The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-29
Five Companies Pursue
 Warriers.
CRAZY SNAKE SENDS
 A DEFIANT MESSAGE
Red Men Are Armed With Modern
 Rifles.
Oklahoma Guardsmen Are Determined and VIII Shoot to KiII-SOn of Indian Chief Tells story
 of the Murders.

Oklahoma City. okla, March B. Chief Crazy Snake and. one hundred followers retreated before i've com panies of Oklahoma militia late to- night. thus deferring an expected bat tie until tomorrow.
 Hastily setting fire to his tepees and tents, the Indian leader with his mixed company of red skins and negroes fled fro minis blazing camp as the troops advanced. He took up a strong posi- ton between the North Canadian River and Deep Fork Creek, about seven miles east of Henrietta.
 Colonel Hoffman, in command of the State troops. considered 1t unwise to push the pursuit and engage the ln- dians in the darkness. Accordingly he bivouacked his troops for the night Early in the morning, rein forced by a company of cowboys from the country around Lawton, Okla, all crack shots. he will lead his forces against the Indians.
 Crazy Snake and his braves will be offered a chance to surrender. If they refuse, the battle will be on.
 Colonel Hoffman sent out numerous scouts to watch the movements of the enemy and to give the alarm If they attempted to flee, under cover of dark ness. The commander planned to allow his weary troops to rest on the held
  attempted to escape to stronger po- sition-
 Indian Signal Fires.
 The military officers believe Crazy Snake wants to reach the Tiger Moun- tains with his followers before en- gazing in general fight. That the old chief is striving to stir the Greeks to an uprising and strike for what he conceives to be his duty. was evident from the smoke for three signal fires on adjacent hills just before sundown. old time frontiersmen declare this Is "a sign which always ushers in Indian troubles. Major Charles F.. Barrett, in charge of the commissary. received hurry sr- ,,deus tonight by courier to send sup piles and addition al ammunition to the .soldiers at the camp. Frogns thiA II lR inferred that the officers expect long chase before a fight.
 Six men have been killed and dozen wounded since the trouble be- gan Thursday. This IS the official re- port. and it is generally believed many more of the negroes and Indians are killed. Dr. L. M. Wallace of Dustin, Okla. who went to the Hickory Hils with the troops today. declared that more than twenty negroes were killed Thursday and Saturday. and were bu- ,ried without cofins in the vicinity where the soldiers camped tonight.
 A Thrilling Sunday.
 This Sunday was full of thrill. All Oklahoma was aroused. AS the re- ports of the staying of Marshal Baum and Deputy Sheriff Odom were spread broadcast, the people wer einnamed with a determination to make an end 60 the murderous band. ..
 First. a strong posse visited Crazy Snakes home, Intending to capture AnA hut documents in hts house containing lists of the Indians he had enrolled In his uprising. Also, they found the muti- lated bodies of Odom and Baum.
 While the chief had lied. his son fell into the hands of the pale faces. From him, the deputies choked con- fession of his fathers misdoings and A full statement of the murderous do- ings of the previous night The chok- ing was literal Slipping, new rope around the young Carlisle graduates neck, they lifted him from the ground In the way the vigilance committees of the Far Wesc used to make thieves quit stealing. Ke was ready to tell all then, and today set the white men on his fathers trail.
 While all this was going on. the State officials were getting aroused. Governor Haskell ordered out troops by wholesale. Every company in Ok lahoma, either was rushed to the front pr ordered to prepare ta go.
 Trouble Renewed.
 Daybreak this morning saw re- newal in the vicinity of Hickory Ground of last evenings fight with the followers of Crazy Snake," or Chitti Harjo, the Creek Chief. when two deputy Sheriffs were killed. another wounded and several Indians are be- lieved to have been shot.
 0rA xxyifh dAct AP ing between 200 special officers and nearly as many Indians. Several In- dians are reported wounded. State militia and armed officers and citizens moved all day Sunday toward the scene. One posse captured the 22-year- old son of Crazy Snake today and com pelled him to give the names of all Indians who were in his fathers house last night when Marshal Edward Baum and Deputy sherifr Herman odom were killed.
 A dispatch from stidman says a sec ond engagement between officers and Indians occurred near there at g o'clock this morning. In this fifty shots were exchanged and several In- 'dians wounded. Both the Indians and the negroes, many of the latter being allied with the Creeks. took their wounded into the hills and this made it impossible to learn definitely what
 
 the dead since Thursday was tonight placed unofficially at six.
 Deputies moved on the house of Crazy Snake today with the object of attacking it. They found 1t deserted, but removed the bodies of Baum and Odcm. who had been killed the night before, The bodies were taken to Flu fauia. There was evidence that Crazy Snake and the members of his family had left hurriedly in the night. The ldeputies captured q number of tho Lchiefs horses and a large quantity of ammunition.
 Soldiers to Scene.
 Five partially formed companies of State militia. ordered out last night by Governor Haskell. started for the scene early today. They were in com xnand of Col. Roy Hoffman of Chandler. More than 125 men compose the body hnd they have sixty rounds of ammu- hilton. The companies from Oklahoma City, Chandler and Shawnee met in Oklahoma City and went by special ,1rain to Henrietta. There they met Eehe companies from Durant and Mus kogee.