The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-02-08
SAID TO Be INSANE



Report Abeut OLD Geroains the
Trcachcrsus Indias Wsrrisr
The New York Journal publishes story
10 the effect that Geronimo has gone IN
sane. Nothing Is known 70 this eseci n
! Wichita and the report Is probably false.
The Journals article reads as follows:
Old Geronimo u going mad. he IL the
wtckedest Apache that ever lived. and an
apache Indian Is as much worse than any
other Indian as a drink OF pure jamaica
ginger - stronger than water.
He 10 70 years old. He has murdered
scores and scores OF men. he has burned
women allys and he has smiled 70 see IT.
tie babies tortured to death.
He has been captured BY the sosdserz
i've times ana Eve times he escaped.
He has lived for weeka at . time On .
handful OF parched corn. He has lain
hidden for four days end four nsxhss with
In rife shot OF a cavalry company which
rode CUT into the desert TO Ind old Ger
onIno and bring him In. dead or alive.
lie has ridden FIVE hundred miles a .
stretch; he hss run seventy -dvs miles m
two days; he has starved and frozeas ~
has lain Ia the burning snn OF rs aessrt
ard called or the Great Spirit OF Rs
fathers for water for three hideous days.
when the men with him lay down and disd
Ike sheep sick WIKI the murraiE.
He has been wounded and fevered. and
he has been betrayed BY his own man. and
sold out FOR q few drsnks of whisky By
warrior Of his own band. Yet he would
not die.
Now he Il shut up IN q reservation IN
Oklahoma. He has all the fcod ne can sats
he Is never thirsty: he - never cold. nor
Is he ever scorched sy ne farce sans hnt
he is prisoner; 80 he - going mad.
Old Geronlmo II the last OF TIRE great
chiefs. he Is as much above tire resi- %
his tribe as a rattiesnake is more terrible
| than king snake.
| He never led his band into open hght
He never gave an enemy the fainfest
chance for Hfe.
The settlers IN Arizona are nan VINO %
not tremble AZ a shadow. bus the vary
name OF .Geronimo'' would at this very
day set the stoutast sgbsster onakins he
an aspen leaf
The Msxicans believed he w.s = goa.
and offered sacrifices 60 hin Whenever tn
priest was not looking lie kept his band
Ia the aIkzH desert. which kills cvsry-
thing that tries 20 cross n but 0lla rnons
tA3N<sE
There isn't a stick Of brpshsood o. .
spear OF grass an inch high N the WHO'S
desert, ard the ground Il a. Level a. . ban
room floor for miles but Geronimo and hls
band would lie IN walt 4 quarter OK nils
from the PACK train srasl. ard not . nan
In the train. keen-eyec ard alert a. any
men on earth. would see them.
He had little trick OF seeding q earch
81 a.
ranch valleys where the mountains begin
20 rise
The death trsn ssshson r - BE behsnd
rock outside lonely rznea and sait
until the break Of day whss tire rsneher
comes out. and then 20 whoop sic scalp cry
IN his ears. burn BIN and bis house ana Als
wife and babies. and follow ire dsssa
trail 20 another ionsIy ranch. Gsronimo
and hss warriors killed scores 81 people
on the death trsIl."
He knew every inch OF ne 5assrf. srf -
would KIN and torture and - niles sssr
before the day had began In fsS hs went
on the desfh trail. killed a Taacher nansf
Becker and tortured hfs family e ssafh-
| The Tinted States trooes wsrs hof On his
| trail thea. T-hey foIloses bin Tor hnr1reds
Of miles. On the aoufhern border q Al
band was carrying shifs gfri. ssoisn frem
ranch.
Al army ofscsr kigS~s IRE horss unter
the man and The Tirs. end Gercasf1s sn6
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