Arizona republican., 1909-03-28
THE STATE UP IN ARMS
Chief Harjo of the Creeks Who Has Been Threaten ing the Whites Breaks Out--Militia Hurried to the Scene ot the Trouble.

Oklahoma City, March 27.-In a
 pitched battle at Hickory Grove at
 o'clock this evening. between a posse
 of five officers and twenty Creek h.
 dians of the Snake reservations. Ed
 ward Baum, of Checotah, and Her
 man Odom, of Checotah, were killed. Frank Jones and William Carr the
 other members of the posse escaped
 without injury and fled to the settle
 ments, where news of the battle was
 telephoned to Sheriff Odom of Me
 Intosh county.
 Frank Swift, a member of the
 posse of officers, who was sent to the
 home of Chitti Harjo, chief of the
 Snake clan of the Creek Indians, to
 serve a warrant on the chief, was not
 killed, but was probably fatally
 wounded. Herman Odom, son of the
 sheriff of Mcintosh county, and Ed
 ward Baum, city marshal of Checotah,
 were killed outright. Swift dragged
 himself from the scene of the battle and was later picked up by Wm.
 Carr, one of the escaping officers and taken to Pierce. a station one mile away. Frank Jones, another of the posse who escaped, boarded a train at Pierce and went to ChecOtah early in the evening, bearing some details of the battle.
 The officers, having heard that the Indians and negroes were again peaceable after the trouble of Thurs day morning, approached the cabin of Harjo, near Hickory Grove, without ,f in the act of entering the chiefs yard, twen- ty guns were leveled upon them from the windows in the house and around corners. Odom and Baum fell dead, and Swift was seriously wounded. Jones ran a few yards and hid him. self in clump of trees until the In- dians disappeared. He then returned to the bodies of his comrades, finding them dead, he hurried to Pierce.
 Within thirty minutes after the re- port of the battle had reached Che cotah. a hundred men were armed. | Every available gun and practically l all the ammunition in the town was taken. In an hour, fifty men were 1 toward Hickory Grove. | When the news reached Muskogee, | officers immediately issued call for | men and in a short time posse of l fifty was ready to march. From Hen- | .ietta and Weleetka men will also go | .onight to Pierce, the place selected | Or mobilization.
 At II o'clock tonight Adjutant-Gen- .ral Frank Canton, of the Oklahoma | National Guard, wired Col. Hoffman 1t Chandler. to immediately call four of the state guard for The companies at Ok | ahoma City Chandler, Muskogee and !! )urant probably will depart for Hem ietta tonight.
 A dispatch from Checotah says the Snake Indians have been purchasing files and ammunition there for over month. and they are supplied with ,owder and lead, enought to last for wo days. Harjo, who has so often within the last two years, expressed lis displeasure at the restraint of the aw and, who has often called his nen into council for threatening the fficers of the law, is believed to have determined to make a final stand in ,ehalf of his ideas of liberty.
 His band has been outlaws for ears. It required the services of Jnited States officers and the threat o call for the state militia to quell is band last fall, during a session of he council at Hickory Grove.
 When Sheriff Odom received from he district clerk at Eufaula today, he warrant for the arrest of Harjo, he clerk adomnished him that he -ould have trouble. "The negroes re towards" said Odom, and there no danger
 Officers from Henrietta visited Grove today and found it ractically deserted. They returned lte this afternoon and reported that he four negroes killed in the fight on morning, were buried to- ay.
 At 1:30 a. m, five companies of { he militia were ordered to the scene f the Indian battle at Hickory rove. They will go on special trains rom Durant, Chandler, Muskogee, hawnee and Oklahoma City, as soon s the trains can be made up.