The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1898-01-14
ON THE WARPATH.
Seminole Indians Avenging the Burn
ing Of Two Of Their Number.
twenty-five White sTen, women and chill
dren Of POttawatOmis County, Ok,
Emed-Great EIcltement In
the Indian Territory.

SHAWNEE, Ok, Jan. 12-The west
bound train on the ChOctaw branch of
the Frisco railroad yesterday brought
70 this city every woman and child
from EarlebOrO, a town Of 200 people,
near the border Of the Seminole ma
ton. The burning at the stake Of Nc
Geisy and Sampson, the Seminole half
breeds, for the murder Of Mrs. Leard,
and the violence Of the mob in an at
tempt to secure others implicated, has
50 enraged the Seminoles that they
have banded together and are riding
over the country between Maude and
WewOka in a wild rage killing the
whites indiscriminately burning their
houses and killing the stock.
Yesterday morning between two and
three o'clock, a party Of abouS 20 saw
ages, half-breeds and other tOughs,
rode into a neigh bOrhOOd IS miles
southeast Of EarlebOrO and began shoot
ing through the doors and windows
Of a man who had recently come in
from Ohio. Every person in the house
is reported to be killed. The people
who came in on the train from Earle
bOrO say that about ten o'clock a reg
ular pitched battle occurred and that
three families were killed. There is a
general uprising. Messengers have
been sent to the military station de-
handing immediate aid and prOtec-
ton. The people at Maude have ar
ranged wagons to take the women and
children out of the country under
guard Of armed hOrsemen-
When the reports reached EarlebOrO
the women and children were put on
the train and sent into Oklahoma A
great many stopped as soon as they
got well across the territory line, but
most Of them came as far west as e.
Reno They were so frightened that
many Of them got of the train along
the way, leaving what little baggage
they had managed to pick up in their
hurry. Some of them were crying;
others pleaded for men to 60 to the res
cue Most Of them were absolutely
frantic
The refugees reached here in a panic
stricken condition and were unable to
give names or any coherent story of
the uprising; but 1t is gathered that
the first attack came, Naturalization,
in the night when the houses of four
or five families were stealthily sur
rounded and fired into until their Occu-
pants were all killed, after which the
dwellings were fired and left TO burn
TO the ground with All he dead inside
It does not yet appear that the Indians
used the scalping knife upon their vic
Tins.
EXCITEMENT AT SOUTH 8fALEsTER-
SOUTH MCALEsTER, L T, Jan. IA
Intense excitement prevails here as the
result Of kilograms sent from the
agent Of the c., o. & G. railway at
EariebOrO to the train dispatcher here.
A telegram was received here at Gao
p. ID. stating that a mob Of $50 Sem
inOles were on the warpath, leaving
behind 4 trail Of blood and avenging
the burning Of two SeminOles last
Friday night. 1t is stated that the
reds have already killed 25 men, women
and children. The band started from
six miles south of EarlebOrO with the
intention OF setting fire to Tecumseh
and killing all whom they met, but
changed their course and are said to
be coming TO EarlebOro. Scores of
people here who have relatives and
friends at EarlebOrO and other near
points are besieging the telegraph
offices for news, but the agent at
EarleborO has either left his Office or
been slain. The ChOctaw general
offices have ordered out a special train
from Shawnee filed with volunteers
armed with Winchesters to intercept
the mob at EarlebOrO and prevent
further blOOdshed and damage TO prop
erty.
CONFIRMED AT OKLAHOMA CITY
OKLAHOMA CITY, Ok, Jan. I2--There
is an uprising in the Seminole nation
and 100 armed Indians have killed -
citizens Of POttavatOmie county, this
territory. The Indians are seeking to
avenge the recent burning of Lincoln
McGeisey and Palmer Simpson, two
Indians in the Seminole tribe, who
were accused Of numbering and out
raging Mrs. Leard, of Maude post Office.
A special train load of armed citizens
has gone to EarlebOrO, ten miles from
Maude, and excitement is higher than
ever known before in the Indian terri
tory.