The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-23
sEouoYAH.s SKELETON.
Oklahoma Miner Has Relics Of Tn
 Famous Indian Chief

Oklahoma Miner Has Relics Of The
 Famous Indian Chief.
 E. Fancher. of Snyder. o. T.. dis coverd an Indian skeleton near his mining claim last December, says the Dallas News. The discovery was made puDlic at that time and long articles concerning it appeared in the leading Territory papers. and several metro politan dailies on the outside. Mir. Fancher says:
 Late one evening as I was coming in from my work a rabbit in front of me disappeared in the crevice of some rocks that had been on the side of a small hill. I followed the rabbit and in removing the rocks to get at it found the skeleton and the other things I now so much prize. Among them is a silver medal, four inches in diameter, perfect ly round, composed of two pieces of solid silver clamped together on the cir conference, on one side of which is in scribed in raised form tomahawlk and pipe with their handles crossed, benneath them two clasped hands,
 
 United States, on one of which was an American eagle and on the other three buttons to which the stripes of colors were attached, beneath them the words Peace and Friendship" on the other side Of the medal were the words, ar ranged around the border like the, in- scription on a dollar, "Th. Jefferson, President of the United States, A. D. 1S01,' and in the center of the medal was engraved the picture of Jeffer- son.
 Among the other things I found were fint-lock rifle, seven fnts, three bars of lead, handmade, bullets molds and bullet ladies, a frying pan, pipe, a buckle. an axe or tomahawk, an old fashioned English hoe and some mug gets of copper.
 From all the Investigations I have made am inclined to the opinion that the dead man was none other than Seuuoyah the chief of the Cherokees, to whom was given this silver medal by the Government for the work of forming an alphabet for the Cherokee language It a known fact that only two Of these medals were in existence, and that one of them was in the pos session of Sequoyah.
 Since making this find book has been sent me from England giving a biography of Sequoyah. In this book it is stated that he came into the ] Wichita mountains in 1887, and there died and nothing more was known of him. This biography states that he was crippled in the left leg. The skeleton I found shows that the left leg had been affected, and was probably shorter than the other. There were three other men who started out with him from St. Louis that year and they lost their horses in the Wichita mourn tains. What became of the other men is unknown. According to this book Sequoyahs name Il Englsh was George Guess of Geist.
 Mrs. Keys who lives at vinito, L. T. is a sister of Sequoyah, and her state ments to me bear out the biography as contained in the books. She says that he was born in Georgia, and was 5E years Of age at the time of his death He was only quarterbred Cherokee, but was chies of the tribe. His home was at Tahlequah, l. T. Tn looking over the medal which I showed her, she dis covered Sequoyah's picture dimly en- graved just beneath the cross formed by the tomahawk and the pie. She is positive that the remains are his and has made meglarge offers for the things 1 have in my possession.
 There remains but little room foi doubt that these remains are those of the famous Indian chief, the inventor