Show texas FEVER HORSE THIEVES ARREST CUT OFF ac mr wilson fox of iowa passed through this city about the of august last with I 1 sixteen bead of fine tie stock lock cattle which he be had purchased to I 1 anye ariy riy to texas exas to raise blooded stock from on reaching the cherokee Cae Cle nation his cattle were taken down with the texas fever and all but two died the I 1 he same disease was carrying carrying off hundreds of the pe ople of the nation batio a as a they themselves persist in believing making its appearance in the shape ol of a flux mr fox fearing to pass through this country turned back for this city near the osage mission he fell in in with vi ith a party of osage indians indiana who had just arrested nine horse thieves they threw a rope over the limbs a tree and told the party that they intended to hang the last one them among the thieves was a lad ab about ou t fourteen te en beers of age and an old od man it bent ent over with years they told the boy it if he be would give them all the information in in his possession about the gang that they vi would let him off Het lie then bentold told the story revealing the fact that there were thirty men encamped in in a bottom on a small creek near at hand and that they had sixty ponies in in their possession A party of three hundred indians immediately set out after these men in the mean time the nine nine men were brought forward one by one ard had bad the left ear cut off and one halt half of the head shaved close to the scalp they were then turned loose and told that they the would be hung it if ever they were chught again the boy also informed the indians that toe the old gray headed beaded man was the leader of the band and that every one of the thirty nine nine men came from the wabash bottoms of indiana kansas city journal of com commerce comerce erce |