The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 7, 1900, Page 5

THE SUNDAY CALL. 5 ersonal Experienees With the Cate General Lawton Jold by Captain IY. Frank Leslie. fbis Chief 35 i iy S owers have been so inter- 3 nd the alry, whom I thoug 3 » sy ” in the Apache Campai £ reason that he n- str z 2k o/ JCOM!S ln t e pac e a palgn' dfans could be & k A‘! he "j_p:f though he recog < sent Auguata Gireg Our scouts, the main body of OUT cuynning and p ve ( a i force, were themselves Chirca- ¢nat they could be t tge | huas, blood relations to those g quine and Imp asked 1f e whom we were fighting. oac™ e was “There wil be plague and famine They had slept in the g ont M e said. * 1 s lkely this w / same wigwams, hunted "5 " is the beginning. For it was proph — X N and raided together. To attempt to get our men to Kkill their own chums and kin-would surely have man as could be fo Roos: commenced his recru ing I enlisted in panles formed in A riving in Cuba was trans own request to Lawt remained with Bpain’'s dom hemisp At the end of t Ariz of energy an He could take d w Jtory the Man &Dhom Lawion jfad FAsked to Jake a Posiiion on #is Jtaff in the Philippine Islands A resulted In thetr mur- r dering us all, joining forces. with the outlaws, . s and then with a new supply [ of amn n fr N our stores they wo t 1 another £ serie of massacres k with the cer clear fleld — of action for s > it could . not have then to get an- other band of s to work under # 3 American control without them L there could be no iccess, s » said that Geronimo had not t feag dhc~ chase made his offer in bad faith and went out seldom escaped withe W & s the next morning to meet him. He su . o2 i o nothing cecded in ok g a promise of sur- evion AP S but a suc- render. " never p nd one of =53 . cession of Geronimo and the remnants of his band € s was to Jleiin wait #t the = ” o climbs up one siunk Into Skeleton Canyon, broken-spiri - on the walls of ona N = Cliff and down ed and ashamed. Their children wers . ienegas through which the the MB_"“'_""- __ gone, some of their wives were dead and v i a st pass. When the scoutless panq K, om-; *"'1"‘5‘ Never gome lost. Indlans are not demonstrative, . beneath the trip pecame \ take as to G oTiS- but their feelings are none the less keen L striously tumble harder tion of Dot it Do ‘l because concealed. pon them, sometimes Killing pressed while he was ever plan. hese Apaches felt’ themselves but - g soldiers, stampeding their they took to ning ambushes for us e WOmen before their captors. n hi and demoralizing them com- hj ind more usually turned the tables on and n, having : s in sible_peaks X HEALY Betting sronnd o iy s in welght, but his face a w Slvhve uiede e point behind him and so driv. 1 with joy at the suecéssful fart leir camps on the N tng him hurriedly down the very s hard a fight as ever Hannibal g A highest la in reach. cliff over which he had Intended saw. Not killed by sudden advantage, 1 oo o Here they were made un to roll rocks down upon ‘us, as he but outtraveled, outgeneralcd ‘and beaten a reg he edges of the COMfortable and filled with a & had usually been able to do with the In a fair test of enduranc chase . the fall, others 9read of something that they Mexicans. had covered over a thou s of could not understand. T flashes a v o 9 had to be shot Al These latter now became bolder as they. travel and had been a - lifc death » country we from our heifogr: n were * found that we had ahout conquered the le for every man in it, the hunters . fans also were losing A/most always in it o . and on one occasion became in- gg well as the game P f them were still alive o T e e solent and 1”;"! upon our Chiricahua . rhe early part of t . ent-in Some had been they . conlf not - undeses )bvwn‘-— "r'w[flr»-vuu_u:_ tlunl they did not gathering in the Indians, tellin; them p and eaten, for attributed by them to spi s T TEN I G S Y Gk wae S ertol OF ARem.anG SrepAtite an Apache, is always ppey would nev attempt to s a 'xfuur.r_\v for an early start next day. As the after- 4 nd they seem to eat . tha peaks from which th The m'u] surrender of Geronimo 190k poon wor ay the intense heat was fol a grassy . even when they could ob- o ‘Naghion snd dhate tecame: Piace in what was known -as Skeléton' . jowed: by’ threatening clouds, shutting in could & nd. y always carried a s more and more limited. The men would C213 & AP rerue deven milen G (4o canvon: dufls then caie. o tempest : S s long strings so never work. Their hands showed that D¢ Mexican boundary. with continuous explosions of electricit k the: velled As our _ o had been their habit for generations, It took its name from a massacre which with which th ir was charged a F the same way that the Apach victories, Tt prophecy - . u ous the enemy g MIC larger than occurred there long before, when the gmashing rain that drove us allofficers. : v Sk t final fight in the valley of higher land. We discarded d when Euards and mules of a pack train loaded goidiers, scouts and prisoners—into the me thinking of things elieved In all parts of > ng outfit and each man, with Mexican dollars were killed by covered wa for shelter. to speak. 1 »ught to involve the scout came to the same > and exhausted by bandits. In the mix-up many of the raw- A wild, dramatic ending to the p s eronimos, one f emies. That this is own provisions, gun sks of attempting to hide sacks of dollars were burst open and it murder in the skeleton-cover: the 1 of his r t. the other § ted by the old ) protect from_ the water for. the eamps of Scattercd about, and even to the present gl thint was: {L861L 8. 8tage’ Where e It leader o oems )ops In the T, ; itter in the high nurse time it is still possible to fi those ryurders had been. This was the fourth Philippines. and of life of Lawton for up hill or " ving children and rather melancholy souvenirs scattered here and: o UCRGL TG SO0 NS the last Botwe 4 v n eleyation of an leave them to be eaten by coyotes there about the desolate rocks. S R g W s raggling Indians at . o 4o “f‘ or ]f‘f"e:‘*l"',"‘;’ o hers threw them to their death in At last the |:::;§ came, "vhv:n Gv;‘oninl'm that could not be found or induced to nBloggne oy d oth Ut the gloomy c ons. sent a squaw into camp to say that he g e ¢ killed by - heaps of volcanic lava, deep ‘' E'C cro dressed in trousers, wanted to sce Lawion, who was then (oms ”»p“,],:” solatabe.” ,,,r:.myi ‘}.“:I"‘ivh],‘ o‘ [ lens Thfit Fa' and the s with sldes too precipitous to be o4y upi; orn loose as blouses over rounding up the last of the scattered out- 10 0 €XCHR 0ICEES, A0 Kbone of the . abd Letwoen thegnianesns Sove. il "0 0q rods stradfle, w6 we BEA nb” slder S TISIIBRAHE Gatenod i a 1o s e aeonsof the 4 e he m‘l\‘;‘f;:"?a‘:i(:a.-‘ :”‘1“.:"-““‘1‘& e s s e S e e L Ll T L R Sl e st i R finally started - East VOP ihe BQQPS. - e pleasure The P as 1eS0me as gnqg often founu that we had by mistake turned discouraged and said that he £ Lawton to leave forev th pay this . an necessary, as the moon and I do not know of any place kjjleqd a mother or a young girl when thought that the Indians were only at In e T os Y P S ol Ahec Bratish Seviaiire ol SOTRE what is called “Give on earth that more resembles it. Cold, gngoting at what appeared to be one of tempting to gain time and that any com- ‘“’!‘d o d' s :m Fl'ofldme 2.8 L0 Sl iy "i‘dea hatail-the real}:"fia;' ,,a,f;“ Deltor (n {1é Slandést of tond)—Then. crooked wvailey bleak and with an inexpressible lone- 4.0 warrior munication was dangerous: It was im- us‘e' and s ;’nt S ,}a' i : x; “not w\;gd e A T ¢t 2 (“,‘; ¥ Protatity of our nday line, someness that filled the mind with fore- Toward the last the Indians had lost all possible from their location and from the Even at tha S ron ANl waa, the firat expected & vpeedy.viclery qver afv e into friend- - bodings of their horses, we too were on foot, our wornout condition of our troops to at-' only_a captain of cavalry, General Miles the Boers. But there are in Britain many acquai tpening hardly worth As Geronimo, Natchez and the rest of supply trains far below, and the whole tempt to kill or capture them by force. held*him in the highest esteem and said people who read no papers and who firm- ship.