The Iola register., 1886-10-29
BLOODY GERONIMO.

United States Indian Commissioner
Atkins speaking of Geronimo, the guer.
rilla Apache Indian Chief. who recently
surrendered to General Miles said:
There has not been such a warrior as
Geronimo since the days OF Rob Roy.
He has suhsisted on the roots of the
desert and the serpents of the mountains
for neall ly two years. He has been his
own cOmmissary and chief of transpor-
tatiOn; he has worn out an army, and he
has kept vast region of country in ter
rOr. Part of his time he has been
wounded and sicF. His barbar.ous hero
ism and endurance are unsurpassed by
any thing in history.
There are good many points about
this wonderful campaign that the public
at large are not familiar with. The re-
volt that has just been brought to close
by this capture was started by awOman,
the wife of Chief Mangus. She is a
woman of great force of character
and strikingly intellectual for a
squaw. She planned the escape and
urged the band to desperate deeds.
She was the Joan Of Arc of the
Apache race. The escape of Geronimo
from Fort Apache took place on May
II, 1885. With him he took 81 bucks.
boys and 81 women. They Travelled
l2O miles before camping. and their
pursuers were hot upon their tracks,
but they didn't get in sight of the In.
dams. For hundreds of miles this chase
was kept up until Geronimo was in the
fastness of the mountains. Finally, af,
ter desperate campaign. he was cap.
tured by General Crook, but was held
only one night, when he escaped again.
A few days after this escape he return
ed into the fort with four bucks, and,
seizing white woman, told her that if
she did not tell him where his wife's
tent was he would kill her. The woman
pointed out the squaw's tent Geroni-
mo took his wife and was again at
large. having accomplished one of the
most daring and heroic deeds ever re-
corded. Now that he is captured after
such a desperate chase, General Miles
will take good care that he does not
again escape. 1t would be reflection
upon the general tha. he will take good
care not to have it occur if this des-
perado should again get at large"
At the Indian Office the history of
this notorious Indian was fully looked
up. His name, spelled Eronemo, first
occurs in Agent Clum's report of the
San Carlos Agency in 1876. Mr.. Clum
writes at length in that year of the re-
moval of the Chiricahua Apaches. In
April a band of these Indians attacked
Sulphur Springs Station and killed two
men, Messrs. Rogers and Spence. The
same band attacked the ranches of the
Rio San Pedro, killed one man and
very badly wounded another. A COM
pany of cavalry went from Fort Bowie
to punish these murderers. They pur-
sued them sixty miles and had a fight.
They killed no Indians and returned in
May. Six of the Chiricahua Apaches
were removed to San Carlos.
The name of the Chiricahua Indians
had been terror to Arizona and So
nora for many years previous to this.
Many graves in Arizona marked the
resting places of their victims, and their
raids for plumber and murder were con-
tinued until the very day of their re-
moval. The reason for their removal
was that they could be managed better
in the San Carlos agency than in the
mountain Businesses.
At this time the tribe numbered five
hundred able warriors, well armed.
brave and experienced. They had de-
fled the army, and had invariably been
successful in all engagements with our
troops. General Kautz, who was then
in command of the Department of Ar
izona, sent twelve companies of the
Sixth Cavalry, two companies of Indian
scouts and company of Indian po-
liccmen to Apache Pass. The Indian
scouts had small engagement with
Chief Taxa, who commanded the Chiri-
ahusa, but Taxa and his tribe, when they
understood what was desired, volun-
teered to 90 to San Carlos. About sixty
Indians under Juh and Geronimo ran
away into Sonora, where their home
had formerly been. They soon tired of
in Mexico, however. for they
back to the United States.
On September 2. 1877, three hundred
Hot Springs and Chiricahua Indians
deserted San Carlos. They
were pursued and thirty of them cap
tured. The remainder went into New
and began to kill and pillage
settlers. After a long campaign they
were captured. but while being re-
turned to San Carlos as usual about one
made their e cape to the noun
tains. A long and expensive campaign
followed. The Indians were finally
worn out. and came back only to again
escape. this time to the San Mateo
Washington Critic.
Justice Warfield, of Baltimore, is
to break up profanity on
the streets if heavy fines can do it Last
Saturday he fined one man S15 and
costs, making Sl6.45. for cloud and
noises on the Streets" and