Woodruff County news. [volume] (McCrory, Ark.) 1901-1910, 1908-12-03
Observation-Disclosures
THE TOPICS |
OF A WEEK |

| 1lul-CIlO Nu-pdl, last Oh the meul-
cine men of the Five Civilized Tribes,
is dead at the age of 95 in the Snake
hills of the Greek nation. For half
a century he has been one of the
most turbulent spirits among the In
dians of the eastern part of the new
Oklahoma. He maintained his sway
until death. Hut-cho Nu-pah led
the last rebellion of the Greeks in
1880. His faction was subdued by
the Greeks themselves before the
United States troops got there.
Hut-cho Nu-pah's band of fifty was
annihilated and he was condemned
to death. But so great was the awe in
which the old medicine man was
held that no one could be found to
be his executioner. With his adher-
ents dead and himself imprisoned
his influence was so potent that he
compelled the election of friend as
chief, the Greek Is-par-hech-e, and
was pardoned. Hut-cho Nu-pah took
the part of the United States during
the Civil war. He was known to the
Union soldiery as the Alabama
Phrophet. Always he asserted that
he was under the special protection
of the Supreme Being and claimed
power over the lightning. Until
his death many believed him to have
supernatural powers. He was trans
ported from Alabama 60 years ago
and was the last of his kind of In
dian. There are no more medicine
men in the Five Tribes.
The Italian Bureau of Emigra-
ton publishes statistics showing the
movement Of Italian emigrants dur
ing the first three quarters of this
year. The total number of persons
who emigrated was 98,120 and 49,
996 went to the United States. The
total number of repatriations was
222,301 and 173,O07 returned from
America. DuRing the corresponding
period in 1907 the number of emf
grants to America was 261, 606 and
of repatriations only 62,926. Emf
grafton is decreasing to Argentina
!
and Brazil, also while repatriation
from these countries are increasing.
A great number of returned emf
grants have money saved to keep
them, but the majority are destitute.
As result crime, especially in
southern Italy, is increasing, and the
police suspect that the returning
emigrants have introduced the Black
Hand into Italy.
A posse of deputy United States
marshals surrounded a cabin near
Wilburton, Okla, Wednesday night
and captured Col. Deavalo and
John Castro. The charges against
them are conspiracy to overthrow
the government of Mexico. The
seat of their operations is said to be
in the state of Sonora. Castro is
the editor of a Mexican revolutionary
paper published in McAlester, and
Deavalo was boarder with him in
his cabin near the Busby mines.
Both men have indictments against
them in the United States court in
San Antonio. They were taken to
that place.
The situation in India has not
shown such menace of serious up
rising as it did Wednesday for many
years past. Attacks and attempts
on the lives of Englishmen, officials
and civilians are of almost daily
occurrence.
Joe Miller, a negro of Burdette,
Ark, was held up and brutally
beaten by negroes at South Fourth
street and Gayoso avenue Memphis,
Tuesday morning. The highway
men secured $27.
The wife of W. S. Odle of Lexing-
ton, Tenn, picked what appeared to
be boil an inch below the knee
of her 8-year-old daughter, Maude,
and found needle working its way
through the flesh.
Because he saved the life Of his
chum while playing in the old SWIM
ming hole 20 years ago, Bill Hum
pnrey, of Guthrie, Okla, was left a
fortune of $4,000 by the death of
his chum's father short time ago.