Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-09-17
TO BE TAKEN TO TEXAS.

NO AMOUNT OF CAPTIVITY SEEMS TO
TAME HIS SPIRIT.
GERONIMO AND HIS GANG WILL
THERE AWAIT THE ACTION OF
TIE PRESIDENT.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 7.-Gen.
Howard has tclcgraphed from San
Francisco to the War Department
confirming the reported surrender
OF Geronimo to Gen. Miles.
"There has not been such war
riOr as Geronimo since the days OF
Rob Roy,' said Indian Commits
sioner Atkins to-day. ole 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
All army, and has kept a vast re-
gion 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 q good many points
about this wonderful campaign
that the public at large are not
familiar with. The revolt that has
Just been brought TO a close by
this capture was started by a wo-
man, the wife of Chief Mangus.
She is a woman Of great force OF
character, and strikingly intellec'
tual for a squaw. She planned the
escape and urged the band to des'
perate deeds. She was the Joan OF
Arc of the Apache race. The es-
cape of Geronimo from Fort Apa-
che took place on May Il, 1885,
With him he took thir ty-fOur
bucks. eight boys and nine ty.one
women. They travelled 100 miles
before camping, and their purs uers
were hot upon their tracks, but
they didn't get in sight of the In
dians. For hundreds of miles tins
chase was kept up until Geronimo
was in the Businesses of the mouLl-
tains. 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,
seizing a white woman, told heI
that If she did not tell him where
his wife's tent was he would xii
her. The woman pointed ont The
squaw's tent. Geronimo took his
wife and was again at large, hav
ing accomplished one Of the most
daring and heroic deeds ever re
corded. Now that he is cap turet
after such desperate chas hi
will undoubtedly he hurried cas-
with all possible haste. Gen. Nj les
will take good care that lie doeI
not again escape. 1t would be
reflection upon the General that h'
will take good care not to have oc
cur if this desperate shOuld again
get at large
At the Indian office to-day th'
history of this notorious lndial
was fully looked up. His name
spelled Eronemo, first occurs II
Agent Clum's report of the Sal
Carlos agency in 1876. Mr.. Clun
writes at length in that year of th'
removal of the Chiricahua Apa
ches. In April band of these In
! dians attacked Sulphur Springs
station and killed two men, Messrs
; Rogers and Spence. The sam'
baud attacked the ranches of th'
Rio San Pedro, killed one man
and very badly wounded another
, a company of cavalry went from
t Fort Bowie to punish these mur
\ derers. They pursued them sixt!
5 miles and had a fight. They killed
e no Indians and returned in May
e Six of the Chiricahua Apache
} were removed to San Carlos.
3 The name Of the Ohiricahua In
J dians had been a terror to ArizOni
r aud Sonora for many years pre-
I vious TO this. Many graves il
= Arizona marked the resting-place
OF their victims, and their raids TO
, piunder and murder were cOntinu
J, ed up to the very day of their re
, mOval. The reason for their re
r mOval was that they could be man
aged better in the San Carlo
| agency than in the mountain fast
D ness.
+ At this time the tribo numbere'
T, five hundred able warriors, wei
> armed, brave and experienced
They had defied the Army, and hat
y invariably been successful in al
u engagements with our troops. Gen
Kautz, who was then in comman'
y Of the Department Of Arizona
. sent twelve companies Of the SixtI
u cavalry, two companies of IndiaI
= scouts, and company of Indial
policemen to Apache Pass. TIL
= Indian scouts had a small engage
q ment with Chief Taxa, who con
manded the Chiricahuas, but Taz
and his tribe when they m