Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, April 25, 1909, Page 18

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ASSETS . $132,122.82 $142,413.91 1904, December 31................$160,024.64 s 1905, December 31 . 1906, December 31 ........... 1907, December 31 ........ 1908, December 31 .. ... .. $186,975.93 $203,727.90 .. $220,726.12 ..... $226,369.93 Condensed Statement From Official Report to Insurance Department. of Nebraska, Dec. 31, 1968 Capital ...........ooooio..... $100,000.00 | Total Assets . LIABILITIES: .. $226,369.93 Capital Stock, paid in full ...... $100,000.00 | Losses in process of adjustment. ... $4,396.23 $88,815.64 | Dug other Companies ............ $3,080.28 Legal Reserve ....... Fire, Lightning and Tornado Insurance on City and Farm Property. e STORY OF AN INDIAN WAR Facts About the Recent “Uprising” Led by Crazy Snake. GRIEVANCE OF THE REX(iEL RED The Scare Oklahomna Got the Timorous Snake Band and the Alleged War in Which Not a Gan Was Fired. Into Over GUTHRIE, Okl, April 24.—To restore order and suppress an “uprising” of the Snake band of the Creek Indians, one of the five civilized tribes, 176 men and officers of the Oklahoma State malitia were’ sent lately ‘to the counties of Mc- Intosh and Okmulgee. Crazy Snake, leader of the Snake band, whose Indian name is Chitto Harjo, was portrayed as a bloodthirsty savage, bent upon mas- sacring all the white citizens in that part of Dklahoma inhabited by the Snakes The militia were in the field ten days and the demonstration cost the state $5,000 or $6,000. Not a drop of blood was shed nor a gun fired. That 1s one phase of a “war," sénsa- tlonal accounts of which have done much barm to the reputation of Oklahoma, es- pecially in eastern states, where the false- hoods were accepted as truth and where there is difficulty in refuting them. truth about the affair involves the re- eltal of the efforts of misguided fullblood Indians to save themselves from the flood of white civilization that is beating in upon them and to maintain themselves in the simple life of their ancestors. It should be known that none of the five clvilized tribes resembles the plains or reservation Indians, save in color, physlognomy and temperament. For generations they have been surrounded by white men, but in sparsely settled regions where they have been able to live iso- lated in their log cabins, cultivating a few acres of ground for corn and vegeta- bles und gettihg thelr meat from native hogs run wild and such game as they could find. Not Blanket They abandoned moccasins, and blank- éts wo many years ago thaf their oldest wen now living cannot remember their use. Their hgir 1s not worn plaited, but tn the fashion of white wmen. Their elothing is made In the fact of New York, as it hus been for generations. They do not pajnt their faces, and their anly personal adornments are worn by a few men and combs Becklaces worn by the The Snake Indlans are perstitious than the average Indian and bead women, perhaps less su negro. Bave some dance ceremonies, few with any religious signifi wmore” Man- forty ‘tribal Creeks, Intense, sivaly, 18 shown.in their. ball games, and in the contests the forty towns are about gually diyvided between the ontending teams, this aWgnment probably having an anclent origin. They are skilled in the use of herbs in the treatment of disease, and thelr native doctors have markable success in the treatment of gun- shot wouids with embrocations of herbs The favoMte food of the Snakes i tgofky,” the product of flint The ‘Curll is dampened and pounded in a mor- far until it is broken and the husk re moved It is bolled until soft edible, weasoned with agh lye and In a large jar, one pof which may be ~always the fireplace In a cabln. Sofky seems to be wholesome and putritious, but a steady dlet it palls ypon a white man's palate. T the sofky hickory nut kernels are added Of all the bands or elans of the Creek pation the Snakes have been the least progressive and the most intolerant of White mep. Crazy Snake, their leader, not their elan chief, Ing thelr opposition to the their lands in severalty and the abundor Went of tribal government of them ance. There ar towns among . the re- corn. then placed found beside Snake Crasy Snake an Crasy Snake has an ideal face, is strong and sinewy of frame and Is per haps the most cloguent orat in the Five Civilied Tribes. He ) now about 55 believes with his whole heart that Orator. Indian the Creek trealy with the Unijed States wv-; The | earringy| They | still maintain thelr clan organizations and | | | | rlage and | | dian in | spread that there | dian best | | arr was conspicuous in lead- | allotment of | | general | Baward Bau He| ernment in 1832, though broken, should still govern. That treaty gave to the Creeks their present lands to be held in common and protected against the intrusion of white men “so long as water runs and Erass grows."” There has ‘never been @ moment that Crazy/ Snake has not been pleading for recognition pf this treaty. He told his Snake followers not to sign or in any way to recognize the allotment treaty of | several years ago, and they obeyed him. More than that, they refused to choose allotments after the tribal lands had been segrogated, and the Dawes commission was compelled arbitrarlly to assign allot- ments to the Snakes. Unhapplly for Crazy Snake and his fol- lowers, certain white men whisper to him that they have power to induce congress to do what Crazy Snake is fighting for, and Crazy Snake believes them. That is his weakness. They tell Crazy Snake and his people that money is needed to win the fight, and the Indlans beggar them- selves to get it A hlgnket is jplaced on the ground at the councils and each Indian is told to toss his contribution on it. Large sums of money have been Falsed in this way from the 600 Snakes, These counclls were held at Ground, six- miles east of the Henryetta ' Had His Own Polickme A body of natlve horsemen were chosen to preserve order and to enforce the or- ders of Crazy Snake. One of their dutles was to keep white Intruders from the place of councll. For Infraction of the rules of camp life, these horsemen in- flicted punishment by whipping on the bare back with hickory withes. The full blood Snake Creek Indian s a timid, inoffensive, impoverished being. Living among the Snakes are negroes, who are slaves or descendants of slaves once owned by the Crecks. Through Intermar- most of them have Creek Indlan blood in thelr velns. They have recelved allotments of Creek lands. Unlike the nakes, they are many of them viclous and revengeful and dangerous when drunk. In 101 disturbances arose at Hickory Ground; the report spread that Crazy Snake and his pegple were preparing to £0 on the warpath, and Crazy Snake was seut to Jail for a few months. In July, 108, stories of another Snake Creek “war' were circulated. Adjutant-General Frank Canton, an old frontiersman, went to Hickory Ground and learned from Crisy Snake that his light horsemen bore arms to protect the camp and the women and children against lawless characters and to suppress the sale of whiskey. Crazy Snake agreed to disarm his men, but asked that three be permitted to retain thelr capons, to the camp, which was granted. The excitement passed away. From that council came the trouble at Hickory Ground last month. Creek negroes and negroes from outside states who at- ded that council remained on the ground after the departure of the Snake Indians to their homes In the hills. A village of tents and huts grew up, Thieving Negroes Hickory town of police Started Trouble. Having no means of support the negroes stole chickens, corn, bacon and other things from the nelghboring farms and oc- casionally killed a hog, which quickly pro- voked hostility between them and the white farmers. Local afficers went to the camp on March 16 to search for stolen meat. T were resisted and fired upon. It is said that there was not a Snake In- the camp. Nevertheless the news was an outbreak of In- and that they were preparing to kill the white Inhabitants and fire the bufld- ings In the nelghboring towns. Most of the negroes in the camp were ted. One negro was killed and se eral white men wounded, though newspa- per dispatches placed the fatalities as high as thirty or forty. Crasy Snake was suspected of having had o part in the fight. A force of deputy \eriffs was sent from Checotah to ar- rest him at his home near Plerce. On their appearance near the house Crazy Snike and his companions started to run awa: The deputies shot at the fugitives and a fight took place. Two deputies, il Hermann Odhom, were killed. Crazy Snake was shot through the calf of the leg, but he escaped. The home of Crazy Snake was burned to | gone | not there. There Is suspicion that there may have been Wullet holes in the house and that it may have been fired upon by the depu- ties without warning to its Inmates. The fire destroyed any evidence of this. After this there could, of course, no Tonger be any doubt that the Snake In- dians were “on the warpath, scalping de- fenceless settlers and pillaging the coun- try." Dozens of men, “highly respected in their communities” were said to have been eye witnesses of 'such atroclties and the vellow newspapers were filled wtih thrill- ing accounts of what was taking place. An appeal was made to Governor Haskell for state troops and on March 28 Colonel Roy Hoffman, wtih five companes of state milltia, was sent into the field. The timid Snake Indians, as well as the Creek negroes, had deserted thelr homes and hidden themselves in the hills, most of them in terror of the swarms of deputy sheriffs and constables now riding the country. Hoftman Promised Protection. The constant endeavor of the troops was to capture Crazy Snake. His kinsmen and friends were told that Colonel Hoffman would give him the utmost protection. Crazy Snake was known to bg accompanied by a staach ally named Pin Harjo. The latter is a dwarf. In the Green Peach war, a Creek tribal rebellion of many years ago, he was credited with having killed thirty-two of his tribesmen. To look after the full blood Indians the federal government sent a number of its agents into the field, among them Thomp- son Tiger, officlal interpreter and son of Moty Tiger, chief of the Cresk Natlon. The troops had & number of perilous ad- ventures. Late one night news came that Crazy Snake was at the home of an Indian woman on the north bank of the North Canadian river below Weleetka. He was reported to have ten or twelve armed men | secreted in the timber around the honsc to resist attack. A squad of deputy sheriffs had surrounded the house pending the ar-| rival of the troops, the deputies hot wisa- ing to risk a night hattle in the timber. 8am Cook, one of the Cook brothers, noted outlaws, most of whom were shot or hanged during the early days of out- lawry in Indian Territory, was employed to guide the troops to the spot. When they arrived the deputies reported positively that late that afternoon more than twenty heavily armed negroes had jun from a freight train abcut a mile up the road and to the of the men at the homg of the Indlan woman "I(l’v'r the circumstanc the soldlers ad- vareed cautiously on the house. Fred Cook, district Indian agent, proposed that he should go ahead with Legus Jones, son of Crazy Snake, and Thompson Tiger, the intcrpreter, to hold a parley, not belleving that Crazy Snake would allow his men to fire upon his son. assistance Grim Humor of T. Tiger. ““Here's where ar fndian gets into trouble for knowing too demncgd much by under- standing the English language and the ways or the white man,” Tiger has a fine sense of humor. “T haven't lost any Snake Indians nor anything else in this God forsaken country,” continued Tiger. “I am drawing my salary for the sole and exclusive duty of talking, not fighting, but I guess my hand has been called, so0 here goes." Tiger was unarmed and went against the game with his teeth set. With his two quickly to the first called to those within. No repiy. a board from the side he peered in and found his face squarely against that of an Indian woman paralyzed with fright. Sev- bral women and a man came from the house, when told that they would not be harmed. They said that Crazy Snake was Tiger knew them and belleved house In sight and them. Half a mile away was another hous “Thut's the place where these strange men have been staying,” sald a settler who lived in the nelghborhood. “They've been sending the women down here to sleep at night, to have them out of the way, I suppose, if there should be & fight.’ Orders were given to advance and sur- round the house. The advance was made with extreme caution, the shelter of trees not being overlooked. The house was sur- rounded &t & distance of about 160 yards. A newspaper correspondént, armed with two battered, but sure-shooting cameras, had planted himself at the base of & white {this and then !t was something else that Sald Thompson Tiger., companions Cook moved | Tearing | | Jating himself upon the situation, when a | deputy with a rifle as long as a fence rall came crawling up from the rear Ousting & Correspondent. This deputy manifested extreme affec'ton for the tree. He was so fond of it, In fact, that he rooted the newspaper respondent aside, and exposed that timid civillan to all the immediate horrors of war. Another deputy crawled out of the darkness, wormed himself carefully between the legs of his | outstretched companion and lay flat the latter's body, a kind of two-deck are rangement. One of the women had been brought from the other house and told to énter the one that had been surrounded, which she Qid. There was no response for four or five minutes. Cook, with Jones and Tiger, the latter still deprecating his knowledge of the English language, broke the suspense by going to the house and routing out its inmates. Aman and a half dozen women children came shivering into the Neither Crazy Snake nor any other had been there. Tiger knew and lieved them. This was the kind of seryice the troops saw, day after day In the Crazy Snake “war." Crazy Snake was still in the hills when the troops were disbanded. He s re- luctant to surrender because of his fear of mob violence, and yard, man be- Statement of Grievances. The grievances of Crazy Snake were stated In an appeal he made to the senate committee that investigated matters con- neced with the affairs of Indian Terri- tory in 107 The members of the com- mittee were Senators C. D. Clark of Wy- oming, chairman; Chester I Long of Kansas, Frank B. Brandegee of Connee- | ticut, Henry M. Teller of Colorado and | William A. Clarke of Montana. Crazy | Snake spoke with intense feeling. In part he sald: 41 am here and stand before you to- day, my fathers, as a man of misery. T am here appealing to you to have the laws carried out. “The troubles were ‘always about tak- ing my country away from me. I could live in peace with all else, but they wanted my country and 1 was in trouble defend- ing it. It was no use. They were bound to take my country away from me. It may have been that my country had to be taken away from me, but it was not justice. “I have always been asking for justice. I never asked for anything else but jus- tice. T never had justice. First, it was was taken away from me and my people, 50 we couldn’t stay there any more. “Its was a treaty—a solemn treaty. We made terms of peac:, for it had been | war, Then it was the overtures of the government to my people to leave thelr land, the home of their fathers, the land that they loved. Me said: ‘It will be better for you to do as I want, for these old treaties cannot be kept any longer.' He sald, ‘You look away off to the west, away over brackward and there you will see a great river called the Mississippl, and aw.y over beyond that there is an- other river called the Arkansas river,' and he said, ‘You go away out there and you will find a land ihat is fair to look | upon and fs fertile, and you go there with | your people and T will give that country to you and your-people forever." Solemn Promise Recalled. “He sald: ‘Go away out'there beyond these two rivers, away out the direction of the setting sun, and select your land— what you want of ft—and I will locate you and your people there and will protect you as long as the sun shines, grass grows and water runs’ He sald: ‘Go ay out there to this land towurd the setting sun and take your people with you and locate them there, and I will give you that land forever, and 1 will protect you and your children in it forever.' “Phat was the agreement and the treaty, and T and my people came out | here and we settled on this land, and I| carried out these agreements on all polnts and violated none. 1 came over and located here. “All that T am begging of you, honor- able senators, s that these anclent agree- menta and treatles wherein you promised to take care of me and my people be ful- filled and that you will remove all the difficulties that have been raised in refer- ence to my people and thelr country, and | 1 ask you to see that these promises are | faithfully kept. That Is all T desire to say." Crazy Snake did not know that his en- treatles were falling upon deaf ears, that all he complained of had been done ir- revocably and that his tribal government had ended forever. Tn his view of life primitive as were his ancestors. He would have his people live only upon the atural products of the earth, as they did centurles ago, abstaining from the use of | manufactured articles. For that reason | be believes that manufactured salt and baker's bread and canned goods are abominations. In his marital relations Crazy Snake follows the ancient customs of the Crecks, | jgnoring all marriage ceremonies and living with wives by mutual agreement Hoktuchee (Little Girl), one of Craz | Snake's wives whose pletures appear in this artic is a kindly old woman who lives with he brother near the town of Plerce. One of Jones, a sickly, near him. Salina daughter, Crazy Snake Is as snake's Legus inoffensive Jacobs, Crazy s & woman of Crazy sons, man, I Snake's marrled intel- ligenee. BABY JUMBO. AGED THREE| Biggest Youngster | e rx Tips the Beam at One Hundred and Twenty Pounds. “The biggest baby in the world" lives at | No. 161/ Washington avenue, Pittsburg Pa | He is John Wilson Webb, 3 years old, and | | weighs 120 pounds. His mother, who welghs | 200 pounds, finds it difficult to carry the | { baby Jumbo around in her arms, but says | that every day she handles him her | strength Increases. | She occaslonally takes John Wilson across Hon. Chas. ¥. Manderson, President. Charles M. Wilhelm, Vice-President idwin T. Swobe, Sec'y. and DIRECTORS: Hon. J. H. Millard, Hon. Chas. F. Manderson, Ex-Of. F. P. Kirkendall, C. M. Wilhelm, J. B. Ruth, C. J. Bills, Inerease in Premium Incom Accident, ACCIDENT ORCHARD & WILHELM CARPET o, or v e April 7, 1909. Natic “ide & Cy dnv’lvm(l‘"l"nlihl_\ & Cas- 506 Merchants. 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