The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-10-09

tion leaps into flame of passion and demands the flow of blood.
 In 1887 John Cox killed Goog Childers. Cox was a half-breed Coweta clan Greek Indian. Childers was a full-blood LochapOchar clan Creek Cox had married and among his children was girl named Smi-lee, who at this time had been placed in mission school where Steve Venson, a young missionary of German extraction. was employed as instructor, with whom Smi-lee fell in love.
 Goog Childers was Smi-lee's uncle and made strenuous objection to her educa- Ption by the whites Cox, however, kept her in school. Here she grew away from Indian habits and traditions to such an extent that Childers sought to gain his point by poisoning the moth- CTS mind against Cox. He succeeded we'll, and the result was a personal en- counter between Cox and Childers in which Childers was killed anFhis body thrown into the river The killing of Childers put Cox's life in danger. He took refuge on what is known as Cox's Island, huge mass of rocks covered with brush and timber several acres in extent that rises from the middle of the Arkansas river near Weer. On account of the bad blood Cox made a dug-out in the side of the island and fortified it with powders. This island was his home until Smi-lee finished her educa- tion, when a house was built in town. into which he moved and where Smi-lee kept house for him.
 Firing of the loneliness of the situa- tion, she was allowed to become a teacher in the mission school. Cox re- turning to the island, where he re- mained until about year ago.
 The hostile feeling between the CoXes and the Childers never died out, and on July 4, 1901 at picnic at which illicit mountain whiskey and blue powder smoke played a lively role matters cul- | minated in the fatal shooting of Lewis Cox, the aged father of John Cox. by Silas Childers, the song of Good Chill ders.
 This famed into hot flames the slum- bering embers of hatred and the feud | was on again in earnest. On July IS Pratt Childers, a brother of Silas Chill ders, was assassinated. Josie Kelly, a ] full-blood Indian man, was also killed from ambush while on his way home from church. John Cox was accused of the murder, but was not arrested.
 On October 10 last c. B. Hamilton, a mover, passed through Weer and camped for the night just outside of town. During the night he was mur- dered and robbed of five hundred dol lars. Young Cox was suspected of this crime and three months later sold out and moved away
 ! On November 25, 1901, John Carroll an old man who lives alone on the edge | of town, was shot through the heart while at supper. He was not discovered i till the next day, when most of the flesh ] had been eaten from his face by the 1 cats he kept about him.
 l Cox was again suspected. and after a ' long search was found and placed under arrest by posse of cowboys. He made i a confession in which he implicated oth- CTS, but his confession was not believed | ny dnyuIle' IIe gut olL "ltAi [" oehSUi'NN of fifteen years.
 | On the streets of the town John Will Hams was assassinated from ambush July 15, 1901. No arrest was made as it
 was not known who fired the shot
 Here also was Ed. King, leader of a band of outlaws, shot and killed by United States Marshal Ledbetter while resisting arrest.
 But the most revoting and barbarous crime ever committed at this cesspool of murder was the Bouton murders oi June B last.
 All is we'll that ends we'll, and while il has not ended well for any one at Weel
 it has in the case of Smi-lee and Ven son. They are to be married and live 1T
 a beautiful country home near Tulsa
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