Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-09-16
CHIEF aERoNIMo's CAREER.
Adventures and Transgressions Of . Bad
Indian who has Done his Worst and
has Deiuded the Whole Uni
ted States Army.

and Transgrossions OF Dao
Indian who has DON his Worst and
has Deiuded the Whole uni
ted States Army.
wAsHrNeroN, Sept Cen. Howard
has telegraphed from San Francisco to
the War Department confirming the re-
ported surrender of Geronimo to Gen.
Miles.
There has not been such a warrior as
Geronimo since the days of Rob Roy.
said Indian Commissioner Atkins to-day.
"Hc has subsisted on the roots of the de-
sert and the serpents Of the mountains
for nearly two years. He has been his
own commissary and chief Of Transports
ton; he has worn out an army, and has
kept a vast region of country In terror.
Part of the time he has been wounded
and sick. His barbarous heroism and
endurance are unsurpassed by anything
in history.
There are a 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. a close
by this capture was started by a woman,
the wife of Chief Mangus. She is q wo-
man Of great force of character, and
strikingly intellectual for a squaw. She
planned tire 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, 1886. With him he took
thirty-four bucks, eight boys and ninety
one women. They travelled 1870 miles
before camping, and their pursuers were
hot upon their tracks. but they didn't
get in sight of the Indians. For hun
dreds Of miles this chase Vas kept up I'M
til Geronimo was IL the Businesses of the
mountains. Finally after a desperate
campaign he was captured by Gen. 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 a 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.
Geronimo 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 he will undOubted'
w be hurried east with all possible haste
Gen. Miles will take good care that hi
does again escape. 1t would be a ieflec
ton upon the General that he will take
good care not to have occur If this des
perado should again get at large"
At the Indian Office to-day the history
of this notorious Indian was fully looked
up. His name, spelled Eronemo, first oc
ours in Agent Clum's report of the Sal
Carlos agency in 1876. Mr.. Clum write
, at length in that year of the removal o
the Chiricahua Apaches. In April
: band of these Indians attacked Sulphu
Springs station and killed two men
. Messrs. Rogers and Spence. The sam
: band attacked the ranches of the Ri
y Son Pedro. killed one man, and yer
h badly wounded another. A company Q
a cavalry went from Fort Bowie to punis
these murderers. They pursued theI
sixty miles and had a fight. They kille
no Indians and returned in May. Six
the Chiricahua Apaches were remove
= to San Carlos.
The name Of the Chificahua Indian
g had been n terror to Arizona and SonoI
for many years previous to this. Man
re graves in Arizona marked the Resin
70 places of their victims and their raids fl
plumber andrmurder were continued I
TO the very. day of their removal. IN
IN reason for their removal was that thu
could be managed better in the San Ca
K. los Agency than in the mountain fas
nesses.
% At this time the tribe numbered 8
~ able warriors, well armed, brave and c
% perienced. They had defed the arm
and had invariably been successful in
I'd engagements with our troops, Genel
AZ Kautz, who was then In command OF Il
Department of Arizona, sent twelve col
10 panies Of the Sixth Cavalry, two col
he panies Of Indian scouts, and a compal
on of Indian policemen to Apache Pa
ed The Indian scouts had n small engal
ment with Chief Taxa, who command
"a. the C%hricahuas, but Taxa and his tril
=. when they understood what was desire
volunteered to go to San Carlos. Abe
CT, sixty Indians under Juh and Geronii
nd ran away into Sonora, where their hol
he had formerly been. They soen tired
tc, remaining in Mexico, however, for Ii
be received no rations there, and so ca
back into the United States.
On Sept. 2, 1877, three hundred !
o. Springs and Chiricahua Indians suddel
nj deserted San Carlos. They were pursr
no and thirty of them captured. The
a, mainder went into New Mexico and
ere gan to kill and pillage settlers. Afte
IN long campaign they were captured,
ar. while being returned to San Carlos
usual about 100 made their escape to
mountains. A long and expensive CO
the paign followed. The Indians were finn
lu- worn out, and came back only to oil az
10 escape, this time to the San Mateo Mo
tains. :
en-. 1t would be tedious to follow down
lss, the campaigns from that time to the p
Adj ent. They are much alike in oil Il
details. The most serious campaigl
~ all is the one just closed. The fact
~ been demonstrated to the entire salts
XIX ton of both the War and Interior
partments that the Chiricahua Apac
cannot be kept with any safety in Ar
ma. They will be removed to some p
at;c of greater security further east.
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