The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-03-31
LEADER OF BElLIGERENT IN
OlANS AND HAlF-BREEOS
is RUN TO BAY.
TROUBLE PROBABLY OVER
Responsible for Warlike Activities on
Part Of Red Men and Negroes, Is
Now in custody-Diffeuity Arises
Over Allotment of Lands.

Guthrie, Okla March 31.--Crazy
Snake has been captured. He is be-
ing held under heavy guard at Thomp-
sors farm, west of Checotoah. This
was confirmed by telephone message
from Checotoah at 1880 o'clock this
morning. He will be taken to Jail in
Muskogee at daybreak.
Crazy Snake is badly wounded in
the thigh.
Nine prisoners were taken to Mus
kogee tonight and placed in Jail there,
and seven were taken to Checotoah
Great excitement prevails among the
Seminole freedmen in the vicinity Of
Kaldenville because of the arrest Of
one of their number, Frank Coker,
charged with the killing of Marshall
Baum and Deputy Odom during the
fight at Crazy Snakes house Saturday.
The people in that district are badly
frightened over reports that the Semi
noles are arming to join Crazy Snakes
band. Negro agitators are working
among the Indians.
1t Is charged that efforts are being
made to belittle the trouble on ac-
count of supposed unpleasant notoriety
to the state.
A dispatch from Henryetta says the
military officers admit that 10 negroes
and Indians have been killed since
Thursday.
The list of fatalities since the trou-
BILE began, reduced to basis of con-
firmed facts, consists of Deputies Odom
and Baum. who were killed in the
performance of their duty. and Dick"
Barnett, a Creek negro. 1t is probably
true that a number of Creeks were
wounded, but they were able to escape.
No official report has been made save
in regard to the two deputies and the
Creek negro.
Trouble Brewing.
Trouble has been brewing in this
section for year over the allotment
of lands. Crazy Snake persuaded his
clansmen, many of them negroes and
half breeds, not to accept the allot-
ment. The old chief stands for all
| the traditions of his race, especially
| that of the unrestricted hunting
ground. Although many Of his tribes
men secretly secured their allotments,
they dared not tell their leader, who
| would have expelled them from the
community.
For a year the red men and ne
groes, refusing to remain on their
| farms, had lived as nomads, to the
great detriment of chicken 'roosts,
clothes lines and pastures.
Deputy Sheriff Patee started week
ago for the Hickory stamping
grounds to arrest an InGian who had
sold his farm too often. The warrior
seized rifle and. refused to inhabit
the white mans Jail. His comrades
also armed themselves and the dep
uty retreated
The following day, Wednesday,
Patee returned with a small posse, in
cluding farmers named Krops, johnson
and Fawler, whose homes, being near
the stamping grounds, were in jeop-
ardy. Fawler received a load of buck
shot in the face. The others retreated
and the Indians celebrated their vic
tory by riddling with bullets the homes
of Krops, johnson and Fawler.
Creeks Gathering.
Meanwhile Crazy Snake was at his
home near Pierce. about 15~miles from
here. He had passed some time in
Washington, and the Creeks were
gathering from far and near to hear
his report. Sheriff Odom, regarding
the old chieftain as at the bottom of
the resistance which had been met re-
| solved upon his arrest. 1t was in this
attempt that the sheriffs son and
Deputy Baum were killed by volley
| fired from Crazy Snakes house.
| This started the trouble. Governor
Haskell ordered the First regiment,
Oklahoma national guard, to the scene.
and another and larger posse was
| formed Before the militia arrived, this
posse encountered the Creeks and there
was lively exchange of shots, dur
which Barnett was slain.
With the arrival on Sunday of the
guardsmen, 1875 strong, the Indians
took to the hills and scattered.