Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-09
QUANAH PARKER.
The Chief Of the Com inches Writes a
Straight Forward Letter.
His Tribe Has Remsined Loynl and Would
be Foolish TO Engage in Hos tilities.
Feeling Among Settlers.
THE CoMANCHEs LOYAL.

I'LL SchaSShES LotaLs
| COOPER CREEK, 1. T. , Dec. Z, 1880.
Editor Gazette.
The Gazette, OF the 30th of November,
contains communication from Paris,
| Tex. headed Quanah Parker, the we'll
known Comanche chief melting various
tribes 20 mischief, and claims for its
author deputy marshal named Cook.
The statement made by Deputy Marshal
Cook, from the way the paragraph reads.
are not stated as hearsay. but are given
as facts that he knows to bs true.
| will say the whole statement Is a
fabrication. What design any body could
have in making such statements, l cam
not see. will state for the benefit Of
the anxious public. that 1 have not ats
tended any ghost dance with the Chpy-
euneS, nor have | been TO visit my red
brother of the North (Sitting Build, or
know suv more about the Indian
on the Cheyenne reservation or in
Sitting Bulls tribe, except what 1 am
told, than il they were on the other side
of the big water, and will say that but
few OF the Comauche Indians pay any
attention 10 the Messiah craze, and those
who do are crazy. Some of the kiowas
are taking the craze, but l don't know
TO what extent, and Is for meeting
various tribes 10 mischief, it would lie
like O crazy man to even think OF such @
thing with the little handful OF warriors
that all the tribes could combine ami
turn out. But my heart has no bad
feeling for the white men; in fact ]
think that quite number of white men
are the warmest friends l have living
nv people TO open farms and build
houses. | have opened farm OF over
100 acres and also have good pasture,
and have just conn leted dwelling that |
would be called good house in most nuy
country. Having just got fixed 10 live !
comfortably, l would be worse than an
id OF to incite my people to do something !
that would make beggars and vagabonds !
of them.
thiuk il people will investigate they |
will find that my tribe have shown as .
much regard for treaties and contracts !
rs any other tribe of people ever did and |
have for the last ten years shown as |
much respect for the laws and officers of |
of law As any body. We have been sc-
cused of most everything imaginable e1-
cept being fools, and people who know
the Comanches have never credited them
with that. With kindest feeling for all
my white brethren, l am respectfully,
QUASAH PARKER,
Chief of Comanches.
SITUATION IN THE TERRITORY.
Special to the Gazette.
OKLAHOMA CITY, o. T., Dec. Col.
Patrick, government agent at the Sioux
reservation, is in the city after ammuui-
ton and supplies. He states that the
Sioux and Foxes are restless and uneasy,
and he fears the worst. 1t is reported
that the Creeks and Pottawattomies are
holding Christ dances and there 10 an ap-
prehensiTe feeling among the settlers Of
this territory. There are about 5000 In
dams in the Indian Territory. and if they
go on the warp8th the devastation would
be great before sufficient force could be
organized to check them. The troops
there are ready to move at a moments
notice, and the commanding officer,
Capt. Stiles, is exercising the utmost
vigilance.
IN NORTHERN OKLAHOMA.
Special to the Gazette.
GUTHERIE, o. 4. Dec. S.-The recent
reports sent out from Frisco, small
town in Western Oklahoma near the
Cheyenne reservation, seem to have been
we'll IOuuOeu, Us tO-uhy utleGdtIOu I
rom there waited upon the legislature
and asked that immediate protection be
furnished them, as they feared an
indian outbreak ut any moment. They ;
exported the Indians as indulging in
= hat they termed :brave dance, and ,
heir antics were simply terrible. Half
rude, they wildly dance aud keep up ]
heir meancing action. Much fear Is
and every effort will be
made to protect the citizens from harm.
BUFFALO GAP, SOUTH DAKOTA.
CHICAGO. Ill, Dec. Seen. Miles
his morning received a letter from Buf-
ulo Gap, 5. D., under date of Dtcem-
,er 6, which says: 'Yesterday after
loon party of fifteen Sioux at the en-
rance to the Bad Lands endeavored to
ut off and capture three cowboys. {
lunchmen II the vicinity of the Bad !
.auds are sending women and children
nto this town. There are no rifles or {
ID muni,ion, aud none has been received,
Though they have been asked for in q