Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1885-06-11
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John Edwards is building a fine
dwelling.
Mrs. Tuck Rider is visiting friends
in the Choctaw nation.
we have singing at the Pryor
creek school house every Sunday and
preaching every third Sunday.
Corn planting is about completed,
but considerable corn is up and looking
fine, some fields having been already
plowed.
As this part of the nation is not
often mentioned in your paper con-
cluded to write you few items. i re-
fer to the portion Of country five miles
west Of Adair, which is our postoiice.
Preparations are being made for
an old-fashion barbecue on July 4th in
the grove near Ed Adair's. An OK and
and sheep will be baked in the good
cid style, while sackraces, ETC., will
make up the rest Of the bill Of fare. A
hearty invitation is extended TO every
body TO join with us on that day and
have a goood time.
Adair, June 9Th. PoET SEER.
VINO Cor THE MoSEY?-Last Sunday
there arrived in this place a woman
named Lizzie Robson and boy per-
haps fourteen years old. They
apparently had no place in particular
TO stop, and while the boy loafed
about the streets the woman lounged
around the Missouri Pacific depot. At
dark the pair proceeded to rustic place
to stay and struck out for the African
quarter Of the city. The first person
TO whom they applied for loding was
Fred Thomas a colored barber, who
informed the pair that his accomoda-
tions were insufficient for their enter
tainment, but & white family living in
the next house would perhaps keep
them. The woman and boy left the
house but prowled around in the vicin-
ity for some time after. The barber on
going to bed left the door and windows
open and hung his pantloons contain
ing six or seven dollars over chair.
When he got up next morning the
money was missing. That the Robson
woman had slipped back TO the house
and stolen IL after he had fallen asleep
was the first thought that entered his
mind. When afterwards charged with
the theft she denied 1t, and possibly
is innocent as IL would have been an
easy matter for some member Of the
Thomas family TO take the money and
throw suspicion on her and the boy
A search for the boy on Morday dis
closed the fact that he had left town
on an early morning train. Thorn
as the barber claims that he had fifty
or sixty dollars besides the sum taken
but transferred 1t from his pants to an
inside vest pocket before going TO bed
| HDicK GLASS KILLED.-Informatiou
reached here last Saturday of the
sudden "taking off" of Dick Glass
that morning at Postoak Grove, thirty
miles west OF Colbert. Capt. Sam Six
killer with Policemen LAHORE, Murray
and GoodiEg and Q. NJ. Mcclellan, oI
0o-wa-la, were in pursuit Of band Of
negroes headed by Glass who haC
been to Denison for load OF whisky
and were on their way back TO tn,
Seminole nation. The officers wer,
accompanied by negro spy to locat'
them. After this was done the officers
left the main road and get arounC
ahead " them and selected placl
near the roadside 10 await their ap
proach. About o'clock the negroes
came along, one diving the wagon anC
Glass and two others following clos
behind When within ten feet Sixkille
stepped out into the road and com
manded them to surrender. Instea,
of doing so they started TO run. Afte
Glass ran few steps he succeeded Il
gettin his pistol out and as lac t-rne
to shoot the police party fred on them
Dick Glass and Jim johnson wer
killed and the driver slightly wounded
Thinking the latter dead the officer
started in pursuit of the remainin
desperate and succeeded in capturin
him after chase of half a mile. Re
turning to the place where the shootin
occurred they found the driver and III
horse gone, the wagon having broke
down. After a six miles chase the dr.
yer was recaptured. After returnin
with the prisoner TO the scene Of Il
first encounter the bodies OF Glass an
johnson and the two prisoners wei
loaded into wagon and taken to Co
bert where Glass was fully idontihC
by a number Of parties.
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