Omaha daily bee., 1899-12-20

sleeves of his blue fatigue jacket the muscles
buged like cables. He had never taken any
care of himself The soldiers rough and eX-
posed life has been his since youth but he
was as sound nut and able to tire out
a dozen younger men. Apparently fatigue
passed him by when it lays its heavy hand
upon those apparently as strong. He
always alert and always look
ing for chance to damage an opponent.
One of his many Indian names is MAN
Gets Up-in the Night to- Fight" and
he had earned it by years of practically
ceaseless toll His forehead was high and
somewhat narrow, his eyes a keen gray, his
nose and lips thin. He wore a dropping
mustache. His hair, cut pompadour, stood
up stiff and short like reversed shoe brush,
and he was not pretty. He had always held
that when one fighter falls there is always
another as good to take his place G-irg
upon this principle, he exposed himself
with utter reckiessness, and the fact that he
was not filled with bullets long ago is one
of these things that no fellow can explain.
a Gallant officer.
Henry W Lawton was a gallant and serv-
iceable officer of infantry during four years
of the civil war but his peculiar talents were
properly environed only when he was trans
southwest. This was more than quarter
of century ago, and for two decades he was
remote from the large cities of the east. He
found New Mexico and Arizona overrun and
terrori2ed by hostile bands of Indians and he
set himself, along with his comrades, to hold
them down. They were held down His
name became a household wcrd in all of the
tepees in that wild land The Chricahuas,
the Mescaleros, the Jicarillas, Apaches, all
had for him the mixture OF hate and
grudged admiration compelled by daunt-
less foe. They found in him, after little
while, man who was learned in every phase
of their peculiar warfare, and in ten years
they dreaded him as they have dreaded few
white men since the winning of the west
began. Lawton's method of handling them
was singuarly his own. When he struck a
trail he kept to 1t with dogged tenacity
which knew no such thing as quit. Whether
the pursuit was for day or week, ii was
maintained with steady, .unrelenting earn-
estness that did more to strike terror into
the hearts of the red men than would have
been possible to all the rifles on earth. The
mans philosophy was wholly expressed once
in chance remark to newspaper acquain.-
ance. 20 .'' 'H' W r-
IF a man is hunting for you," he said
"get gun and hunt him. DO lit right away
II discourages anyone to be suddenly trans
ferred from the position of hunter to hunt
ed" '''a '
He insisted upon being the aggressor 1t
is supposed that he would stand charge all
right, but he has always done the charging.
He did not believe in waitin~ e. 49, 800"
side to act This trait was signally demon
strated in his conduct of the right wing OF
tha AunaripaD orrnV nt El i'aprt Al
men whom he thought could be depended on.
So he sent them at the blockhouses and
breaetworks hour after hour with savage
disregard of the chances of battle and the
liability to death that Is one of the marvels
OF that brief and glorious campaign
Pursuit of Geronimo"
1t was Lawton's reputation for daring and
treless pertinacity that led to his becoming
Internationally famous. His characteristics
were known, of course, to his superior Off
GERS as thoroughly as they We're known to
the Indians whcm he had been fighting for
dozen years. For the tenth time the band of
Chricahua Apaches, headed by Chief Naches
and directed by Geronimo had jumped the
San Carlos reservation, leaving behind them
the usual trail of blood and ruin. Ranch
men weie butcheTed on lonely ranges, chill
drens brains we're dashed out and the smoke
of burning dwellings rose day and night to
the brilliantly blue sky. General Miles,
trained soldier and an Indian fighter him
self was in command, and he selected Cap
tain Lawton ior the task that wac set before
them. He started with two troops
of Veterans taking rail that
at its beginning was broad and
plainly marked. Then followed the most re-
markable pursuit in the history of Indian
warfare. Day after day the ceaseless toll