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Show THE PAYSON CHRONICLE, FAYSON. UTAH Started One of Uncle Sam s Longest and Most Expensive Wars m? Oils tfeaa. 'ese fas he party titular Cochise's w'ar was not the first trouble which Uncle Sam had. had with these red children of his. That had begun as far back as 1825 when a party of American trappers had a skirmish with them on the Gila river. Treacherous White Men. of Little Boy Resulted in Chief Cochise's Tating the Warpath with His But the Indians werent always upping Apaches Lost Their Lives and United States the Americans nor were they any 10.000 aggressors 86l; Spent $50,000,000 During more treacherous than were some of the Americans whom 25 Years of Effort to Conquer These "Ishmaels of the Southwest." Western Newspaper Union. they met. There was, for example, a certain James Johnson who in 1835 lured to a feast a By ELMO SCOTT WATSON band of Apaches whose chief, never heard of Mickey are that youve kVrjE chances Juan Jose, was his persoral i if a some one told you be bit skeptical Free so youd friend, then slaughtered many of was an important figure in American history. them to collect a bounty on their he jw scalps offered by the Mexican that is, if being largely responsible for one of governor of Sonora. That inciiLest and most expensive wars which Uncle Sam ever dent sowed the seed of Apache fear and distrust of Americans. H makes a person "important. It would grow as the years ilickev, yu see was the PrinciPal character in an a occurred 77 years ago and which sent the passed and result in a red harvest of bloodshed and burning. Apache chieftain, Cochise, on the warpath. The On August 14, 1846, with as went on started thus 25 for "which he intermittently little forethought as the dissolute hostile had last the been Apache "rsand before captured father gives to his a reservation or sent away to an Eastern penned up on offspring, the United States Less as a prisoner of war, the lives of ten thousand government assumed the wardship of the Apache, writes Dr. and children had been sacrificed and lemen, women Lockwood. On that day, from had spent fifty millions of dollars in what ,je Sam house the flat roof of a in the village of Las Vegas, N. 3ed for a long time to be an utterly futile attempt to M., Gen. Stephen W. Kearney is,uer Cochises people. sued a proclamation in which he that long- - g he story took possession of the country war is told in a others sat and extended over it the laws of quietly through the exdetailed citement and were made pristhe United States . . . prehensive and - oners. pubthose of people Never before nor since did jry The immediate result of the Uncle Sam take into his strong recently by the Mac-a- n young officers action was awkward arms such a turbulent company. It is "The rash a series of attacks by Cochises infant as this Apache nation. It Dr. che Indians, by warriors on stage stations, mail was one thing for Kearney to deir a C. pro-"Lockwood, coaches and wagon trains and jk clare himself military governor of English at the Uni-it- y the slaughter of several men. In and that, if the people would go on quietly with their affairs and of Arizona and a retaliation, another officer with MICKEY FREE not oppose the new government, of the culture of Bascoms consent, three of his Indian hoshanged tween they would be secure in all their the war and department region. In it he traces civic rights and would be pro- tages. the of the interior department . story of these "Ishmael-and by grafting Indian agents, Cochises Reign of Terror. of the Southwest from When Cochise learned the aided and abetted in defrauding : earliest contact with fate of his three relatives, his the Indians by unscrupulous citizens of Arizona. The result was Spanish in Mexico down fury knew no bounds. He swore easy to predict. :e present time when the he would exterminate or drive The Apaches went on the war::hes are making an earn-an- d out the entire white population path again. Taza, who had sucof Arizona . . . The result was surprisingly success-attem- that by the summer of 1861 ter- ceeded his father, Cochise, as chief of the Chiricahuas, managed to adapt them- - ror reigned supreme. Ranches, to keep most of his people on mines and small settlements the reservation but others under were desolated and abandoned. the leadership of Geronimo, who When the outbreak of the Civil was later joined by Nachez, an war made it necessary for the other son of Cochise, began raidfederal government to withdraw ing, as did the Warm Springs its troops in Arizona, there was Apaches, led by Victorio, the sue rejoicing among the Apaches for cessor of Mangas Coloradas. For three years Victorio spread they believed they had conquered the Americans. They were soon a reign of terror throughout the disillusioned for other troops Southwest until he was killed by moved in and, under the com- Mexican troops in the Tres Casmand of Gen. James H. Carle-to- tillos mountams in 1880. But Geattempted to exterminate ronimo, Nachez, Juh, Chato and the Apaches. But they had little other leaders took up the tas of success. Under the leadership of harassing the whites where he Cochise and Mangas Coloradas had left off. In 1882 Crook was GEN. NELSON A. MILES the Indians continued to raid and again assigned to Arizona and burn and kill. took difficult task up the again tected from the nomadic Indians; The Indian loss was relatively of catching the elusive Apaches, but it was a very different thing method of Crooks this killed was doing small. Among those United States to make for the to to enlist friendly Apaches the chief, Mangas Coloradas but was these promises. Here, too, not in battle. He was induced to serve as scouts against their good should be stated that in the it GEN. GEORGE CROOK of one brethren. surrender under a promise of Incidentally, Guadelupe Hidalgo treaty, signed safety and then was shot while them was Mickey Free, who had by the representatives of the to modern conditions to manhood to among young after grown escape attempting United States, February 2, 1848, nodern ways of life, being goaded to desperation his captors. Crooks campaigning and ratified by the senate March important Mickey, he which led him to make the at- was successful and after pursu10, our government formally and he son of Jesus Martinez, tempt. Little wonder that Co- ing the hostiles into Mexico, solemnly agreed to prevent Indiwhere he took his life in his wan woman, who in 1860 chise, when overtures for a cessaans living m the United States living with an Irishman tion of hostilities were made, re- hands and entered Geronimos from making raids into Mexico he for a John Ward near the Sono-e- r conference, per and from carrying Mexicans plied, I was at peace with the camp west of Fort Buchanan. whites until they tried to kill me suaded them to surrender. away into captivity. 1 does However, thanks to the work not record who for what other Indians did; I These obligations were hard, y's father was but it seems now live and die at war with of a wffiite bootlegger, who smugto fulfill, and often imindeed, and 5ard had into their camp them. gled liquor adopted him. For 40 of fulfillment. possible of about lies a told pack Mickey Is Kidnaped, However, through the influence the themthat awaited the Apache problem was them when years fate of a frontiersman, Capt. T. J. day in October while the thorn in the flesh of a United festering to the were returned they vss watching his foster fa- - Jeffords, the only white man States, a party of 38, headed by the American republic and a cattle in a meadow a band Cochise had ever trusted, the to slipped source of desolation and death lies raided the ranch and chief settled on a reservation and Geronimo and Nachez, crossed individual citizens, of thousands had before they Mi the boy and the stock, lived there peaceably until his away the border and hid out again in both Mexican and American." followed the trail of raiddeath in 1874. This Apache problem was such the Sierra Madre mountains. d, becoming convinced that Crook Comes to Arizona. source of desolation and a The Last Chapter. belonged to Cochises band for several reasons, not Although Cochises Chiricahuas death There was an angry exchange cahuas, lode over to Fort were at peace, there were other of and Crook Jan and asked its cornbetween tribes of that nation who contin- Philtelegrams 's officer, Col. Pitcairn ued to make war on the whites Sheridan, his commanding 'on, for general, and when Crook learned tioops to help him !r the that President Cleveland and boy and his cattle. ,,er. it was not had repudiated the Sheridan until late in terms under which the Apaches 7, 1861, that Morrison or-- a force of 54 men to prothad surrendered to him, he asked o Cochises to be relieved of his command encampment He was succeeded by Gen. Nelson pache P.iss and demand A. Miles and the last chapter in and the stock be J'ekey the war saga of the Apaches was Waid Command of written a few months later. to was aejachment given Dr. Lockwood's chapter dealGeorge N. Bascom. e willingly accepted Basing with Miles campaign indicates that there is little in it of Ration 'o a conference o...cers tent but when the which to be proud. The title of as n",Kle that he deliv-- J the chapter is Victory With Disinci-twhi- mocratic Personalities in the World News ch Chi-hu- mpletei, ong, md 'Sort y un. control 3. chance-begotte- n That wrse - the Wallace, ina, end like one-stor- irley, do r fellows ty. They party lor that the s a rough on, ol the and it ij lelegates. head and iding Mr, h his long-stude- ssible lor , with-y- 1 Maxim LitvinofT, foreign commissar of Russia who signed with Japanese Ambassador Mamoru Shigemilsu an armistice to the undeclared war between the two nations on the Siberian frontier. 2 Celebrations of welc come for Douglas Corrigan, daring young flyer, which began In New York city have been continued In other principal cities on his journey westward across the continent. 3 Sen. Arthur II. Vandrnberg of Michigan mixes work and play at his home at Grand Rapids as he prepares for an active part in the political campaigns this fail. trans-Atlanti- Future Queens of the Netherlands NEW TIGER BOSS nt albeit invention, ge ol the tion y he will nominee without a pt no believe nal He linate his e able se to observ- - hat stage, the point d which irse My own that any n, Mr. even-t- say he will wait that ppear cept the le believes le will try will select ding, if he the party inced Mr, un, but tertain he Del Baker, who succeeded Mickey Cochrane as manager of the Detroit Tigers, is spurring the team toward a permanent place in the American leagues first division. Cochrane left for a fishing vacation in Wyoming following his dismissal by owner Waiter O. Briggs Sr., after he bad won pennants in 1934 and 1935, a worlds series in 1935 and finished second in 193S and 1937, The new manager said he did not have any changes in mind Immediately, but declared he would demand that every player hustle on every play. Its as Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands Is shown here with her infant daughter, Princess Beatrix, during a visit to the county seat at lleilgendamm, Germany, of tiie grand duke of Mecklenburg, Julianaa cousin. It was the first visit of Princess Beatrix to a foreign country. Harvest Time in the Rice Fields lor bird nust terms recaE ite on Feb-i- t Coolidge ihoose" my d to Demo-,-a- a trick i. So the on, a it ate that no - re-J- o -' - honor. a ture Free and Wards decYied that neither Js peopY had any knowl- the raid nor were they the Loy and the stock , Vs that he was Pro-e- tfUth r fD nal Apaches, ho had made WaS 8 not Chir-- . the raid. bJUscluely disregarding offer to make inquiries Indians and pur- Jup'tty oy and the cattle from Wormed J the chief er(Utlat the interpreter officers words Tthr6 ut his knife, ugh lhe canvas waU , leaped into the of u,and 6 faitim jldlers who had ,Q .joned ient by Ward to sur- - lrrmediately after llThey were lat they made no ch,ef but re' - to . CCf J d o send h.lm as r nis he dashed Jai companions, townneC!it0 escape was fc i pinned to the a bavonet GERONIMO Crook, that he Then Gen. George took the companions would be hostages until Mickey 'rendered L'tv Ordered to kill or capthe 38 renegades under Geronimo and Nachez, Miles force of 5,000 men hunted them through the mountains for four months without killing or capturing a single one. But they did wear down the resistance of the hostiles unand til eventually Geronimo Nachez consented to give up. That surrender was brought about by Lieut. Charles B. Gate-woo- d of the Sixth cavalry, though he was long denied the full meed of honor he deserved through army jealousies and through the pettiness and vanity that marred the really great soldierly qualities of Miles. But the dishonor in this victory was not the dishonor of Miles. It was that of the government which he served. Again the promises made to the Indians to get them to submit were by the higher authorities. But most dishonorable of all was the fact that the loyal Apache scouts, who had helped run down the renegades, were the same treatment given exactly as was meted out to the hostiles. of They were sent as prisoners war to Florida and kept there for several years. Mickey but the the comJust, Terrible and mand of the department of Arizona. Crook at once proved that he could beat the Apaches at their own game and that once could they had surrendered they to them. his promises rely upon finally His campaigns in of a degree greater brought ever had it than Arizona to peace known and with the hostiles settled on reservations, the Apache problem seemed to be settled. In March, 1875, however, Crook was transferred to the department of the Platte because of the threatening situation there. Durwhile he ing the next two years, and Sioux the subdue was helping AriCheyennes, all of his work m be- zona was undone by the strife 1871-7- 2 I 1- V'Jm - - wJlKHhk LtJ 1 A group of pretty harvesters gather in the sheaves of rice in the bumper rice harvest of Louisiana. left to right they are: Estelle Bonin, Jocelyn and Joyce htanim, twins, Elisha and Aurelila Stamm, also twins; and Delia Bonin. Keeping Peaee in Palestine LT. CHARLES B. GATEWOOD the least of which were the vacillation of Uncle Sam in his attitude toward his newly acquired children and the savage brutality of some of his white children toward them. The first Indian agent sent to New Mexico, James S. Calhoun, informed the authorities at Washington that the and Apaches with all the adjacent fragments of other tribes, must be permed up; and this should be done at the earliest possible day. To that he added this significant warning; Expend your millions now, if necessary, that you may avoid the expenditure of millions hereafter. But this advice was igSo during the next 40 nored Sam had to spend Uncle years than would millions more many have been required at the beginwarning ning, had Calhoun's been heeded. ! L r '' ,y $ sp.-- r' , V SaLJjM' An armored trolley precedes the troop train bringing the Eleventh Huvsars Inlo Haifa, Palestine, where they Joined the police in putting down the outburst of bomb throwing, sniping and arson which marked between Jews and Arabs. the most recent flare-up The duke of Windsor adjusts a pair of marine glasses t) k is sight while aboard the Italian liitr Conto Di Savoia, following a Mediterranean yachting trip preparatory to returning to his chateau at Cap dAn tibes, France. |