The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-03-30
CRAZY SNAKE WILL
SURRENDER IF He
Gets FAIR TRIAL
SENDS MESSAGE TO MILITARY
cAMP-coL. HOFFMAN PROM.
IsES FAIR TRiAL-INDIAN CHIEF
SAYS POSSE FIRED FIRST.

OKLAHOMA CITY, March 80.
News from Henryetta has Just
reached here that an Indian man,
ed Little Warwhoop, known az
Jack Thompson, reached the mill
tia camp from Chief Crazy Snake
today, bringing news that Crazy
Snake was ready to surrender II
promised fair treatment.
Col. Hoffman assured him that
Crazy Snake would be given fair
trial, and Thompson made off to-
the hills. He said Crazy Snake
did not fire on the posses until
members of the posses riddIed his
cabin with bullets. II was then
that he and his companions OPEN
ed fire on the posse.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla, March
3O.--Col. Hoffman today asked for re-
Inducements to strengthen his line In
surrounding Chief Crazy Snake and
his band OF belligerents. Scores OF
white families fed from their homes.
fearful that a bloody battle was
about to take place between the state
troops. cowboys and farmers, on one
side, and the Indians, half-breeds and
Negroes. on the other.
The Indians, according TO late
report. were in timebered strong
hold, on all sides OF which ranges a
dense growth of underbrush, fianked
by great trees, which are capable OF
affording protection against gatling
guns Crazy Snake and his band
crept into this stronghold last night
Crazy Snakes cause was not so un'
favorable as the soldiers believed. The
Indian chief is well protected in his
wooded retreat, the trees forming q
suitable ambuscade. His followers
are all heavily armed and desperate,
Crazy Snake was besieged last night
but the soldiers could not press for.
ward owing to their exposed position.
Couriers were FASTENED to Camp Hick.
DRY with the news to the militia com
mander.
From that moment the night be-
came one OF concentrated activity.
Fighters, under both civilian and mil.
itary rule, were rushed to the scene
mounted and afoot. Ammunition and
supply wagons, already loaded for
emergencies, soon were rumbling on
their way to the front Various posses
out rounding up bad Indians, were or.
dered to a position In the line around
the chief and his aides. Gun fighters
from the ranches took their places In
the circle, and farmers came armed
with guns of various patterns and
made the line stronger. II was an up
rising of the whites against the reds
and lawless Negroes. This motley.
but grim and efficient body presented
determined front and insisted on
having a finality of the thing then
and there. Crazy Snake was cornered
at last. But while the most difficult
task was accomplished, one fraught
with infinitely more danger doomed up
Just ahead-the fight which seemed
imminent.
While this was In progress scores Of
fearing outrages by the lawless ele.
ments. Throughout the night, they
went to Henryettay Pierce and some
even to Chocotah. Their apprehen-
sion was not without cause, for to the
south and east of Pierce scattered
Snake bands were hidden in the hills,
while still others had gone to the
northeast retreats, making Pierce the
center OF the district buffeted by the
uprising.
With these desperate ones near and
with the attention of the authorities
diverted for the moment to Crazy
Snake and the chances for his cap
ture. the farmers would have been
prey for the raiders. For hours many
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