The St. Louis Republic., 1902-12-21

| After the General and the Captain had
| concluded their scene these vets clam
Ored for a barrnCk talk with the Poet
| Scout" whom all. down to the merest
| .'rookcy" evidently held in high esteem.
some of them had attended army reunions
ard pest Camrires where Crawford had
: evoked ringing laughter with his dro
! stories and shed IL few tears with vivid re
he3isa!s Of running fights with the redskins
! and midnight bul al parties. and starvation
! days when hope and ammunition 10th ran
/ low.
| CHAFFEE RECALLS HIS ADvEN-
! Tt'RES IN ARIZONA.
! Chaffee rad stuck 10 the army. and step
I b. step had risen higher and yet higher. al
ways idoli8ed by hi men. like that other
: commander OF Indian outbreaks. the brave
ANA tender I.awtoH.
! Chaffee's memory. Ike his service record,
was unbroken. With his first g;lnce at the
! Poet Scout" flood OF recollsctions
{ wslled up.
! Instead of the green lawns. wind swept OF
t snow, there seemed II stretch before hi,
! eyes = wilderness of ailaii and sage brush.
The big sky-sc"apers athwart the nGrtn.
j ern sky seemed TO melt into shadowy out
! lines of frontier forts. and huddlcd plains
! mems hats.
! Crawford was again chief OF scouts for
! the United States Army in the Southwest
! in the campaign OF 1880 and 1881. and he
| ChafTee. was Captain IN the Sixth Cav
! ally. UnweGriei by harassing attacks and
| trying forays for grub and water in the
Arizona deserts
Even General Clusters heorc stand in the
Yellowstone. when the famous Seventh
Cavalry was carved to macemeat seemed
but yesterday.
The slightly raucous torres of Crawford's
voic" recalled him TO the present
RED VS.. BROWN
! SKINNED FOES.
In .baSo rnr
cry and Cunring. now. could you. General
even with your brown Tagaloss, IEorroti or
NI'n6anao de,-ils?
why. You remember that time after more
than SO men. women and children had been
massa cred along the Rio Grande and in the
mountains Of Arizona New Mexico and
| Texas? Wasn't it like hunting a million
: waspS at Oncc?~
Tell you what General. 1t does me good
| 10 see YOU straight and natural looking
! all these years after those forced marches
! in that Internal sun. those Eastern horses
/ shipped out TO a-dropping like flies and
! whole Squads a-toiiing along on foot through
that heavy blis:eriny san.
! Ard you've been through the paddy rice
| fields along the Panc River and floundering
! through the mud of Chinese roads. and yet
| you're looking tip top and hearty as drum
! major
| "Oh. it's only when the heart gets old that
we get out of STEP Jack Do You remem-
! Der when the Aoaches we're down in Old
| Mexico that General George Burl. COM
manding the department. detailed you to get
| a line on the redskins and you finally 1ocat-
| ed them in the Canalria Mountains. and
/ then rode sixty miles to Ell Paso to tele-
| graph the news to headauarters?'
! Indeed he did.
Then began a terrible march under q
! binding sun TO capture the marauders.
Some 1,5cO men. with twenty-seven wagons.
| few water tanks on wheels and a soli-
| tary ambulance. made up the avenging
| force. Jack Crawford rode at their head 1t
| was then the acquaintance of these two
| men began. There was a reward of 5000
! for the capture OF Victoria, the Apache
| Chief. dead or alive. and 500 for each cop
| oer-hued warrior.
Just when victory seemed won at last the
! Mexicans who had invited the cooperation
| OF the Americans. forbade their further ad-
| vance southwark. and themselves surround
ing the sQuaws and the old men. killed
Chief Victoria with the rest.
j Among those who escaped was a young
! warrior Geronimo. who Joined the Apaches
! in Arizona, became their chief and spread
| terror throughout the Southwest far more
| thoroughly than Victoria had ever done.
| Once more a renewal of the tireless chase
| that ended only when Miles and Lawton
| forced hlm to bay. wounded, and Leuten-
| ant GalewooG had the honor of personally
| capturing Geronimo.
| FACED DEATH. STARVATION
| AND UNTOLD MISERY.
| In all these trying moments Captain Chat
| fee had proved his worth and won the enco-
| miums of his superiors and the admiration
! of his companions. Captain Jack as chief
| of scouts. faced death. starvation and un-
told misery. but led every desperate ad-
vance undaunted.
| He was not merely dead shot and a
| mcst observant trailer, but he was an i'm
promptu poet and the best story teller in