The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1900-05-03

informed him that during the same
fall-1S18, while him aud George
Graham were travelling one day on
Swan creek they discovered the dead
body of an Indian enclosed in . pen
prepared for the occasion. The en-
closure was securely rooted with
poles and weighted with stones. The
dead warriors friends had placed his
bow and arrows, tomaliawk. pipe,
ornaments of shell and other imple-
ments on and around the dead form.
A. the white hunters viewed the
dead Indian as he lay in his resting
place they suggested an opinion that
his companions seemed to want him
to enter the happy hunting grounds
in a worthy manner.
My father said that he was told
that during the early settlement Of
Virginia it was customary for some
tribes to bury their dead in this
manner.
A few more little stories about tho
Indians and I will close. Elias Kes.
see said that on . certain occasion
his father and companion had went
ON bear hunt some distance from
home, living then in the Peter Friend
Bend on White river. This bend 10
Just over the limo in Marion county,
Ark. In q few days they had not
only killed several bear, but had &C.
cumulated . large amount Of deer
pelts and furs which they intended to
send to some far off market on pack
horses, hut q band of Indians cap
tured the hunters and carried them
to their village and appropriated all
they had to their own use. Father
said that this was rather bad treat
ment but that they quietly submitted
for fear the Indians might want a
lock of their hair. But the Indians
allowed them to retain their horses
and equipments, guns and ammuni-
tons aud sent them back home under
q strong escort, but before departing
from the village the chief Informed
the captives that if they were caught
intruding in that part Of their lands
again they would be put to death.
This was in 1920 and my father
obeyed the one-sided treaty without
a second warning and did not in.
wade that part of the hunting fields
again.
"On one occasion;" said uncle
Elias, the Indians grew hostile to-
ward the whites and threatened to
massacre every settler in reach. The
whites began preparations tor de-
fense and was soon to begin erecting
q fort or block house to protect tho
women and children while the hum
ters fought the Indisns. But fortu-
nately the Indians quieted down and
the fort was not built.
After Patton Keesee settled on Lit
tle North Fork in 1928 he became
very popular with the Indians aud
they treated him with much conf.
dence and respect. zone day." con-
tinued uncle Elias, "tbere were some
horses stolen from the Indiana; they
suspected bad white man who
lived on Big North Fork as being the
thief. The red men were wrought
up with anger at the loss Of their
horses and asked the assistance of
father in capturing the bad white
man. and he consented to 60 with
them, and sure enough they found
the horses tied out in a thicket near
the mans hut. He denied knowing
anything about the stolen property
but the Indians brought him to time
aud he confessed his part of tho job
and implicated others. The Indians
threatened to deal harshly with the
bad white man but through fathers
influence they set him free, but the
Indians gave the thief to understand
that if he bothered their horses again
they would not let him of so easy
but would torture him to death.
This mans name was Peter Tyber."
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