The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-11-14
OLD GERONIMO, THE APACHE CHIEF
is STILL QUITE A BOY AT HEART

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word. One of the otlier chiefs said
it was like shaking hands with a
monument
In his speech made at that time
he said The hope Of my people
is the Christian religion. BY that
alone will the remnant that remains
be saved. They need some restraint
Too long have they fought the
white men. The white brothers will
do all right by the indians. 1t is the
Indians fault. / believe in God my
self Geronimo is a member of the
Dutch Reformed church near Fort
Sill and is an active worker i'm
the church, and every Indian ought
to believe in God and follow his
teachings. The sooner the Indians
find that he will keep on dying
out unless he does something to
save himself, the sooner will the
Indian amount to something. In
dian amounts to nothing now Great
White Father pays no attention to
Indian. Indian goes to Great White
Father gets drunk. Great White
Father disgusted and turns away. In
dian ought to go to Great White
rather like white man. White man
GOES TO Great White Father. and
Great White Father listens. White
man GOES sober, Indian should do
same"
q want to go back to my old
home before | die" the old chief
said plaintively. - am tired Of
killing white brother. am SO
years old. Tired Of fight and want
rest. Want TO go back to the noun.
tans again. 1 asked the Great White
Father to allow me to go back. and
he says no. lie says he can trust
me, but cannot trust other Indians
and there might be serious trouble.
There are not many Apaches left,
White men kill off Apaches. But
Apaches good Indian now and will
remain good. 7 want to go to spend
my last days upon his word before
passing on TO the happy hunting
ground prepared for the Indians"
If an electric shock had passed
swiftly through the aged frame. the
effect could not have been mora
rapid, when the question was put
TO him asking what he thought of
Miles He Strengthened up and his
eyes shone like Goals. His hands
trembled and his lips twisted as IL
in spasm of passion. He threw
his hand high in the air above his
head and in a muttered tone in the
spanish tongue he spoke to the in
tepreter. The interpreter said. The
old man does not want to talk If
General Miles. He does not want
to say anything about those days.
He is trying to forget them and any
reference to the past is very pain
full to him and agitates him very
much. SO do not mention Miles. or
Crook or Lawtou' or any Of the Of
ficers who fought against him.
mo more leaving OF, the Fort
Sill reservation" he said. "I am
going to stay there till the great
white father gives Indians right to
go back to their home in Arizona
and New Mexico"
Wherever Geronimo goes he al
ways collects about him many curious
onlookers and rapidly disposes of
whatsver curiosity or trinket he is
in possession of. It is estimated that
he cleared as much as $50 a day
at the Collinsville pow-wow, dis
posing Of his photographs at 25
cents, and the placing OF his auto.
graph, a very crudely spelled out
name, GERONIMO using all
capital letters, added another 25
cents to the value of his cards.
There is a movement on foot by
the department of war TO transfer
the Apaches from Fort Sill to Fort
Reno, so as to make room for tho
enlargement Of Fort Sill to bril-
Tade post. This is opposed by Ger
0nimo and his successor, Asa De-
'ukie the newly elected chief.
Should N Q derartmant decide to
make thi7 change CNiaF Asa an
Nounces that ha win get n hermit
VOW the dnnart"r0~t r. 10 hack
n Vow NrovioO rTo is cnIv 80 Tho
"ounoor eat Of INDIAN I'D hav>
'n@ +olsar M MORT IN tho ~utrap pns
rha wost II 10 hi- dnc'~o Hou-avor
~ rnr,air v,ith b,7 t~ihpen,or 90
'0nu no r0-~'h'n