New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-10-13
GerOni1nO-s. Career.

GerOnimO'S Career
There has not been such warrior
aas Geronimo since the days of Rob
Roy said Indian Commissioner At
kins. Gle has subsisted on the roots
OF the desert and the serpents of the
mountains for nearly two years. He
has been his own commissary and
chief of transportation; he has worn
out an army, and has kept vast
region OF country in terror. Part of
the time he has been wounded and
sick. His barbarous heroism and en-
-durance are unsurpassed by anything
IN history. There are a good many
points about this wonderful campaign
that the public at large are not famil-
lar with. The revolt that has lust
been brought to close by this cap
ture was started by a. woman, the
I, wife of Chief Mangus. She is a
-" woman OF great force OF charac-
ter, 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
place en- May II, 1885. With him ne
took thirty-four bucks, eight boys and
: ninety-one women. They Travelled
100 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 Businesses Of the mountains.
Finally, after a desperate campaign,
he was captured by General Crook,
. but was only held one night, when he
escaped again. A few days after this
escape he:returned into the fort with
four bucks, and, Selling white wom-
=, an, told her that il she did not tell
HIM where his wife's tent was he would
:. kill her. The woman pointed out the
squaw's tent. Geronimo took his
wife and was again at large, having &C.
complished one of the most daring
and heroic deeds ever recorded. Now
that he:is captured after such a des-
perate chase he will undoubtedly be
hurried East with all possible haste.
General Miles will take good care that
he does,not again escape. 1t would
be a reflection upon the General that
he will take good care not to have oc-
cur if this desperad 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
removal of the Chiricahua Apaches.
In April a band of these Indians at
tackled 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 wound.
ed another. A company OF cavalry
went from Fort Bowie to punish these
murderers. They pursued them sixty
miles and had fight. They killed
no Indians and returned in MAY. Six
. OF the Chiricahua Apaches were re-
moved to San Carlos.
The name of the Chiricahua Indians
had been a 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 continued up to the very day of
their removal The reason for their
removal was that they could be man.
aged better in the San Carlos Agency
than in the mountain Businesses.
At this time the tribe numbered 500
liable warriors, we'll armed, brave, and
experienced. They had defed the
army, and had invariably been sue
cessful in all engagements with our
troops. General Kautz, who was
then in command OF the department
sof Arizona, seat twelve companies OF
the Sixth Cavalry, two companies of
Indian scouts, and a company of In
dian policemen to Apache Pass. The
Indian scouts had a small engage
ment with Chief Taxa, who COM
manded the Chiricahuas, but Taxa
land his tribe, when they under
stood what was desired, vol
Aunteered to 60 to San Carlos. About
sixty Indians under Juh and Geroni-
mo ran away into Sonora, where their
home had formerly been. They soon
uAleu VI ielHstlulnS Ill MEXICO, however,
for they received no rations there, and
so came back into the United States.
On september 2, 1877, 800 Hot
;sp q9rjssPs alGam;. .iricahua Indians sud
Patterns for stan STAN, r.. San Carlos. They
kinds 1i E 5ai ?phnd thirty OF them cap
--- 80 aemainder OF them went
~ geo and began to kill and
W. G sse. After a long campaign
~ ~ rthptured, but while being re-
ASIAN Carlos as usual, about
-. ~. :, their escape to the mount
aims. A long and expensive cam
paign followed The Indians were ii.
nally worn out, and came back only
to again escape, this time to the San
Mateo mountains.
It would be tedious to follow down
all the campaigns from that time to
the present. They are much alike in
all their details. The most serious
campaign OF all is the one just closed.
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