The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-01-15
SEA|NOLES ON HAR-PATH.
FAMILIES ARE WIPED OUT.
Avenging the Work of Mob of
White Men-Pitched Battle with
settIers-Twenty-Fi Men, Wom-
and Children Massacred.

South McAllister, l. r., Jan. IA tel |
egram received here by the train dispatch
er of the Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf rail
road states that a band of $50 Seminole
Indians are on the warpath and are leav-
ing behind them a trail of blood. The
telegram was sent by the railway station
agent at Earlboro. The brief information
conveyed was that the Seminoles were
avenging the work of a mob of white men
that burned two Seminole Indians at the
stake Friday last, and that the Infatuated
Seminoles had already massacred 25 men.
women and children The station agent
gave the additional information that the
band started from point six miles south
of Earlboro with the avowed intention of
setting fire to Tecumseh and killing all
whom they met, but that the Indians were
reported to have changed their course
and were, at the time of the sending of
the message, heading toward Earlboro.
Wires Kept Hot.
The receipt of this startling information
has created intense excitement in South
/ -'AN-h''A'NNAs ANNNiol springer ana
Townsend, who are in the city, are await
ing further news anxiously Scores OF
people here who have relatives and friends
at Earlboro and other points in that sec
ton are besieging the telegraph office for
news, but the agent has either left Earl
boro station to gather information, or per-
haps has been slain or driven to seek shell
ter If the Earlboro agent can not be
reached soon by wire train will be dis
patched from here at midnight bound for
the scene of the massacre. under orders
from Judge Springer and having on board
all the available deputy marshals. under
command of Sheriff Grady, while the sec
rotary of war will be telegraphed to send
/ troops from Fort Reno.
The general offices of the Choctaw. Ok
lahoma & Gulf road have ordered out a
special train from Shawnee, bearing vol
unteers armed with Winchesters, to inter
cept the Indians at Earlboro and prevent
further bloOdshed.
News of Death-DeaIing.
Muskogee, |. r., Jan. l2.-United States
Marshal Bennett has received Il telegram
from one of his deputies at Maud, o. r.,
in which the deputy gives a report in
circulation there that the Seminole In
dams are on the war path and that band
of some 200 Indians have massacred 25
persons.
Marshal Bennett has made arrange
ments to depart in the morning for the
scene of the reported uprising.
pitched RuffIsa TonL- plaza
Wichita. Kan, Jan. IA special to
the Eagle from Shawnee, 0. T., says:
The train from the east brought to this
city a car containing every woman and
child of Earlboro. The passengers CON
fimed previous reports, and say pitched
battle between the Indians and settlers
took place this afternoon near Maud post
office, resulting in the wiping out of sew
eral families.
\ later dispatch from Shawnee says
that a message calling for men and arms
has Just been received from Earlboro, Il
town of about 100 Inhabitants, nine miles
east of here, saying that nearly 300 In
dams have declared vengeance on the
town, and are moving toward the place.
declaring that they will burn it. Grave
fears are entertained for settlers on the
border. A special train was made up from
here and $50 men armed to the teeth left
for the scene.
The trouble was caused by farmers
burning the two SeminOles who ravished
and murdered Mrs. Leard last week. The
whole country is aroused.
Reign of Terror Around Maud.
Guthrie, o. T., Jan. l2.-Deputy mar
shals arriving here from Maud report a
reign of terror in that section of the ter
rtory, following the recent lynching OF
two Seminole Indians, which provoked the
Seminoles to threaten vengeance. A doz-
en- families are reported to have left theiI
farms near Maud. One deputy brings a
report that % white men were captured
by Seminole bucks yesterday and put tC
the thumb torture. United States Mar
shall Thompson received instructions to-
day to send force of deputies to the line
marking the border of Oklahoma and tn,
Indian territory, to cooperate with tn,
Indian territory officials in quelling tn,
threatened outbreak.
Mob May BE Prosecuted.
: Shawnee, o. T., Jan. l2.-Ofiicers hav,
returned from Maude postofiice, bringing
the charred remains of the Indians burn
ed at tEc stake by white settlers for tn,