The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-06
NILES VERSION
Of the Capture of Geronimo
and FellOW-0utlaWS.
HENRY GEORGES NOMINATION.
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Boiler with Dire RSsUlts-A Sup
Elementary RepOrt-Etc.
General Miles Talks.

DENVER, Col, October .. = Albu-
querque. New Mexico, special: Genera
Miles was asked, to-day, by a repre-
sentative of the Democrat what he
thought of the published statements or
bulletins assumed to have been written
upon official information furnished at
the War Department as to his capture
of Geronimo. Those reports" replied
the General, "emanate from the brain
of some INSCRIPTIONS and enVious per-
son, whose object appears to be to dis
tort the truth with the intention of in
juring me regardless, of the just praise
due the troops for their extraordinary
services in achieving permanent peace
in the southwest. Many statements
are entirely devoid of truth, others are
weak arguments aud labored theories.
The pretense that the sur
render of Geronimo and other h0stiles
was other than the result Of gallant and
arduous operations of the troops in the
field is simply childish. One might
imagine reading some statements, that
the red-handed Apaches have been all
summer trying to get up cheap-rate
excursion to the yellow fever districts
of Florida. Surely, no intelligent man
would believe that the Apaches, vino
have been roaming over this noun
famous region for generations, masters
of the situation, would have thrown
down Their arms, sacrificed their pros
perity, surrendered their liberty, &C
cepted perpetual Punishment from their
native country, and placed themselves
and their families at the mercy of gov
eminent, unless they had been sub
jected by military forces, the mifdast
punishment evidently in store for them
far exceeding in severity that ever be-
fore inflicted upon any body of Indians
in this country"
General, would you mind giving a
copy of your official report of the sur
render?" was asked.
Il am quite willing that every official
act of mine in this enterprise should be
known to the public. L would much
prefer that my official report should be
published, and then the extracts and dis
torted statements should be thrown out.
The people of this country are quite
intelligent enough to draw their own
conclusions, and IL is not necessary that
official documents should be filtered
through the personal brain of some in
genIous enemy, and then so colored, in
pelAJs dS W DCob Oils SAACA4 pNA SOLdA
interests"
Would you mind saying in what
respect your course has differed from
your instructions2
Il am glad to answer that question,
in order to put at est a very inaccurate
statement. l was given absolute dis
crehonary authority to conduct the
campaign. Even General Sheridan.
who commands the army and knows
more about Indian matters and the
topography Of this country than all the
army officers in Washington together,
declined to give any specific instruc-
TONS"
What has been the effect of the
removal upon the other tribes Of In
dians 2"
1T has stricken terror into those
living in the adjacent country. Even
the powerful NsYsioes of 20,e0J souls,
are now afraid they may do something
| for which they will be liable TO be sent
away from their native country, l al
ready regard it more effective than if
forty executions would have taken
| place"