The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1870-09-29
:. For the Triton ADVERTISER.
EiOWa and COInanche Indians,

kiOWa and COmanche Indians.
OFFICE K1owA AGENCY: Fort SILL; 1T
9th mo, 10, 1870.
The above named Indians, with the
Cheyennes and Apaches, have been
making frequent raids into Texas dur
ing the past summer. These raids have
been made without any provocation or
direct cause from the Texans or any
other party.
The Indians assign four causes:
LIST. Because so many of them got
sick and died here last summer and fall.
They say that they were bewitched, or,
as they term it, "blowed" by one Of the
Presidents Commissioners, who, at the
council, where large number Of them
were assembled, knelt down, and all the
rest of US stood up, when he talked to
the Great Spirit, holding up his hands,
and they commenced getting sick inn
mediately afterwards.
End. They wish to have no boundary
lines between the various tribes, but let
them roam and hunt over the country
ut will, and especially they wish this
to apply to the Cheye nnes and Kiawas.
3rd. They wish to be furnished with
guns and ammunition especially the lat
ter. They already have large supply Of
arms; furnished in many instances by
the Government. 1t does rot require a
ah rosul Nonl. 70 Strnnuo,, what
they want the guns aud ammunition for,
when We know that they prefer the
bow and arrow for killing the buffalo,
and this 10 almost the only kind Of
game that the wilder Indians try to kill.
They can ride near to the buffalo and
KILT with an arrow without making q
noise. .r..
4tl,., Because they got SO few annui.
uy goods last fall, or rather winter
This is probably the greatest reason. l
have no idea whatever that the Govern
nent has ever intended to offer the In
dians premium for the white people
they would kill, for the horses and
mules they would steal, and the depre-
dations generally that they would COM
init; and yet the treatment that I under.
stand they have for many years receiv.
ed has almost, If not altogether amount.
ed to this. When the Indians would GO
on the war path and continue it thro'
the summer, having the soldiers to
chase them, without letting them do
much harm to them, the Government
would, when they quit in the fall, give
them q large amount Of presents and
annuity goods. When they behave
themsclver reasonably we'll they get
but few goods. Their annuity money
has been withheld ut such times to pay
depreciation claims. The Indians now
understand that the only way for them
20 get large amount Of goods is for
them TO 60 on the war path, kill some
people, steal q good many horses and
mules, and spread CONSERVATION and
terror through frontier settlements.
Last year the Kiowas and Comanches
behaved better than they had before for
many years, and they told me that they
expected they would get but few goods
on account of their behavior. l felt
very sure that they would be mistake
but when their annuity goods came
found that they were not. The cost OF
the goods was less than one fourth OF
what they were the year before when
they ceased their fighting and dspreda.
tions. With this experience that they
have year after year, is it any marve
that they should resort to the onl,
means they know of to obtain liberia
supply Of goods. Their appearance
show that they need them. While
treated thus l think it is absurd to ex
pect any other than frequent war and
troubles with the Indians. During this
summer near $50 miles of the frontier
settlements of Texas have been with
drawn. and seven or eight captyes
taken by the Indians, and several peo-
killed.
There were seven captives taken by
The Kiowas, six of them were of one
family, by the name of Koozer His,
Godlieb Koozer's, house was surround.
I'd by the Indians early on the morning
of the 10th Of July, 1870. He went out
% them and while two Of them were
hands with him in apparent
another one shot and scalped
I'm. Household furniture, clothing
o.. were destroyed and the mother and
70 children, one Of them a young
oman, were hurried oil as captives.
The women were shamefully abused
! the young men on the way to
cir camps, but after they got
ere they were taken In charge by