The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-01
SNAKE cot away
Reported Capture of Leader of
the Creek Uprising
Has Proven to HAZE Been With
out Any FeuIndation.
HIS WIFE Isl FOUND.
She Confirms th6 Statement
That He Is WiOunded.
The Chief Is Seerh by a Posse
But Makes His Escape.

pierce. Ok. April 1.-tBy Courier to
Checotah.-Col. Hoffman, confident
that his Oklahoma National guards
men have the Creek Indians under
control began reducing his force to-
day. by dismissing all but two or
three deputies who havle been report
ing to him. His own ben will do the
scouting which i still directed chiefly
at the rocky gulches OF Tiger noun
tains. Yesterday remains of camp
fire were found in natural cave at
the bottom of a deep gully, but there
the trail ceased.
Col. Hoffman ordered home several
of his own officers and rs men of the
Muskogee company today. Their
places later Will be ftIed by others
who are reported on their way here.
Crazy Snake is still at large.
His squaw and three other Indian
women. two of them with their pa
pooses, to say nothing OF several hun
CRY looking dogs, visited Pierce today,
but had no Information to the
whereabouts of Chitto Harjo.
The signal corps telephone wire be-
tween Henryetta and Hickory Stamp
ing grounds win be extended to this
point soon, providing the troops re-
main.
The sun camt as a blessing to the
soldiers today Lafter yesterday cold
rain. Col. Hoffman has not lost hope
that the fugitive chief would be found
and would surrender.
farmer near Hickory Stamping
grounds was wounded last night by
some marauder who fired in order to
escape from a corn crib in which he
had taken shelter. The attack appar-
emily was not pTemeditated and might
have happened at any time. NO inn
rortance is attached to it by the mill
;ary. Five prisoners are reported to
have been taken to Henryetta from
the hills There was no resistance.
owing to continued rains throughout
the day the troops made little progress,
save in completing camp and nlooillza-
aion near Pierce Lieutenant Colonel
Chas. West has abandoned the quarters
al Lenna and joined Hoffman's COM
mand at Pierce. Only a few men are
left at Camp Hickory. A telephone wire
has been stretched between Camp Hlck-
orv and Camp Tiger by Captain King
and his men of the engineering corps.
While Colonel Hoffman and small
detachment were accommodating in the
foothills of the Tiger mountains they
came upon the wife and two daughters
of Crazy Snake. Their names are Cat
sew Hola, Salina Jones and Salma ia
cobs. The counsellor's wife was re-
ticent but under threat consented to
talk She declared that her husband
left Saturday nigh with another In
dian and that she not known where
they went. She &C ) med the report
that he is wounded and said that he
was shot in the calf of the leg. Colonel
Hoffman believes thai the family of
Crazy Snake are sen ng him provis-
aons into the mountai A posse cap
tured Bayney Scott. a header of a band
of Snakes. who is believed to have act
ed as messenger to the leader since his
retirement to the mountains. He was
taken to Jail at Eufaula. An Indian
answering the description of Crazy
Snake and mounted on a white horse
was seen to enter the mountains late
Yesterday fternoon. He was pursued
by a detachment of troops in command
of Captain Frank King until he was
lost In the mountains.
A farmer on the road saw the horse
man pass but could not identify him as
the Snake leader.