The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-05-16
klaGhoc. Steve Perhaps Fa-
.lIy Stabbed by Big Grant.
:. ..,,ua WHISKY THE CAUSE.
...eA Dsel ON Horsebaek Oc-
the Highway Scar Pam
a.k-The Intured Man says
-.,.~ry saeveA the Assssst-knife
weD1er II the Coanty Saii-sofh
...-.. Nave Rad Registrations.

xr..t>shoot Indian named Steve Was
- q not fatally. stabbed by .
~. y.ver Indian naned Grant at Pan
.,eet beswean Spring Brook and Rem
lat Saturday evening.
-. i now under DR.. Taylor's care
- valley hotel In Kent. Grant and his
..aaou. Little Jack. a cripple living
80 - stuck river. were captured early
1..dnv morning by ex-Sheriff A. T.
~ D yanser and Marshal l.. d. Miller.
ew1ex. Miller brought the pair to Seat
jn, & Il o'clock yesterday and they are
= i DE county fail.
/ 1ecsediag TO best accounts. too much
/ nSrfn vhisky was the cause Of the AT
49, at may cost Steve his life. He
- ,ndusfrious Indian and had just re-
,ed61sa : urge sum OF money for several
MI driving bolts on Green river.
aam1u1 + went to Renton for tho pur-
- & ming drunk and took his best
49, Cant and Little Jack. along with
~ ownrds evening they started for
~. ,eohins up Green river on two cay
~ Grant and Little Jack rode the
- herRt
Vhkn near Panther creek the whisky
sauc,y ran out and Steve's friends insisted
III they return 10 Renion for another
aDply. This id not suit Steve and he
rlueed 10 20 back or give the other two
~ of his money. Grant was SO drunk
hi be must either have whisky or blood
- - - -
&fppped Little Jack 10 the side Of the road
uese exlloning along the road side when
Grant drew q big knife.
He reached over and cut Steve along
- side Of the head. A second time
Gnnt's knife was driven home and
4hte-ineh cut ripped through Steve's alb
1UueH Steve managed TO keep his sad
~ and continued down the road toward
E0nt Grant went back. after Little Jack
~ then started In pursuit. Steve heard
ira coming and thought they were after
n money. After going about five miles
n fsi from his horse and scrambled over
fencc on Jerry Kings place. A few
moments later the other two Indians went
ut King found the Indian and went
% Kent Tor assistance. Ex-Sheriff Van De
Sanier and Marshal Miller started out
nj met him coming towards Kent at a
fua xaliop. lie had recovered sufficiently
70 mount his horse.
Steve vas put to bed In the Valley hotel
and Dr.. Taylor pronounced the wound In
ne abdomen probably fatal one Steve
ma the officers that Grant had cut him
ana they Immediately started In pursuit,
Grant was captured In a shack nea-
the Gfefnrsst bridge at 100 o'clock yes
teydas morning. The shack belonged TO
O. Jerry, who was tried a few years
- f6r fhA brutal murder OF old DR. Jim
= The Muckieshoot reservation. Grant
~ given no chance 10 resist arrest a.
ex-9Aes4a Van De vanter hnndcufred him
hfsrs be was fully awake. The officers
~ Or1pt to Kent and started out after
Httis Jack. They found him at Stuck
nssf and got him TO Kent Mt O'clock.
nth we're then brought 10 Seattle.
etess was resting easily this morning
nd ps Taylor Has hopes OF hls recovery.
e.tve says the Indians robbed him Of
lcme rs
Grant Was seer by Post-rntelligencer
reporter last night at the county fall. He
talks very poor English but had no hest
tansy In telling In his own way his
asnry Of the trouble. He said in part:
''s,eve was very gsed friend 10 me. We
ysas TO Rsntcn Saturday, to get drunk.
etese had sots NJ money for he had been
working hard this year. We got lots of
Me whisky al two saloons IN Ren.en.
ecs very drunk, I know Wa started for
Zone but after that ! don't remember.
! don't think eat Steve for have not
col my picket kiife now and Steve Is an
Ga tillicum"
Grant IN eoniderei bad Indian on
Green river. te got into trouhi@ some
ans ago and wnt to Eastern Washington
m Il blew ovr. He had just returned.
eeve has an sually bad reputation. Lit
u Jack will % held as witness. He
NJ he know nothing about the trouble.
he says Graf dropped him OF the herse