The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-04-14

odds were overwhelmingly in favor of the Indians. The garrison fought de- sperately and the battle was a bloody one, all the whites being killed except the little son and daughter of Capt. Parker. Fort Parker was at the foot, of the Tehuacana hills.
 Little Cynthia Ann, the daughter of Capt. George Parker has been described as a winsome and bright child and very precocious. She was years old at the time of the massacre, and was talk en captive by the Indians with her brother, He escaped the second night and lived several years after the cap ture of his sister.
 Among the warriors who captured her was Nacona, a young buck, who was considered a leader and promising among them as future chief. He claimed the girl and she was brought up for him by the squaws, and when she was about 14 or 15 years old she became his wise.
 Expedition after expedition was or ganized and sent out to search for the missing girl by several of her relatives who lived in Anderson county, Tex, where many of them still reside. But not even a rumor of her whereabouts, could be discoured Her beauty, strengthened by rapidity with which she forgot the white and took up the Indian life, led the Comanches to keep secret her presence. Twenty-three years slipped by and the Commanches continued to make their incursions in- to Texas, going as far down as Austin, until just before the breaking out of the civil war. It was in 1860 that news came of large body of Comanches de- predating settlements on the Bosque, above Waco.
 Capt. L, Sullivan Ross, afterward the gallant Confederate Brigadier- General, and later Governor of Texas, was or dered to take troops and to extermln- ate the marauding savages if possible. He started at the head of a body of men, and in a few days surprised the Indians. The Commanches, who were , under the leadership of their young chief, Nacona, saw that 1t was to be ! t lISuL lO d lllllblls ANU AuelL Itl Wdp Iasked nor given. The Teyans soon gained the day, but not until after they had killed nearly all the Indians, in- lcluding Nacona.
 The remainedr began a wild flight, with the Texans in hot pursuit, deter lmined to obey the orders to eXtermin- ate them if they could. One young Indian, who had been always near the chief as long as he was alive, seemed to bear charmed life, for several shots aimed at him pointblank failed to hit him.
 Several Texans pursued him among them Capt, Rosy himself. Just as a Texas Ranger had got within pistol shot of the young savage and levelled his pistol to shoot, the warrior turned quickly, pointed pistol at the Texans head and fred The Ranger rolled from his horse, and Capt, Ross rode forward, reached the side of the h. dian's horse and was preparing to shoot, when the young Comanche sud- denly cried out in broken English
 NO shoot Me paleface. Me pale face syuaw," at the same time tearing open the beaded and fringed hunting shirt and showing the neck and shoui- ders of a white woman
 "Instinctlvely I felt" said Gov. Ross later while relating this incident, that this must be the long lost and much sought Cynthia Ann Parker. l asked her after I had taken charge of her, for she offered no further resistance; 1 but she could, or would not, tell any | thing except that she was paleface."
 The Legislature was in session, and brother of Capt. Parker was mem Der The captive woman was taken to Austin with the others, but no definite | light could be throw upon her identity, as she could not speak English except a few broken words, and could not tell when or where she was captured.
 She was taken to the relatives of Capt Parker, but never became entire- | ly satisfied to live with her white re- latives until a short time before she died, but made many attempts to steal away and return to the Comanches. She showed one trait of her Anglo-Sax- on origin never, it's said, shown by an Indian woman, a., i that was that she cried frequently for her adopted peo- pie and her children. She did not see her children again after she was cap tured She lived seven or eight ye, ,, and died just after the close of the war.
 Her eldest son, who was born about 1842, received the name of Quanah Parker the latter of the name of his mother. In 112 Quanah Parker, who had grown up to be a magnificent young Indian, intelligent far above his tribe, came into his own as chief, hav- ing as co-chief his father-in-law, Yel- low Bear.
 Quanah has followed the traditions of his people, and has three wives, having stipulated in the treaty he made for his people with the United States, when peace was declared after the big fight with Gen. Mckenzie, that he be allow ed to have three wives.
 The fight in which he was engaged with Gen. Mckenzie was the last one the Co-manches had with the United States troops Quanah has always been for peace since then. He is the sole chief and has been since 1885.
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