Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-03-03

tribe Of ApacheS that dwelt Tn the range of mountains that divide the states of Sonora and Chihuahua, Mex leo. He was born on the Janos river on the eastern slope of the Sierra Madre mountains in the northern part of Chi huahua about the year 1928 This tribe affiliated with the Warm Springs or Ojo Calientes, whose home was on the Mibres river in southern New Mexico.
 These two branches of the Apache tribe were on friendly terms and inter married with the Chiricahuas who lived in and around the Dragoon, mountains ;n the southern part of Arizona, They were allies in war and during periods of peace with the whites exchanged visits, being considered by the govern ment wards of single nation. Geron- imo' was considered nothing but an In dian rounder" by the attaches of the different army posts throughout the southwest in early days and it has been stated upon good authority that his per sonal valor was sorely tested by his first wife, Mescalero squaw, who beat him severely many times.
 Geronimo, by those with whom he came in contact in the early history of the Indian reservations on which he re- mained, was never known as the brave man he Is represented. Men are living today in Arizona who knew him when he roamed back and forth from Mim- bres river to the Sulphur Springs val ely. At the time, more particularly when he loafed around the agency at Sulphur Springs which was located about ten miles south of Cochise sta ton on tho Southern Pacific railway in Arizona, in the years lS7475, he was simply a hanger-on, recipient of week ly rations, with no standing other than that of an ordinary, shiftless buck, roaming here and there, footing and raiding under the leadership of other men.
 Geronimo's reputation as q warrior was made by the newspapers of Ari- zona and the correspondents during the Apache outbreaks from 1881 to 1886 on account of his being selected by General Crook as the most pliable emissary to treat with in consolidating tho hostiles.
 Every raid that was made by the diff. ferent well known war chiefs, Chatta Mana, Bonito, Loco and others, who raided the country in different sections of Arizona and New Mexico, also far down in Old Mexico. was credited to Geronimo. Whenever any depreciation was committed, or murderous raids con. summated, it was heralded as the work of Geronimo. No matter what section of Arizona, New Mexico or Old Mexico was subjected to Apache deviltry, it was sent broadcast that it was the dread Geronimo again. To those who knew it was Bonito and Chatto, Chi, huahua and Natchez, Loco, Mana or Chili-kana. Those were the masterly hands that led the murderous raids throughout the stricken country.
 But, it is asked, How came Geronimo to have any power and why is he looked upon as an Apache ehieftan9 It is nee ecessary to go into the history of the Apache nation to answer. One must re- alize that there were eight different Apache tribes. The ones we have to deal with in figuring out the power of Geronimo are the Chiricahuas, Warm Springs and Janos Apaehes, his native tribe. In the first place, the Chirica- huas were placed on the San Carlos reservation in May 1876, at which time Geronimo was an outlaw with Pi-onsc- nay. The Warm Springs banded with the Rio Mimbrcs of New Mexico with sprinkling of Janos Apaches in 1878. The dominating branch of these allied tribes were the Chiricahuas of Arizona, more particularly after the death of Victoria, the chief of the Warm Springs, in 1879, who was succeeded by Mana and later by Loco. The Chir.cahua Apaches were headed by Coehise until his death June s, 1874. He left two sons, Natchez, who is still living at Fort Sill, Oklahoma and Taza, who died in Washington while on visit there in 1879.
 NdUEucZ IS LOe HtEcuitdIy SHlCl oi the Chiricahua Apaches and has been since the death of his brother, but powerful man among his tribe named Juh, was the recognized war chief Ge- ronimo has often been heralded as the chief of the Chirieahuas but it is a well known fact and corroborated by lief lords and Hughes, the agents of the tribe in 1S74-76, who are living today, that the self styled chief is but schcming interloper. As to the Warm Springs, Victoria, the successor of Man gus Colorado was the head of the Mim bres branch and was succeeded by Mana and later by Loco. Chatto, Chirica- hua was renegade from an outlawed band of Apaches gathered together from the Iopoteros White Mountains in Ari- zona and the Burros in New Mexico. But upon the Warm Springs being taken to San Carlos he accompanied them, with few followers. Bonito was a full blooded Chiricahua, as was Chihua- hua. When the Apaches, consisting of