Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1890-03-27

NhA1 NHOOn' ago when he made
trip with General Strong and other
friends, but he has not been confined to
his room. He was one of a box
party at a theater Thursday night,
and was in good spirits. He re-
turned and went to bed without
complaining of any unusual symptoms
He arose before o'clock and partially
dressed himself. He stepped from his
sleeping-room into his parlor to take
some exercise with an apparatus as is
his custom. A moment later his wife
heard him fall heavily on sofa and
cry: Mary, Mary, come quick; l can't
breathe" She rushed to his aid but
was unable to relieve him. DIR. Hurl-
burt was summoned and only arrived to
see the General expire. The cause of
his death was undoubtedly failure of the
heart
General Crook undermined his con-
stitution in his Indian campaign" said
MAJOR Mcclellan yesterday morning.
LAS every one knows, he was wonder
fully active man. He would stop
at nothing and denied himself every
pleasure or comfort. He constant
ly refused to incumber himself
with things that might conduce to his
comfort, so that he might move around
more quickly. There never was
point of danger in these western cam
paigns that he did not place him
self in, so that a good example
would be set for the army.
think the campaign of 1876 was the
foundation for his troubles. Then
he started out with thirty days ra
tons for his force and was gone nearly
year, spending a terribly severe win
ter in the mountains and on the western
prairies far away from the forts and
posts. This hard service, together with
the irregularity of meals and the scare
ity, of food. resulted in his stomach
troubles which Immediately affected his
heart"
GENERAL CROOKS RECORD.
General Crook was born near Dayton, o.,
September az 1929 He entered West Point in
I64S, graduating in 1882 with Generals Sher
tdan, Schoheld and others who afterwards
gained fame. He was first assigned as Second
Lieutenant OF the Fourth infantry. Al the
breaking out of the war he was made Colonel Of
the Thirty Sixth Ohio. He fought through
out the Virginia campaign as Brig
aulerG0neral OrOereQ TO tennessee, ne
distinguished himself at Chicl1amauga Under
General Sheridan he aided in defeating the reb
els at Cedar creek, and planned the attack
upon Early at Fishers hill, from which Early
never recovered After the war as
Lieutenant-Colonel of the Twenty-third
Infantry in the Department of the
Columbia, he did good work in ouelIng
hostile Indians. From the rank of LIEUTENANT
Colonel he became Brigadier.General of the
United States Army in 1874 something in the
way Of promotion very rarely heard OF. During
his career as Commander of the Department of
the Platte, by his conquering the hostile Sioux
and Cheyennes, he opened up to settlement a
stretch OF country larger than France
In 1889 General Crook returned to ARIZONA
forced the Mormons, squatters, miners
and stock raiSers to vacate the Indian
lands 90 which they had SEIZED en-.
couTaged the Apaches in planting and pledged
them the protection OF the Government
In the spring of 1888 the Chiricahuas In
trenched themselves in the Businesses Of the
mountains on the Northern Mexican boundary
and began series of raids General Crook
struck the trail, and, instead 81 following, took
it backward penetrated into and took posses
sion Of their strOngholds. and as fast as the
warriors returned from their plundering ex-
oursions, made them prisoners. He marched
over goo miles, made 400 prisoners and captured
all the horses and plumber. During the
two years following he had sole charge OF
bhe Indians, and in that time no depreda.
ton occurred. He then set them Gil at
work on their farms, abolished the system OF
trading and paying in goods and store orders
inenlgsd in by contractors, paid cash direct to
the Indians for all his supplies and stimu-
lated them to increased exertions. The In
NAns became self-supporting within three
years.
April 6 1885, President Cleveland nominated
Brigadier. General George Crook 10 be Major
General, vice Terry, retired His headquarters
we're established in the Pullman building, in
Chicago, and his time would have expired in
1894
CHICAGO, March 24.-The funeral Of
the late Major-General George Crook,
United States army, took place yester-
day afternoon. The remains were taken
to Oakland, Md, for interment