Show CHIEF CRAZY SNAKE IS NOWA A CAPTIVE Leader of Bloodthirsty Creeks Surrenders Sur-renders to Militiamen and War in Oklahoma is Ended After a Week of Excitement During Which a Number of People Met Death the Band of Indians and Negro Outlaws Must Reckon With the Law 1 Guthrie Okla Chief Cray Snake who at the head of n band of indians In-dians and negroes has been causing much uneasiness In this section the militia having been sent to effect his capture Is a prisoner and badly wounded having been shot In tho thigh It Is believed that the capture of the leader of the band of discontented discontent-ed Indians and negro outlaws will result re-sult In the final surrender of all Implicated Im-plicated or at least their escape from tho district and a restoration of peace In a section that has been well nigh crazed with anxiety as to the next probable move of the desperate band Tho list of fatalities since the trouble trou-ble began reduced to a basis of confirmed con-firmed facts consists of Deputies Odom and Baum who were klll dIn d-In the performance of their duty and Dick Darnett a Creek negro It Is true that a number of Creeks were wounded but they were able to escape I es-cape No official report has been made save of the two deputies and tho Creek negro Trouble has been brewing In this section for a year over he I allotment of lands Crazy Snake persuaded his clansmen many ot whom are negroes ne-groes and halfbreeds not to accept the allotment The old chief stands for all the traditions of his race par 1 tlculaily that of the unrestricted IJlMgrolnlll AJthojigh iDnnsj of his tribesmen secretly secured their allotments they dared not tell their leader who would have expelled them from the community On Wednesday March 24 officer sent out to arrest an Indian who had sold his farm once too often were fired upon by Indians and negroes Meanwhile Crazy Snake was at his home near Pierce about fifteen miles from here He had passed some tim In Washington and the Creeks were gathering from far and near to hear his report Sheriff Odom regarding the old chieftain as at the bottom ot the resistance which had fjeen met resolved upon his arrest It was in this attempt that the sheriffs son and and a deputy were killed by a volley fired from Crazy Horses house This started the trouble Governor Haskell ordered the First regiment Oklahoma National Guard to the scene and another and larger posse was formed Before the militia arrived ar-rived this posse encountered tho Creeks and there was a lively exchange ex-change of shots during which another an-other white man was slain Later the followers of Cray Snake were driven to the hills by the militiamen mili-tiamen who kopt hot upon tho heels of the lawbreakers until the wounding wound-Ing and capture of Crazy Snake and a score of his followers In a few days It Is expected the trouble will be at an end |