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Show TROOPS ARE UNDER ORDERS' TO CAPTURE THE ENTIRE BAND OF SNAKES . , Wholesale Arrest Plan Will Be Utilized in Order to Caich Leaders Most Dangerous Leader Next to Crazy Snake Is Half Negro Who Is in Custody Suppression of This Dangerous Element Essential Es-sential Wily Chief's Capture Is Matter of Doubt pouring in through a rent in the stern. ! Massa and his partner made frantic attempts to bail out the boat, but see- Ing that the water was gaining, they ; shouted to the crews of two other boats j to come to their aid. The rescue was i quickly made, the two fishermen being be-ing taken on board the other boats. The men had only a vague idea as to what struck their boat, but those who came to their rescue declare that when the boat was thrown Into the J air, they saw a whale's flukes emerge from the water beneath it. Kansas City, March 31. Up to 1 o'clock o'-clock this afternoon, no positive news hAd been received from Oklahoma confirming con-firming tho reported capture of Crazy Snako. It is possible, and even nicely, nice-ly, that the chief may have been caught at some outlying point by au Independent 6quad and is being taken secretly to the federal prison at Muskogee Mus-kogee to allay excitement, but this cannot be stated to be a fact. Heuryetta. Okla., March 31. The re rort that Crazy Snake had been captured, cap-tured, or surrendered, is not confirmed. confirm-ed. Col. Hoffman telephoned from Pierce today that the rumor was groundless. The Associated Press obtained ob-tained similar reports over the. long distance telephones from Checotah, Muskogee and Thompson. Deputy sheriffs, traveling in posses, and the militia, under CoL Hoffman, today resumed the search for the Creek loader at dawn. Col. Hoffman's detachment spent tho night in their blankets in the open, four miles from Slidham. Col. Hoffman, when informed inform-ed of the report that tho Indian leader lead-er had been captured, expressed great surprise.' The old chief might be apprehended ap-prehended in some out of the way spot by some stray po;se without his knowing know-ing it, the colonel said, but it certainly cer-tainly had not occurred within the district occupied by the troops. Muskogee, Okla., March 31. There was some apprehension during the J night that Checotah . might be the scene of an Indian raid. An alarming rumor was circulated that the Creeks were planning to attack the town while most of the oltlzens were out in the field scouting. Morgan D. Tipton Tip-ton came to Muskogee and arranged for arms and a special train ready to rush a posse to Checotah. '.The attack did not materialize of course. - - Captain J. J. Davis, of the Chandler militia company, is authority for the statement that the troops aro under orders to capture the entire band or . Snakes. . variously estimated at from 300 to 600. Most of these would son be released, but the authorities regard the wholesale arreet plan as the most effective method of getting the leaders. lead-ers. I According to Mayor William puffy of Checotah. the most dangerous Indian In-dian tn the Creole nation next to Crazy Snake w Abe Grayson, the half-negro, half-negro, who was captured near Pierce. He Is tho cartaln of the negro element ele-ment of the outlaw band. Grayfcon waa discovered in a hay field by Deputy Sheriff Sam Baker. He had deseiled his home and taken to the field. Rather than approach him. Baker set flro to the hay and drove hint from his bed. The militia j then captured him without a fight. I The negroes are reported as being slightly indignant, pver the. capture ot some men of their race by tho' militia. mi-litia. Mayor Barclay Morgan, of Henryct-ta, Henryct-ta, said today: "I don't hesltnto to say that many of the Snako IndlanB and negroes affiliated af-filiated with them are a menace to j tho country, and should bo captured. J The people of this community are in ( sympathy with any movement that will suppress tho Snake band. In my opinion, the negroes aro a meat dangerous clasw. During the past rew jears. from 750 to 850 blacky havo drifted here from Texas and othef southern states. They are worthless and have caused a great deal of trouble. trou-ble. Many Indians of this country aro peaceable and some of those arrested are Innocent. A final stroke should be made, even if it takes bloodshod. Harjo is a dangerous man himself. Wo care nothing for what the world may think. I want protection and Indian suppression." (Continued on Page Eight.) the performance of their duty, and "Dick" llarnett, a Creek negro. It is probably true that a number ot Creek were wounded, but they were able to escape. No official report has been made, save of the two deputies and the Creek negro. I Trouble has been brewing In this section for a year, over the allotment of lands. Crazy Snake persuaded his clansmen, many of them negroes and ! half-breeds, not. to accept the allotment; allot-ment; The old chief stands for all the traditions of his race, particularly that of the unrestricted hunting grqund. Although many of his tribesmen tribes-men secretly secured their allotments, they dared not tell tnelr leader, who would have expelled them from the community. For a year the redmen and negroes, refusing to live on their farms, had lived as nomads, to the great detriment detri-ment of the chicken roosts, clothes lines and pastures. 1 Deputy Sheriff Patee, a week ago. started for. the Hickory "Stomping" grounds to arrest an. Indian, who had nold his farm too often,- The warrior seized a rifle and refused the whit man's jail. His comrades also armed themselves and the deputy retreated. The following day Wednesday Patee returned with a small posse, including farmers named Krops, Johnson John-son and Fawler, whose homes, being near the "Stomping" grounds, were in Jeopardy, Fawler received a load of buckshot in the face. The others retreated re-treated and the Indians celebrated their victory by riddling with bullets the homes of Krops, Johnson and Fawler. Faw-ler. Meanwhile Crazy Snake was at his home, near Pierce, about firteen miles from here. He had passed some time In Washington and the Creeks wero gathering from far and near to hear his report. Sheriff Odom, regarding the old chieftain as at the bottom' of the resistance, which had been met, resolved upon his arrest. It was in this attempt that the sheriff's son and Deputy Daum were killed by a volley fired from Crazy Snako's house. This settled the trouble. Governor Haskell ordered the First regiment, Oklahoma Guards, to the scene and another larger posse was formed. Before Be-fore the militia arrived, this poBse encountered en-countered tho Snakes and there was a lively exchange of shots, during which Barnett was slain. With the arrival Sunday, of the guardsmen, 125 strong, the Indians took to the hills and scattered. The Hickory "Stomping Grounds" are situated in an upland grove, seven miles east of Henryetta. When Col. Hoffman and his m&n reached tho stomping grounds, they found a deserted desert-ed camp. In the sacred grove, brown Sibley tents then were passed, and Into In-to tho sacred circle, made by many years of "stomping" or corn-dances, tho tin cans and other refuse of the cooks' camp were cast v ..Oklahoma City, March 30 Great excitement ex-citement prevails" among the Seminole frcedmen in the vicinity of Kalden-ville, Kalden-ville, because of the arrest of one of their number, Frank Coker, charged with, killing Marshal Baum and Deputy. Depu-ty. Odom, during the fight at Crazy Snake's house Saturday. . - The people in that district are badly- : frightened over reports that the Seminoles are arming to Join Crazy Snake's band. Negro agitators worked among the Indians throughout tho evening In an effort to incite them to an uprising. One story wired hero declares that the Seminoles had risen and were on the inarch in armed bodte--. This could not be confirmed up to midnight. mid-night. ; Crazy Snake managed to elude his pursuers throughout the day and night. The militiamen at . midnight admitted they did not know Just where to seek him, but expressed confidence that he would be taken by tomorrow or; would surrender. Colonel Hoffman refused to- confirm the report that Crazy Snake was wounded and had offered to surrender. Crazy Snake Is believed to be in tho Tiger mountains, headed we&t toward to-ward Grayson. A posse departed at midnight for the mountains to search for him. Indians reported that Crazy Snake was wounded. It is charged that efforts are being made to belittle the trouble on account ac-count of supposed unpleasant notoriety noto-riety to the state. For this reason it Ik hard to get at the real facts regarding regard-ing the number of dead and injured since the fighting began last Thursday. Thurs-day. A dispatch from Henryetta tonight said military offlcersjiad admitted unofficially un-officially that thirteen negroes and Indians In-dians had been killed since Thursday. All efforts to establish the truth or falsity of the report are vain. Thomas Watson, a prominent cltl zen of Sapulpa, on his return to Sa-pulpa Sa-pulpa from Henyretta today declared emphatically that the bodies of nearly near-ly thirty negroes had been found near tho 6cene of the orlglual disturbance near Crazy Snake's home. "It has been denied that any such number was killed." he was told. "But I saw them," he insisted. "1 was right there. The settlors are terrified, ter-rified, too, but tho trouble will bo ot short duration when the militia once gets action on the band." Deputy Sheriffs Frank Jones and William Clark tonight told a staff correspondent cor-respondent of the Daily 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 Saturday's fight. While digging in tho ashes and do-brls do-brls of the razed home of Crazy Snake today, tho correspondent dlscovereo the charred bodies of probably as many as four men. Jones and Clark investigated and announced themselves them-selves as satisfied . that several Indians In-dians were burned. They say the Indians In-dians were killed in the fight and their bodies were cremated by their companions. com-panions. The sectiou of the Seminole nation where troublo is reported tonight is peopled largely by negroes, and until recently was tho favorite rendezvous of the Casy, Swafford and Craven bands, which were exterminated in a fight at Weewaka Mills, five years ago. Colonel Hoffman, In command at Henryetta. tonight, sent the following message to Adjutant General Canton: "Have beon no new developments this afternoon. Am out in force with troops. Captured thirteen prisoners last night. (Signed) "COLONEL HOFFMAN. "Commanding." TROOPS ARE UNDER ORDERS TO CAPTURE THE ENTIRE BAND OF SNAKES. (Continued from Pago One.) Hickory "Stomping" Ground, March 30. By courier to Henyretta, Oklahoma. Okla-homa. Crazy Snake, leader of the uprising of his clan of negroes, half-breeds and Indians of the Creek nation. Is still at large tonight, although it is believed his capture cannot be delayed much longer. He Is likened, by those who know him, to Sitting Bull in point ot intelligence and determination, and upon hla doath or capture, the outcome of the praaent disturbance rests. One hundred men of tho First regi-meut, regi-meut, Oklahoma National Guard, and po6ees of deputy sheriffs, are scouring the hills and river bottoms for miles in every, direction. Colonel Roy Hoffman and his troops are here, set out in heavy marching order at daybreak, each man carrying twenty -four hours' rations and forty rounds of ammunition. There seems to be no reason to believe be-lieve that there will be a general encounter en-counter with tho fugitives. Ambuscades Ambus-cades In fiomo force, however, are not impossible. The moral effect of the militia uniforms uni-forms and the great interest of their bayonots has been great. Colonel Hoffman bivouacked near Stldman tonight. The signal corps, of twenty men, arrivod and tomorrow will attempt to run a telephone lino aeven miles . between here and Henrietta. Hen-rietta. At present, communication is vry slow over tho rocky, mountainous road. The list or fatalities since the trouble trou-ble began, reduced to a basis of confirmed con-firmed fact6. consists of Deputies Odom aud Baum, who were killed in |
