Arizona silver belt., 1885-07-11

como directly from tlse renegade camp and was thoroughly posted on the lay of tho country. Gen Crook at once decided to compel this Indian to guide him and his command to the Sierra Madres Pee.nal.tish was held as a prisoner until tho start was made. He was given to understand that any attempt on his part to mislead would 6c certain death, Pee.nal-tlsh agreed to pilot tho way, and he did so, Weary marches of day afterduy, week after week, followed, The greatest rains were taken to prevent treachery on the part of tho guide. This was how Gen. Crook made hisway into the heart of tho Sierra Madre Mountains to the retreat of tho Chiricahuas.
 Arrived near there they met a party of the renegades, who had been sent out from tho stronghold to hold barley with Gen. Crook These h. dians informed tho General that the desire of their chiefs was to surrender to him and go back to the reservation with him. This was what Gen. Crook desired. The runners went back to the Indians camp, and Gen. Crook marched his forces up narrow defle to a point agreed upon, where he was to be met by the ful! band of rene gades. While at this point Poe.nal- tish deserted and went over to the Chiricahua camp, A few days later the renegade band appeared in Gen. Crook camp, but not in a peaceful attitude. The command had been be. trayed. The chiefs said they did not want to fgst, and would not if ccr- tain concessions were made te tAem. Gen, Crook was not then ia a condi- ton to fight having been thrown completely oif his guard by the fre- quent ooamupieatons had between the two campI and he asked them to name the conck ssions demanded. These were that Gei Crook give them one half of hIs provisions and ammunition, the use of 100 of their young bucks who were going on a marauding ex- petition through Sonora, and that Gen Crook take the squaws and old men back to San Carlos. Whom Gen, Crook objected, he was told that he and his whole command were at their mercy. He conceded what the Indians asked Camp was broken and Gen. Crook started north, leaving the 100 young braves to murder and pillage in Old Mexico, and then proceed at their leisure back to the reservation. " Hamlet claimed that 'allthe worlds a stage and men and women merely | players" Such being the fact, it is now pertinent, in the light of revealed history, to indulge the minds eye 1 with a glance into the festooned ban. 1 quoting room in Tucson, thronged with ~brave Iaen and fair women" who had assembled to do honor to "our war worn guest gaze upon his \ bronzed face and mark his modest and upmoyed demeanor as he listened to rhetorical speeches concerning his abundant success over the Chiricahuas in the Sierra Madre, where stern and steep the hills looked down upon the deep" We regret that we have not a Tucson paper of the date referred to, that we might be enabled to repro duce the toasts, aorid speeches and editorial notes of that occasion; how ever we ask that Arizonans tax the aismbic of the brain for a reproduc- tion of the corporeal presence of ora tors and well rounded sentences which dropped like lucent syrup from prac- ticed lips into the listening ears of the General, whom all delight to i honor"