The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1894-06-22
MUTINY.
Remarkable Story Told by q Brit
ish Captain.
CHEROKEE MARSHAL KILLED.
A Notorious Horse Thief and Desperate
Captured-Thc Cree Sun Dance Con.
cluded-No Interference by
the Authorities.

SAN Francisco, June Gothic Brit
ish bark Inveruie, Capt. Wilcox,
arrived to-day, sixty-four days from
New Castle, n. S. W., with a most re-
markable story of mutiny and crime.
Just before this vessel left New Castle
a man calling himself DIR. Armitage
applied for passage for himself and
wife to San Francisco. Capt. Wilcox
gladly took them on board, as his wife
needed the services of physician.
About two weeks ago at sea Mrs.
Wilcox gave birth to child and Ar
mitage otficiated as surgeon. He used
instruments in such a manner that the
child died, and the captain, seeing he
was unskilled, ordered him away from
his wife.
Armitage appealed to the crew, tell
ing them that the captain was killing
his wife. The crew, led by the mate,
mutinied, and the captain, after being
drugged, was locked up. He managed
to get out just in time to see his wife
die. Several times he was imprisoned
by the crew, but he managed to break
out.
Armitage's real name is Eustace AL
eXander. He is said to have deserted
his wife and baby in Sydney, and fled
to New Castle with another woman,
where he joined the Inveruie. The
bark, crew, and passengers are now in
custody of the port warden, and the
police made arrests yesterday after
noon.
SHOT FROM AMBUSH.
WAGNER, /. T., June 2O.-Last Sun.
day party of United States marshals
and the Cook brothers, noted horse
thieves and desperadoes, had an en-
gagement about IL miles east of here.
1t was rumored that the Cooks were in
hiding near Dick Crittenden's place,
awaiting his return from Tahlequah to
kill and rob him. He hurriedly started
to the place with seven armed men,
but were unexpectedly fired upon from
ambush by the desperadoes before
reaching their supposed hiding place.
Sequoyah Houston, a Cherokee mar
shall, was instantly killed, and one of
the bandits, it is thought, was badly
wounded.
The Cook boys have for several
months been terrorizing this and the
surrounding country, having stolen
over fifty horses within the last two
months A large posse of citizens left
here Monday night to run them down,
and news of battle is anXionsly
awaited, as there are determined men
on both sides.
HORSE THIEF SHOT.
MUsKoGEE, /. T., June 2O.-Yesterday
afternoon the officers brought in Jim
Cook, shot nearly to pieces as it is pos
sible to be and live. He, his brother
and another person undertook to hold
up the Cherokee money on the road be-
tween Tahlequah and Fort Glib
son last Sunday evening. The Chero-
kee guards got onto the plot and
went in advance of the money. In the
fight that cnsued one of the guards
was killed and Cook shot in numerous
places. He and his friend crossed the
Arkansas near here yesterday morn
ing, and some marshals from this place
went in pursuit. Cook was too badly
shot to escape, and was left by his
friends to fall in the hands of the law.
He is a leader in the famous band of
horse thieves and desperadocs that has
been attracting attention and terror
izing this and the Seminole nations the
past several months.
HORRORS OF THE sun DANCE.
HAvRE, Mont, June 2O.-The Cree
sun dance has just been concluded here,
after going on for three days. Every
sheriff in the state has been instructed
to prevent the dance at all hazard, but
there was no interference here. Three
braves were hung up by thongs thrust
into Sits in their breasts slashed by
Little Egg. the chief. All tainted be-
fore the ordeal was over. A young
buck had Sits cut in his shoulders and
to the inserted thongs were tied four
buffalo skulls, which he dragged after
him. Eighty pieces of flesh were cut
from his arms to be kept as tokens.