The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1872-09-05
Writes far the Upton Advertiser
FROM THE INDIAN COUNTRY
The Raiding Indians. "A Big Talk
and What Came Of it.-Captives
Returned, and the Story of Their
Captivity.

During the latter part Of last win
ter and early spring, the kiowa Indi-
ans repeatedly told me that they
intended to remain quiet during the
present season: but no sooner had
their horses recuperated from their
winters exhaustion than they started
on the war path. and did what they
could to induce the Comanches,
] Apaches, Cheyennes and Arapahoes
TO Join them. All the other Indians
contcnded that there was no cause
FOR war, and refused to Join them, ex-
cept very few of the Apaches, and a
considerable number of the Conan
ches. Numerous parties of them,
numbering from FIVE TO twenty, have
been raiding in Texas and elsewhere
since last spring. They have stolen
many hundred horses and mules: in
some instances all the stock Of new
settler; murdered some twenty per-
sons, and took three captives in Tex
as: killed one man near here and
several in New Mexico.
The civilized Indians, at their late
Okmulgee council, appointed dele
CATION to meet the kiowas, and try to
induce them to cease their raidng.
The council was appointed at old TT.
Cobb, on the 22d of It'll mo-, but it
was not until about ten days after
that the kiowas got there. White
Horse, a young and ambitious chief,
who had in one @: his raids during
the summer, taken the three captives,
stated that he and the young men
did not want peace, but should raid
when and where they chose. Lone
Wolf made the official speech on be-
half Of the tribe, in which he stated
that they would return the captives
and make peace when Santanta and
Big Tree were released from the pen
itentiary in Texas: all the military
posts removed from the Indian Terri
tory, and their reservation lines
extended from the Rio Grande TO the
Missouri River!! Some of the Indian
delegates had stamina enough to tell
the kiowas that if they did not bring
in the captives and make peace that
the government would surely visit
them with severe retribution.
After the council adjourned. Kick
ing Bird, the most reliable chief
among them, called my interpreter
aside and requested him to tell me
Il had gone to the agency a few days
previously on account Of sickness of
my wife, that last summer, on my
demand, he returned Al mules that
Satanic stole in Texas, which reauir-
ed considerable effort on his part to
induce Indians to restore them. He
did not approve of Lone VOLTS talk
in the council. He thought the cap
tives should be delivered TO the agent,
and he should now make a stronger
effort than he did last summer, and if
possible obtain possession of the cap
tives, and restore them to his agent.
BY several who were present, he was
encouraged to do his best and to act
promptly. Cyrus Bedec especially
urged him to bring them in at once.
On the 18th inst. two of them, Su-
sauna Lee, aged lG, and Milly Lee,
aged . years, were taken to the
Wichita agency, and on the 18th
were brought here and delivered to
me. Several Kiowas accompanied
them here, among whom was Lone
Wolf, who again was the chief spokes-
man. He said that the other captive,
John A. Lee, 8 years old, was too
sick to bring. That he. had had
stalk at their camps, and agreed to
bring in the captives and cease raid |
ing, i the white people did not get
foolish and do something to them. |
They only wished TO be let alone"
They plead with all the eloquence |
they Were capable of putting forth for