The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-03-25
sERGEANrs STORY IN THE STANDARD.

years ago quest capture of Geronimo the blood
thirsty chief of the Apaches haang story that filled
pages newspapers and magazines The old chief finally
tred by General Miles and died in federal prison few months
scattered Mexico
constant fever apprehension long that vanous savage
large after his final capture the
pardon him. though overtures and pledges
He brought bay with all his tribe and beaten
Mexican line interested conndd that the
capture Mexican territory and sought to create
question this country neghbor
Geronmos later makes the blood
chapters recent Indian history At last his depredns be-
ntolerabe United General Miles,
destroy him and his band of chroat
Geronimo had always been fearless and soreu rascal and
around match for his cunning antagonist until General
Miles finally persuaded superior courage
expediency But wiley old chief gave troops
tact and before he earth One he would
engage troops certain place. when night under
darkness he would away with warriors and with
out warning fall farm houses and ranches capturing and de-
sroyng stock that could not be carried putting to death
everything human along his route parng
children and lighting the night his backened trail with the
blaze of harves and burning buildings would
be fifty sixty miles distant ready fight ponies
fleet and durable The dpredatos devOurod and destroyed
everything before them leaving subsistence for their
General Miles selected of the best riders and toughest
Indian fighters he could find started the bloody trail
Geronimo resolved the untambe Day after day
the troopers followed the Geronimo fighting his day and
being unable find him the and he seemed
shadow.
day. of campaign General Miles
troopers order off the of the evidently
tending Mexico took straight line the desert
During day
portion of the command became detached from the body and
having guide became lost and for several days wandered about
utterly bewdeed not long before their exhaust
their atons feed their
animals These all died of thirst and hunger and the terrible
Some the becoming exhausted laid down and died
fine pack dogs of breeds had been taken along and all
died of thirst large collie named Carlo All these days
ntolerab beating down them the
radiation from the hot sands made the nights dreaded
than the day
The few those days and nights the desert will
forget them while they live Sergeant Foryhe the
few living who pulled through that fearful ordeal All his
life childhood had been spent the army and few years
ago. of the nfmes of age he retired pension
and lives small ranch Fort Bayard
Condon then United States surgeon that post having somehow
heard that the sergeant of the of the desert
episode and capors Geronimo him quarters
asked him to relate the story Slowly but most interestingly the
doctor the recitation unnoed the hours
neglected the buebd the branches overhead
the shadows that fell under the longer
unheeded stirring the narrative The story pfuy
that much of it left this account The
described the that appeared afternoon the most
astonishing deceng that the imagination
said the cities Oriental the fronts