Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-06-01

with skin, makes the most successful
! gamestera.
He Is q reckless better and runs a
strong blum. He never hesltates about o
bet and II you raise him he Will look
you straight IN the eyes and II he
! thinks you are blufflng viii raise you n
stlff sum. One can never read by his
| face whether or not he has good
| hand, But the weakness OF his poker
| game Is that he almost invariably over
| bids his hand Poker and monte are
| HIS fayorlte games and the Geronimo
tepee is the scene Of many highly ex-
| citing sittings. Soldiers and cowboys
often sit In the games with the In
dians.
One curious trait Of the old chief Is
that when he makes a big winning at
cards or has a large sale Of trisSets he
gives the proceeds TO the little children
In camp 70 spend for school books.
Much OF his money goes 70 his faVorite
daughter, Eva. and his faVorite squew,
Ketona. The daughter Of kstona gets
little love from her father. This Is be-
cause she married white man, and
what was still worse In the eyes Of the
father-a cowboy.
Geronimo Is said to be So lie does
not know his age. He was with We
toria when that chieftain went against
the Mexicans and later he developed
into leader himself. He Is a born
leader of redskins for the reason that
he Is not only a lighting man, but also
medicine man, and It takes a man
who can talk with unseen beings TO
make a really deep impression on tie
Indian.
Geronimo Is small In stature pos
sossed OF a Keen face and a piercing eye
The blue In his eye Is OF that peculiar
steely color that arouses unpleasant
sensations in the mind. His face is
wrinked and his hands are small and
rough. His color is a dark red, Geronl-
mo smokes cigarettes these days and
would drink firewater had he the priv
llege. He has six wives, but lives with
none Of them. His favorite daughter
Eva, lives with him when she is at
home. He gives her sufficient money
TO send her TO an Eastern school eight
months in the year.
Geronimo does no work; that Is, such
as raising a crop of corn or mlliet. He
gets rent free two-room house TO live
ln but he keeps his ponies therein and
resides In a tepee All Of the Apaches
who are held as war prisoners I've In
tents and keep their horses in the
houses furnished to them. The Apache
village is on an open plain In sight
OF Fort Sill, In summer the tepees
catch all Of the dust and In winter the
snow fiurrles into the doors, IL would
not be a white mans notion of COM
fort but the Indians like IL.
A few weeks ago Geronlmo's daugh-
ter Eva was taken III with some skin
disease and was placed at the govern
ment hospital at the fort. A large boil
appeared on her neck. Geronimo told
the white physician In charge that II
should be Onened. The white medicine
man told Geronimo that 1t should not.
When the doctor was not watching the
old warrior pulled out jackknlfe and
opened the sore. The soldiers placed
him In the guardhouse for three days,
but the grill improved daily thereafter.
Among the Apaoheg Geronimo Is called
an excellent doctor and they viii have
no other.
While little II sympathy with modern
civilization the old chief appreciates one
OF It's inventions, the camera. He
charges s. for his picture.
He always looks his toughest in his
pictures. He likes 70 strike an attitude
Of deylllsh ferocity when being photo
graphed. The older he grows the great
er Is His desire TO make a iiendish APP
peatance Five years ago, when he
first came TO Fort SIN, he was content
to wear white mems clothes and con-
scented TO have himself photographed
wearing them. Now when he poses he
looks like the old-time redskln Of the
Apache tribe. This Is because he sees
that his war clothes attract more at
tention from white visitors He does
his best to give them their moneys
worth and TO live up to their expecta-
lions.
In talking about his war experience
he spoke In the Apache language to
this effect:
II do not know how many white men
Ihave killed They must be hundreds.
/ have killed many women, too. But l
never killed a white baby ] like chill
dren. | will get out Of this some day
and then will go back to Arizona and
kill some OF my enemies. New York
Sun