The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1873-04-03
Correspondence Upton ApvKRTssKa.
OrEICE kIowA AGENCY, l. T., }
Sd Mo-. 18th, 1873. (

| Correspondents Upton ApvKRTssEn.
| OrEICE kIowA AGENCY, II,
| Sd Mo-, 18th, 1873.
From the early settlement Of North
America, the Indians have been in
the practice of taking captives Of the
white people, sometimes having a
large number, and the Indians of this
Agency have not been an exception
TO this rule.
Soon after coming here, nearly four
years since, | learned that there were
some captives held by the Qua-ha-da
(roving) band of Comanches. which
belonged TO the Agency, but subsist-
ed upon what they could procure on
the Staked Plains.
On two occasions since have been
here the kiowa Indians have taken
some captives in Texas. The first
was in the .th month of 1870, when
they killed man by the name Of G..
koozier, took his wife, FIVE children.
and the child Of ncighbor. The
tribe had been pretty regularly draw
ing rations for more than year; but
! at once ceased to ration any Of
them until the captives should be
returned, which was done in about
six weeks.
Last summer the same tribe, after
killing man and his wife in Texas,
by the name of Lee, took three Of
t cir children captives. Again
their rations were suspended until
the captives were delivered here,
some two or three months after
They have become so accustomed to
. dependence upon the Government
for food that their women and chill
dren soon become clamorous when
their rations are withheld.
Very different has been the case
with the Qushada band of Comanches,
who have never depended upon gov
ernment supplies, illegitimate Mexi-
can traders often visiting them and
supplying them with blankets and
other clothing, as well rs arms. anu
milton, &C., taking in exchange. hor-
ses, mules and cattle stolen from Tex
as. Living remote, they formed
neucleus to which disaffected Indians
would resort to form raiding parties,
and then lay the depreda,ions to
that band Of Indians.
The Indians have sometimes told
me that this band intended to con-
tinue that business until the soldiers
should go out to their camp. so they
could have fight and see which was
the stronger party; experience, how
ever. had often proven that they were
more expert at running than fighting.
Their real opinion seems to have been
that it would be impossible for the
soldiers to overtake them.
Col. Mckinney, however, did sur
prise them last fall. He got within
few miles of their camp before he
was discovered, when nearly all the
men and many of the women ran
away, either on horseback or an foot,
as best they could, leaving more than
u hundred women and children to be
by the soldiers. This band
was then ready to come to the Agen-
cy and make peace; they were ready
to promise good behavior in the fu-
ture if they could only recover their
women and children; but told them
they need not expect to. see their
women and children returned while
they held captivcs stolen from Texas
Of elsewhere.
On the 24th of 10th No. last, they
brought in two white captives. sta
ting that these were all they had.
told them that l knew there were
others there, which must be brought
in. On the 14th of llth Mo. two
more white children were brought in.
Two Of the above four had been out
so long that they had lost the power
to speak the English language; knew
not their names or where they had
lived, except that it was in Texas
They, however, remembered some
in connection with their
which was published, and led
70 their identification. One of them
proved to be Temple, grandson of
L. S. Friend, Methcdist minister.
who had for many years preached the
gospel in Texas. The loss Of his
grand child had not only cost him an
untold amount of anxiety and pray
.r, but he had travelled on that ac-
count nearly fifteen thousand miles
Turing the last five years in fruit
ess endeavor to recover the long lost
little pet. On one occasion he spent
several months with me at the Agen-
" endeavoring to recover the child,
Who, we were satisfied, was with the
Quahada Indians, but they were be-
vond my control.
After his recovery he, with the
,ther captives, was placed in the
Agency School, and had attended il
several weeks when the grandfather
came from Eldorado, Kansas. to see
{ it really was his grand-child. Inn
.gine, if possible, the feelings of the
'ather and mother anxiously waiting
It ho,ne-circumstances making it in
sxPedient for them to come here-al-
20 the grandfather's uncertain feelings
N coming to identify the child after
i've years absence. On leaving, his
little sister said, "Grandfa,her would
know Temple by his large ears On
seeing him, the grandfather at once
some features of the child:
and, putting his arms fondly around
him, pressed him to his side and said
kindly, Temple Friend" when the
little fellow looked up as if inspired
with new thought, and replied
'Yesh" in his imperfect English. 1t
Was the first time he had heard his
name for FIVE years; he was about
seven years old when captured. A