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The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-07
TRUE STORY OF
 AN INDIAN WAR Facts About Uprising of Crazy
 Snake
GRIEVANCE OF REBEL RED
Scare Oklahoma Got Into Over Timor- ous Snake Band and Alleged War Where Not One Shot
 Was Fired.
(okI..) Cor. Omaha Bee.

Guthrie, (Ok1.,) Cor. Omaha Bee.
 To restore order and suppress an "up- rising of the Snake band of the Creek
 Indians one of the five civilized tribes 175 men and officers of the Oklahoma state militia were sent lately to the coun- ties of Mcintosh and Okmulgee. Crazy Snake, leader of the Snake band, whose Indian name is Chitto Harjo, was DOT trayed as a bloodthirsty savage. bent upon massacreing all the white citizens in that part of Oklahoma inhabited by the Snakes. The militia were in the field ten days and the demonstration cost the state S5000 or $6000. Not drop of blood was shed nor a gun fired.
 That is one phase of a war, senSa- tional accounts of which have done much harm to the reputation of Oklahoma, es- pecially in eastern states, where the falsehoods were accepted as truth and where there Is difficulty In refuting them. The truth about the affair involves the re- cital of the efforts of misguided fullblood Indians to save themselves from tho flood of white civilization that is beating In upon them and to maintain themselves in the simple life of their ancestors.
 It should be known that none of the five civilized tribes resemble the plains or reservation Indians, save in color, physognomy and temperament. For generations they have been surrounded by white men, but in sparsely settled re- gions where they have been able to live isolated in their log cabins, cultivating a few acres of ground for corn and veg etables and getting their meat from na- tive hogs run wild and such game as they could find
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-07
Had Ills own Policemen.


 A body of native horsemen were chosen to preserve order and to enforce the or ders of Crazy Snake. One of their duties was to keep white intruders from the place of council. For infraction of tho rules of camp life. these horsemen in- fiicted punishment by whipping on the bare back with hickory withes.
 The full blood Snake Creek Indian is timd, inoffensive, impoverished being. Living among the Snakes are negroes, who are slaves or descendants of slaves once owned by the Creeks. Through in termarriage most of them have Creek Indian blood in their veins. They have received allotments of Creek lands. Un- like the Snakes, they are many of them vicious and revengeful and dangerous when drunk.
 In 1901 disturbances arose at Hickory Ground the report spread that Crazy Snake and his people were preparing to go on the warpath, and Crazy Snake was sent to jail for few months. In July, 1908, stories of another Snake Creek war were circulated. Adjutant- Gen. eral Frank Canton, old frontiersman, went to Hickory Ground and learned from Crazy Snake that his light horse men bore arms to protect the camp and the women and children against lawless characters and to suppress the sale of whisky. Crazy Snake agreed to disarm his men, but asked that three be per mitted to retain their weapons, to police the camp, which was granted. The ex- citement passed away.
 From that council came the trouble at Hickory Ground last month. Creek ne groes and negroes from outside states who attended that council remained on 1 the ground after the departure of the Snake Indians to their homes in tho hills A village of tents and huts grew up.
 Thieving Negroes Started Trouble Having no means of support the ne- | groes stole chickens corn, bacen and | other things from the neighboring farms | and occasionally killed a hog, which | quickly provoked hostility between them | and the white farmers. Local ofnceri | went to the camp on March 16 to searcf | for stolen meat They were resisted and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-07

CTaZy Snake an OTaLOr.
 Crazy Snake has an ideal Indian face, is strong and sinewy of frame and is per haps the most eloquent orator in the Five Civilized tribes. He is now about 55 He believes with his whole heart that the Creek treaty with the United States government in 1892, though broken, should still govern. That treaty gave to the Creeks heir present lands to be held in common and protected against the in- trusion of white men "as long as water runs and grass grows"
 There has never been moment that Crazy Snake has not been pleading for recognition of this treaty He told his way to recognize the allotment treaty of More than that, they refused to choose allotments after the tribal lands had been segregated, and the Dawes commission was compelled arbitrarily to assign allot- ments to the Snakes.
 Unhappily for Crazy Snake and his fol lowers, certain white men whisper to him that they have power to induce Congress to do what Crazy Snake Is fighting for and Crazy Snake believes them That is his weakness. They tell Crazy Snake and his people that money is needed to win the fight, and the Indians beggar them selves to get It.
 A blanket Is placed on the ground al the councils and each Indian is told tc toss his contribution on it. Large sums of money have been raised in this way from the 500 Snakes.
 These councils were held at Hickory Ground, six miles easr or the town oi Henryetta.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-07
Not Blanket Indians.

 cts so many years ago that their oldest men now living cannot remember their use. Their hair is not worn plaited, but In the fashion of white men. Their cloth ing is made in the factories of. New York; as 1t has been for generations. They do not paint their faces, and their only per- sonal adornments are earrings worn by a few men and combs and bead necklaces by the women.
 The Snake Indians are perhaps less su- perstitious than the average negro. They still maintain their clan organizations and some dance ceremonies, few of them with any religious significance There are more than 40 tribal towns among the Creeks.
 Intense rivalry is shown in their ball games, and in the contests the 40 towns are about equally divided between the contending teams. this alignment prob ably having an ancient origin. They are skilled in the use of herbs in the treat ment of disease, and their native doctors have remarkable success in the treat ment of gun shot wounds with embroca- tions of herbs.
 The favorite food of the Snakes is "sofky," the product of flint corn. The corn is dampened and pounded in nor tar until 1t is broken and the husk re- moved It is then boiled until soft and edible, seasoned with ash lye and placed in a large jar. one of which may be found always beside the fireplace In a Snake cabin. Sofky seems to be whole some and nutritious. but a steady diet of 1t pals upon a white mans palate. To the best sofky hickory nut kernels ara added
 Of all the bands or clans of the Creel nation the Snakes have been the least progressive and the most tolerant of white men. Crazy Snake their leader, not their clan chief, was conspicuous in leading their opposition to the allotment of their lands in severalty and the aban- donment of tribal government.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-05-29
Two Too Valuable.

The late Henry Miller, who was
guide, philosopher, and friend to man
booklovers within a thousand miles
of New York, was a most successful
salesman. One day, according to Har-
per's Weekly, he called on Coils p.
Huntington and showed him a rare
COPY of
There are two volumes o. this,
said Mr.. Miller. The other volume
is in perfect order. as Jou see this
one is. You cannot possibly let them
escape YOU for you know you have
nothing like this in your library"
What is the price?" asked the
railroad king.
Seven hundred dollars" said the
bookman.
Those are too valuable volumes
for my library" Mr. Huntington ex-
claimed.
Mr.. Miller went hack 70 his place,
and sent the books TO Mr.. Hunting
tons house with bill for seven hun
died dollars. Next day tle railroad
king sent for him.
Why did you send me those
books?" he demanded. sharply.
Because you bought them was
the bookman's calm reply.
II certainly did not" cried the mil
lionaire.
"Oh. yes. you did" answered Mr..
Miller. You'll remember perfectly
we'll when I tell you what you said.
You told me distinctly, Those are
two valuable volumes for my IL
brary.'"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-05-29

recommendations to build new
dTedges, to keep waterways open for
traffic. to hasten the great work to-
ward an early completion, to hold on
to the lands whose future value will
mount to the stars are excellent and
should be needed; while the posi-
billty o. utilizing drainage canals to
the Atlantic and gulf, with Lake
Okeechobee a great central reser-
Volr and waterway, as means of
water transportation across the pen
insula, although not new, still arOuses
the imagination and leafs the mind
to dwell upon future possibilities OF
vast and beneficent magnitude.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-05-29

Apropos of the recent observance
of Mothers Day We recall an elo.
GueEt tribute which was delivered by
William J. Bryan at Frcdericksbu burg,
Va, during the famous campaign or
1895 to the mother of Washington.
Sad the noted orator:
Fredericksburg is not a large city
ant yet ii is rich in incidents of
great historic value. Here the wo-
men of America have reared a moDu-
ment to Mary, the mother of Wash
iDgton- 1 am glad to stand on this
SPOT; l am glad to feel the influence
which surround her grave. In a cam
paign, especially in a campaign like
this, there is much o. bitterness. and
sometimes of abuse, spoken against
the candidates for public Office. but
my friends, there is one character.
the motheT-a candidate for the af.
fectiOnS of all NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
whom no true man ever uttered a
word of abuse. There is one name
mother. which is never found upon
the tongue of the slanderer-fn her
presence all criticism is siIenced. The
painter has, with his brush, trans
ferTed the landscape 10 the canvas
with such fidelity that the trees and
grasses seem almost real; he has
even made the face of a maiden seem
instinct with life. but there is one
picture so beautiful that no painter
mas ever been able to perfectly re-
produce 1t, and that is the picture of
the mother holding in her arms her
babe. Within the shadow of this
monument, reared to the memory of
each one of us, bow in humble rev.
erence to motherhood"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-05-29
unlust DISCRIMINATION.

Why should the gopher for West
Florida be extended protection that 10
denied 10 bis brother elsewhere in
the stateg Is IL because greater de-
mand is made for him TO supply the
need OF fractional currency ia Pea
sacola now as OF yoFeg Why should
our legislature multiply crimes with
out moral influence? Thus IL is q
misdemeanoF 10 take d gopher In
West Florida during the summer
while IL is strictly moral 10 DO the
same thing across the line! II rs i'm
moral to take a drink ia some eoun-
ties, and not so bad ia another, ire
EnecfiVe Of the auaIiLg Of Lha huid
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-05-29
PENSACOLA, FLORIDA, SATURDAY MORNING. MAY 20.
Here rests, his head beneath St.

Here rests, his head beneath st.
MiehaeI's shade,
A youth who ate things sPeekIed
Ger by flies;
Ineautious fool, he no Inspection made
Of butchers meat and other food
supplies.
Large was his appetite, he didn't care,
-.Sust so 'twere VictuaIs he would
eat his fill
The doctor got what cash he had
to spare,
The undertaken mourns his unpaid
bill.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-05-29

o c
bronze tablet
o
The tablet
IL shedgr
1ent Landmark on Mr. Bngs property
ngn Its gallant defense against the Hessian
by
first American take soldiers
sixtenths
stood the summit of hill
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-05-29
Bring It Up To Date.

Some of our best men note with
alarm the indifference paid to voting
upon constitutional amendments and
with Governor Gilchrist are seeking
some way to remedy the evil, for such
it verify is. The necessities of the
state in the way OF future advance
n.ent in many ways, demand that
the constitution be brought up to
date. The attempt to evade its re-
quirements has already jeopardiZed
the acts of two sessions of the legis-
lature, thus creating a condition that
may prove of incalculable damage to
the state. Probably the sanest way
out of the muddle, or possibly crime,
is to hold a constitutional conven-
ton. This would require time, and
il it is to be done. should receive at
tention at this session of the legisla'
tUre.-Panama City Pilot.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-05-29
let Us Rejoice.

Let us rejoice that the red band
cigars and legislative booze have
completely lost out in Tallahassee,
and that Il few rotten politicians
cart have their way As they once
did during the law-mskins seasons.
HuTrah for the cornfield bOys.-MaF-
iSnna Times-COuTier.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-05-29

Dr. Niles. Of Pensacola. held SER
vices in the Episcopal church Monday,
the 10th, morning and evening. He
Is on his way 10 Jacksonville 20 at
tend the convention and from there
expects 10 paw a visit to Europe
DeFuniak Herald
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-05-29
The Only Way.

The Pensacola Journal in comment
ing upon the legislatures stand
against TeappOrtionment, SAYS tho
only way In which to legaliZe the
formation of new counties is to make
provision for constitutional conven-
tion.-Gainesville Sun.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-05-29

The report of the legislative com
mittee on Everglades drainage will
no doubt impress the popular mind
with the truth already accepted by
the elect, that the project is not only
feasible, but will, if carried out, even
tuate in an enormous accession of
wealth to Florida. The committees
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-05-29

What an opportunity there is fol
the Congressional Record to get out
a Funny paper"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-05-29

The Laird of Skibo came mighty
near capturing the Kentucky Presby-
terrain college. What an unco reli-
gious mon ne is.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-05-29

The country is about to listen TO the
eighty-four thousandth report on
deep waterways, this time from a
board % engineers of the war depart
ment, but viii this bring us any
nearer to deep water so long as every
surplus cent of revenue is used for
army and navy increase and other
extTavagant projects of the Republi-
can psrty-the party Of force, fallacy
anu frenzy!
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-05-29

Robert Louis Stevenson couldn't
spell, but his writings threw a spell
over all who read them
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-05-29

Does the Sans bill excluding from
the public schools children affected
with tuberculosis make any provision
tor their education? 1t certainly
should do so; for the disease is cura-
bic and there is no justice in per-
hitting one of its victims to grow up
in ignorance.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-05-29

Moses. editor of the Concord IN. HI
Evening Monitor. TO be minister to
Greece is taken as b strong indIca-
ton o. President Taft's attitude to-
ward the allies" VINO opposed his
nomination in the chicago conven-
ton, Mr.. Moses was a delegate 10
the convention aud, with Senator Gal
finger, voted to the last for Vice Presi,
denf Fairbanks. OF all the ''alIies"
none was more active than Senator
Gaiiinger. and Up 10 the opening or
the convention the Evening Monitor
vas equally ardent as q Fairbanks
osxaa-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-05-29

Good bye, Bookies" you have
passed into history.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-05-29

Students of sociology would do well
to keep tleir eye on the right of
way Of the Georgia railroad.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-05-29

The anti-race betting bill went
through the senate with all the pre-
eipitation of Nancy Sykes-not sin
gle cffer made against it.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-05-29

Roosevelt must think Haskell is
big game. Guess he is, and will be
found precious hard to bag even for
purposes of study and exhibition.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-05-29

The governor is merciful-refuses
to employ the sweat-box method on
the legislature by calling a special ses-
sion, even If the best bills are per.
mitted to go by the board.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-05-29

Wonder If the regular session OF
congress in December will continue
the tariff debate or conclude to drop
the matter in favor of continuance
OF the Dingley schedule2
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-05-29
The Flies of Barlow.

The Flies OF Barlow.
"WiIt thou walk into my house?"
said Pensacola to the fly,
'''Tis the prettiest little mansion that
ever thou didst spy.
The way into my house, sir, is
straight as straight can be,
And thou'lt not find single thing to
interfere with thee"
(ChoTus)
wilt thou, wilt thou, wilt thou. wilt
thou
Walk in, Mister Fly?
Wilt thou. wilt thou. wilt thou, wilt
thou
Walk in, Mister fly"
And how could Mr.. Fly resist su IN
a pressing invitation? He went in
and carried along with him several
hundred billion typhoid. consumption,
dysentery and other germs. Many OF
these, however, had an unhappy effect
upon the inhabitants of the mansion
and St Michaefs, ST Johns and other
cemeteries are making arrangements
to enlarge their bOundaTieS.-Pensd
cola Journal. Just read Oak Hill and
Wildwood for st. Michae's and st.
Johns, in the foregoing extract and
apply it to Bartow.-Bartow Courier
Informant.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-05-29

The edict of DeFuniak citizens,
Let there be light" does not seem
20 work with the same promptitude
as it did on another occasion of
which it is unnecessary to remind the
reader.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-05-29

The Office o. the DeFuniak Herald
has been removed from the Murray
building to the "Merry-go-round block"
the very spot for an enterprising
newspaper.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-05-29

Sheriff Cazalas. of Mobile, is on the
anxious seat. There is no telling
what conclusion those level-headeJ
Justices of Alabamas supreme court
will arrive at.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-05-29
Guess it VIII.

Guess It VIII.
The Pensacola Journal always to
the forefront in good movements, has
inaugurated fight against the germ
spreading fly, and the state press is
taking IL up with vigor. Let the good
work go on.-BTadentown Journal.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-05-29
The Politician.

Don't you knew that no one listens
10 or reads your speeehes?"
Yes" answered Senator Sorghum:
I'm that way avoid making enemies"
--WashingtoH Star.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-05-29

Why does not the legislature pass
the act validating the incorporation
OF St.Andrews? 1t is not fair to hold
back that ambitious little town when
II wishes to trot ahead with the live
lest municipal race horses of Flor
ida.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-05-29
A Good Cause.

The Pensacola Journal. which is
leading the press Of the state in the
fight against the filthy, germ bearing,
deathdeaIing. typhoid distributing fly,
deserves well of every man. woman
and child in Florida, for it never
fought in a better cause" says the
rier-Informant. Here is one of
its latest hits from the shoulder:
Sing a song of bacilli, kitchen full of
flies,
Four and twenty thousand lit upon the
pies.
When the pies were eaten, germs got
busy, very
Isn't this jolly way to fill the ceme-
.teTy?"
Bronson Times-DemocTat
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-05-29
NEWS AND VIEWS
BY STATE PRESS


A Luxurious" Trip.
Offenders of the laws of Pensacola
will hereafter be transported TO
"headquarters' in a more luxurious
manner. a rubbeT-tired patrol wagon
having been placed in commission
Gainesville Sun.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-05-29
& Timely Touch.

Patron-You get good many tips,
don't you?
Waiter-Oh. yes; most everybody
gives me something
Patron-Then, perhaps, you could
loan me FIVE?
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-05-29

DEATH TO THE HoUsEFLY,
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-05-29

It seems that John Barleycorn has
been doing some lobbying at ITALIA
hassee. He is the most dangerous
lobbyist Of all and has way of turn
Ing the mind of the best intentioned
lsWmaker. Shut him out.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-05-29
Why Pensacolans Are
Always on the lump.

Always Oh the jump.
In an editorial headed Frogs for
Pensacola" the Orlando Reporters Star
pays compliment to that city in the
following language:
The frog industry is on the increase.
The Macon News tells of the importa-
tion from Germany OF five hundred
weather frogs, guaranteed to foretell
changes in the weather and the Tam
pa Times contains a lengthy article
telling of contemplated bull-frog
faTsl in Santa Rosa county. Florida
Florida does not need weather frogs
because there is always just the right
sort of weather and it would take a
mighty likely German frog to fortell
a rainfall out of a sunshiny sky, any
how. But according to the Times
articles, Pensacola does need bull
frogs. as in that city the hindermost
jumpers of the bull-frog are very es-
sential to a square meal. We under
stand now, why Pensacola is always
on the jump. The bull-frOg explains
it.
Let us tender thanks to the Report
er-Star for this double compliment:
to PensacoIa's gustatory discrimina-
ton and to its progressive spirit. And
it may be, as our contemporary re-
marks, that there is some mysterious
connection between the average Pen
sacolan's affection for frogs legs and
his irrepressible tendency to jump.
1t is a well known fact that differ
ent foods produce peculiar results
when given to animals. Raw beef
fed to bulldog, for instance, will
awaken his savage nature. 1t is hard
to tell what would happen to a tor
toise shell cat if you fed her on
gopher. She would probably change
her mode of living and seek hole in
the ground.
Well, jumping is a good thing and
the consumption of frogs legs as d
means toward that end is a most
not be bad plan for brethren farther
down in the state to acquire taste
for this food of highly civilized man
and by consuming it freely gain the
commendable activity that character
ICES the citizens of Pensacola
Verify, We ought now to be con-
WINGED: Ex-Governor Douglass, the
mighty man of shoes, has come out in
a pamphlet to demonstrate the right
cousness of free hides. Go to the
Yank, thou sluggard, consider his
ways, ETC., etc. That is the way
Solomon would put it were he living
in this day and generation.
Senator Bailey, of Texas, does not
seem fond of that word honor" 1t
does set one a-thinking, but it should
not lead up to fistiCuffs with news
paper reporters and loss of senatorial
dignity. Fact is, a modest tolerance
would best become Bailey when ali
things are taken into consideration.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-05-29
only Wish We Could.

Jacksonville. Tampa and Pensacola
and several other cities are after new
charters or amendments TO what they
have Strange they do not manage
their own local affairs? According to
the reasoning on some other matters.
those cities ought not to even petition
the legislature. The boys there know
that the people of the sovereign state
of Florida. through the legislature,
grant, create or amend all charters of
cities. towns or corporations.-Arca
dia Champion.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-05-29

Read The Journals Want
Columns this morning.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1909-05-29

Read The Journals Want
and learn what is going on.