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Show CRAZY SNAKE, CHIEF OF THE " CREEK INDIANS, OFFERS TO SURRENDER Sends Word to Commander Hoffman That He Has Been Shot and Is Ready to Give Up Lawless Indians and Negroes Make Up Band That I Threatens Peace of White Settlers, Aany of Whom Have Fled to Towns for Projection-End of Hostilities Approaching oooooooooooooooo o o O Muskogee, Okla., March 30. O O A special this afternoon to the O O Times-Democrat says that O O Crazy Snake has sent a mes- O O naee to Commander Hoffman O O from the mountains Baying that O O he had been shot In the leg and O O crippled, and was ready to give O O up. He savfl, according to the O O dispatch, that he will surrender O O to Sheriff Odom, whose son was O O killed In Saturday night's O O fight at the Indian chief's home. O O O OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO , Hon of his band crept last night, when Col. Hoffman's pursuing soldiery got ton near for comfort. Here they prepared pre-pared to make their last stand. Whether Wheth-er this stand would be a diplomatic contest over terms of surrender or an argument with bullets, the young soldiers sol-diers did not know as they took up the march, but they and their officers were prepared for both. I Crazy Snake had every reason to light, from his point of view. The sanation sa-nation was not nearly so unfavorable for hlni as the poldlers tried to make j themselves believe. They had him, and then they did not. He was well j protected In his wooded . retreat, the j trees, though bare of leaves, forming j a beautiful enough ambuscade to suit , almost any Indian. His followers all ; were heavily armed and desperate, and had sworn with their Indian rites to stay by him to the last. When It was established definitely through the scouts that It really was ! the Snake himself in tho beleaguered , company, couriers were sent at breakneck break-neck speed to Camp Hickory. Fighters, Fight-ers, ijuder c vj 1 and military rule were rushed to the scene. Farmers, in order that the protection protec-tion of their homes might be mado doubly sure, came armed with guns of various patterns and made tho line I strange by their presence. It was an ! uprising of tho whites against the reds and the lawless blacks. This ; motley, but grim and elliclent body, presented a determined front, and Insisted In-sisted on having a finality of the thing ; then and there. But while this was In progress scores of frightened families had fled from their homes, fearing outrages by the lawless elements. Throughout the night, they went to Henryetta, Pierce-and Pierce-and some even to Checotah. Their ap-' ap-' prehension vas not without cause, for to the south and oast of Pierce, scat- tered Snake bands were hidden In the J hills, while still others had gone to the northwest retreats, making Pierco the center of the buffeted crowd. At 7 o'clock this morning, however, no outrage had been reported, although j there were Instances of people having been frightened by the threats or roving rov-ing war parties. Adjutant General Canton, at Guthrie, Guth-rie, kept clopo watch, all the while ready to move into the Held and take command at a moment's notice. It was the crafty generalship or Crazy Snake that made the authorities fear, 1 early today, that they would have a long guerrilla warfare ahead or them. Had the Snake massed his forces and given the .whites open battle after their own fashion, one thing would have happened he would have been annihilated. He knew this better than the white commander. So he tore his companies apart Into mobs, sending some here, tome there. With their , savage Instincts, they made full use of the natural defenses In which Oklahoma Ok-lahoma abounds, and a condition or uneasiness, even to terror exists. j Authorities are fully cognizant of tho ! evil possibilities of the situation, and are using the state's resources without with-out limit to make short work or Crazy , Snake aud his band. . ( . I Guthrie, Okla., March 30. Crazy Snake, or Chltto Harjo, the chief ot the Creek Indians, offered today to surrender. The proper of the wily-old wily-old chief, who has bef-n sought by live companies of Btato mllltla since Sunday, Sun-day, was' made to officers of the mllltla ml-lltla this morning. He sent word that he desired to come in, but reared surrendering sur-rendering to the local authorities. Henryetta. Okla., March 30. In absence ab-sence of news this morning from the mllltla that is pursuing Crazy Snake and his followers In the hill's southwest south-west of Henryetta, It is believed hero that the soldiers have not yet come up with the Indians In any force. Up to R:30 tills morning, no intelligence had been received In Henryetia. which Is the nearest telegraph point to the ficcne, to Indicate that Crazy Snake had either surrendered, or that the mllltla had engaged the Indians in battle. Guthrie, Okla.,, March 30. "Everything "Every-thing 16 quiet In the district surround- ) ing Hickory Grounds." wired .Ad-; Jutant General Canton here this morn- , inc. ! "Telephone messages from the three towns in the trouble zone this morning morn-ing assure me there was no trouble last night." I "I have had no Information of any kind from Col. Hoffman, who is In command of the soldiers, since 6 o'clock last evening, and that was of . the most quieting nature. 'i am rather of the opinion," con- ' tinned Adjutant General CHnton, "that some wild newspappr writer has worked work-ed off a small sized riot as an Indian war or race war. The only element of danRpr Hps In the fact that sensational sensation-al writers have caused the excitement, and some one may have to do something some-thing to keep up the show. It Is unfortunate un-fortunate that 4hc affair was so greatly maRnlflcd. From my reports, there-have there-have been but two killed since tho trouble began, and those officers seem to have had extremely poor Judgment, "Tho report, sent out at first, to the , effect that ofllcers had killed three, i was without foundation. Unless the writers confine themselves to fact, it Ik possible they will be requested to ! leave the country." I The chief states that he never de-! sired a flcht. Adjutant General Can-ion, Can-ion, lo whom tho news of Crazy Snake's- wish to lay down his arms was brought shortly before noon to- I day, expressed the belief that the re- port was retlable Such action, ho Fld, was Just what he expected from the old Indian, whom ho knows well, and whom he docs not think danger on. Shortly after receiving the news, ; . General Canton said: v j "The militia will be kept on the ground for the protection of the In- i dians, who will be brought in. Tho j whites are surely able to meet any , emergency. Because of the extreme ' possibility that there might be rioting ; hi-n tho Indians are brought In, and for the purpose of preventing this, we fcliall keefthe tmops on tho ground. The local authorities must and can now control the situation It proper Juilxment Is used. ' "The situation In the district snr- roundlug Old Hickory camp has never ' been serious enough for us to even declare martial law, and It is unfortunate unfor-tunate that such sensational stories have been sent ouL I have no word from Col. Hoffman up to 10 o'clock, and consequently must suppose that all la quiet." Oklahoma City, Okla., March 30. With Crazy Snake and a large portion ot his band of Indians, half breeds and nf'RToes. apparently trapped in the north Canadian bottoms, niore than 300 Oklahoma militiamen, deputies, rowboyg and farmers hurried forward at dawn today to Join those already on K'lard, and crush or capture the belligerents. bel-ligerents. It was be'ileved that the wily chler-taln. chler-taln. outgi-nerallc-d at last In the duet of military wit by his pursuers, could by no possibility break through , tho eordon which enmpassed him about, and which .lrw relentlessly nearer as It was reinforced during the night. The ludlanb wen In a timbered etronghold. On all sides ran god a deusc - Erowth of underbrush, flanked by Breat trees capable of affording protection pro-tection acaln. gatllng guns, lnxo this fortress, built by nature, the like ot "hich has afforded protection to red nian nnd pale face alikr in many a fierce affray, Crazy Snake aud a por- |