| Show APACHE WARRIORS TO FARM Early In the new year old Geronimo and the 26 Apache Indian men women and children who are hold as prisoners of wart war-t Fort Sill Okla will be released and allotted l al-lotted lands on which to live ns frco as any of the other friendly redskins who iavo become tho wards of the Nation For nearly fifteen years Geronlmo has been a iloselyguardcd prisoner sometimes at fount Vernon barracks Alabama and more recently at Fort Sill There aro yet living In Arizona and New Mexico old settlers who cannotjrecall his name without wIth-out a shudder at the vision of murders by his band of followers of Jowcr men women wo-men and children In the final windup of his career as n leader of a hostile band ho led tho troops ofuho tho United States n rhaso of 3000 i miles mlC5 thruSh the mountains or > Arizona nnd Mexico an International agreement allowing the Federal soldiers to cross the boundary in tho chase being necessary to subdue him and his little hand of less than 1 score of fighting men For years before this he and his tribe had been tho scourge of tho Southwest and when Gen Crook was succeeded In tho command of that department by Gen Nel son A Miles who had earned fame as a lighter of the warrior of tho Northwest a ho Government at Washington ordered hat Geronlmo bo captured and his band broken up whatever the cost Several troops of cavalry and a eost Severl fantry composed Gen Mllcss force that Miess was put on the stern old warriors trail Capt afterward General Lawton who was killed In the Philippines was In com mand of a troop of the Fourth cavalry and to him was assigned the task of fol lowing tho trajl I Other detachments ocourcd tho mouitaln defiles and attempt ed to cut oft tin retreat of tho savages but Lawton was ordered to hold right on to the chase Hi kept this up with n de termination thh finally woro out even tho nayige cndiranco of tho darkfaced warriors and Gironlmo was larlfaced cap tured and sent b I prison cp prlfon Ho has figured at the expositions since that lime when hundreds of thousands notably at the Vorlds fair have crowded mound to gaze m him as they would on a tiger In eaptilty and no Jungle beast was ever fierce or more cruel than tho old wrlnkledfned man who seemed to enjoy tho attenion he sCmc alr been estimated that tho last campaign against him whin eampalen wlh resulted in his capture cost tho Goverment moro than 1000000 and the lives o several times as many lmes men drfn as there wco men women and chll In Geronlms band With his cap turo however uo last dangerous hostile hostlo In the Southwca was disarmed and there havo been no sarlous Indian troubles In that section sIne In n few months Get o nlmo and his fopwcrs will be IO planting corn aU drawing rations peacefully from tho Govcrnmentagcncy Just as If I they had never left trail of blood and ashes over SCOO miles olthe Southwestern moun tains and plains jid kopt a whole military dopartmont Iron getting a quiet nights sleep for many cars The old chief pro eases to bo rcpntaut and this time ho and may go stick on to tho thoarm virpath and not break away In tho early a Geronlmo was ono of tho threo groat ihlofs who Infested tho Dragoon and Clrlcahuu mountains Old mountlns Cochlse father Natchez Geronlmoa lighting companin was one o them Gen O 0 Howard ad a single aide entered tho den of Coclsc In 1872 and made a treaty o peace rhlch tho noble red man honorably kept 11 hIs death GeronImo expressed a dcslu to be Included In thu treaty and was accptod When the eons of Cochlso were sot to San Carlos ho was anxious to go vJh them and begged a Ind pass from AcentJain P Clum to take his family from his jnfp AS soon a he got there the cunnlw Indian gave marching avo orders the dogf Vere 1 led machlnS barking might m lead to detection and tho tribe ran awy to the Mexican moun tains Geronlme life thereafter was a thecnrel series of murdwus expeditions on set tiers and travel ic Mexicans of surren ders and oscapcs In 1SS3 Gen Crook pene rated tho me nlain stronghold and brought the entl Chlrlcahua tribe < num boring r JO to areservatlon in Arizona There Irlms we given them nnd they vtero taught to c tlvato them But In the spring of 8 G lonlmo and Natchez led an outbreak antthcy with 131 men women wo-men and childrcrjilcu to Mexico In March l oater a stubborn campaign cam-paign the wholojody surrendered lo Gen Crook T wholojdy after the surrender 8urcnccr Natchez and Gronlmo escaped In the night All the rt were sent as prisoners to Fort Marlon la I Geronlmo and Not chcz with eighteen men and cightei women and children wcro at large ho atrocities they committed com-mitted made it npcratlvo that they b recaptured Gen elson A Miles succeeded nal succeed-ed Gen Crook hd conducted tho cam According to a 1st compiled by the Sod cly of Pioneers hf Arizona oevcntyslx wluto men wo en 17onah Idren wcro killed by Geronllo and his band during tho last raid IrJSfiO and 1870 17C persons were murdered iid according to ware ccnlng t record rec-ord kept by Herjan Ehrcnbcrger an engineer en-gineer 2 perans fell victims to tho scalping pcrtrs the Apaches between 1S5C and 1C2 I saId that this was half as many as thecntlro Englishspeaking population of frcrrltory Tho story or the capture as tel by a trooper who witnessed nessed It Is giver I was quite ayouns fellow a recruit from Jefferson baracks Mo when I went Into that countrt Tho Geronimo cam alga was countr t experience I Joined troop E of the sub cavalry under Lieut Galewood my Idal I of an officer Our troop was sent oii on scouting duty lone tho canyons and asses to locate ul 1 Indians In-dians and to carure Geronlmo If possible possi-ble How tho tbught of encountering him used to oen cold shivers down my back I used toSream about him as I slept on tho grot d after hard marches Many n night I v < kc with n start Imagining Imag-ining tills Indian ovll had me Many a InlnS during the ay I felt like running away but with Inlana all about 1 knew I would bo Jumping om the fryingpan into tho fire Wo did not kw Goronlmon whereabouts where-abouts at any tlnv but wo knew ho was nbuts In tho vicinity sqic days within 3 mile of us other dnjsiUly miles away One thing wo did kno wag that those hills wero filled with Idlans anxious to pick us off whenever w exposed ourselves A good many of thobldlcrB were killed and wounded At nlgi wo could often see Indians around Iclr camp fires grotesque SO tesque shadows oflhclr war bonnets bobbing bob-bing about on tl tall trees Friendly Apache scouts wefc ahead of us but wo woro always suBpljOun of them We woro frequently fired ourom ambush Whenever When-ever wo came to njark ravine our hearts were in our throio at least mine was Tho Indians nevcigave open battle In live weeks we dced our way down to within about clshmnlles of Frontcrns on tho Mexican brd1t where Lieut Wilder had his camp LlUt Gatowood obtained reinforcements IJllt < saying that he wan pushing after Gcrplmo A sergeant and coven men were dqillcd ac bin bodyguard and two Yuma Audio Scouts were also given un Gatowod Already had two oub gen of tho ChHcalma Apaches and these pushed forwrd alone It waa pure luc that led us to Gero nImo It was an pay capture for those Indians were fagsd by the IonS chase tho troops had glvnthem They looked half starved i The atory of G < onlmoB Imprisonment In Mount Vernon Urracks Alabama and later In Fort Sill imvali l known Chicago Chronicle J I I |
