| Show e Good Indian r 0 ie t r r Copyright lOOt 1001 by by W R B Drupes A by no means a dead In Indian Ink k j ALTHOUGH dian nor likely to be tie for a long longtime longtime time to come tom om all aU appear appearances appearances ances Geronimo the famous Apache warrior is a good Indian nowadays now das Not from tram choice however for It boreri re him extremely The reason he Is good tood goods IB Is s because as 8 a prisoner of ot war Var at Fort For Sill Oklahoma Territory Territory he hasto has hasto hasto to Li I He who WH wa was the meanest ana most bloodthirsty bloo Indian chief that i gauge and never comes comess out again He Heis Heis HeIs is a ory hory poor gambler so 80 far as w win winning winning ning goes oes but he plays with that un u raffia fam courage when coupled with akin makes the most successful e He is a reckless bettor and and troug trong bluff He never h a Wa t bet and if you raise him he will wID k you O straight in the e eyes and if it he thinks y you OU are bluffing will raise I yon yoo Y a et s sum One can never real read by his taco face whether or not he has h a I good hand But the weakness of his i poker pok r game Is that he lie almost Tv y o 01 i r bids his hand Poker er and rite ar art his favorite gardes ga es and the loi ot imo tepee is the scent of many My exciting sittings Soldiers S u to tobos li i J bo boys bos s often otten sit in the games ga mea with the thell ll L ne cu curious ous and attractive trait of old c chief hit r is th that it sv hen He lie makes e ap winning at cards o or has a large l e eIe to Ie of cJ trinkets trink tS hf ht gives give tile tale proceeds the little children n in imp to spend School bool books Much luch of his money mone les es to his bis favorite liu dau huter r ter Eva Eia and ands s qua qu j etona The Laughter e of get bet ittle tittle love from rom H u 4 tied a white man and what what was still worse in the Ute eyes of her father he was wat wata wasa a lI cowboy i Is said aid to be SO 80 years old He H does not look his age ages He was with Victoria when hen that chief chieftain tain went o the Mexicans antt antl later he lIe de developed developed loped into a leader himself He is isa isa isa a born leader leodel of or redskins r for tor the rea reason eon son that he claims to be Tae not only my a l fighting man but also a medicine mn mart and it takes a man wisp cu aen talk Wk with unseen beings to make a really deep impression on the Indian r Geronimo Ge Geronimo Geronimo made his first raid in 1584 when he marched against the town of PIma Aris Aria and w with ith a few warriors suc sue succeeded succeeded in wiping out the whole population population lation of souls This was followed by other until he was cap captured captured in 1887 having cost the tiie United States government almost in giving chase cha e to him He and his band of 00 fighters were taken to Fort Pick Pickens PIckens Pickens ens Florida zut owing to the hot cli climate climate mate they could not Jive five there and Q 4 5 YEARS AG f 1 s r rc c ab t v ve A e q sue 41 4 IC 1 N Nt t f d C 4 dy i l I t o oa a GrM 1 I IlM lM WAR DRESS j I r 5 YEARS AGOs AGOr AGO F s I IGER GER nm 5 NEPHEW c INTERPRETER ER l z ever eer fought the government now leads i ia I a quiet and peaceful life lite that is ts t in striking contrast to the old days when whenn h n roamed reamed the plains at the head bead of ot his bra eg es killing kitting all the whites who crossed 1 his hia pen path pa Certainly Geronimo Ger has had ad admore more crimes Imes ime laid to his account than any an other 0 er living Indian He den deny It In fact he is rather proud of it In moments of confidence e be he ad admits admits mits mils that he would like Uke to do dolt It all allover over again On One O e of the things over o r which he gloats is that he lIe personally has ha killed k lIed ten whites in a u single battle J l is also a matter of or pride p de to Ids his old age a that he be f has bas led forays wherein as many kU as ft lire e hundred undred pale Mile faces face were slaughtered He lIe a has h a 8 bred tame ta te for f murder Such is Geronimos English h that it itis l tEll is well wen to hire ail ad al interpreter if one de desires sires to get an intelligent talk out of him Also o it is n u ce e 8 sary to hire Ge Gel l He does not riot talk for nothing a fact of which the writer as ap apr r Immediately upon questioning li 11 i m A dollar Jollar i bill hi 11 loosened l o hi tongue tit lut I t ri first fits qU tion a u 1 ho hoh h le j jh h 1 liki 1 11 b 1 i rn r n nt r v siti n 1 l h p r rn vt lie n rs T ta t t t T ri 1 riF I F Fars if h he l Irks d t U ti o c r ri B Then fr be l S sad d that ta t ET F n f d rs 13 tr to tc t him im h I 1 An n D a 0 r nl S t C 0 d H a rj J J f 1 t S So o o 5 Cl 1 M fx 1 r s a aa c a s i 4 r 1 J 0 j S i it 5 o at r I It 0 c t a x r rr I r 5 T I c o c l Ys J J Y J t 1 C 9 t i V g gi L 2 y d d dy S 1 i e A i 0 4 t Y yr h hf D 0 Q y f KET G O DAU C E O ER R o s r N a ad as U M OT OTA A F d FAVORITE FAVORITI DAUGHTER DAU I t I I r 1 u t t l lS r S t a t 4 S N J j i ti s sIS r IS TODAY were transferred some five fio years ears ago agoto agoto agoto to Fort Sill where they have since re remained j i with the exception of a trip j I Ito I to Omaha three years ago It was dur during during I I ing the Spanish war w ar that Geronimo made threats to escape and did at attempt attempt attempt tempt it He only got a few miles from the fort when overtaken Since then he has been on his Tiis good behavior The only onh fault now found f und with his conduct is his persistent lying about his treat treatment treatment treatment ment by bj the soldiers So far as his wanting t die is concerned concer d except when is obviously bidding for sym sympathy sympathy pathy he h seems to be enjoying life UCe well enough to t live Hie until the last trumpet i i sounds Geronimo is small if stature pos possessed po 11 5 of a keen face and a piercing eye The 1118 blue bloe in his eye eje is of that pe peculiar peculiar peculiar culiar stel s steely ely color that unpleasant ant sensations in the mind His face Is A wrinkled and ills his hands bands are small and rough routh His color cotor is a n dark red Gero Geronimo Geronimo nimo smokes cigarettes these days and ami would drink fire water hall hafl he the privilege flege He has six wives but lives with none of His favorite daughter Eva Ev lives with him when she is at tome home ome He gives her sufficient money mone to o send her to an eastern school eight months in the year Geronimo does ds no work that is such as raising a crop of corn or millet He FIe gets rent lent free a m house to live Uve in but he keeps his ponies therein and resides himself in a tepee All of the Apaches who are held as u war Avar prison prisoners on ers live in tents and keep their llor horses s in the house furnished for them The Thep Apache p he village is i on iJ n an open plain p ln in in summer ie pees catch all of the dust and in the winter the snow sno flurries into the doors drs In would not be a white mans man s notion of comfort but the Indians like it In Inthe Inthe Inthe the valley near the tile fort are some very ery yel handy hand places to pitch a camp but tout they will have hn e none of it itA ItA itA A few weeks a ago o Geronimos daugh daughter ter t Ex Ev a was Wu tak talt n ill m with some skin disease ase and ana was placed in the th government govern government government ment hospital nt at the flirt A large boil bolt n her neck Geronimo told th the white physician in charge that it should sho ld be opened The white medicine marl man mal told toI Geronimo G that it not When the doctor was VAS not watching the theold theold old 01 1 warrior pulled out a jack j ck knife and ando opened o n d the h c sure The Pr he soldiers rs placed laced I him in the guard house hou e foi for three days but the Ute girl Kirl Improved daily daHY thereafter Antony Among Amon the Apaches Geronimo is called t an no other excellent doctor arid and ari they will have I I Hundreds Hundle s of p pc le drive fifty miles in do a rickety ety stage coach from the rain rail railway way any station through the and I Comanche r v hi order to get a of this noted fighter He has learned to o watch for then the and when they approach he assumes 0 a very verj ver dig dignified dignified dignified and injured air always repeating repeat ins ing his plaintive story of how he longs for de ath I While little In s with mail mort mortem em em n civilization the old chief app state one of its inventions the He charges s 5 n for tor his picture But these thee are arp those who can fool the old man He Heh h ha has s rut not yet et t awakened aw to the ways way wa s of i k Slaking He thinks all an pictures are arp I I t taken by bV looking under the cloth which T y O T vc r t c r I get t him in range ami ail take lake t k snap shots shots without his knowing knowin what l they he are up to But the moment moment a t professional photographer brings forth i his camera Geronimo demands his fee fec fecI He Ie always looks his toughest in his pictures He likes to strike an attitude I of v l ferocity when being photo photographed photographed graphed graphe The Hider Ider he grows grow rows s the great greater er is In his desire de ire to make a fiendish ap Five Fhe years ago agog when nhen he t first came camp to Fort SUb SiJ he w was s content to wear white mens clothes and con eon consented consented to have himself photographed 1 wearing them Now when he poses he looks like the Uie redskin of oft t J the Apache tribe This T isis Ji is because he heI sees sees that his war clothes cloChes attract more attention from white x visitors He does I his best to give them their moneys worth and to live ho up to their expectations expectations expectations In talking about his war e ehe he spoke in the th Apache language to thIs tills effect I r do not know how many white men menI I 1 have killed It must be hundreds I have killed many women too But ButI I never killed a white baby bab I like Children hildren I will fight some more some someday someday day daj I am good for five years ears more on I the battlefield I will get out of this some day and then will go back beck to Arizona izona and kill some of my enemies I hate them out there t ere I want to get even with them I 1 like the white peo people people people here and would not hurt them I Isee Isee Isee see that there are many more whites than when I was a young man I see we yve e could not kill them all I 1 do not want to kill all I have h e some I want to kill klU and the others I will let alone No one in his neighborhood fears Geronimo Those who know him say that he probably would be willing to fight if he got a a chance ch but he wont get the chance His life is just like that of the ordinary reservation In Indian India Indian dian dia of today except that he is not al allowed allowed allowed lowed to carry loaded arms or to leave the reservation Once in a while he s unruly and is then confined to the fort until he quiets ts down ilow WORKED WO J THE THE SIGNALS Campaign Experience of Congress II D J U Foster Poster Kansas City World iv t D r J Foster FoSte of o Burlington Vt who has been in Wash Washington Washington Washington ington for several weeks tells an in interesting interesting Interesting story of a campaign experience experience ence enee Mr Foster Fo ter was w s elected to con congress congress congress gress in September and being a man manof manof manof of ability and a good stumper he was much in demand in other states from that time till the votes were counted I 1 went down to N New v York Tork said Mr Foster and the members of the national committee in charge there in insisted insisted insisted I should make a speech to an audience of Italians I 1 dissented not being familiar with the language but eventually yielded Going to a section of the city where many man many Italians reside I found a large audience awaiting me meA meA A leader among them presided and when the meeting was called caned to order started off with a glowing address I Iwas Iwas was as able to catch a few words of his peroration and also what I 1 thought was the word Garibaldi Then I had my mj inning inn ng I was ivas pleased as I progressed at the outburst of applause every eer hand in the audience clapping cla ping vigorously This encouraged me and I dilated on Washington as asa a Garibaldi on Lin Lincoln coIn coln as a Garibaldi at which the Ital Italians ians iam clapped their hands hinds again vigor vigorously vigorously and stamped fiercely with wath their feet But when I reached my climax lin i in referring to William as a Garibaldi my audience broke loose with enthusiasm and it was several minutes before t I was able to continue As I 1 seated myself at the conclusion conclusion conclusion sion of or my effort much elated over what I thought had been a great success suc success cess Cf SS I turned to the leader who had introduced me that th t speech all aU right 1 I asked with some s some show of prude prade Notta otta w wortha ortha he replied much mu h to my astonishment I out one finger they with hands I two fingers with hands and three fingers they yell yella a for McKinley dike like 1 belle hela Then it dawned upon me concluded ed the th young oung Vermonter that his in introduction introduction had only been be n a speech of I Instructions and t tats he had been in industriously industriously working the signals during 1 my eloquent flight night |
