Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-20

continued. The men speedily found them
selves in a country where horses without
claws were of worse than no account Their
officer dismounted them. I'VE will walk
them down. he said grimly The walk be-
gan. 1t was white pluck and endurance
against Indian craftiness and endurance. n
p..a. s. Hunting Gcroui mo. .as = ~ .
Finally, one night Just as the sentries were
set, there was a faint hail and an Indian
stood before them. He was worn to the
bone but dauntless still. He said that his
chief would talk to the white man. but
would talk to him alone. His camp was
some miles farther on, but the messenger
would guide Lawton to it if he cared to
come. The noncoms endeavored to persuade
the captain against the venture but he
smiled sourly at them and told the Indian
that he was ready. They left the
camp of the soldiers the next
morning BY 10 O'Clock Lawton stood
in the Apache horde. Cavernous
eyes cleaned at him Lips drawn back from
discolored teeth grinned at him; wasted
hands were waved at him threatenngly.
Stern, dominant, the living. breathing per-
sonification of the great White Spirit that
had beaten them back from the far eastern
verge of the land they had owned, he walked
straight to the medicine man and demandei
his surrender. There was a brief parley.
Lawton contemptuously refused to promise
anything or to guarantee anything except
that he and his followers would be fed.
Maybe you will be hangeG afterward."
he said. II don't know about that, Any
how, you ought to be. But I'll feed you,
I'd feed a dog in your fix
In the Cuban Fight.
him eagerly preferrng requests for assign
ment to service. He did not wish to inspect
anything or to take the conduct Of army
trains; he wanted to fight. 1t seemed to
him, he said, that if he could smell tbs
smoke once more and know that there was
a chance to do good work he would instantly
become young again. The opportunity was
offered him. It was recognized that in the
Santiago campaign fighters and not doc
trnaires were wanted. At Tampa Lawton
was the first man named by Shafter to as
sist him in the desperate enterprise ahead.
"Pecos Bill" had been for many
years on the frontier himself and
he knew his officer thoroughly.
Nothing could have suited Lawton so well.
AS brgadier general of volunteers he
was given command of a division and in
that command stormed Il Caney, doing as
much as any man could do to convince Toral
that his cause was hopeless. In all of the
fighting of that terrible day he was up to the
firing line, saying little, but pacing slowly
up and down, his gaunt figure a mark for
every sharpshooter in the enemys lines, the
Mausers ficking up the dust about him or
pusing in the air giving to his men the
constant example Of how an American SOL
der should act when under fire More than
once. according to an eyewitness, he would
stoop, seize by the shoulder some recruit
whose nerves had given way, lead him back
into the limo and speak to him in language
that was frequent and painful and free
That was about all of the talking he did
After the surrender he was for time
commandant at Santiago until relieved by
General Wood.
In the Philippines it has been the same
story. or his own v3litiOn neither he nor
his command have ever rested. When he
received an order to advance it was done
with a resistless energy which neither knew
defeat or check, He was the idol of the
soldiers, who never for a moment doubted
they could do anything he told them to do
1t was his spirit which went down the line
which made him rssistless.
Hard Fighting in Manila. rrs-
On General Lawtons arrival at Manila
he relieved General Anderson in command
OF the regular troops. He captured Santa
Cruz. at the extreme end OF the lake near
Manila April 10 This place, which was a
Filipino stronghold fell into the hands of
General Lawton's expedition after some
sharp fighting, which formed one of the
most interesting battles Of the war. Gem
eral Lawton and his staff accompanied the
troops, sometimes leading charges in In