The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1890-03-28

H1IgAHl 49, the slightest warn
| htNEsN&KNNNNERM%RNNi ing that General
'aNSNMNNANAwANsaas~ Crook was not per-
General George Crook. fectly we'll. He was
at army headquarters all day Thursday,
and Wednesday night at the hotel APP
peared to be inohis usual good health.
He got up as usual yesterday morning
| at seven o'clock, and while dressing
suddenly said to his wife: 81 can't
breathe" Mrs Crook helped him to a
sofa and a doctor was at once sum-
moned, but soon after he reached the
room General Crook died. The Gen
| eral has been in command of the
| Division of the Missouri for several
years, succeeding General Scbofield.
Mr.. John S. Drake, proprietor of the
| Grand Pacific Hotel, an intimate friend
| of General Crook, made the following
| statement to an Associated Press re-
porter. General Crook rose shortly
before seven o'clock this morning ap-
| parently in his usual health, and, in ac-
| cordance with his custom, began exer-
| cising with the weights and pulleys
| connected with an apparatus for the
purpose which he kept in his room.
| After exercising for few minutes he
| stopped and laid down on a lounge,
| saying he felt difficulty in breathing,
| A few moments later he called out to
his wife, oh, Mary, Mary; / need some
| help, can't get my breath
Assistance was at once summoned
| and DR.. Hurlbut, who lives near by,
was sent for. Every thing that could
| be done was done, but he failed to rally
| and died at quarter after seven. Mrs.
| Crook and her sister, Mrs. Reid, were
| the only members of the family present
| at his bedside when he passed away,
He had no children. 1 suppose his
| death resulted from an affection of the
| heart. For some weeks, in fact, ever
since he returned from his last trip to
the Northwest, he has been complain
ing of bearing down sensation in the
| neigh borhood of his heart"
DR.. V. L. Hurlbut, the physician who
| was summoned, said: 81 arrived at
| General Crooks bedside only four or five
minutes before death supervened. He
| was suffering form irregular action of
the heart, and his lungs or chest seemed
to be filled up. We did what we could
for him in the way of hot applications
with sinatpisms, hot bags to his feet
| etc, but he was in articulo mortis when
| / arrived, and died without rallying. 1t
| appeared to be a case of heart failure,
| but could not be positive about that
| as / had never been called to attend
him before. There may have been some
stomach complications.
Major Randall, of General Crooks staff,
said: 1--WE have noticed for some time
| that General Crook was not in his usual
health. He was a man who never COM
planned, and said very little about his
| sufferings. At the theater last night 1
saw he was not feeling at all we'll, and
asked him if he was in pain. He said:
| No. but think that was the beginning
of the end"
The funeral will take place Sunday at
| one clock at the Grand Pacific Hotel,
| after which the body will be escorted
| by military to the depot, where it will
be placed on the 2:55 p. m. train for Oak
land, Md.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
General George Crook was born near Day
| ton, o., September s, 1928 He was graduated
at the United States Military Academy in
1852, and was on duty with the Fourth In
| fantry in California 1852 to 1861. He was in
the Rouge River expedition in 1856, and com
| manded the Pitt River expedition in 1857. In
the latter he was wounded by an arrow. He
had risen to a captaincy when, at the begin
| ming of the civil war, he returned to the
East and became Colonel of the Thirty sixth
Ohio Infantry. In 1862 he wounded
at Lewisburg, w. Va. For his serv
ices at Antietam he was brevetted
Lieutenant Colonel. He was actively
engaged in several campaigns during the
war and took part in Sheridan's Shenandoah
campaign, receiving the brevets of Briga
der General and Major General U. s. A.
March Is, 1865. He was mustered out of the
service January 16, 1866. July 2S, 1866, he was
commissioned Lieutenant Colonel of the
Twenty third Infantry u. s. A. and assigned
to the District of Boise, Idaho, where he re-
manned until 1872, actively engaged in Indian |
campaigns. In 1872 he was assigned to the
Arizona district, where he quelled serious
Indian disturbances. In 1875 he was sent
to Wyoming where, at Powder river,
he defeated the unruly Sioux and |
Cheyennes He continued his cam
paign in the Northwest with relentless
vigor until, in May, 1878, all of the hostile
tribes had yielded. In 1852 General Crook
returned to Arizona, whera he forced the
squatters to vacate the Indian lands. In the
folio wing year, when the Chiricahuas went
on a raid, he pursued them and made four
hundred prisoners. During the two years
following no depredations occurred, but in
the spring of 1886 the Indians under Geron-
imo again went on the war path. General |
Crook pursued them and forced their sur
clined to ratify his action, and Gener-
al Sheridan telegraphed him that the
only condition that could be made
with Geronimo's band was that their
| lives would be spared. In the meantime
| Geronimo and some of his men escaped, and
| General Sheridan having criticised his cam
| paign severely, General Crook asked to be
relieved from the command of the Depart
ment of Arizona. He was relieved and Gen
| eral Miles was sent to take his place Short
| ly after Geronimo and his band surrendered
and were taken to Florida, where they now
| are. For nearly four years there has been a
| bitter controversy over the surrender, Gen
eral Crooks friends claiming that General
Miles had brought about the climax of what
| could not have been accomplished
without General Crooks antecedent work
This controversy has gained in bitterness
recently by the discussion of bin which
| has passed the Senate, and is now pending
| in the House committee, providing for the
! removal of Geronimo and his people to Fort
| Sill, Indian Territory. General Crook IA
/ vored the removal and General Miles op
posed 10.
4 When relieved of the command of the De-
partment OF Arizona, General Crook was