The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-08-28

1t Is Described by DIR. G. f. Daily,
Formerly of This state.

There was young man at the Hotel Eng
lish last night who has had a romantic
career in the Southwest He is Dr. C. Z.
Daily, a son of former State Auditor Daily,
of Indiana. DR.. Daily practices surgery at
Muskogee 1. T.. and has a cattle ranch
of 5000 acres. He was in town with his
friend, Jake Anspatch, another ranchman
of the Territory, the two having come
North with a trainload of cattle for the
st. Louis market. Together they brought
LIST head. From ST. Louis they came on
to Indianapolis to meet Mr.. Daily's father.
Anspatch has Indian blood in his veins, and
DIR. Daily, although white man. is Creek
Indian by adoption.
In 1889 young Daily. whose home was at
Lebanon, went on hunting trip to Indian
Territory and had for his guide and COM
panion Charlie Armstrong, chief of the
Delawares. The Delawares are a sort Of
subdivision of the Creeks While on this
hunting trip Daily and his companion were
put in a bad plight by the Dalton gang of
highwaymen. The gang held up an NJ, h.
& /. train one night and the following
waymen came across the camp of Daily
and the Indian. They needed horses, and
they sought to take possession of four
ponies belonging to Daily and his COM
panlon. fight enSued and the gang was
too much for the hunters They got away
with the ponies after wounding the two
men, Daily being shot three times, but not
seriously
The Indian and myself were picked up
said Daily last night, land lay side by side
In another Indians cabin for three weeks
until our wounds were healed. We became
great friends and as a result of this | was
made Creek Indian" Daily described in
very interesting way how he and mis-
friend, who was man of much influence,
made their way to Okmulgee, where the
Creek Council was sitting. Armstrong
was speaker of the House of Warriors"
he said. 1T is an interesting fact that the
Creeks have an assembly something similar
to the legislative bodies in the States. The
upper house is called the House of Kings
and the lower is known as the House of
Warriors. At Armstrong; suggestion L
was taken into full membership in the tribe
and my name is on the rolls. L am as much
entitled to share in the land down there
when allOtments are made as the purest
| blOOded Indian
a graduate of Vassar College. He is not in
favor of statehood for Indian Territory.
! Our people are not yet ready for state
hood" he said. Il wish that Senator Bev
eridge, who is chairman of the territorial
| committee, would come down there and see
! how We are situated. Our people ought to
| get used to owning property before we have
/ statehood. My opinion is, it will be a good
while before we get it. To maintain
| funds down there because we do not pay
| taxes except in the towns.
| Mr.. Daily asserts that the Indians or
| his Territory are far above those in Okla
| homa in point of intelligence. He tells
| of one nation in Indian Territory where
there number of boarding schools for
| Indian children. He says they
| Quoted on the highest plane. There are
/ some things done there" he said, that
are very interesting. AS you know there
| is no law except the federal law. In Mus
! kOgee the government maintains a Jail
! where the average number of prisoners
| is about 800. When court is in session they
| 10, nd trrN ffV,oo r,r,fh
ern attorney will be surprised to know that
! they try three or four murder cases in one
! day. When a lawyer gets up to make an
argument he is usually called down if he
| speaks longer than five minutes. This is
| about the average length of a speech. The
manner in which justice is melted out
among the Indian tribes is also unique The
! Indians conduct their own courts. They
| have no jails and when man is arrested
he is taken in charge by the Indian police
and watched by them until his case is dis
posed Of A man steals pig and is arrest
ed. He is either guilty or acquitted at
once. If guilty they take him out and give
If it is his second offense he is
| given go lashes. 1t used to be that
if man was up for his third offense he
| was put to death. The government, how
| ever, has put a stop to this way of admin
! istering punishment. Many people will re-
call the case few years ago where an
| of the courts verdict. The man belonged
| to a baseball club, and when he was con-
victed he was told TO come back at a par
| ticular time and receive his punishment.
| He was playing with his club in the States
when 1t came time for him to be executed.
| He returned TO the Territory in spite of the
! efforts of his companions TO have him re-
main. He was shot to death, and this case
| attracted so much attention that an agita-
! ton was started that ended in the gov
| renment interfering with the Indians way
| of administering punishment These execu-
tions were always public. and L have seen
| many a one. The only choice the victim
had when his day of execution came was
TO indicate whether he wanted to be shot
| standing sitting down. If he stood they
placed him with his back 10 a trt He
would be shot through the heart, the exc
| cutioner aiming at white piece of paper
pinned to the prisoners breast just over the
| heart"
DR.. Daily and his friend left for St.
Louis last night. DR. Daily went to In
dian Territory to locate permanently about
two years ago.