cars later the sick and ema elated survivors were r removed moed to Oklahoma and confined at Fort Sill where they been since October 1894 1804 The old chief Is over 71 1 years of age and up to the time of his recent af 81 jl fiction pO essed a 0 cunnIng th that flied ed his guards with unremitting t b hension He Be was taken to the Omaha exposition whence he be escaped wild f And as ever but he was far from home or friends and was soon re recaptured t r captured There was always so much of the fiend about Geronimo that his in inanc Insane sane anc may teem a secOnd return to the mental state of J his youth t t r |
