The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-03-31
CRAZY SNAKE
NOT TO BLAME
FOR TROUBLE
Officers Went After Indian
Chief Because of Fight With
Negro Outlaws.
GOVERNMENT WILL BE
ASKED FOR PROTECTION
RED MAN WAS UNION SOLDIER
DURING WAR OF THE
REBELLION.

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= Muskogee. Okla. March 30.-No .
: Indians were involved in the orig 3.
= iual trouble that resulted in the Z.
g. militia being called out, and 4:
% Crazy Snake had a right TO de (.
g. fend his home from the attack of {.
% irresponsible persons and even of (.
. ficers not authorized 10 arrest h m. &:
&. according to the finding of Special :.
q. Attorney Woodruff and Indian (.
:, Agent Kelsey, after several hours &.
. Investigation at Henrietta today. &.
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:. agency here this afternoon. 1t 4,
. stated. in addition. that negro out .
g" laws cOngregated at Hickory 9
: stomping grounds were the only e
o. persons who started she trouble. s.
q" and that the Intervention of the .
- federal government viii be in q.
9. voked for the protection Of the 9:
= Indians. including Crazy Snake, if 9.
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Hickory Stomping Ground. March 80.
by courier to Henrietta, Okla. March
S0.-Crdzy Snake. leader of the uprising
of his clan of negroes, half-breeds and
Indians of the Creek nation. is still a
large tonight although il is believed
his capture cannot be delayed much
longer. He is likeued by those who
know him to Sitting Bull in point Of
intelligence and determination and
upon his death or capture the outcome
of the present disturbance rests.
one hundred men OF the First reEi-
nent, Oklahoma national guard, and
posse of deputy sheTiffs are securing
the hills and river bottoms for miles
in every direction.
Colonel Roy Hoffman and his troops
here set out i'm heavy marching order
at daybreak. each man carrying twen-
5y-four hours rations and forty rounds
Of ammunition.
Battle Not Expected.
There seems tu be no reason 10 be
Iieve that there will be Il general en-
counter with the fugitives. AmbUs-
cades I'm some force. however. are not
impossible.
The moral effect of the militia uni
forms and the CLINT of their bayouets
has been great.
colonel Hoffman bivouacked near
Stidman tonight. The signal corps of
twenty men arrived and tomorrow VII
attempt to run telephone line seven
miles between here and Henrietta At
present communication is very slow
over the rocky. mountainous road.
The list of fatalities since the trout
BILE began. reduced to basis of con-
firmed facts. consists Of Deputies Odom
and Baum. who were killed in the per-
Torrance of their duty. and Dick"
Barnett, d Greek negro. 1t is true that
a numb Der of Creeks were wounded. but
they were able to escape. No official
report has been made save of the TWO
deputies and the Greek negro.
Trouble Brewing for Year.
Trouble has been brewing in this sec
ton for a year over che allotment OF
lands. Crazy Snake persuaded his
Clansmen- many of them negroes and
haIf-breeds. not to accept the allot-
mcnt The old chief stands for all the
traditions of his race, particularly that
Of the unrestricted hunting grounds.
Although many of his tTibesmen secret
" secured their allOtments, they dared
not tell their leader who would have
expelled them from the community.
For a year the red men and negroes
refusing to live on their farms, have
lived as nomads, to the great detri-
meut of chicken roosts, clothes lines
and pastures.
Deputy Sheriff Pattee week ago
started for the Hickory stomping
grounds to arrest an Indian who had
sold his farm too often. The warrior
seized "a rifle and refused 10 inhabit the
white mans Jail His comrades also
armed lIltiflSGiA - ai4u tiit ufpttN IT.
treated.
indian Outrage.
The following day-Wednesday-
Pattee returned with small posse. in
rlud.ng farmers named KrOps. Johnson
and Fawier whose homes. being near
the stomDinE grounds. were in jeop-
ardy. FaW-ler received load Of buck
shot in the face. The others retreated
and the Indians celebrated their vic
tory by Kidding with bullets the homes
uf Krops. johnson and FaWler.
Meanwhile Crazy Snake was at his
home near Pierce. about fifteen miles
from here. He had passed some time
in Washington, and the Greeks were
gathering from far and near to hear his
report Sheriff Odom, regarding the
old chieftain as at the bottom of the re-
sistance which had been met. resolved
upOn his arrest. II was in this attempt