Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-06-25
PRETTY STRAIGHT.
Senator Sam Paul Says Those
Indians Were Drunk.
THEIR ACTION DISGRACEFUL.
The Railway Station at WasI,ita Burglar.
fzed-Looking After the Commisi
sioners' Court at Ardmore with
Disinfectants.
Those Drunken Indian Militia.

Special to the Gazette.
ARDMoRE. l. T., June Ex-senator Sam
Paul, the leader of the progressive element of
the Chickasaw tribe, was in the city to-day.
He read the dispatches in yesterdays GA
zETTE sent from Denison, which asserted
on authority of Alexander Rennie, a citizen
of the Nation, that the report that the
Chickasaw militia had imbibed too freely
of ''bug juice" and had behaved in an I'M
seemly manner. was false and cooked up
by Ardmore boomers. Senator Paul said:
''There is more in the disgraceful story
than has yet been told. Parties who ar
rived in Paul's Valley yesterday from the
scene of the militias antics, say the conduct
of Governor Byrd drunken warriors came
near causing a slaughter that would have
startled the whole American nation. When
the militia left Paul's Valley westward
bound to meet the Federal troops at Parr,
they were more or less intoxicated, and be-
tween White Bead Hill and Erin Springs
they were SO completely in the power of
John Barleycorn" that they were utterly
unmanageable. In Paul's Valley it had
been necessary for Agent Bennett to close
the cider joints and conhscate what whisky
he could find, besides running several
females of easy morals out of town. Mem
bers of the militia shot up the town and be-
haved in a way that was disgraceful. Be-
tween White Bead and Beef creek the
country and detied all efforts Of the officers
to keep them in rank. Some of the squad,
drunk and deviliSh, shot at cattle, dogs and
chickens and most everything but human
targets that came within range. Several
animals were killed and wounded, includ-
ing poor old defenceless goose. But the
worst feature of this drunken revel was
the indignities offered women along the
route. In several instances it is said MEN,
bers of the band, in beastly state of in
toxication, rode boldly into the yards of
settlers and threatened the chastity of their
wives and daughters terrifying the
women with their obscene and profane
remarks. Along the line of march
the women and children concealed
themselves, the report of the
doings of the militia preceding them
by means of mounted farmer couriers. The
farmers in that vicinity became greatly ex-
cited, and hastily organized for protection
Had Agent Bennett and Governor Byrd not
succeeded in restoring order and decency
among the militia before Beef creek was
reached, several hundred well-armed white
settlers would have endeavored to kill every
last one of them. The men who compose
most desperate and lawless Indians in the
Chicasaw Nation, who, under the influence
of bad fire water, are veritable red devils
Had they not met the soldiers at Parr there
is a strong likelihood that many would have
been bush-whacked by Infatuated non-citi-
zens.
The presence of the soldiers will act as
restraint on both the militia and settlers,
and no further trouble is anticipated
There will be some arrests made in a few
days.