Show SNAKE CHIEF WOUNDED AND ANDI I A PRISONER Crazy Snake Held Under Heavy Guard on a Farm West of Checotah Okla OkIa OTHER INDIANS TAKEN BY THE STATE MILITIA EXCITEMENT IN THE SEMINOLE COUNTRY AND MANY RU RUMORS RUMORS RUMORS MORS AFLOAT T Ht 4 Guthrie Okla OkIa March 30 Crazy f Snake has been captured lie He Is be b bIng being f 4 Ing held under heavy heay guard Fuard at f ff f Thompsons farm west of Checotah 4 This was confirmed by a telephone f 4 message from Checotah at 1 lO 11 30 this f 4 morning He lie will be taken to Jail In 4 4 Muskogee at daybreak 4 4 Crazy Craz Snake is badly wounded in Inthe inthe 4 4 the thigh 4 4 4 This was reported by b a rider who 9 4 4 came Into Checotah from the west est 4 4 tonight 4 4 Nine prisoners were taken to Mus Ius Muskogee 4 4 kogee tonight and placed in jail there 4 4 and seven seen to Checotah Che Otah 4 4 A special from Muskogee says a 4 4 deputation of Checotah residents 4 4 fearing an attack from a band of 4 4 Indians came eam to Muskogee tonight 4 4 4 and anti asked permission to organize a 4 4 posse to take Checotah 4 4 4 44 4 Oklahoma City Okla Okia March CO Great excitement prevails among amon the Seminole freedmen In the vicinity of because of the arrest of one of their num number number ber her Frank Coker charged with killing Marshal Baum Bauni and Deputy Deput Odom during the fight at Crazy Snakes house Satur Saturday Saturday Saturday day The people In that district are badly hady frightened over reports that the Semi Seminoles Seminoles noles nolea are arming to join Crazy Craz Snakes band Negro agitators worked among the Indians throughout the evening in an ef effort effort effort fort to invite them to an nn uprising One story wired wfred here declared the Semi Seminoles Seminoles noles nolea had risen and were on the march in armed bodies This could not be con confirmed confirmed confirmed firmed up ip to midnight Hard to Get at the Facts It is charged that efforts are being I made to belittle the trouble on account of supposed unpleasant notoriety to the state For this reason it is hard to get Jet at the real facts regarding the number of dead and Injured since fighting ti began last Thursday A dispatch from Henry Henryetta etta etla tonight said military officers rs had ad admitted d unofficially that thirteen negroes and Indians had been killed since Thurs Thursday Thursday Thursday day All AH efforts to establish the truth or falsity of the report are vaIn ain Thomas Watson Vatson a prominent citizen of Sapulpa on his return to Sapulpa from Henrietta HenIetta today tada declared that the bodies of nearly nearl thirty negroes halt had Iia been found near the scene s ne of the original disturbance near Crazy Snakes home It has been denied that auy aU euli su h num number number ber bar was killed he was told f Saw the Bodies But I saw them he insisted I 1 was right there The settlers are terrified too but the trouble will be of short dura duration duration duration tion when the militia once gets action on the band Deputy Sheriffs Frank Jones and Wil ViI William Wiliiam liam Clark tonight told a staff corre correspondent correspondent correspondent of the Daily Dall Oklahoman who reached Pierce in advance of the militia that they had good reason to believe that more than Marshal Baum and Deputy Sheriff Odom were killed in Saturdays fight fl ht While digging In the ashes asheR and debris of the razed home of Crazy Craz Snake today toda the correspondent discovered the charred bones of probably as many as four men Jones and Clark investigated and an announced announced flounced themselves as satisfied that sei sel eral Indians were burned They The say the Indians were killed in the fight right and anil an their bodies were cremated by their com corn companions companions Peopled by Negroes The section of the Seminole Nation Natron where trouble is reported tonight ht Is peo peopled peopled peopled pled largely largel by b negroes and until re recently was the favorite rendezvous of the Casy Cas Swafford and Craven bands which were exterminated in a fight at mills five years ago ao Colonel Colon l Hoffman in command at Henry HenI Henryetta tta etta tonight sent ent I the following message to Adjutant General Canton Have Hace baen no new developments this afternoon Am out in m force foree with troops Captured thirteen prisoners last night nl ht Signed HOFFMAN Colonel Commanding |