Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1886-09-10
GERONIMO EFT Al.
The Murderous Apache Chief with
His Lieutenant airhez and Bucks
on their Wastu Fort Marion,
Natchez says the surrender was
Great Calamity aud Contrary
TO His Earnest Advice.
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Sergeant stabbed, Probably b,
draaners.
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Special 10 tho Gazette.
FL PAso, TRx., Sept. s.~-Iiet0Almo
and Natchez, the Apache chiefs, aud
thirty-one IndiAue, Including women and
children, arrived here thle morning IN
charge OF Capt Lawton. They 20 via
San AntopIo and New orleans 10 Fort
Marion, Fla
While the train was standing Al the Dc.
pot an attempt was made 10 interview
Geronimo, but he remained sullen aud re-
fused TO talk, lie Is slxty-elghty, ars old
and most dliApldsted looking specimen.
His hair Is very long and hAnga over his
dirty shoulders Ia q reckless manner. lie
was dressed In 9 diugy suit and looked
more like sqnaw than the murderous
chief that he has been
Natchez is over six feet high and looks
like man OF great shrewdness. He was
very detected and spoke OF his surrender
as great calamity. He said there never
would have been any surrender IL his adj
Vice had been taken.
Gen. Miles accompanied the party to
this city and left here this morning for
Santa fe.
This afternoon Consul Brigham re-
I.ceivod a telegram from Envoy Sedgwick
saying that he would call upon aim on.
clally tomorrow, under orders from the
government,
sergt. Beltord, the signal observer,
while taking walk last night near the
Southern Pacific depot, was stabbed by
some unknown party with q knifo liz the
, left breast, lie has since been In an un-
J conscious condition.
AMOUR GERONIMO.
WAsnIN0roN, Sept. l,--Gen Drum,
acting secretary Of war, having been
, authorized by the president TO use his
discretion In the treatment Of the cap.
tured Apaches, has instructed Gen. Miles
, 60 remove Geronimo and his band 60
J some secure place OF confinement, and
I while II is not yet known at the depart
mcnt where they have been taken, Il IL
/. surmiscd the captives have been removed
to Fort Bliss, Tex, or some nelghborlng
post. II was not deemed prudent 30 let the
indians remain at Fort liowie, as In the
event OF escape into thc adjacent mo0n
tAina II would be almuaL impossible 70 re
capture them. Despite the announce
ment made In official kilograms tina
Geronimo's surrender was unconditional
ls the belief IL growing at the war depart
II ment based on the chiefs well
;. earned : reputation as atrAtapin
, that he had made some conditions Will
:, his captors that VIII at least prevent nj
y trial in Arizona. In the absence OF
= more definite understanding on the sub
! jeot at headquarters, Il Ia tolerably Ger
2 tain the Indians will be held at somi
: Texas fort as prisoners OF war until tn
7 president returns and expresse
;. HIS wishes In the matter. II Ia believe,
J by officers competent 70 Judge that elvl
y trial Of the captives would be
, failure, MS no evidence VI lega
weight could be adduced 70 brlni
the murders that have been COMMITTEES
u home 10 any Of these Indians. Littl
o better results would attend trial by
military commission for the same reason
y IL III felt the only feasible solution o. IN
o question Of treatment Of Geronimo am
his band would be their removal 70
reservation, probably In Florida, wherf
from the surroundings, escape woold D
impossible.