Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1870-09-02
INDIAN HORRORS IN TEXAS.
Ransoming Captives-The Scalp of
Murdered Father Daugied In the
Face of His Captive Children.
Fort Sill Indian Territory Cor. Chicago Re-

Fort Sill Indian Territory Cor. Chicago Re-
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Kicking Bird, Little Heart Satanta,
Satanc, Timbered Mountain, Lone Wolf
with nearly all the Kiowa braves and
their families and lodges and ponies,
etc., Rrriyed here 9l the lstA. They
brought iR MIS-. .k9ogtr ahq heE five
children, captured at Henrietta, Texas,
on the ittleWiehita, last July; special
dispatch in resald to which Was sent you
at the time. They demanded $500 apiece
for these captives. After they brought
them in General Grierson ordered all the
cavalry to saddle, fully arm and equip
and quietly hold themselves in readiness
at their stables for instant action. He
theg vent to the Agency,.a "A mile south of
here, and demarded Tho eapriyes ~ eaee
Internationally and without ransom,
The Indians gave them up. The Quaker
agent subsequently paid $l00 apiece for
them. Several days ago Kicking Bird
ana aellaa;iGp Of these Kiowas came
into the post With t&ehly-iHfee mHies
which had been stolen from here by their
band. They had council at the Agency
and demanded $1,000 for each of the cap
tives aud on being told by General
Grierson that no ransom would be
paid at all they became exasper
ated, loaded their carbines, strung
tes'E 9osF. hid tGlf hiW tb9h thty yy
would come some tilne'and carry hlm on.
The Quaker agent told them ID 90 back
to their camp and return With all their
certiyes and people, and he would pay
them something ioB thsiF eaDtiyes, but
how much he scodld hot Jeff Before
leaSing the Indiany placed White Horse,
q Candidate for chieftainshiP, in front Of
iha council, and said ia lifl. lriprsan
and the agent. "This is the great brave
that lately stole the seventy mules right
from under your noses, and scalped the
three men near this post, and shot into
the cattle herd, and had your soldiers
Eilg and lunning all over the country to
Catch iHeM, nlWs want yop 10 Hake Q
chief Of him for these things. Ire is the
man that captured the women and
children, and killed Mr. Kooger in
Texas, ETC.. and was the greatest brave
in the fight with the Sixth cavalry in
gSds T sa ~ spls XII ss Killed many
laid waste much country-make him a
nioWs uhicfw 10
y Yesterday ! saw this req feHq isf his
loaded carbihe On the do1ntdr az tie
sHilsr's store, and exaltantly count the
hundred o. mate aollars' Softh a sqt.
ler's checks which the order Of the In
dian Agent was procuring for him. He
was "iahhering away" to q group of
hideously-painted devils, and buying fine
double three-point blankets, and other
pqlHgblp goods, with iba Feward his con-
duct had obtained for him from the
Indian Agent.
This is no fancy sketch, but the honest
truth The savages-armed with breech-
loading repeaters (Spencer and Henry
carbines )-who crowded the sutler store
and were buying articles our officers and
soldiers could not afford, from the peo-
pies money appropriated by Congress,
and given them By the Indian Agent,
we're the ones that have been spreading
terror through Texas, numbering, rob
bing, devastating, aud compelling settlers
to break up and move south into the
thicker settlements,
When the captives delivered on the
18th arrived at this post the sight of the
troops oheered them greatly, but when
they started for the agency, however,
they began a piteous crying that melted
every heart, and one Of the Sixth infant
ry was heard to exelaim feelingly, in
choking accents: "0nly wink, boys,
TO sic. us, and bedad we'd have EN-"
1t is approaching the time Of year when
the Interior Department distributes lndi
an annuities, and besides, the prairie
grass is dying and rapidly losing its nu-
triton. Hence the desire for peace,
Several children-the sole sur
vivors Of massaered families-are still
eaptives. Mrs. Kooger was formerly