The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1901-11-03
BLOODY CAREER
OF A SAC AND
FOX BLUEBEARD
Old indian Who Slaughtered
Nine Wives.
HIS GRAVE ABHORRED
Not Even Ponies Are Allowed
to Craze on Ii.

to 6raZe on II.
Guthrie. o. T, No. 2.-3Iatt Duhr. the
/ veteran newspaper man. formerly in
| Guthrie. now on the Chandler Tribune,
has been looking up some Indian le-
gends at the Sac and Fox agency. The
following stories are printed:
The Sac and Fox tribes were cursed
with a genuine Bluebeard or squaw
killer, about twenty-five years ago. The
monsters name was Nonockee (LIght-
ming Flash.) He was dreaded and feared
by every member Of the united nation
of the Sacs and Foxes. He killed not
less than nine of his wives. Nonockee
never captured a bride by buying or
coaxing; he simply took them BY sheer
force or intimidation. He feared neither
man nor the Great Spirit, but behaved
like a regular savage anarchist. The
Indian squaw killer always appeared in
and outside Of his wigwam in war paint.
and he was nearly continually on the
war-path. Lightning Flash was gener-
ally regarded as the Mochee Mantle
(deviD in human form. There was great
rejoicing when tie redskin Bluebeard
was dead, and even his nearest relatives
simply cried for joy. His carcass was
buried among a lonely cluster Of black
jacks, about one-half mile southwest
from the Sac and Fox agency. The four
Indians who buried the most brutal Of all
brutal savages We're blind-folded while
they put the remains of the expert squaw
killer under the ground It is said that
the Sac and Fox nation ever visited
NonOckee's grave. Even the Indian pO-
MES are not allowed to Craze near the
wretch's last resting place. The old
Sacs and Foxes who knew the wholesale
wife murderer seldom mention his name
believing that the evil spirit Of Light
ming Flash might haunt And torment
them.
The Iowa Indians bone-yard, the first
city Of their dead in Oklahoma. is about
seventeen miles northwest from Chan
dler. and right in the backyard Of Falls.
in Tohee township. 1t was in that To-
cality where the Iowas lived in. village
for about twenty-five years. and they
deposited the remains of about 200 dead
Indians on the surface Of a little knoll
in the center OF their wigwam and teepee
hamlet Hundreds of white flags or rags
futtered on the little blackjacks around
about the repellant charnel ground. The
dead were put in rude collins made Of
bark or lumber, and the dead boxes We're
set on the surface of the earth. II was
there where blind Tohee. aged 9S years,
lived for twenty years. signed the treaty
with the United States commissions.
died and was put on the top of the
ground. Four ponies were killed close to
the blind chiefs rude coffin, their bones
left TO bleach right there. The opening
of the reservation 10 settlers drove all
the villagers away, some on their allot-
ments near Perkins and the others to
other parts Of western Lincoln and south
ern Payne counties. They left the re-
mains Of their once loved relatives 10
the ravaEing teeth Of wild beasts and
destroying elements. The remnants OF
the once powerful Iowa nation met a
few times since their exodus near the
sadly neglected graveyard, but simply 10
feast on beef and gorge themselves with
other vieruals in memory of the dead
and perhaps-best Indians. Most Of the
rough. dead-boxes are rotten. Rats. mice
gohpers and snakes play hide and seek
among the grinning skulls and other still
undecayed bones. Wolves delight TO roam
and howl in the dismal boneyard Hogs
from neighborhood farms root and grunt (
amidst the remains OF former kings.
queens. warriors and common Amerinds. !
The peace denoting hundreds Of white /
flags are tattered and torn. and have All /
been carried away by the fat-tailed rat.
Some reliable sac and Fox Indians I
claim that a certain very old squaw /
makes and sells love powders. charging T
for each little sackful So. The stuff is I
good only for three years. and then the /
owner Of it must wade into running /
creek and throw It into the water The 4
old bag claims that a grain OF the pow 4
ders given to the object desired VIII
cause much love towards the owner OF 4
the miraculous stuF. They VIII follow
the man or woman who administered I
the love towder Ike faithful dogs 90 /
their masters. The has who sells the
stuff. as well as the superalti1us buyer
are sworn By the Great Spiut never 10
utter word about tire charming pow
der for II they do then they VIII surely
60 crazy on earth and VIII Pc changed
into a mixture II owl and monkey On the
land Of the hereafter. Only those who
have been changed from pasars - chris
tiars VIII ever 6ivuige anything about
the virtues ard vices OF the Czzaukee
love powders.
The Indian heaven IS without any
children. Our Ozaugee reiehhors zho
sr1 believe that after tile sasl leaves