The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-05-07

zss-zs5 Tiger, the latter still deprecating hls knowledge of the English language brola the suspense by going to the house and routing out It's inmates
 A man and a half dozen women and children came shivering Into the yard. Neither Crazy Snake nor any other man had been there. Tiger knew and believed them.
 This was the kind of service the troops saw day after day in the Crazy Snake war"
 Crazy Snake was still in the hills when the troops were disbanded He Is re- luctant to surrender because of his fear of mob violence.
 Statement of Grievances.
 The grievances of Crazy Snake were stated in an appeal he made to the Sen ate committee that investigated matters connected with the affairs of Indian Terri tory in 1907 The members of the com mittee were Senators C. D. Clark of Wy oming, chairman; Chester l. Long of Kan sas, Frank B. Brandegee Of Connecticut, Henry M. Teller of Colorado and William A. Clarke of Montana. Crazy Snake spoke with intense feeling. In part he said:
 T am here and stand before you today, my fathers as man of misery. 1 am here appealing to you to have the laws carried out.
 
 my country away from me. I could live in peace with all else. but they wanted my country and l was in trouble defend- Ing 1t. It was no use. They were bound to take my country away from me. It may have been that my country had to be taken away from me, but it was not jus tice.
 T have always been asking for justice, I never asked for anything else but jus tice I never had justice First, 1t was this and then it was something else that was taken away from me and my people, so We couldn't stay there any more.
 "It was a treaty-a solemn treaty. We made terms of peace, for 1t had been war Then 1t was the overtures of the govern ment to my people to leave their Hand, the home of their fathers the land that they loved. He said: It will be better for you to do as I want, for these old treaties cannot be kept any longer He said, You look away off to the west away over backward and there you will see a great river called the Mississippi, and away over beyond that there is another river called the Arkansas river and he said, You go away out there and you will find a land that is fair to look upon and is fertile, and you go there with your people and 1 will give that country to you and your people forever
 Solemn Promise Recalled.
 He said: Go away out there beyond these two rivers, away out the direction of the setting sun, and select your land what you want of it-and 1 will locate you and your people there and will pro- tect you as long as the sun shines grass grows and water runs He said: Go away out there to this land toward the setting sun and take your people with you and locate them there and 1 will give you that land forever, and l will protect you and your children in it forever
 That was the agreement and the treaty, and I and my people came out here and we settled on this land, and I carried out these agreements on all points and violated none. 1 came over and To- cated here.
 "All that I am begging of you, honor able senators, Is that these ancient agree ments and treaties wherein you promised to take care of me and my people be full filled and that you will remove all the difficulties that have been raised in refer ence to my people and their country, and I ask you to see that these promises are faithfully kept. That is all 1 desire to say"
 Crazy Snake did not know that his en- treaties were falling upon deaf ears that all he complained of had been done ire vocably and that his tribal government had ended forever.
 In his view of life Crazy Snake is as primitive as were his ancestors. He would have his people live only upon the natural products of the earth, as they did cen- turies ago, abstaining from the use of manufa ctured articles. For that reason he believes that manufactured salt and bakers bread and canned goods are abom- nations.
 In his marital relations Crazy Snake fol- lows the ancient customs of the Creeks, ignoring all marriage ceremonies and liv- ing with wives by mutual agreement. Hoktuchee Gittle GirD one of Crazy Snakes wives, is kindly old woman who lives with her brother near the town of Pierce.
 One of Crazy Snakes sons, Legus Jones, sickly, inoffenslve man, lives near him. Salina Jacobs. Crazy Snakes married daughter, is woman of intelligence.