The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-07-06
eLoopY GERONIMO.
Adventures OF . Had Indian who Loua
Deluded the United States Army.

Adventures of . had Indian who Ls~s
Deluded the United states Army.
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 warrior as
Geronimo since the days of Rob Roy.
lie has subsisted on the roots of the
desert and the serpents of the mountains
for neal " two years. He has been his
own commissary aud chief of transpor-
tation; he has worn ont an army. and he
has kept vast region of country in ter
ror Part of his time he has been
wounded and sicl-. His barbarious hero
ism and enda,a ance are unsurpassed bS
any thing In history.
"There are good many points about
this wonderful campaign that the public
at large are not famil ar with. The re-
volt that hns just been brought to close
by this capture was started by "A woman
the wife of Chief Mangus. She Is
woman of great force of character
and strikingly intellectual for n
/ 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
| Il. 1885. With him he took "a bucks
& bows and 81 women. They travelled
| 100 miles before camping, and their
| lursuers were hot upon their tracks.
but they didn't get In sight of the In
| 4 ans. 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
| cd into the fort with four bucks, and,
| soizing white woman. told her that II
/ she did not tell him where his wife's
| teGt was he would kin her. The woman
| pointed out the squaw's tent Gerun
mo took his wife and was again al
/ large. having accomplished one OF the
/ most daring aud heroic deeds ever re-
corded. Now that he Is captured after
I such a desperate chase, General Miles
/ " n take good care that he does not
] again escape. IL would be a reflection
upon the general that he will take good
| care not To have II occur II this des-
| perado should again get AT large
/ At the Indian Office the history OF
/ III notorious Indian was fully looked
| up. His name. spelled Eronemo, first
/ occurs in Agent Clum's report of the
1 San Carlos Agency In 1876. Mr.. Clum
writes at length in that year of the re.
moval OF the Chiricahua Apaches. In
/ April band of these Ind ans attacked
/ sulphur Springs Station and killed tive
! mon. Messrs- Rogers and spence. The
same band attacked the ranches of the
Rio san Pedro, killed one man ana
very badly wounded another. A com
! pany of cavalry went from Fort Bowie
/ 10 punish these murderers They pur-
Y sued them sixty miles and had n 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 a terror tn Arizona and So
nora for many years previous TO this
/ Many graves in Arizona marked the
/ =, sting places OF their victims. and their
/ raids for plumber and murder were con
\ tinurd until the very day OF their r..
\ nlovaL The reason for their reno, al
was that they could be managed better
n the San Carlos agency than in the
mountain Businesses.
At this time the tribe numbered five
aundred able warriors, well armed
/ rave and experienced. They had de-
/ llttA Aut HtllNs anu liiNaEAhDiN het+n
successful in all engagements with our
Il. ops. General Ksutz. who was then
in command of the Department of Ar
iona. sent twelve companies of the
sixth Cavalry, two companies of Indian
.couts and a company of Indian po-
cemen TO Apache Pass The Indian
scouts had a small engagement with
| Chief Taxa, who commanded the Chiri-
ahusa, but Taxa and his tribe. when thev
understood what was desired, volun-
te red to go TO San Carlos. About sixty
indians under .Iuh and Geronimo ran
away into Sonora, where their home
had formerly been. They soon tired of
remaining in Mexico. however. for they
received no rations there. and so came
back to the United States.
On September :. 1877. three hundred
Hot Springs and Chiricahua Ind ans
| suddcnly deserted San Carlos. They
we're pursued and thirty of them cap
tured. The remainder went into New
Mexico and began to kill and pillage
settlers. After long campaign the,
were captured, but while being re-
turned to San Carlos as usual about one
hundred made their G cape to the noun
tains. A long and expensive campalg.
followed. The Indians were finally
worn out. and camc back only TO again
escape, this time to the San Mate
Mountains. - Washington Critic.