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Capturing the Times of Oklahoma
From the The Daily Oklahoma
State Capitol newspaper Thursday August 30 1894:
APACHES GO TO FT. SILL
Geronimo And His Blood Thirsty Gang Foisted On Oklahoma
Washington August 30 (special)
The Secretary of War started an officer for Mount Vernon Alabama, where he will take charge of the
Geronimo band of Indians and escort them to Ft. Sill O.T. This is in accordance with the scheme
worked through congress by some of the southern members. The band is about 350 strong and was
taken off the warpath in Arizona and New Mexico in 1884 and placed in prison in Alabama where
they have since remained.
They have been kept under close guard there, and being so far from their native jungles and scenes
of warfare,they have been content to live at government expense. But some of the southern
members got up a scheme to send the band away from there. They even maligned their own climate
in order to help the argument.
When the item was reached providing money for the removal of the band to “some one of the
territories,” the advocates of the scheme insisted that the Alabama climate was killing off the mem-
bers of the band, and it was cruel and inhumane to hold them there.
They extolled the “dry pure air of some one of the territories,” and succeeded in getting the money
appropriated. The provisions being made the Secretary of War, jointly with the Secretary of the
Interior,concluded that of “some one of the territories” Oklahoma is the one. Since the passage of
the bill the people of Arizona and New Mexico have protested against sending them back to their old
haunts, and have insisted that this would prompt them to bloodshed. So it was easy under the
circumstances to send them to Oklahoma.
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State Capitol newspaper Thursday August 30 1894:
APACHES GO TO FT. SILL
Geronimo And His Blood Thirsty Gang Foisted On Oklahoma
Washington August 30 (special)
The Secretary of War started an officer for Mount Vernon Alabama, where he will take charge of the
Geronimo band of Indians and escort them to Ft. Sill O.T. This is in accordance with the scheme
worked through congress by some of the southern members. The band is about 350 strong and was
taken off the warpath in Arizona and New Mexico in 1884 and placed in prison in Alabama where
they have since remained.
They have been kept under close guard there, and being so far from their native jungles and scenes
of warfare,they have been content to live at government expense. But some of the southern
members got up a scheme to send the band away from there. They even maligned their own climate
in order to help the argument.
When the item was reached providing money for the removal of the band to “some one of the
territories,” the advocates of the scheme insisted that the Alabama climate was killing off the mem-
bers of the band, and it was cruel and inhumane to hold them there.
They extolled the “dry pure air of some one of the territories,” and succeeded in getting the money
appropriated. The provisions being made the Secretary of War, jointly with the Secretary of the
Interior,concluded that of “some one of the territories” Oklahoma is the one. Since the passage of
the bill the people of Arizona and New Mexico have protested against sending them back to their old
haunts, and have insisted that this would prompt them to bloodshed. So it was easy under the
circumstances to send them to Oklahoma.
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