The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, May 14, 1903, Page 2

THE SACRED CREEK RELICS. | . Metal’ Plates and a Treaty With England. A Clan Guards the Objects With Great Care---the Plates Said in a Legend to Have Been Given by a Spirit. Eufala, I. T., May 7—The two most eacred relics of the Creek, or Muskogee, Indians are in the keeping of the To-ka-par-chee clan. Charles Gibson, a Creek citizen, writing of the relics, says: “One of them reaches back to the time of George Il of England. This relic has been handed down from one generation to another up to the pres- ent time. The ruling clan of To-ka- par chee was honored with being the custodian of this relic. It is said to be the treaty between the Creeks and Great Britain; it is on genuine sheep skin and was wrapped up in six lay- ers of dressed deer skin, unsmoked Along time before the rebellion the noted chief, Hopathle Yohola, was custodian of this relic. He was a friend and married a To-ka-par-chee woman, “When a custodian of this relic ; was dying it was his will to confer this honor on a safe man of his clan, to take charge of the relic and keep it his lifetime, turning it over to someone like the tiret one did, About \ the close of the civil war this note old chief died and conferred the honors on Captain John Goodfellow. This man also became very ill aftera long time and he consulted some of the old men of his clan and they de- cided on a man and the relic was de livered to him. This man now is the ere REWARD FOR MARCUM’S SLAYER. Governor Beckham of Kentucky Has Offered $500. Lexington, Ky., May 6.—The peo- ple not involved in the Cockrell- Hargis feud in Breathitt county, ac- cording to a dispatch received here custodian of this sacred relic. PLATES THAT ARE BACRED, “To-day the Indians look upon this relic as next to brass or copper ) plates that the To-ka-par-chee own— these plates are hard to describe, as they are kept in a very sacred vault where none is allowed to enter except the medicine man or some old chief. | The history of these plates is as fol- Fi lowe: ' “One old medicine man who had f been noted for being the greatest among the Creeks, before dying told some of the other medicine men that k so many days after the day of his death, if they would meet him on the highest mountain peak—naming the mountain—he would bring them something very sacred and it would strengthen their medicine and addto their happiness. The medicine men then appointed a day and waited. When the last stick was thrown away, each wended his way to the : top of the mountain. They waited long and well. “When the sun became low in the west a great snake came from the west and darkened the country around about the mountain. The medicine men were frightened, but “ stoodtheirground. Thencameclaps of thunder and flashes of lightning that almost blinded the old men. Then a dark cloud appeared, and all a at once there appeared out of the iS ie dark cloud a bundle, which was hand- ed to the old men. The hands hold- ing the bundle were all that could be seen, and resembled the hands of the old medicine man who had died. A CLEAR SKY FOLLOWED. “Assoon as the package contain- ing the plates was delivered thecloud moved away and there was a clear sky. The old men took their charge back to their equare house and hid it until the time of their annual cele- bration or green corn dance, when the plates were introduced into their feativities. That was some 1,000 years ago, and they are still in pos seasion of the town of the Creeks. “The custodians of these plates are area great many of these plates, and what are called the Wild Clan. There | Pe! from Jackson, contemplate calling on Governor Beckham to bring peace to the community. It is reported that the friends of the assassinated attorney, J. B. Marcum, whe include the influential family of Postmaster Hurst, Marcum’s tather-in-law, are uniting against the Coekrell family with a view to precipitating a fight. A messenger who left the interior of Breathitt county at dawn on Mon- day to bear a warning to Attorney Marcum that a plot to kill him had been formed the night before, reach- ed Jackson a few minutes after Mar- cum had been killed. DuringSunday night Edward Strong, a friend of Marcum, was informed that a con- spiracy to assassinate Marcum had been entered into at meeting of sever- a! desperate men at a blind tiger, three miles from Jackson, At day- light he sent a messenger to convey theinformation to the attorney, who lay dead when the messenger arrived. This statement was made by Mra. Marcum in an interview to-day. If the meeting at the blind tiger Sun- day night told of by the widow can be successfully proved, the assassin and the plotters may yet be known, A newspaper man, who arrived from Jackson to-night, describes the situation there by saying: ‘The town may only be compared to a man sitting on 4 barrel of powder in a shower of sparks. When the ex plosion will come no one knows, but I believe it is inevitable, At least three men know who assassinated Jas. Marcum, and although they are silent. It is believed their doom is sealed. Such knowledge in Breathitt county means death or exile.” Frankfort, Ky., May 6.—Governor Beckham this afternoon, on the re- quest of the county judge of Breathitt county, offered $500 reward for the apprehension and conviction of the unknown assassin of J. B. Marcum. This is the highest reward permitted by law. CASTORIA. ‘cas Tho Kind You Have Aiways Bough wa A BRAVE YOUNG CHARIOTEER Standing on a Wagon Pole, 9-Year- Old Piloted a Runaway Team. From the New York World. A daring little charioteer was Alex- ander Stewart, and many persons who saw him swaying on a wagon pole between a team of runaways Friday marveled at his coolness. Children playing in the street in the path of the runaways were either warned by Alexander’s cries or he piloted the horses clear of them. Alexander is only 9. He was “‘mind- ing” the horses, a team of big grays attached to a contractor’s cart. Martin McCauley, aged 7, Alexan- der’s playmate, climbed into the cart and began shouting and dancing joyously. This frightened the team and they moved off ata brisk pace. Martin prodded them with the whip and yelled more loudly. The cart was soon flying over the rough pave- ment with the big graysinfull gallop. Alexander could not suppress Mar- tin, so he determined to stop the runaways. The reins were trailing in the road. He lowered himeelf to the whiffletree and started out on the unsteady wagon pole. A crowd of children were playing near the crossing as the runaways approached Vanderbilt avenue. Alexander gave a tug at the check reins and caused the team to swerve. The children cheered as he swept by on his narrow rch. Further along thestreet were other children whom Alexander warned in 9,000 CHRISTIANS KILLED BY ORVER OF THE SULTAN. Frightful Revenge Taken on People Who Opposed Government---The Scene of Many Insurrctions Berlin, May 6.—The Frankfurter Zeitung to-day states that the Mos- lems have massacred all the Christian inhabitants of Novibazar, Bosnia. Those killed numbered 9,000. Bosnia is one of the Balkan states which are now the seat of insurrec- tions against the misrule of Turkey. WITH FIRE AND SWORD. The Moslems at a given signal fell province. The slaughter continued The civilians were sided in their work by. the Turkish soldiers, who acted as leaders of individual bands. Following the massacre, the torch was used. Whole Christian villages were destroyed. Hardly a Christian throughout the whole great province escaped, although it is believed there may be a few hiding in mountain caves, These are now being searched | for by the blood-hunting Turks and will be killed if found. | SOMETH'NG OF BOSNIA, Bosnia is the most northwesterly province of Turkey in Europe. It has an area of 24,000 square miles, The whole province is more or less mountainous, many of the summits reaching a height of 6,000 feet. Mohammedism is not only predom- | inant, but {s sometimes enforced by persecution. Education is neglected at the instance of the government. The number of inhabitants is esti- mated at 1,279,000, The largest city and capital is Bosnia-Serai, with 15,000 people, The country was ceded to Turkey at the peace of Carlovitz in 1699 by upon the Christians throughout the P for several days, the paper states, | Sto! Hungary. It has been the scene of many insurrections, the most formid- able one occurring in 1875. It took the Turkish government several years to quell it. True Version of a Famous Order. From the New York Tribune, Did Admiral Dewey ever give the now historical order. “You may fire when you are ready, Gridley?” In- terested spectators of the engage- ment say that those words were nev- er spoken, but the sentence was ar- ranged after the fight was over. The inside facts regarding the great May day battle of 1898 pnt a new light on the incident, and one who talked with the admiral soon after that bat- tle is authority for the following veracious account: “Admiral Dewey never gave the order, in those words at least. That utterance was put in his mouth by others and agreed upon as anappro- priate one to hand down to posterity along with the other famous sayings of history. Soon after the last shot had been fired and the Spanish power in the Pacific was a thing of the past the newspaper correspondents gath- ered about the admiral as is the cus- tom on such occasions to get the facts for their dispatches. The ad- miral told briefly everything that had taken place, and when he had finished his recital the group fell to discussing the events of the day. Finally one of them reminded the ad- miral that it was customary for some famous utterance to be handed dewn from every important engage- ment in history; some terse, brief ex- pression characteristic of the man who led his forces to victory. “Didn’t you make some utterance or give some order during the fight that we can use in this connection?” asked one of the newspaper men. “No,” replied the commander-in. chief, “nothing in particular that I recollect.” “Well, didn’t you give some direc- tion of some sort that can be used in that way?” “No,” replied Dewey, “nothing that’s noteworthy.” “Well, Burned to Death ig a Pond Tionesta, Pa, May 6.—Walter Boyd, ashingle miil man near Pigeon, ‘standing in a millpond with the wa- i terup to his neck, where he had gone | to escape a forest fire, was burned to death. A tank of oil exploded and jthe burning fluid covered the man. His body wae recovered. When the fireswept in from all pointe the other l nenbert of the crew fied in terror, but Boyd decided to remain until the last moment. When flight was im- possible he plunged into the mill. |The mill burst into flames. On the bank of the pond, near the mill, was the oil tank. With a roar heard above the hissing of the fire it ex- oded.” ps the Cold and Works off the Cold. Laxative Bromo-Quinine Tablets cure a cold in oneday. No cure, no pay. Price 25 cents. American Sailors Munitied. Boston, April 30.—Eighty men are in double irons to-day on the United States prison ship Southery at the Charleston navy yard as the result ota mutiny which broke out last night upon the receiving ship Wa- bash. One of the officers was assault- ed, The men have been sentenced to five days’ imprisonment on bread and water. ; Bank Rebbery in Kansas. McPherson, Kan., May 4—Bur- giars entered the bank at Assaria last night through the roof. 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After the dance they aretak- | had swung himself back, and persons | relief, and thereupon the famous or- en out, one to each man, and are| watching him saw that the immedi-| ger, couched in the words which have scoured very bright end placedaway|ate danger of his being trampled] become known everywhere, was sug until the next year. It is said that|beneath the runaways’ hoofs was| gested and agreed upon generally, in the polishing process the work- | passed. The subsequent dispatches wore hands are very cautious, as it is} Near theengine house in Underhill | featured by the words then arranged known that the least elip will result | avenue a fireman caught the team} and put into the shape in which the]. insure loss of the plate, as it issaid | and assisted Alexander in stopping ~ the plates “are supposed to be part | them. 3 turtle or fish, as they came to the . 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