The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-12-31

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Now OF File in Washington and Will b.
Ueed by the Dawes Commission to Sub
startiats Their Charees-wm Have
Much We light With Consress-Names OF
| Those Who Were Murdered
Washfn 'gto.l, Dec. 3o.-W. ]. Watts
and Colon Ell n ubbard of Muldroy, 1. T.,
today filed wiuh the secretary of the in
terror a potent argument for change
| in the condi ton in their country. The
| document fill ed will in due time reach
| gbe various com mitfees in congress in
terested in leeisis ltfon for that country.
| The information contained, it is insist
ed. will be enou gh TO disprove the many
| statements made BY the delegates from
the tribes to the effe CT that il is a very
orderly country and that there is no
| need of congressional interference be-
cause of lawlessness.
The document contains a. partial list
of murders committed in the Indian
| Territory from the 5th OF March TO the
| last of October. In this time, 1S6 muir
| ders have been committed and account
ed for III the record, and the claim is
made that the list is not complete. In
each case a short staten emit as TO the
murder is given. This is set forth as
evidences of the need of change in THAT
country This is a pant of the basis. for
the position taken by the Dawes COM
mission, and will be used by them in
ustifying their recommendations for
legislation that will break up tribal
relations and open that country to set
Element, after paying the Indians a fair
and equitable amount for their lands.
A synopsis of the list of murders thus
collected is as follows:
CHEROKEE NATION.
March 5, John Soard, MuIdroy.
March Z, Kivitte, north part nation.
March 10, Hagerty. Hicks Store.
March 20, w. B. Mcdaniel, Phil Will
Jams and Bob Rogers, north part ma
Ition.
March %. Sam Mcwilhams and
George Sanders. Braggs.
April 1, Erwin Justice, Bens.
April 5, Williams, by Yousuer Carson,
Oaks.
April 5, two United States citizens by
Zeke Proctor, near Sloan Spring.
March q, Y. E. Roseman, Pryor
Creek.
April 5, Claude Morgan, near South
west City.
April 10, a man and wife, Double
Greek
April 10, woman shot dead because
she would not dance, Oaks.
April 20, j. ]. Smith killed, 2 wound
ed, Falkland.
April 20, John Lamb, Ada6r.
April IA, small boy at horse race,
Wan
May 5, jerry Horn, Wan.
May "a, Fayette Wilmington, near
Tahfequah-
May "a, Will Ice, twelve miles south |
Of Talhlequah.
June 1, son of William Fleete, near |
Tahlequah
June 3, Sheriff Musgrove, Clanmore. |
June 4, Ohio man, name not known,
Adair.
June 5, Swope, Bolin's Ferry.
June 6, Albert McPeck, Bartletsville. |
June 10, Jordan Johnson, Wan.
June 20. Mrs. Woods, near Vinita.
June %, Strickland, by Stice; not |
given.
June 20. W. J. Henderson, ERIN
Spring.
July s, Walter Lee (assassinaIted),
Fauling.
July 2S, Nose Holt killed, two more
Supposed to be mortally wounded, north
of Muldrow.
July 80, Henry Barker. near state
line.
July 81, woman killed, Wan.
July %, train fired into two men IA
tally wounded, near Cherokee station.
August 2, B. Melton Marchal, north
of Tulsea.
August II, Joe Dogess, near Table
quah.
August IS. Jim and Bud McGurl. No
wata.
August %. drung Indian kills wife,
Coody's Creek
August IS. Messrs. Swimmer and
Baldridge, Braggs.
Sept. 2, Nick Sanders, Weber Falls.
Sept. s. Columbus Mathews, Garfield.
Sept. 20. Stve Bluejacket, Bluejacket
Sept. 20, Tontusky. a. full-blood, shot
and killed from ambush, Tahlequah.
Sept. 25, Charley Fry. moutally
wounded. Sweettown.
Oct. 1. Henry Calhoun. Fort Gibson.
Oct. s, Will Wickhffe, Saline.
Oct s. Black, Saline.
Oct. s, Taylor Buck, badly wounded,
Saline.
Oct. s. Young, shot by Proctor, Sa-
line.
Oct. s. Proctor. seriously cut with
knife, Saline.
Oct. 10, ]. NJ. Gregory, Flint Court
House.
Oct %, Joe Bigknife and ChaI WEIGH.
Miami.
Oct. %. John Mcdaniel. Claremore
Not known. Fred Croker, West
Southwest City.
Nov. 10. John Bell. Redland. I
Oct. %. Wash Jones. Caney.
Nov. %. W. W. Percell, Bartletts-
vile.
Nov. 90, Swift, badly wounded, Bart :
lettsville.
Total in Cherokee nation. SIS.
CHOCTAW NATION.
March 10. Peter Brown. Anderson.
March IL, names not known. two
burned to death by marshals, Enter