Show txcronimos Case WASHINGTON Oct 4 I is stated officially at the War Dapartment that nothing has been determined upon in regard to the surrender sur-render of Geronimo and that the Department Depart-ment is still looking for information upon which to base any action General Miles want of frankness in avowing at the outset that ho had granted liberal tefms to the captives is severely criticized I is now understood that the instructions given to General Crook not to accept the surrender sur-render of the Apaches unless they came in without conditions were transmitted to General Miles for his information and guidance These instructions were inspired by the desire of the President to undertake a new policy of dealing with the renegade Indian marauders which policy contemplated contem-plated their trial by the civil courts and their prompt punishment for the crimes they had committed A requisition it is understood has already been made by the Governor of Arizona upon the Governor of Texas for the surrender of Geronimo for trial but under the terms of surrender the President cannot permit the chief to be surrendered sur-rendered to either Governor General Miles has defenders among the authorities as well as critics and it is urged in justification of his course that it is better to have possession of the Indians even if the opportunity oppor-tunity of making an example of them to deter de-ter others from following in their footsteps be lost than to permit them to go on indefinitely indefi-nitely in their course of murder and destruction de-struction There is a conflict of opinion and statements in respect to the condition ot the Apaches when they came in I has been said they were reduced to the lowest point of fatigue and privation and that their surrender was the result This in the absence ab-sence of official information is not every where credited Officers who know the Apaches well assert that the kind of life they have been leading latterly is their normal state that women accompanied them everywhere and that children were born and thrived while the troops were in hot pursuit In short that the savages were as well prepared when they surrendered for continuing their raids as they were a year ago The surrender and cessation of hostilities is said to be a sad blow to a certain class of whites upon both sides of the line Men who made merchandise merchan-dise out of the misfortunes of the settlers who secured valuable mining and ranch properties for a fraction of their value inconsequence in-consequence of the terror inspired by the savages and vvho would have supplied the latter with means to carry on their murderous murder-ous work indefinitely Lieutenant Gate wood the officer to whom the Indians first surrendered has not yet been heard from through any channel with respect to the conditions granted to the prisoners |