| Show ORPHAN ADOPTED BY KIND INDIAN TRIBE evangelist thinks savagery has been exaggerated fort worth texas T aas the rev J A newsom seventy one years old one of the few white children reared in oklahoma s indian territory does not believe indian customs were as savage as many historians sug gest newsom now a traveling bap aist evangelist was made an or phan by indians but he and a broth er and sister were taken into the tribe and treated well thereafter newsom s father was killed by an indian s arrow in 1872 as he plowed in a field on the famous old good night ranch of the texas panhandle his mother attempted to maintain the family but two months later she too was slam slain by a party of marauding when she went to the spring for water the indians carried newsom then five his seventeen year old sister and three year old brother to okia okla homa to be reared with other chil dren in the village newsom was taught to make bows and arrows to eat parched grasshoppers baked terrapin in the shell and roasted rattlesnake the white children stayed with the for ten years spoke their language and adopted their customs when he was fifteen new som and his brother and sister were sent to live with the seminole tribe where a young missionary school teacher fell in love with him after fulfilling a promise to her to at tend school for five years newsom married her |
