Arizona weekly citizen., 1885-07-25
CHIEF GERONIMO.
The Apache Murderer tha; Delles tba
 whole United States Army.
Ills History and some or the Incidents n,
 his Bloody Career.

day gives portrait of the noted Anscbs chief, Gero1imo, and brief accom-. ot hls bloody exploits. together with su Idea Of the mode of warfare adopted hv the worst of all Indians, the Apaches.
 The above cut, although giving a gen. erai likeness of the cruel chieftain. is far from perfect. l. WIS engraved from q photograph taken at San Carlos, of Ger. onimo, shortly after his return from fine Sierra Madres In 1888, Rnd shows his Keen, erue! and calculating eyes. the narrow forehead and firm lips, all lu5I. eating superior degree of craftipess. together with a cold, sinister, sneerinp expression. The photograph forwarded to the engraver intensified these expres- sions and showed more clearly tbe say. age characteristics of the Indian. It aI- so showed the strong, muscular propor- tions of the physical man features that were intended to be reproduced in the engraving.
 "oUEE-AHL-LY."
 From ex-Sheriff Gee. u. Stevens, of Graham county, whose long association with tue Apaches and complete famil- iarity with their language has given him special advantages to obtain informa- tion, it is learned that Geronimo Is 0 full-blooded Chiricahua-Apache, about 5S or 40 years of age, and that his Indian name IS "Quee-ahl-ly." He joined the Warm Spring Indians for a short time after the killing oi Rogers and Speucer at Sulphur spring. Came to San Carlos for the first tiue among the Iadiars brought in during Gen. Aug. Y. kautz's command Ot the department, and was among the IndIg0s that Captain Has kell, of Gen. Willcox's staff, made a treaty with and took 10 San Carlos. 1t that time he was not looked on as a chief by other Indians, although he was one of their head men. He left the reservation with the rest Of the Chiricahuas in 1851, at the time of tEe killing of Samaniego and bis teamsters st Cedar Springs. He returned to this country CD raid at the head of a band Of g Indians, ID April, 1882, at which time
 HE BILLED TEN PERSONS AT
 Stevens sheep camp before reaching the San Carlos agency, for which place be was en route with intentions of wreak- ing vengeance on certain bands there and to persuade the Warm Spring h. disns under Loco to !oIn him. From that time le has seemed to take the lead in most of their deveitry.
 From Mir. T.. B. Learned, now residing in New Mexico, the folloTipg partic-- lars regarding the raii of GsfOaiHo and the practices Of the ApacLes In war fare, have been obtained. They are gwen in Mir. Learned'S own words:
 GERONIMO.
 Since 1876 Geronimn has been lead CT of the rsnagales, snl nctwIthstand- ing he has been twice the prisoner ot the evil and twice of fhs military au- thori;ies he has throuEb the years since that date left h.s trail uf blood through Arizona, New Mexico aGd SOnOr3; and though ostensibly 0 prisoner of War for years past, he has again rGldei the coun- try at the head of his desperate band. During lS76-7, the military and civil au- thoritles exerting themselves, he was captured at Ojo CalIente and carried ID irons 10 San Carlos for trial. He wG5 finally released by the military, and this after a vast expenditure to secure hls capture. Now follows a most extraOrdl- nary and inexplIcsble record n the treating of this renegade. As stated, he was given his liberty m August, 1877. He remained upon the reserVa- ton about four or five months, and then started on another rad. After depre- dating in New Msxico and Tn Old Mex ico for year and half he surrendered at Camp Rucker. He WAS held prs oner of war q brief time and then es- corted to San Carlos, where, after brief imprisonment, he was again turn ed loose upon the reservation.
 He remained there until 1881, when without provocatlon he again took the warpath. Raiding all the way, anu "pursued" by the troops, he hnA!Iy brought up in the Sierra Msdres' IT. 1882 a portion of his band under one Ol his lieutenants returned to San Carlos,
 KILLED CHIEF OF SCOUTS STERLING, And, inducing 6 number of Warm Spring Apachos to join them, started on another raid, in 1883, Tn which over hi- ty settlers and many prominent citizens including Judge McCOmas and family, were massacred. "ClOsely pursued by the troops, they leIsurely and without the loss of a man returned to the Slerra Nadres in Mexico. Herethe same year General Crook paid him visit, accom- uanied by United Sta'es troops ana shout three hundred Indian scouts. Ha did not capture the reregades, put aft,.r n barley returned to American soil. Six months after, when The eA, cItenept had died down, Geronimo ana his man appeared at the 'llne" with 0 Isrge herd of stolen stock. By arrange noent ha was met by United States troors upder Lieut.. Davis and escorted safely to San Carlos, where he remained uutiI recently n prisoner ot war The TT,,ted States customs officials, its own CTS. and all others, were prevented tron 5,stDrbing fhe renegsdes in the posses s;,n of their stolen stock, and the snine wss subsequently sold at the agency fortbeir benefit dnder the direction or the military.
 THEIR BUTCHERIES.
 
 During the last twelve years the Anacbes have butchered, m cold blood, over one thousand men, women f.. ana children in these two territories. Nlc- torio's band alone slew over four nun, 5red people in two years. The writer or tbis article has. within six years, Tlth his own hands, helped to lay m tbelr graves over forty human beings, 1i. man. Sled almost beyond recognition, What sweIls the amount on these raids Is the large number of bodies of miners, pros, nectors. herders, etc, that are fonn9 scattered oyer the country after the raid ;s aIl over, and which, during the rsid and its excitement, are no factor ID the lists of killed and wounded.
 The renegades watch and are acqu,alnt- ed with every movement of the soldiers, end tbe ldes that the former are gong to be stopped by any of his companions watchinr trail is ridiculous. A Adetonr of a mile and they have passed the sol d;ers- who, Gen. Crook thinks, Will stop tbsm' The Generals great hobby IS ms Indian scouts, with which he expects to