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SUNDAY MORN [NO,
(il'THIE, OKLAHOMA. FKKKtWUY 10, 1001.
SUNDAY 510 f{ X1 N< i
TRUE STORY
OF THE
"'Indian War" !
(By Rob'ertus Ixive in Post-Dispatch.)
CAMP OF TROOP A, EIGHTH UN TI- j thrilling escape from the hostile Creek
KD STATES CAVALRY, CREEK NA- j
TJON I. T., FEB. 9.—The Indian war Is j
over. Without the firing of a gun, ex-
cept at a cottontail or a snipe, the up-
rising: has come down. The °iily blood
#hed was caused by a barbed wire fence.
camp and manager] to land their prisoner
at this place, etc."
NOW THIS IS HOW IT HAPPENED.
How it really happened was told me
by Grant Johnson himself. Johnson
was undoubtedly brava and daring. He
is part negro and part something else,
The faithful black dog which accompan- perhaps Mexican, and is of that pic-
led I'nlled Stairs Marshal Leo E. Ben- turesquc appearance which Frederic
Remington loves to limn. But he is
n«u on the campaign through the heart I ,nodPSt „„„ hc 8alli:
of the enemy's country ran again a fence j "Bernie and I rode from Muscogee to
near Wildcat, tore a gaping wound in Harjo's home near Wetumpku, Sunday
hi* left ear and bled all the way tu afternoon. It was a nice warm day.
. ; and wo found Harjo sound a sleep in
Henryetta. It was ghastly sight. . . , . . . ..
his farm wagon near his home. He
The lacerated ear of the faithful Beppo, wag unarmed and unattended. We
however, Is the only indication of the just rode up and woke him up and
horrors of war to be observed in the in- | told hi mto come to Henryetta with us
,. .. . , , as Marshal Bennett wanted to see him
rilnn Territory. There is plenty of red ,, . . , ,
He got on his horse and came along,
paint in Henryetta, just across the Frisco Wo a!so broUKht another Indian who
railroad from camp, but this is being ap- was on the place. Harjo said he had
plied to the new houses that are going tip papers authorizing him to execute the
. . .. the old Creek tribal laws, and he sent
dally In the Ititle town. It is the popular .. ,. ... , , . .....
the other Indian back to get the pap-
rolor—just any color so it Is red, will erB< Anions them we found a copy
go in Henryetta. But the Indians have j of thp 0jd treaty, but it had no sign
not used a single streak of paint. Th- ir nor seaj and it was worhtless. 1 guess
faces present an unbroken aspect of the Harjo thought it was all right, though,
aboriginal copper tinge that characterizes I jt wjjj observed that this ac-
the noble red man. count differs from the "hostile camp"
As to feathers ther - nrc plenty of them ttna "exciting and thrilling fiBCape"
In Henryetta. This Is a good chicken ' story quoted. Most things in the In-
country. Hocks of hens and roosters per- dinn territory as viewed by the staff
ambulate the one street of the town, and man are different from the same thing
me on a scrap of paper his Indian
name "Mochecer Bear." The Creeks
represent all kinds of animals and rep-
tiles, save the Roosevelt Mountain
lion.
The nine captives were placed in a
tent pitched in the center of a stock-
ade built for cattle, near the railroad
track, between the camp of cavalry
and that of Marshal Bennett and his
deputies. One day I escaped the vig-
ilence of Lieut. Dixon and reached the
fence of the stockade, where Indian
Policeman Theodore Stidham, a mem-
ber of the marshal's posse was talk-
ing to a Creek. Stidman is a Creek
though not a full blood. He was In
the Rough Rider regiment and fought
with Roosevelt at Las Guasimas and
San Juan. At Las Guasimas he was
near Edward Marshall, the war cor-
respondent, when Marshall was dan-
gerously wounded and he saw Hamil-
ton Fish lying dead on the field. Stid-
ham is a member of the Creek nation's
house of warriors, the lower house of
the legislative body at Okmulgee, the
Creek capital. Through him John
Creek told me that the Indians had no
thought of harming the whites, but
they had flogged a few Creeks who re-
fused to abide by the tribal laws that
Crazy Snake's men believed to be in
force by authority from Washington.
Flogging is the oil Creek method of
punishment for misdemeanors. Creek
is a harmless looking Indian.
SOME NOTED MEN AMONG THE
MARSHALS.
Marshal Bennett's force came over-
land from Muskogee, camping Sunday
night near Wildcat, in the heart of
the Creek country. The party numbers
20. Including cooks and drivers. There
are three large camp wagons with
tents and complete outfittings for tha
the feathers of the slain float upon the
February breezes, indicating that the on-i-
story and one-room hotel of Boniface Ben-
son has fried ehicken to order. The In-
dans wear no feathers in their headbands.
They wear broad bribed black hats, every
buck of them
WEARS DIAMONDS NOT BLANKETS.
The painted, feathered, blanketed red-
skin of the hit.' Fennimore Cooper and the !
Eufaula correspondent for St. Louis news- !
papers is utterly unknown to Indian Ter- j
rltory. I have spent five days hunting for
a blanket Indian through four of the na-
tions of the five civilized tribes, without
seeing a blanket. Governor D. H. John-
son of the other nation, the Chickasaw-,
whom I met at South McAlester, tells
me that the blanket Indian is unknown
In his tribe. The governor himself wears
diamonds and broadcloth and Is a hand-
somer man than Governor Dockery.
The only thing remotely resembling a
irmahawk to be found in the Creek na-
tion Is the hatchet used by Tom Benson
to behead chickens. No Indian would car-
ry so antiquated an article us a toma-
hawk. The tomahawk Indian, likewise the
feathered and painted Indian, disappeared
from these parts many moons ago, and his
place was taken by the sturdy, stolid,
steady Creek of today, who wears a full
Milt, of clothing, shoes made in St. Louis,
n hat made in Philadelphia and a shirt
■made in New York. As a rule the Creek
wears better clothes than his white neigh-
bor. He owns the land, leases It to the
white man. lives off the proceeds, does li'-
t!e work to soli his garments and there-
fore an outfit sartorial lasts him a long
time.
As to'his hat the Creek Is a connoisseur.
I am told by the local merchant that a
Creek will pay his last cent for a good
lint and will have no othi r. Always he
demands the broad brimed bell-crown.
Mexican style, and It must be of the best
quality. Usually it Is black, though occas-
ionally a Creek wears a white or brown
sombrero. Th,. Creek's hat is his hobby.
He would rather wear a good hat 'n a hut
than go bear headed In a palace.
SEEN THROUGH GLASSES.
T have seen the terrible Crazy Snake,
the Aguinaldo of the Creek Insurrection,
through a pair of field g'asses. First
Lieutenant B. B. Dixon, commanding the
sixty-five men of his troop who wen- sent
hither to quell the uprising, kindly per-
mitted mP to survey the fierce prisoner
through his glasses at a distance of 250
yard". The lieutenant, whom the local
Indians have named Young-man-afrald-
«if-hls-voice, permits no "war correspond-
ent" to approach nearer Crazy Snake than
his headquarters tent, which is at the oth-
er end of the camp, from the j^iard tent
in will -h the wild warrior is eonfled.
Crazy Snake is Incommunicado. He can't
talk English and the military command-
der won't let him talk Creek, for reason"
Indicated later in this veracious report
©f the Creek war.
Over at Wetumpka, west of here, near
which village Crazv Snake lives on his
farm, the terrible chief is known as Bill
Jones. Ills Creek name is Chltto Harjo,
which, literally translated, means snake
rras.v. When Mr. Jones sign:-- his name
to a communication to the Great Father,
William McKlnley. h • writes it Wilson
Jones. But his Intimates variously desig-
nates him as B|U Jones, Bill Snake, and
Bill Harjo. The munieiap.ility of Mr. Jones
appellations is confusing to the ranger,
hut I am told that most of the Indians
hereabouts who amount to anything have
names to juggle with.
Mr. Snake is an interesting study-
through the field glasses of Young-man-
afrald*of-hls-voloe. He sits dosing in
■front of his tent. He wears the favorite
hat of his tribe, a black coat and vest,
n pair of gray cotton trousers and mooca-
slris such as th„ average business man
weals when he walks down Olive street
Snake was about 60 years old before his
capture, but he has aged greatly since
being put In sol■ t11'• teni. He was a fed-
eral soldier during the civil war. Now, be-
hold. he is accused of ti< ison.
The capture of Mr. Snake was thriling-
tn the resident correspondent, Thl the
way I have Just read it In a 8: Louis
morning paper that h• -« reached camn:
"Deputy Marshals Grant Johnson and
L "Bernie McIntosh, two men noted 'or their
er> end daring In hasst
■ di'loii- again?' u' ■ "ia-!r " 1 1 . '
fiijvi|i the e n in pin' tit of Snakes n ar K^-
fa tils toda\ and 11P
fCrazv Si4 1 Af"
as viewed by Young-Man with a War
Whoop. Here is the narative of the
taking of Crazy Snake, built upon
Grant Johnsons truthful account, and
allowing for poetic but not prose, li-
cense:
Crazy Snake, the ferocious Indian
chief, lay snoozing in his farm wag-
on in front of his tepee. The tepee
was built of lumber costing $2'< per
1000 feet, but that doesn't matter.
What's the good of capturing an In-
chief unless you throw in the
tepee0
The great, warrior was surrounded
by his fierce braves, none of them
nearer than ten miles and most of
them .it home, like the chief enjoy-
ing their Sunday afternoon sleep under
the warm sun of the Indo-Italian skies.
Crazy Snake however, was unconscious
of his urroundings. He was drqamlng
of the happy hunting grounds of his
fathers and wondering how big his
next year s corn crop wou.d be.
Suddenly a sound was heard . Hist!
(an Indian story is not worth a pair of
dueces unless there is a lilst or two
in it) Hist!. The leaves of the forest
crackle under the heavy trod of steeds
They come' Nearer and nearer ap-
proach the reckless deputy marshals,
bearding the lion in his very den. And
all this time
"At evening In his guardless wagon.
The Creek lay dreaming of the hour
When Mack, who cheers the starry
flag on.
Should tremble at his power."
Through the scrub oaks rode two
silent figures. (Acouple of silent fig-
ures are' Indispensable in, a story like
this). One was Grant Johnson wearing
a white sombrero and a long droop-
ing mustache and carrying a short
Winchester in his battle hand. The
other was Bernie McIntosh, part In-
dian with a similar. Both were dep-
uty United States marshals under Dr.
Bennett of Muskogee, and both had
won their spurs in many a hand-to-
hand conflict with desperadoes. John-
son was in command of the expedition.
He quickly surrounded the wagon.
"Hi. there, Bill!"' cried Johnson.
Bill Jones snored uneasily and turn-
ed over for another installment of his
snooze.
"Asleep by the pole tombs of his
father!" exclaimed the deputy, in a
tone of 24-karat disgust. "Dismount
Bernie and disarm him: pull tho fangs
from this terrible Snake."
Deputy McIntosh dismounted and
threw his bridle rein over the wagon
stake, and took from the protruding
hip pocket of the sleeping warrior the
most terrible weapon know n to the
Creek nation. It was a flask of fire-
water from Oklahoma.
That's contraband." said Johnson.
"Confiscate it Bernie, but don't lose
the stopper out. We may use it—as
evidence."
By this time Crazy Snake was wide
awake.
"Marshal Bennett wants to see you
over at Henryetta, Bill." said the com-
mander of the invading force. "Sad-
dle your horse and com1 along."
Seeing- that he was the victim of too
much Johnson. Crazy Snake saddled
pony and was escorted into camp, and
Youngmnn Afraid of Tils Voice
placed him in a tent and placed a
guard of two privates and one cor-
poral over h'tn. This ended the war.
With the sinuous and crafty snake un-
fanged and caged, the rest of the In-
surgents lost heart nnd went back to
plowing for winter wheat.
ONE MAN WHO FOUGHT WITH
ROOSEVELT.
Monday morning Johnson. McIntosh
and two other deputies made a capture
of a whole flock of Indian gume.
Through his field glosses Lieut. Dixon
espied a party of horsemen riding on
a ridge about one mile south of Henry-
etta. The deputies mounted and hot
footed for the horsemen, who were sur-
prised while watering their ponls at
a .-reek, and were brought Into camp
without the exchange of a shot. There
were nine Creek full bloods in the par-
ty. some armed with Winchesters and
others with revolvers. One of the
captives is *iid to be the « hlef lieu-
tenant <>f Chitto Harjo. His English
iname is John Creek. He wrote for
affairs from the public. This is given
for what it is worth. Marshal Bennett
says that Snake is the real leader of
the disaffected Creeks.
One might look long and earnestly—
and not through field glasses, either—
for a man, woman or child in the
Creek nation, or the Choctaw who has
had any fear that the Indians will
harm the whites. Everywhere they
tell you that there has been no dan-
ger. despite the publication of lurid
dispatches anent the threatened burn-
ing of towns and massecreing of the
whites. These unreliable reports have
worked harm to the territory. Life
Insurance companies, I was told at
South McAlester, have warned their
H0 nt: to be careful in writing polici 1
lest some of those Insured-mig'it meet
swift doom at the hands of the painted
braves.
NOT MAKING WAR ON THE WHITES.
In another way it is probable that harm
has been done. Indian Teri ory is pleading
for statehood. Under existing treaties all
the Indians of the civilized tribes will be-
come full-fledged American citizens with-
in a few years. If the whites are in dan-
ger of being scalped by the reds, the state-
hood advocntes suggest to the visitor, is
the congress of the United States going
to create a taste out of : e h material for
citizenship?
It cannot be too emphatically asserted
that the Indians are not making war
against the whites. The few who have
been connected with the present affair
simply want to remain red Instead of
turning white; they wan to be Indians,
to retain their tribal relations, their own
land in common, execute the ancient laws
of the tribes, and to be let alone. There
are in round numbers 12.000 ("reeks. Grant
Johnson says that only about seven'v-
five of them have been riding about the
chief of the Indian police provided for
the territory by Uncle Sam. Informs rnt
that there is a secret, oath-bound organi-
zation, extending throughout the five civ-
ilized tribes, the purpose of which Is to
cling to the old tribal regime Captain
Ellis thinks that under favorable condi-
tions this organization might be able to
cause trouble, but with the Indian police
and the deputy marshals In the field there
Is little danger.
Captain Ellis Is a Cherokee, straight
as an arrow, more than six feet tall, and
a terror to evil-doers. He has several
notches on his pistol butt and a group
of graves In his private cemetery, at-
testing his prowess as an officer of the
law. His force consists of twenty-eight
i men. all of Indian blood, stationed at dlf-
I ferent poln's the territory.
I Among the men of prominence who have
i told me that there Is nothing serious in
j the so-ealledup-rlsltig may be mentioned
! Tama Bixby, chairman of the Dawes com-
| .mission for apportioning Indian lands;
Governor D. H. Johnson, a Chickasaw,
principal chief of the Chickasaw nation
a lawyer of recognized ability; Dr. J. A.
Sterrett. United States townslte commis-
sioner for the territory, a brother of F. M.
j Sterrett, of St. Louis, secretary of the
world's fair finance committer; Attorney
1 Mansfield, of South McAlester, counsel
| for the Choctaws, recently returned from
' ;Washington; Indian Agent Schonefeldt
cf Muskogee, and Editor Jobe, of the
I South McAlester Daily Capital.
Up In the states it is popularly believed
' that Uncle Sam keeps the Indian Territory
i heavily garrisoned with troops, ready at a
, moment's notice to quell uprisings and
preserve the lives of the whites. This de-
1 lusion may be dissipated by the mere
statement of the fact that with the coming
of the sixty-five men of Troop A. to Hen-
j ryett.i, the Indians have the opportunity
■
-A
THE ORIGIN
OF THE
Indian Tribes
#*#-.«•« «*••••«••
MONTREAL, CAN . FEB. 9.- The or-
igin of the Indian tribes who were living
In America when Columbus discovered
the continent Is a problem which has
puzzled the ethnologists for centuries. It
has now apparently be
♦
i
e league's
and Dekanswidah,
founders.
Many inscriptions also refer to another
league founder, the terrible Atotarho of
the Onondagas who was the original Ben
Hadad, or In Hittlte speech. Hadad-
ullsfactorlly -TO of tho ni.of llamalh. or ti™
mountain door. These men flourished he-
solved, and the solution is certainly ono ( ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ (. ^
which will surpass not only ethnol gists , KRypt
antiquarians and historians, but also the i s-pi'DY OF SINA1TIC INSCRIPTIONS.
entire religious world.
The tribes, as Is known t • students of
American history, were members of a
confederacy known «s the Great League
of the Iroquois. Taking this historical
fact as a basis, scholars have endeave-
ored to dig out of old records some r.
'.label Information about the early his-
tory of these Indians. The late Horatio
Hale, who wrote the "Iroquois Book of
Rites,'' maintains that the great league
could not have been formed before the
fifteenth century. David Cusiek wlv
wrote the History of the Six Nations."
The professor explains at length ho*
he was forerd to arrive at this COnOUW
hioii after a careful study of Slnaltic in*
scrlptlons.
"The characters In these Inscriptions.'*
he says. " are not Semitic, but Turan«
inn, and they are the originals of those
that appear In the east on Partblatt
[ coins, and on the Lata of India, on tho
monoliths of Siberia and Mongolia and
on the mould builder tones of America,
while the western descondents appear in
the inscriptions of Lycla, Phygia, Lem-
nos, non-Aryan Italy, Celt-Iberia, and
Plctland."
claims that there are abundant proofs ; T)ii, SI:ir,ijIu; result is that '"he who
for the belief that the league existed
thousand years before Columbus landed
In America.
Prof. John Campbell of the Presby-
terian college, this city, comes forward
with a theory unlike any other hereto-
fore broached, and which. It true, would
make the great league one of the oldest
Institutions In the world. Unmistakable
evidence exists, he says, that the great
league dates back to the end of the
nineteenth or the beginning of the elghh-
tteenth century before chrlst. This evi-
dence is in tho form of Inscriptions that
hav been found during recent yoars In
the peninsula of Sinai.
In deciphering such Inscriptions there
Is probably no one living that Is more
capable than Prof. Campbell, and conse-
quently, when it was rumored recently,
that he had found on some of them a
clear reference to a great league, and
even to Indian chieftains, the scholars
and scientists who heard of the discov-
ery saw its Importance at once and wait-
ed eagerly for a full account of It.
That the Iroquois league was revived
in tho middle of the fifteenth century
Professor Campbell Is strongly Inclined
to believe, but he does not think it is
probable that any such confederat'o.i
took place on American soli in the end of
the fifth century, as there is no evid -!tc«
that even the Mound Builders who later
had read the inscription of the nineteenth
century B. C., In Arabia. Petraea, can
also read one of the same character in
America in the seventeenth century, A.
D."
As a proof of the truth of Ills various
statements Professor Campbell points to
twenty-one Slnaitlc Inscriptions, all of
which bear testimony to the great antiq-
uity of the Iroquois league. The first of
these consists "f ;;f\ lines, which trans-
lated, read as follows: "An opposing sol-
dier of Kushi kills the Chief Kudashltu;
Dekanata, the head of the league, causes
the band of the league under Kudashltu.
to descend to ally Itself with Noha."
To the general reader theso words may
seem Inexplicable. but to Professor
Campbell there meaning is very cb*ur«
| "Here," he says. "Is the problem which
thts Inscription presents. In the Wady
i Makkataeb. or written valley of the Sin-
| altlc peninsula, is from, an Indent in-
' Bcription in virtually the same charact-
| ers as those of the Yarmouth stone and
' West Newberry written rock, the former
commemorating a Cayuga chief named
Katorats and the later ;« Huron Tlonoii
named Mchnshi.
"With sliKiit differences. naturally
arising from gre.it lnier\ ti- "f tim and
j space, they yield the same Japanese
speech, the Latin and classic tongue of
the northern Turanians. Next we liava
formed the m™t nnclent population In j |ho sln;lU,,. pcnlnaula „r vicinity n
Mexico proper entered the continent l . Kl,ml Us KM.nl-no.vo, or
j fore* the eighth century. "Some rocks and i n. ,, ni,
stones." he said. " engraved with inserip- ! .... . . , .,, ,
. .. , , . ! That much more w-jit will be thrown
tlons of the Mound Bidders characters, .
, . . ... ,, "I1 this importanr -ub.ieet in the near v -
commemorate Iriquols, and Huron chiefs
... .. , . , .. | ture is likeiv, s■■ n'*c nior. than ;t.ooo Kn-
but make no mention of the league. Nor
is there any mention of such in the
DAN CUPID TURNS ON HIS ELECTRIC BATTERY.
campaign. Among the deputies are
several who have excellent records as
Indian trailers and hunters of,desper-
adoes. There is Bud Trail, who is
very handy with the six-shooter, as
many a federal prisoner knows; Paden
Tolbert, who spent some time in the
naval academy at Annapolis, but liked
the wild, free life ashore rather than
the ship's deck: W. Frank Jones of
Checotah. Orlando Dodson of Okmul-
gee and David Adams of Muskogee,
all with records for daring; William
Vann, a Cherokee, a member of the
.Indian police; H. D. Kerr and W. S.
'Miles, posscmen sworn in for the oc-
casion, nnd Constable Joseph Hubbard
of Muskogee.
It is not putting It too strong to say
that Marshal Bennett, himself an offi-
cer of dare-devil courage and his band
j of sharp shooters are able to handle
'the whole "uprising." In fact, they
| have handled it, and so wisely that no
| blood has been shed—always excepting
the acldental gore of poor Beppo.
Marshal Bennett told me that unless
i promptly put down the Indians would
j have caused trouble.
j United States Commissioner Thomas
I A. Sanson. Jr., of Muskogee Is a mem-
ber of the marshal's party. He came
to Henryetta to give the Creek pris-
i oners a hearings, after which it is
' supposed they will be confined In the
federal Jail at Muskogee, tho charge
against Crazy Snake being treason In
1 some form.
j A government official has given me
a theory whfch In his opinion, accounts
I for Lieut. Dixon's refusal to permit
I correspondents to interview Crazy
I Snake. This gentleman believes that
Crasy Snnke really hus no idea as to
! why he has been arrested: that Snake
was utterly ignorant of any "uprising"
I and that Ills - apt is Wish to keep '
j revelation of UiU curious c ondition ct
country since the late excitement began.
These are full-bloods who naturally prefer
to be Indians the rest of their lives, as
they have been from birth. The rest of
the Creeks accept the Inevitable. They
know tha; they are impotent against the
United States govt rnment, and they bow
to the will of the Great Father at Wash-
ington. They dwell in peace .among their
fcllotfV and the whites who have settled
upon thi ir land and who pay tlum land
rents. They are not looking for trouble.
Tho report that the Choctaws are rising
Is liki wise erroneous. There are among the
Choctaws, as among the Creeks, certain
Indans who want to stay Indians. There
Is an organization known as the Light-
horse, a certain number to each district.
It is the officers of these Llghthorsemen
who were arrested by Marshal Bennett's
deputies. They were trying to execute
the old tribal laws, and it Is the opinion
of may persons here that they are I he
victims of "shyster" lawyers at Wash-
ington, who, for a consideration, have led
them Into th« belief that they were au-
thorized by the government to live under
the old treaties.
So far as the "ur rising" in the Choctaw
nation goes It Is fcuillcieut to ray that Uov-
j ernor Dukes, the principal chief of the
j Choctaws, was In South McAlester this
I week and passed on the street Daniel Bell,
I or Big Snake, the Indian who thinks he
' has been elected governor, and Duke-; dd
not order the arrest of the "pretender."
Two weeks ago some full-blood Chocta*
I held a pow-wow and elected Big Snake
I governor, deposing Dukes, because he
was not a good Indian, according to their
; notions. Big Snake Is an old farmer 11 v-
j ing twelve miles north of South McAlester
1 the metropolis of the Choctaw nation,
j He imagine that he Is to be inaugurated
| gover. But Governor Dukes laughs at his
pretentions.
PATH BOUND ORGAN I HAT ION.
• 'aptaln Jack U.i«, of South M- v •
to see th. first United States troops that
have camped upbn the soil in a decade.
) There Is no army post in the territory and
; has nut been since Fort Gibson was aban-
doned. many years ago. This speaks tomes
I for the peaceable character of the In-
J fllans.
; BARBARITY A THING OF THE PAST,
j When one learns that theso Indians of
1 the five civilized tribes 'nave their legis-
latures and their organized governments
similar to those of the states, any pre-
j conceived notion of their barbarity fades
I Into blue mist. The legislature of the
Creek nation is called the great council.
It Is made up .pf an upper house called
the house of kings, and a lower house call-
ed the house of warriors, with a president
and speaker respectively. Th" council
meets In October of each year In the
cap Hoi building at Okmulgee, thirteen
miles north of this town, and continues
In session thirty-five days. There are
forty-two kings and about twice as many
warriors.
The recent construction of the Red river
division of the Frisco line through the
Creek nation from north tu south is tapid-
ly building up this regions. For instance,
this town of Henryetta, started ten months
afco. after the now railroad was surveyed,
has 450 inhabitants. The only settler a
year ago was Hugh .Henry, a ti Indian,
who has lived here twenty-five years He
went to Washington and had the town
named for himself arid Etta, his wife.
There Is sentiment even among the In-
dian?.
The townslte is one of the most beauti-
ful in the Southwest. Situated on a rolling
prairie, the Utile village Is entirely sur-
rounded by ridges of wooded hills, c I
I being mined nearby, nnd the enthusias-
tic settlers talk of a possible Pittsburg
Some of the houses are built of sand stone
quarried out of their own cellars. Mo?
of them are of imber. There ai a few
abine 'f'l nme b u hou*« -. T ie
e.j,t.jfii : ren pruate mail b"*e
i itie Inset
aire, dy ben colk
of them has as y
xperts as Profess
scrlptions of Sibera and Buddist India,
which were erected by the ancestors of 1 ''t'on st,,died b>
the Iriquols nnd cognate tribes ' ! ' amnbcll.
Now comes the Important point, for the i 1 hese dusky aborigines pla\ now .i
professor assures us that, "writing of 'ery small part in th« world s hlstorv.
essentially the same character and " Prof. Campbell's theory rests ■>. a
yielding a still more archaic but decld- j u,und basis, they can flatter themselves
edly genuine and Japanese form of 'hat in one respeet thc\ are dintlnguish-
speech, is found throughout the Slnatlc I '-d above all the other nations of tho
peninsula and the country east of the i earth, for surely then is no other na-
rlver Jordan, up to the llauran and be- Hon or family which ean claim that its
yond it. These venerable inscriptions ancestors are mentioned in the Bible, and
mention repeatedly the "kumi no to, or i did brave deeds in the da- s off Abraham,
band of tin league, and one of them j Isaac, Ablmelech and the other heroe*
names as contemporaries Odatschethte J of the Old Testament.
j''- ' • . "> •
Bosks and Magazines Reviewed. I
<• v.- • >•, .■V'AYVX'--. I
l>OvE book will be bound In cloth iiimI
Love Is a day | placed on the market at $1."H. W ha . •
"laced the price at one dollar because wo
desire to mak the work popular
Among the illustrations which will b in-
teresting to the Guthrie public Is one of
• cr former boys, Frank Wilson, who t.>]<.• •*
a leading role as one of the fllctltlos cliar-
et« i of the book, as w< I as fun,, s
r nieli ciiii'alioe.il rrad!ng ii■■ the pi, ti, 1
drawn from his soldier life. We hopo
it least for ?h(. sake of the colonel th it
With no thought of i
Love Is a Joy
With no thought of so
Love is to give
With no thought of !ei
Love is not rust —
Without quite be'.h vin|
-Charles Henry Webb, i
Colonel Robert Mi Reynolds, now of Lin-
coln, Neb., but formerly of this city, is
the author of on«- of the latest popular
books which Is soon to be placed among
the standard publications on the mark':
of one of the leading publishing houses >1
the world.
The title of thfi new book Is "Hi* Willed
It So," or "The Story of Rodney Wilkes '
The scene Is mainly located In Indiana, on
the Mississippi and Ohio rivers and In
Nebraska and Oklahoma It is written
in that grotesque humor, musical melan-
choly and wleredly picturesque stvlo
which characterises all the colonel's writ-
ing. The advance sheets show It to bo
more than tho ordinary literary produc-
tion. It Is blended with the super-sen-
sitiveness and divinely tender pathos,
such as only is felt by the frue artists and
poet author. The characters are strong
and well defined and tho plot Is psycholo-
gically and philosophically perfect and
no.;i fascinating, in i: the colon'-FTlus '
doubly demons! rat -d his master descrio- i
live powers and perfect familiarity wi a j
army as well as all phases of civilian inc. ;
The work is one which Its pub'lsher classes
with David Harern In plot, but compares
its style to that of Cooper, although j
bereft of the more trying feature or t i
minute description. It says: "His stylo J
is more like J Fennemore Cooper than j
that of any other author, especially in I
his masterful descriptions, but he has j
wisely avoided the minute detailing which j
i more or les.^ tiresome to the edu
leader. Wo have classed his work
the publishers are not over-estimating th-
future of the book when they place i
with the most popular novels of toda>
and declar(. that they anticipate a slmUai
triumph for It.
MONROE DOCTRINE AND HAY
PAUNCEFOTE THEATY
The question of the relation of the Mon
roo doctrine to the neutralization of ih<
canal is of long .standing Neutrailzatioi
was the gre.it. principle of the t'laytot
nd that convention wa-
it was upheld and lis-
atfs and assaults of |.
the present time. It
modify the Clayton-Bu!
is to allow the
Bulw- r treaty,
ably defended,
withstood the «
enemies down
now proposed t
niti I
i in-
states to construct the canal; bu
portant stipula" :i of the old agr- • ne ,
the time-honored principle of neutraliza-
tion, is to be retained. This has been ar-
ranged by Mr. Hay and Lord aPuncefote
In a new convention, which is but the am-
plification o fthe Clayton-Bulwer tr aiy -
. i i ir il fruit of th«r old ,-eed It i\ as
Dr. Johnson would -ay. "tlv old dog in -l
new doublet. unJ. 1 may add. a doublet
of better cut
One again the opponents of neutraliza-
tion are on hoir lVet. protest!-- * that tho
treaty Is contrary
The reasons whi.
tho Clayton-Bulwe
tacks upon the I
tlou. One of th*
it, d i attempt* is the l
vlth
the Monro® doctrine,
I Ik
cks upon
nsldlous of these
uendment, which
that of David Harem mote been use of
the similarity in strength and uniqueness
of design, and Its perfect appeal to the
popular literary chord of todsy. which we
predict will place it In the ;.ubli<- rreep-
tiops at on •• with that t* ok. The
tr.illzation The or
I tion think It itnprn
I power should rnn
I with the I'm !
Vlcarsgus • a
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