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Show CHIEF JOSEPH A GENERAL. Head of the Nez Perces Indians Made Record as Fighter. Old Joseph, chief of tho Nez Purees Indians, Is dead Joseph wns a gen oral. Ho was one of tho few snag" who succeeded in combining the best In (hu rod man's s)stem of lighting with that which ho bad learned from tlio wblto mnn's methods of warfare. war-fare. Ho made tho combination tell In the Held. Tho Nez Perces had been trented badly In tho matter of a treaty. Joseph with his band fought for tho land which thu whites would have taken from him. He thrashed thu troops. Reinforcements were sent and Joseph led his men In n ninsterly retreat through tho mountains. Col. Nelson A. Miles was sent after Chief Joseph, and ho succeeded ln rounding up nnd bringing tho band to bay. Overwhelmed by numbers, Joseph surrendered sur-rendered on condition that ho bo al lowed to return to his own country. Tho government piomlsed and broke its pledge Joseph, tho story goes, onco sold to Miles: "You should lova me: I made a bravo of you." Thero nro fow of the Nez Perces left, and In tho death of Chief Joseph thoy havo lost their last claim to distinction. |