The Washington herald., 1908-04-19

GEN. FREDERICK FUNSTON.
Taken at the Presidio San Francisco.
tell heavily and Chaffee had all he could
do TO keep his men properly encouraged.
especially when it became apparent that
/ the redskins now far superior in num-
| bers, were beginning a flank movement
| that threatened to cut of the whites re-
| treat.
Scout Hit by Bullet.
It was when the situation was rapidly
| becoming truly desperate that Chaffee did
thing which lifted up the spirits Of his
men Infinitely more than mere words
could have done One of his scouts, sta
toned about fifty feet away, was hit BY
a bullet and fell Ike a stone.
Hes done for, poor fellow" exclaimed
another scout fighting near his COM
mander
Not much" shouted Chafee above the
crack of musketry. "Come .on-lets get
him."
And suiting his actions to his words
Chaffee threw himself fiat on the ground
and, with the scout wriggling after.
crawled over to where the wounded man
| lay-and all the while the Indians popped
away at the rescuers in ecstacy of killing.
But the two were not so much as
scratched and they dragged the wounded
scout To safety; and when the men stop
ped firing to cheer the brave act Chaffee
ordered them back TO their work 1t was
no time for any laudatory side business.
After this things kept going from bad
to worse with the troopers despite all they
could do Men were being bOwled over
right and left and, what was worse, the
/ Indians had worked around in their rear
quite a distance. The outlook was black,
| indeed. when suddenly the ears OF the
/ tired troopers were smitten with the clear
notes of a bugle sounding Charge" And
/ looking back Chaffee's men beheld run
, ming and yelling up the canyon 10 their
support three troops Of the Thlrty-fourth
Cavalry. Their commander, ninety miles
away, had heard Of the uprising. imme-
diately started out after the belligerents.
and had been directed by friendly Indians
/ to the canyon, arriving there. in the nick
Of time. The few Apaches that We're still
alive when the combined force got done
| shooting at them came down at night
/ time from their hiding places in the elefts
( of the rocks and surrendered.
Bravery of Howard and Miles.
Given the thanks Of Congress and
awarded a medal of honor by it for bray
/ cry in the civil war; Gen. o. o. Howard,
in the opinion of many, surpassed all his
I previous brave and thrilling deeds when,
as President Grants special commissioners
TO the Indians of the Southwest, he placed
| himself at the mercy Of old Chief Cochise
/ in order to gain peace for the Teglco over
which that famous Tedskin and his band
| had committed numerous depredations.
Howard, with only two white compan-
/ ions and two Indian guides. sought out
! COchise ia his stronghold. an almost mae
! cessible Arizona canyon. spent fourteen
days among the Apache desperadoes while
| COchise's captains were assembling, and
at the end of that time got the redskins
to agree 10 q peace pact Subsequently
| it was broken, not by Cochise, who used
/ to sleep on his copy agreement, but by
! the government. To the day of his death
the Indian chief had the highest regard
for the paleface who so thrillingIy. sought
him out, and without fear dWelt with him
| for two weeks
Niles, like Howard, always was cool in
cases Of emergency; sometimes too cool,
his friends say. After the capture OF Nez
I 4 NAkNs N~ttANA dUoEklA-Allt IEu Giisel :
forces were not taken with him-Capt.
Jerome, of the generals command. incau-
| tiously ventured too near the rocks be-
/ hind which the Indian warriors were hid
ing, ard was gobbled up They were over
| joyed at having a hostage as well as the
whites. and under a flag Of truce sent
word to the general that they would treat
Jerome exactly as Chief Joseph was
treated. Miles didn't hesitate for a min
ute; he arranged to exchange the chief
for the captain, and detailed Lieut. Maus.
now colonel, to escort the chief half way.
Maus started without the slightest fear.
reasoning that the Indians would see no
reason TO harm him, but Miles, thinking
Maus too careless of his own safety. call
ed to him:
Don't go more than half way, Maus.
Don't trust the red devils half an inch.''
Then seeing that Maus didn't seem to be
inclined TO be properly cautious the gen
eral himself went along just behind the
lieutenant and chief, to the great trepida-
tion Of the rest Of the command who
agreed with Maus that the redskins would
know better than TO harm him, but
thought they might be overtempted with
regard to the general and kill him if they
got the chance. When Miles returned he
was AiiiilttliHGif SUI ttloNu tEdb any one
had felt the "creeps" run up and down
his spine as be beheld the commander
walk toward the redskins.
Funston's Dare 10 a Whole Town.
Probably no one-the general himself
least of alI-would feel Ike contradieting
the broad statement that Funston's life
since his cradle days has been an un-
broken succession of thrills of the single
and serial. order. Every reading Ameri-
can is familiar with the heroic exploits
of the little Kansan in the Philippines
and the role he played as a member of
the Cuban insurgent army until he be-
came disgusted with Gomez's slaughter
of some unarmed prisoners and left the
army OF the patriots IN a huff While
on a botanical expedition IN Alaska for
the government he made a canoe trip all
alone down the Yukon: this was only one
of his numerous ut-Of-the-ordinary ex1
periences in the northern Territory. AZ
collector and bouncer for the sant4 Fe
Railroad he made startling record for
so diminutive a man. But of all his
thrilling experiences perhaps the most
amusing was that one which had Fort
Smith, Ark for its setting.
One day in 1857. when he was doing
ueWsra ror rUortr in Kansas Cifxy a oaIJ