Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-04-01
CRAZY SNAKE is IN CUSTODY
Badly Wounded, Chief Surrenders
Without Fight Official Com
firmatiOn Withheld.

Oklahoma City, Okla, March 81. -
Great excitement prevails among the
Seminole freedmen in the vicinity of
Holdenville because of the arrest of
one of their number, Frank Coker,
charged with killing Marshal Baum
and Deputy Odom in the fight at
Crazy Snakes house Saturday.
The people in that district are bad
ly frightened over reports that the
Semlnoles are arming to join Crazy
Snakes band. Negro agitators work
ed among the Indians throughout the
evening in an effort to incite them to
an uprising.
One story wired here declared the
Seminoles had risen and were on the
| march in armed bodies. This could
not be confirmed up to midnight
BeIittle Trouble.
1t is charged that efforts are being
| made to belittle the trouble on ac-
count of the supposed unpleasant no.
toriety to the state. For this reason
it is hard to get at the real facts re-
garding the number of dead and in
jured since fighting began last Thurs
day. A dispatch from Henryetta last
night said military officers had re-
ported unoficially that three negroes
and Indians had been killed since
Thursday. All efforts to establish
the truth or falsity of the report were
in vain.
Thomas Watson, prominent citi-
zen Of Sapulpa, on his return to Sa-
pulpa from Henryetta yesterday, de-
clared cmphatically that the bodies
of nearly thirty negroes had been
found near the scene of the original
disturbance near Crazy Snakes home.
More Deputies Killed.
Deputy Sheriffs Frank Jones and
William Clark last night told a staff
correspondent of the Daily Oklaho-
man who reached Pierce in advance
of the militia, that they had good rea-
son to believe that more than Mar
shall Baum and Deputy Sheriff Odom
were killed in Saturdays fight.
The section of the Seminole Nation
where trouble is reported is peopled
largely by negroes, and until recently
was the favorite rendezvous of the
Casey, SwOffOrd and Craven bands,
which were exterminated in a fight at
Weekaka Mills five years ago.
Col. Hoffman, in command at Hen
ryetta, last night sent the following
message to Adjt. Gen. Canton:
There have been no new develop
ments this afternoon Am out in force
with troops. Captured thirteen pris-
oners last night. Hoffman.
Colonel Commanding"
Crazy Snake Gives Up.
Muskogee, Okla, March 31.-P. E.
Hickman, who arrived here last night
from ChecOtah, declares that Crazy
Snake, the leader Of the band of In
dian and negro outlaws, has been
taken into custody and that he is be-
ing held at Thompson, a few miles
from Checotah. The news of his cap
ture, Hickman declares, was brought
to ChecOtah by courier guide.
According to t1e statement of Mr..
Hickman, the old Indian surrendered
without a fight, although
He Is Badly Wounded,
suffering from a gunshot wound in the
hip sustained in an encounter with
a posse previously. Mr.. Hickman de-
clares that an official statement as to
his capture is being withheld because
of the intense feeling prevalent. The
Indian, he declares, will be taken to
the federal prison at Muskogee today.
The statement of Mr.. Hickman.
however, has not been confirmed,
though communication has been had
with Checotah by telephone.