Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-10-15
DID S[[PO DE BY
COUNCIL 5 DEGREE!
Great Council Said to Have
Declared Great Spirit Must
Call Him.
INDIANS ARE supERsrlTlous
Believed That seepo Knew Something
Mysteries Surrounding Sudden
Dea~ss of Members of the Wolf Band
Was With Muck e Push E-To Be-
fore He Died, Supposedly by Poison.

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ell of the Iowa Sac and Fox Indians,
occupying the reservation near this
city. decree that John Seepo should die
If so, was there one single brave who
was delegated to do the murierous act.
or was the number participating suf-
ficiently large so that no one person
could be blamed for Seepo's sudden en-
trance into the happy hunting grounds?
These are questions that are being
asked by those interested in the case
Of Frank Earl, who was discharged in
the federal court at Cedar Rapids yes
terday. where he was on trial for the
murder of Seepo, the Indian policeman,
and accused, of not only killing him in
cold blood, but throwing his body in the
Iowa river, with the intention of con-
cealing the crime
There are many who believe that
Seepos death was properly, according
TO the Indian custom, decreed by the
great council of the tribe. 1t is known
TO be fact that meeting of the great
council was held a few nights before
Scopes body was cast into the cold
waters of the Iowa, and 1t is claimed
that the council at that time decided
that the Great Spirit must call Seepo
to the happy hunting grounds at once.
If this be fact the first question
that would naturally arise is why the
great council should render such
decree The explanation is made with
out hesitancy that Seepo was con-
sidered by the council to have been
responsible for at least two mysteri-
Gus deaths of prominent members OF
the Wolf band, one of the inner tribal
organiza tons of the Sacs and Foxes.
These bands correspond to lodge 81
secret organization of whites. and sew
eral are in existence among the Indians.
Prominent among them. aside from the
Wolf band. are the Fox band and the
Beaver band. The Wolf bard has as It's
members. some of the mos prominent
Indians of the tribe and during the
past few years some of the best known
OF it's number have died suddenly. un
der circumstances that have pointed
strongly TO murder.
Frank Earl, the man who was arrest
cd charged with Scopes murder. is
son of Quin-A-P Paw, who is member
of the Wolf band. Muck r. Push e
To. who was claimed by many of the
Indians TO be the rightful and lineal
chief of the tribe, and who died sud-
denly about two years ago. was an
other member OF the band 1t will be
that Muck E. Push Etc,
a strapping big fellow in the prime of
life. who had strong following which
was doing everything possible to have
mis- rights in the tribe recognized, died
very suddenly one afternoon in conynl-
sions. He was apparently as Well as
ever an hour before, and when found
in his wickiup. was cold in death.
John Seepo, ills said, was the last
man to see E@f alive, and was seen to
leave his wickiup about an hour be-
fore he died. 1t was claimed at the
time that there was no doubt but that
Muck -E- Push E-To had been poisoned
by drugged liquor.
The next member of the Wolf band
TO meet a sudden death was the hus-
band Of Pc En- Es- Que, who was run
down by Northwestern train and
killed. John Seepo is said
to have been with the Indian when he
died, and had been drinking with him
The Indian was said to have had quite
a sum of money on his person before
he left the camp, but when the body
was picked up nothing OF any value
was found.
This second death created a bitter
feeling among the members of the Wolf
band, who in their manner of deduc-
ton, saw in the deaths of their brothers
the hand of an assassin. Naturally
who was with the victims before they
died. This man was John Seepo
What sealed Seepo's fate. however
If the story about the secret session
Of the great council is to be believed
was the poisoning Of Pi-Osh. another
member of the Wolf band, just four
days before Seepo was killed. Pi-Osh
was furnished with drtlgged liquor.
given him, SO he claims, by Seepo and
it was necessary to use stomach
pump to save his life. The great coun-
ell decreed that the Great Spirit must
call Seepo.
Seepo's reputation In the tribe was
not of the best either, as he had been
unfaithful to his many wives, and was
in the eyes of the white mans laws
a rapist greatly to be feared. More
than one assault upon squaws of other
Indians is charged to him. Seepo. al
though only q years of age, had been
married seven times. His second wife
was a sister of PEN Mo Sah-Ah-Ah,
the girl who was said to nave been the
object of the affections of both Seepo
and Frank Earl, and who was counted
on by the state as its principal witness
in the case against Earl. Pen Mo- Sab
All All is the youngest daughter of
brother of Muck e Push E.
To, and is, therefore, of royal blood.
The secret meeting of the great coun-
ell, to decree that Seepo should die,
recalls the mysterious death of an old
squaw few years ago. Her death has
never been explained to this day, yet
Il is claimed that it was decreed by the
that she should be called by the
Great Spirit because she was bewitch-
3D. 1t was believed by the council that
because of her. bewitchnent she was
.esponsible for the death of several OF
he tribes ponies. 1t is not believed
hat any one Indian had the task alone.i