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was found on the following day still quiver- 

 ing with a semblance of life. Who, after 

 such scenes as these and there were many 

 like them can wonder at the wail of mingled 

 wrath and grief rending the air of the Terri- 

 tories when the Government determined to 

 spare the life of the captured Geronimo ? 

 * * * * * 



But no outline of territorial history, how- 

 ever sketchy in intention, would be complete 

 without some allusion to the Bad Man 

 and the Cattle- war. It is not the Indian 

 only who provides the red paint for our 

 drawing. 



Less than twenty years ago an individual, 

 for whom the name of French will do as 

 well as any other, put several thousand head 

 of cattle to grazing in a certain valley of 

 Southern New Mexico. So well did his 

 venture answer that other persons followed 

 his example, among them a young English- 

 man of high character, and possessed of 

 laudable ambition, who may pass here by the 

 name of Morton. He succeeded also ; but, 

 not content with mere money-making, so 

 beautified and improved his ranches as to 



