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THE DANBURY REPORTER, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1936

Easy to Crochet " SURRENDERS!" = =Curiosa Set of Lace Filet ?OUR INDIAN WARS END Americana=4\u2666 \u2666 \u2666 * By Elmo Scott Watson * By ELMO SCOTT WATSON had learned to distrust the Span- iards three centuries earlier. years ago this month "19 Days Hath September . . FIFTYour Indian wars came to an Son of a Chief "npHIRTY days hath Septembei end. On September .4, 1886, At about the time the first col- Thus runs the familiat jingle, year Geronimo, the , for- lision between the Americans but it wasn't true in the and the 1752 when Great Britain (and he! surrendered to Gen. Nel- took place a *S®SKI mally Nedni Apache warrior named American colonies) adopted the son A. Miles and that surrender Taklishim was living near the Gregorian calendar. In that year, marked the close of a bitter con- headwaters of the Gila river in the month had only Ift days. flict between the red and white . Taklishim was the son But let James Franklin in his Almanac" (an races which had been carried on of Chief Maco of the Nedni but "Poor Job's imita- since he a tion of his brother, Benjamin intermittently for more than had married Bedon- kohe Apache woman and joined Franklin's "Poor Richard's Alma- '' two centuries and a half. her tribe, he lost his right to nac"), tell it: Pattern 5627 It had begun away back in rule as hereditary chief of the Kind Reader: You have now such a yr.it .\u25a0« Nedni. you never »aw liefore, nor will »»«?*? heie. New china, gUis; ware, even the 1622 when Chief Opechancan- the King and Parliament «if oil all this loveliness? You'll of all Apache leaders even ;t »'? and have extended the sr.me thr««u«!i want to Rather lip crochet hook tlement of in Vir- though he recognized lint.l. doniiiiiotni; that we are ti «t i Jamestown was never so and some and beyin at as hereditary chief. He was two I »eg innings to "ur >ear*. Imt the t.*«t ..f strum is lie day once on this lovely fill t design?- given of Go-khla-yeh January to ihe fust ami tin t.tft the name mouth of the year 17f»2. pattern sG27?a graceful bas- or Go - - means yath lay, which hleveti dn>s are taken from September. ;»t».I ket design with flower garlands "The Yawner," but in the future tteffiu. 1, 2. 14. Ifi, etc. He not a-t«?t.i-M* ! Reader, set off by a cool, rn h his would be a name of fear in nor look with concern, Dear at su» 1 a open c deduction of da>s. n<»r regret as for the !? of stitch. You can make, in suidi- the Southwest?Geronimo. Some much time, take this for >out con- i.i- V; *o l»ut tion to doilies, a bullet set, cen- imaginative writers have de- tion. that your expense* will pcrliap* app**at .TV terpiece and tray cloth that clared that Geronimo means lightei. and your mind he more at east. And Saint" what an indulgence is here for those who love match. In string the larger "Devil but the fact is «.#"? their pillows, to lie down in peace on '.lie doilie measures 18 by 24 inches that it is only the Spanish for not fierhaps or ond of this month, and awake and the smaller 12 by 12 inches. "Jerome" and was applied to be di*-turlied till the fourteenth, in the mating pay pattern this Apache as a nickname by Atid. Reader, thin is not to hasten the In 5627 you will find merit of dehts. freedom of apprentices or wrv complete instructions and charts the Mexicans. However, it was coming ants. or the to aire of minors: hut 'lie for making the doilies shown: an easy enough to believe that numlK-r of natural days in all agreements nte "Devil Saint" and "Apache to lie iulfilled. AllChurch H«ilida>* ami <"? illustration of them and of all are t.. he on the same nominal days, and * ? stitches used; material require- Devil" were synonymous terms deemed to l>e held eleven days later. N w. height ments. when Geronimo, at the of Reader, since 'tis likely you may never i ve his career, was the scourge of aurh another year nor such another alma?*..-. To obtain this pattern send 15 GERONIMO. WAR LEADER OF THE APACHES one St W. Good Reason to Hate tempted to stop the Apache prac- lished contact with Lawton's col- tice of making tizwin, a strong umn and late in August he Fourteenth St.. New York. N. Y. Palindrome number, r J '?> There is no doubt but that an intoxicant. As a result. Gero- learned liiut Geronimo was near man glanced idly at the au- Write plainly pattern unprovoked attack upon Gero- nimo and Naiche, or Natchez, Fronteras. Leaving Lawton's TMKtomobile that had drawn up to your name and address. nimo's people by the Mexicans son of and hereditary command Gatewood pushed on the curb, then leaned forward for gave ample cause GEN. NELSON A. MILES him to hate chief of the , again rapidly and reached Fronteras a cloor look. "The perfect palin- the men of that nation. Whether decamped from San Carlos and where he found a detachment of drome!" he murmured. or not he was equally justified started a reign of red terror in cavalrymen under the command "Palindrome?" queried his com- ginia and killed a number of his his hatred for the Americans in southern Arizona and New Mex- of Wilder. Takjng ten panion. heard of that make The Mind ?«> (a more questionable. Certainly "Never inhabitants. is ico and in and Chihuahua, men from this detachment as car. see?P-i-e-r-c-e-A-r- unjustified murder of Man- of "Let's ? "**<«**»> Opechancanough was the first the Mexico. Again General Crook an escort. Gatewood followed the --r-o-w?why, that doesn't spell Pal- Meter gus-Colorado, who became chief marched against the hostiles fresh Apache trail. Near the big of the great chieftains who tried indrome." © Bell Syndicate ?WNI* Service. of the Bedonkohe Apaches after with instructions to capture or bend of the Bivaspe river in to stem the tide of white inva- "Look at the state license tag." the death of Chief Maco, and the destroy them. Sonora, Martine and Kateah 36163. L. ,= this by Cochise, was the reply. "It's ALA. sion of country. He was indignities suffered located Geronimo's camp, which abbreviation of the state (Chirica- A Hard Campaign Both the Tile Test to be followed by others in the chief of the Chokonen they entered and delivered read backward the Completion hua) Apaches, ' were not cal- After a long and difficult cam- Miles' ultimatum. and the number same futile effort. King Philip, as forward. Such things are In this test eight incomplete culated to endear Americans, paign the blazing deserts of same it over A Daring Venture Plenty auto- statements are made. Each one the Wampanoag, tried and military any the Southwest and among the called palindromes. either or civilian, to have tan be completed by adding one was killed in the trying, as Indian of that tribe. At any rate. rocky fastnesses of the moun- Geronimo sent back word that mobiles from other states numbers that are the same back- of the four suggestions given. Opechancanough had been. Geronimo seems to have been tains, a truce was arranged in he wanted to talk with Gatewood Underline the correct one. in March, 1886, followed by a con- and Naiche added his ward as forward, but in Alabama Pontiac, the Ottawa, sought to an apt pupil of Cochise the assurance 1. The most populous country which the of that their friend, the lieutenant, is the only place where you can do a confederation of art of hating the white men and, ference at terms of South America is?Argentina, it by in the art of making war on surrender of the Apaches were would be safe in coming to a have the perfect palindrome?name tribes and failed. Little Turtle, of the state and number?on your Chile, Brazil, Paraguay. them, he added a few ideas of agreed upon. But before it could conference. Even so, it was a 1 2. The leading corn producing the Miami, dreamed the dream his own to those which his pre- be concluded, Geronimo, and risky business. license tag." an even more "per- state is Nebraska, lowa, In- shat- decessors had contributed. Naiche fled with their followers But unmindful of this danger To have been of Pontiac until it was car should diana. Illinois. In 1876, as a result of depre- into the Sierra Madres. Worn Gatewood proceeded with the fect palindrome" that tered under the thundering by a man 3. "La Tosca" was composed dations committed in. the 6tate out by his exertions and feeling negotiations. His understanding have been driven named Beethoven, hoofs of "Mad Anthony* Bob accompanied by a girl named by Verdi, Puccini, of Sonora, Mexico, which keenly the implied criticism by of the Apache character and his Liszt. Wayne's dragoons at the Battle brought complaints from his superiors of his failure to Hannah or Anna. Perhaps, though, strong diplomatic handling of the situ- name Neb- a should "name no one 4. The popular for of Fallen Timbers. Tecumseh. the Mexican government, the conquer Geronimo's warriors, ation resulted finally in Geroni- person is?Wolverines, Gophers, authorities decided Crook asked be relieved of man" in discussing this subject. No raskan:. the Shawnee, also attempted to to mo's agreeing to meet Miles in Corn Huskers, Hawkeyes. to the (the his command in that depart- doubt there are other names that a remove in Arizona and 5. sixteenth President of rally the tribesmen to con- commonly characteristic. Tie term used for both ment. surrender, on condition that the have that was certed resistance to the hated the Bedonkohe Chi- In fact, the history of palindromes the United States Grant, and the real His successor was Gen. Nelson Indians should be allowed to re- Tyler. Buchanan, Lincoln. palefaces but his attempt went ricahuas) from the reservation goes back to the Garden of Eden. A. Miles, who as colonel of the tain their arms while marching 6. The River Jordan flows into which they occupied on the to The first woman pointed to herself the way 6i Pontiac's and Little Fifth infantry had made a bril- the meeting with Miles and the?Gulf of Ob, Bering sea. Dead Osceola, southern frontier to San Carlos, liant record as an Indian fighter and that Gatewood should accom- and uttered one word: "Eve." Turtle's. the Seminole. man sea, l idian ocean. Arizona. Geronimo, who was pany. this, the first is said to ' Hawk, Sauk, and Sit- against the tribes of the southern Gatewood agreed to Whereupon, 7. Childe Harold" was written Black the then coming into prominence as subject approval. replied palindromatically, plains in 1874-75, the Sioux and to Lawton's have by ltobert ltobert Burns, Lord Byron, ting Bull and Crazy Horse of a war leader, immediately fled - Adam!" Cheyennes in 1876 77, Chief The next day the march for "Madam. I'm William Wordsworth, William the Sioux strove mightily to to Mexico. Later when he re- Nez and Joseph's Perces in 1877 the border started. Several Shakespeare. turned with his band to Ojo in Play With Words hold the land of their fathers the Bannocks 1878. Arriving times during that march the On and 8. Columbia is the capital of? Caliente, N. M. he was arrested at April, suspicious upon c time a preacher against the invaders but they, Fort Bowie in Miles Indians became of the Oregon, South Carolina, North by John P. Clum, the Apache prepared for an energetic cam- good faith of the Americans ONCEfrom Hartford, Conn., was too. failed. and Carol'na, West Virginia. agent at San Carlos, and taken paign. had it not been for the presence called upon to give the opening So for 250 years the white man back to that reservation. prayer a Spearhead of the campaign of Gatewood there is a strong at session of the state Answer* and the Indian made war on There Geronimo and his peo- was a detachment of cavalry, possibility that Geronimo and house of representatives and im- peaceful till- ' 1. Brazil. 5. Lincoln, each other and then made peace. ple settled down as infantry and Indian scouts com- Naiche would have slipped away mediately afterwards listened to ers of the soil and so long as manded by Capt. Henry W. Law- with their warriors once more. the debate over a divorce case. (In i 2. lowa. 6. Dead sea. Then one or the other broke was agent Clum their they ton of the Fourth cavalry?the those duys the Connecticut legisla- i 3. Puccini. 7. Lord Byron, faitlr and the whole sorry busi- caused no trouble. But when he same Lawton who became a ture could grant divorces and was i 4. C rn Huskers.B.South Carolina. ness of treachery and revenge resigned and his hand was no general and lost his life during noted for its readiness to do so). and slaughter of the innocent as longer guiding the Apaches, dis- the Philippine insurrection, 13 Struck by the irony of the fact content sprang up. The failure of well as the guilty was taken up years later. that he. who performed marriages, When Women the government to help them ir- Lawton's pursuit of the should be witnessing this "unmar- agatti. rigate their lands aggravated the Need Cardui Apaches one of the most rying process," the preacher com- yon seem lost some of Of all the Indian tribes who trouble and resulted in Gero- was If have feats in the history of posed these lines. ] your strength you had for your tried to resist American at- nimo's jumping the reservation favorite activities, or foryour house- a the?merican army. He and his tempts to "civilize" them, none and leading raid into Sonora . . . less men stuck to the trail with the For cut'tiug all connect-ion*. famed. work iiinl rare about your put is named; . . up a longer or more des- again. Then followed the cam- Connect-i-cut fairly meals . ami suffer severe dis- persistence of bloodhounds. twain connect I in one. hut >ou comfort at certain times . . . try Their dogged pursuit, plus the Cut those wh>