The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1893-03-29
BLooDsHED AT ANTLERs.
The Choctaw Feud eliminates in q
Battle

The Choctaw Feud eliminates in a
Battle.
Paris, Tex, March 2S.-The Chocktaw
feud has resulted in bloodshed. A sharp
and most desperate encounter took
| place at Antlers at 2:30 this afternoon,
and for thirty minutes a storm of lead
en- hail fell about the town. At that
hour IS militiamen suddenly deployed
from the woods and charged on the res
idence of Dick Locke, the leader of the
National party, and opened fire upon
it. Locke saw them coming and barely
| got into the house when the fusilade
began. Locke with five men returned
| the fire from the upper story. Fully 1900,
shots were fired and every window Was
shot out and the walls perforated like
a seive. Stray bullets flew far and wide
and terror and CONSERVATION prevailed
throughout the little town. Everybody
was uneasy and no one knew who was
safe with four score drunken and infu-
rated Indians armed to the teeth and
with the smell of blood in their nostris.
Every heart went out to Locke, his
wife and little children who were
cooped up in the house which was being
riddled by Winchester balls. United
States Commissioner Kirkpatrick, AS
sistant United States Attorney Lee andI
Judge Durant the leading Jones man,
went to the militia camp at Davenport, |
three miles north of Antlers and had |
had long conversation with Captains |
Durant and Thompson and Judge |
ment officials explained to them the
position the United States occupied, If |
Locke attacked Durant who was
United States deputy, Locke's entire
United States court for attacking him.
If they attacked Locke, they would be
held because he had served the United
States as posseman and. guard. They
wanted to know if they had process
for any man Locke had. After much
dickering, they said they had process
for Willis Jones, who had been indicted /
for completely in the killing of five
Jones men at Wilburton, last fall. They
said they wanted others but had no pa
pers for them, and If he was delivered
to them 1t would all be well. The party
returned to Antlers and a meeting was
held with Locke. Locke prepared
written proposition to Captain Durant
setting forth that If the militia would
have warrants legally issued by proper
process he would assist in the arrest
Of such offenders. The party started
for the militia camp accompanied by
Judge Durant. They had gone about
three hundred yards when they met an
advanced party of twenty who had
picked up two of Lockes scouts and
disarmed them. This party was headed L
by Judge Dukes.
After the battle a survey was made ,
of the field and In Locke's house three
men were found wounded. or the mi
itia, four men were wounded
Locke's little daughter had her hair
tut by a bullet as she was going up
stairs with a baby in her arms.
Warrants were issued at once for a
arge number of the militia and late in
he afternoon Gibbons, kirkpatrick,
Ind Judge Durant went to the militia
amp and arrested nineteen men. Many
# the militiamen refused to participate
n the attack. saying that they did not
understand ~ N ho fbafr 1,.fu fol =
make war on women and children.
treat uneasiness prevails in AntIers
onight and serious trouble is feared. I
'he savage blood Of the Indians Is a
aroused and years will not a
ee the end Of this bloody fight.