Albuquerque evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1911-1914, 1912-08-29
Liberation of Prisoners of War
Recalls Battles of Crook and
Lawton and Reign of Terror
in the Southwest.

Washington. Aug. 2J-Two hun
drcd and soyonty-cight Apache In
dian prisoners Of war az Fort SIN,
OKLA. VIII ha released aud turned
over 90 the secretary ot war with an
appropriation ut &2j0,O0n tor such
disposition as he may direct. accord
INK to tho plan agreed upon hy the
house and senate
The principal changes Ia the bill
we're made with respect To the Kick
apoo Indian community In Mexico,
reducing an appropriation of $4,000
60 ti7,oOU aud safeguarding the In
dams against spulihtlon hN unscrupu-
louA white men. The oklahoma
schools viii get 100000 and the dis
trict agencies are abolished.
So. broken N spirit. their warlikc
natures crushed. the remnants of the
bands of bloodthirsiy warriors who
made the namo Geronimo "a thing OF
terror on the southwestern frontier
thirty years ago. may be- restored ia
their ntoantaiu retreats In Sew Mex
iuu and Arizona. But the Apaches
who will go back to the reservations
after twcnty-siN wears of imprisun
mont viii not be- the same Indians
who were taken from there hy Cen
oral Miles at the close oi the last
Apache war.
Many of the old chiefs. ncuding
the great Geronimo himself. are dead
THOR children. born prisoners OF war
have So remained all these weary
years
The Indian spirit has been hum
ltInI fUh.t la IL "a al
pence re is. Go considerable CX'
tent. civilized. lie no longer wears
the blanket and moccasina OF his
fathers. but the store clothes and
hrUgans OF the white trader lie has
become. In "a way, % tillcr uf the soil
His children have boeu educated M
the Indian schools AS prisoners ol
war. the only prisoners of war in tn,
whole United StotoH
or an the American Indians II 10
conceded that the Apaches were tn
most bloodthirsty aud cruel Thon
uutragos on the frontier shocked th'
whole world quarter OF a century
ago. and until captured by Miles ant
lawton thos tcrrorlzcd the whole Dor
der and carried their warfare int
Mexico.
In 1875. acting upon the complain
OF the Mexican government that Ger
onlmu and his hand 90 Apaches ha'
committed depredations la sonora, th'
United states removed the INDIAN
from their reservation to san Carlos
Ariz.
subsequently, Geronimo aud other
of his band Of hnlf-nakod savagcs tie,
into Moxico. and being brought hacl
again. were restored Ia san Carlos
but they failed Co keep the peace an'
in 1859 Geronimo again took the war
path and ruidod IN sonora, and M
aud his band we're subsequently, sur
rounded in the Sierra Madre noun
talns by United states troops undc
General George ", Crook.
Tho Apaohcs were 40 cruel that
is said Of them that they tortured
simply for the pleasure of giving pain
and young Apache boys took Nee
delight In tearing 10 pieces i've hlra'
mice or small game which fell mt
their clutches Growing into me-
their cruel natures we're emphaslse'
Their outraRes Increased until IN
whole country was terroriHed. Settler
we're murdered, ranches burned, mel
women and children slaughtered an
acalped sometimes they would SIT
the clothing from prisoners ana ouf
them with their heads above IN
ground close 10 an ant Hill 80 tha