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Show APACHE WARRIORS TO FARM liirl) In the new )ear old Oeronlmo and the 300 Apache Indian men, women nnd children who ore held us rlsom rs of war at Port Sill, Okli , will lie released and id lotted lands on which to live us flee is n) of tho other frlendl) lclsklns who havo beeome the wards of the Nitlen Pur neiirl) nrteen )ers (leronlmn has lrn a clesel).guardel prisoner, munotlmes at .Mount ernon barracks, Alabama and more ie.entlv ui l,rt om -ihero aro et living In Arlsona and New Mexico oil settlers who cannot recall bis inme with, jut ii shudler at the vision of murders by tils hand of suvuge followers of nen wo-men wo-men ami ehll Iren In the tin il wind-up of his career ns a leader of a hostile Kind he led the troops of t, l nltrst States a chase of sV miles through the mountains of Arlsona nnd Mexico an International agreement allowing the Pederal sol Hers to crosn the bound ir In tho chase being necessar) to subdue Mm and his little bnnd of lesa than a score or fighting men 1 or enrs before this ho and his tribe had wi!Z !YL'H-n'rR': "f "'o Southwest and wtnen (ten e rnnk was min ceded n the, jommane lot thai ; department b tten Nc. ni?,ir J".'u wh" '""' esrne.1 fame us a iff! r."'."1 ' w""ir of the Norihvrest, !hli,r0,tn.mon! ,vt Wnshlngliin mdere. hrf.Ln",?"1"", ,,. 'apturcU and his tnn.l broken lip whatever the cost Several fnyj "' C!,1"lrv ',n'' a deloehmenl or IS-,inn.r,.rom,.i;c' IS-,inn.r,.rom,.i;c' ,!pn "'" 'ree tint was put on the Hern old warriors trull ;.i!l 'i .fa'Jerwiirel (loncrall lawton who was killed In the Philippines wns In com LnnV..",f, l """I' nf "" 1 ourlli nvalri R,ni,!2 h V1 """ ftsflinesl the tusk of fof. !,,',V?i ,'.hc lr"" , "'"er deli.hmenls eeoureil the mountlln dollies and attempt-ISi'V attempt-ISi'V C"J "" "'" re' rent of llle sav iges in ii,. ",'"" n1? orderel lit boll right on iJriSi-..',"" .J' k'1" "l1'' "!' "h a de termination thai lluull) wore out even the iiavilfce eneliiriiuo of the dark raced MRiM,T?fe" '" ""' c"" il,l.lrii,.".nr!rrrt 1 "!'' expositions slnco Jin7;i.ilr. X.hr!? hundreds or thousands, SJi?,."' ,ho Worlds fair hue erowdc, n ?,! " Eaxe on Mm s thev would on ".''"" In enptlvit), and no irglo Ivast ii?i .fi, r, "crcer or inoro iruel ilun tho ?nl ,iVit,,'',,,,"rri1 T"n ttl'o seemed to h?i?,J ,U? "'"nllon be a I tract eil It has been estimated that the lasl camnllsn iJ.V"t him which resulted in his e irduro Sv.j ., "oerrment more linn Jl mourn m-n ,,i"JUM of s-vernl times ns nun) a?, ?. V)cro Vcro n."n .women and chll-VMri1 chll-VMri1 '," "eronlnns bind With hla cnii-f cnii-f ""L '"' " 'I'" list dangerous hostile, ',' '."""'hwest wis disirmed and Ihero i?. .LT." "", serious Indlnn trouble In !,h"'r,J".n. "?'.': '" " t"w months t.ero. SiViMjnd "'" '""ewers will be peacefullv plintlng rorn and drawing riillms from tho (lovernnient agenc). Just as If lby l1."iln,''.l,cr ,e" ". '!:nl1 nf ''lend and ashei ".rr.3""' ."".""i" 'r the Bouthwi stern nioun. ann,r,".'"' l!,1Jn, '""' k',rl u "l,l" nillltar) departinent friun Betting a eiulet nights JiL'.r,;r lnany yr"r" '"e ofd chief pro. may stick to the farm and not break away and go on tho worpith .Jn.'..ho rl ';0" lieronlmn was one nf the ' threo great chiefs who Infested the liragoon nnd Chlrlcuhun mountains Old Cochise father, of Natchez (leronlmn s lighting companion was one nf them den 0 O Howard ant a slnglo aide, entered the dm of Cochise In 1SJ3 and mnde, n treaty of jieace, v hlch tho noble red man honorablj kept till his death (leronlmn expressed a desire lo to lm ludeil In llm .."."' J! "' "as accepted When the sons of Cochin, were lent lo Han Carlos he wns anxious in go wlih them nnd begged a iiMia i from Agent John P Clum to take his fumllj from hla eaiiip As soon ns he got them tho cunning Indlin gave lmrchlng erdera the dogs were killed lint their barking might not lead lo detection nnd lho trluo rnn uwa) lo the Mexican mojn-talns mojn-talns neronlmos life thereafter was a rerlea of murderous expeditions on settlers set-tlers and traveling Mexicans, of eurion-ders eurion-ders and nsciipen In ISS3 Cm Crook penetrated pene-trated lho mountain strnnghnl I and brought lho entire Chlrlcahun tribe num. berlng o lei a rctervntlon In Arizona There firms were given them and they wero tauRbt toeulllvnte them Rut In tho spring of icsi Oeronlmo nnd Natchez led an outtreuk and thev. with 111 men. wo. men and children tied to Mesleo In March lsu after a stubborn rvm-Piilgn, rvm-Piilgn, the whole bod) surrendered lo (Icn frook Two dn)s nfter tho surrender Natchez and Geronlmo csenped In the rlht All the rest wero sent ns prlroncrs to I ort Marlon Ha Oeronlmo and Nutrhez, with eighteen men nnd eighteen women and children, wero nt large the niroeltlea the) com. mlttcd made. It Imperative thai the) le recaptured Oen Nelson Miles succeeded succeed-ed Gin. Crook and conducted tho campaign cam-paign According to a list compiled b the Society Soci-ety of Hone era of Arlioni, e event) -six whltn men women and chlldrrn were killed b Oeronlmo and his bind during tho Ian rail In P and Vi.o, i,r, p, rsons were murdered mid, according to a ree ord kept t) Herman Lhrenbergcr, an engineer, en-gineer, 123 persons fell victims to thc scalping knives of the Apachen between UW and M! It Is sal 1 that this w is half as many us the entire l.iullsh.speaklng population of the terrltor) Tho etor) of the capture as told by a trooper who witnessed wit-nessed It la given I was qurte a )nung fellow a recruit from Jefferson barracks Mo when I went Into that countr) 'lho (lernnlmo campaign cam-paign wns my first experience I Joined iroop H of the Sixth cavutry, under l.leut clatewnod, mv Ideal of an oftlccr Our troop was sent out on scouting duly along the can)nna nnd passes to locatn tho In-eltans In-eltans and to capture Geinnimo If ossl-ble ossl-ble How tho thought of encountering him used to send cold Bhlvers down my bockl I used lo dreim about him ns 1 slept on tho ground after hsrd mnrchoH Man) a night 1 woke with a stull Imagining Imag-ining this Indian devil hid me Man) u tlmo during Ihe- day I felt like running nway, but with Indians nil about I knew I would bo Jumping from lho frMng.pan Into th lire "Wo ill 1 not know Geronlmo s whereabouts where-abouts at any lime, but we knew ho was ln tho vlelnltv some ila)s within a mllo of us, other daeie fifty miles away Ono thing wo did know was that thoso hills were Idled with Indians unxlous lo pick us ntt whenever wo exposed ojrsclves A good many of the soldiers were killed and wounded At night wo could often seo Indians around their camp fires, grotesque gro-tesque shadows nf their war bonneta boh. blng about on tho tall tr Prlendly Apache scouts wcio llhea if us but wo wero alwu)H suspicious or rm Wenrro trequenlly lire I on Item imbush Whenever When-ever we came lo a dark ravine our henna wero in our throats nt least mine was Tho Indians never vaive open battle In live weeks wo worked our way down to within nbout eight miles of 1 ronterns, on tho Mextcan border vehero l.leut W lidcr had bis camp I lent Gitowood obtained rclnrnrcenienis there sa)lng tint lie was pushing nflir Oernnlmrj A serge int nnd reven men wero de tailed as his liud)guurd anl two Yuma Apneho acnutrt wen also given us Gnlcv ood alread) had two sub-chiefs sub-chiefs of tho Chlrleahui Apaches, and theso pushed forw ird ulone It wns puro luck that led us to Geronlmo Gero-nlmo It was an easy capture, for llio-o 1 idlans wero fagged h) the long chnso lho troops had given them. They looked half Starved . , , , ' The story of Geronlmo a Imprisonment lit Mount erniin barricles, Alabama, and liter In Port Sill, is well kniwn '-Chicago Chronicle |
