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Show iaif cue. A Bad Indian Captured by a Max-Val Max-Val Near Fort Smiti, Aiksasai. I A PBISOSIE'8 DARET3 LEAP, i The Stillctto's Victim-A rmi!j Arrested for Coua-terfoitiag. Coua-terfoitiag. Fort Smith. Ark , Mar 3 Deputy United States Marshal Roes Reaves brought in twelve prisoners from the Indian country yesterday, arming then To S D La M h. alias Greenteaf. a Seminole Indian, who is want hereon three charge of murder, and who ha been an outlaw for the rasi eighteen yeiip, this being tt.e first time ha was ever arretted. About niue years ago he murdered a white man named Davis lit tho Chickasaw nation, shooting him from the brush. A few days later be murdered mur-dered a man named llateman la tha same locality, shooting him down as ha was plowing in the field. Alter Ibis ho murdered a small nisn near old Fort Washita. He robbed all of his virttms. Since then hU business has been whisky peddling, and every marshal! that has ridden Iu the Seminole, Crerk and Chickasaw couhtry has carried writs for him. Since kllllrtjj the threo white men mentioned he has killed four men of his own tribe, all of v, horn bad asslsied deputy marshals in hunting him The 11 one he killed as llarna Waha. Ho tirst hot him, and then ul twenty-four bullets Into his body. For some time past It has been Impossible Impos-sible for an officer to get any oue to assist In hunting him, as It was almost al-most sure death to do mi unless tha hunt should le uticoewtul. Reave was In his nelghlHithood and learned Hi it Gnienh af had Just come Into Ihs country with a load of whisky. He located lo-cated him ami at night, when ha waa selling Ibpior, got near enough to hear the Indi.in whooping and tiring off plntoU. He rested until near daylight and then moved up oloae to the bouso. Just at daylight bn and his parly charged up, Jumped the fence, and before be-fore Grcenleaf got fairly awake had him covered w tth gum. lie surrender,!. After his capture people who had kuown hliu long doubted It. and (lurked to see If It waa really so, soma riding as far as eighteen miles ' to convince themselves of hla Identity. |