The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1875-09-09
Indians Attack the Hayden Sur.
veyins Party,
And Hold Them in hay for Fiji.
teen Hours.
Hanging Of Six Murders in Ar
kansas.
Soldiers Re- Union ut Caldw, II,
Ohio.

LITTLE lock, Sept. "a dispatch, BY
courier, 70 Fort Smith to Altus, forty miles
distant, the nearest telegraph station, states
that the hanging OF the six men, at that
place, to-day, passed offquistly. The con-
demned men were brought on; at half-past
nine O'Clock, and assembled the scaffold At
ten. All showed nerve, and refused to make
any confession. Moore said: "Pm game
man, and l will die game" Fooy said:
II am as anxious TO so as these spectators
are to see me CO." Wilmington said nothing
Evans also said nothing. Campbell and
Mankiier said they were innocent.
The six men were sentenced at the last
term Of the Federal Count. There we've
eight sentenced at the same time, but one
was killed afterwards, while attempting TO
escape, ard the sentence of the other was
committed TO imprisonment for life The
names Of the men who were hung, are
Jas. ii. Moore and Dan. Ii. Evans, white,
San,l ". Fooy, quarter Cherokee, Smoker
Mankiller, a full-blood Cherokee, Edward
Campbell, colored, and John Wilmington,
white
The gallows WAS erected inside the walls
of the old fort. The platform WIS fourteen
hy fifteen feet high. Smoker Mankiller,
the full-blood. was but eighteen years old !;
he had wife and child. On the lst OF
September, 1874, he murdered a white man,
named VIA. Short. He stoutly asserted
his innocence, in a written statement. He
CHARGED the witnesses who testified against
him with perjury. lie had very black hair,
was stout built, had low forehead, and
stared his fate in the face with the usual in
difference of the Indian. Jas. ii. Moore
was tweniy-seyen years OF age; tall
and fine-lOoking, bold and daring.
He was native Of Johnston county, MIS-
souri,, but removed to Texas when a child,
where he grew up on the frontier, rs muir
derer, horse-tEief and highwayman. When
captured and sentenced, he boasted that
he had killed eight white men, and Indians
and negroes too numerous 10 mention. lie
claimed to he the best shot in the West. He
had 4 wife and one child, living in Texas.
As desperate and outlaw, lie was the best
representative of the lot. Sam. w. Fooy,
quarter-blOod Cherokee, was a native OF
Fort Smith, twenty-eight years old, well-ed-
ucated, married, and has three children.
His family reside near Arber's Falls.
In July, 1872, he murdered Young man
named John +. Naff, near Taplequah, for
500. He confessed the crime.
Daniel ii. Evans was a handsome young
man OF twenty, and native of Tennessee.
He has respectable connections in Missouri,
Tennessee and Texas. lie murdered Il man
named Scabott in November, last year, near
Eufauia, Creek, in the Cherokee Creek Ma
ton. lie admitted that he associated
with outlaws, and, in connection with two
others, robbed wealthy man of thiriy-five
thousand dollars, of which
this, he says, is buried in Basque county,
Texas. He says he stuck a pine stick into
his victims flesh, and act it on fire to con.-
pei him to tell where his money was. When
he was sentenced, he smilingly rose and
| thanked the court Tor the courtesy shown
him. Wilmington WAS n native OF Taylor
county, Georgia; he is so years old, and
has wife and three children. He muir
dered man named John J. Turner, in
February last, in the Chickasaw Nation.
The son of Turner appeared at about the
| time Of the murder, and cap
tured him. He died penitent and resign
ed. Campbell, the colored boy, was
aged twenty; native OF the Choctaw Ma
ton. He, in connection with two others,
killed Lawson Ross and Marcia Mckinney,
or the 18th of February, 1875. Some trou-
bic arose between the parties at 4 prayer
meeting, when the three went to the house
of Ross and the woman, and shot them.
All six of these parties were launched
at the same time. Marshal Pagan and his
deputy superintended the execution. The
gallows was erected close up to the front OF
| an old building. Just over the trap was 4
strong rope beam, framed on posts and
firmly braced. The six men were placed
in line, standing side by side.
yIcKsBURG, Sept. Ca "IIerald" extra
gives the following accoun, Of the disturb
ance at Clinton
The origin and particulars of the ;iot at
Clinton, Saturday afternoon, have been va
riously stated. After hearing all the state
mcnts, We think the following about cor
| rect
There is a law prohibiting the sale OF
liquo- q. Clinton. Some young men from
Ray yght bottle with them, and
while 49, Soaking Was going on, Martin
Seye!y and some of his friends went off q
short distance to take drink. The negro
marshal for the occasion, approached them,
and forbid them drinking. This order was
not regarded, when the negro attempted
to take the bottle out of Sevely's hand. |
Sevely finally struck The negro over the |
head with the bottle. Senator Caldwell |
(colored) started to settle the difficulty, and
was followed by some twenty negroes, whom |
he ordered back, but about hundred more |
came rushing forward, when some one fired |
a pistol, which was followed by general |
firing and 4 stampede. Sevely fired all |
the barrels OF his pistol. The negroes then |
demanded his surrender. He surrendered |
and gave up his pistol, after which the ne
groes shot and then Drained him. They
robbed him OF his clothing, and cut of his
little finger, to get his ring. The Infatuated
mob found Charles Chelton in his yard, and
shot and killed him in the presence OF his
family. Frank Thompson, promising
young lawyer, was shot from his horse,
while a mile ard half from ths
scene OF the conflict, and, after falling, the
savages drove their knives into the body, in
many places. John Neal was fatally shot
in the left lung, in town, and Waddy Rice
seriously in the hand. -Four negroes were
found dead on the field, and two MORALLY
wounded. Six additional negroes have
been found dead about Clinton since. The
white men OF Clinton were organized at
once, for self-protection, under Col. Hard
ing, and kilograms were sent here for
i
OF the dispatch, fifteen men were ready TO
march, and took a special train, which
reached Clinton at I o'clock. About ten
o'clock more reinforcemen;s came from
jackson. The roads were picketed during
the night, but all danger being over, most
Of the citizens returned to their homes at
vicksburg, leaving thirty men on guard.
All is now quiet at Clinton. At Edwards,
the train from Jackson, Saturday night.
with reinforcements for Clinton, was fired
into from the side of the road, and obstruc-
tons were also found on the track.
CLINTON, Sept. Ga Radical meeting
200 strong was held here last Saturday. !.
Not more than fifty white men were pres
ent, and half of them unarmed. A per-
,onal difficulty occurred on the outskirts of !
The crowd. The negroes rushed to the rescue,
when firing commenced. Three whites
we're killed, ard six wounded. Charles
prominent merchant of this ,,
place, was killed in his own yard. About
|ory negroes have been killed, and many =
rounded. The whites hold possession of
he town, and the negroes are scattered in
III directions. The leaders are said to be
IN jackson. The Governor has called ON
General George, Chairman OF the DEMO-
,ratic Executive Committee, TO assist in
rstoring order. All quiet at present, 10 :
o'clock p. u. lie
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