The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-03-28
Two Officers Are Killed and
 Others Are Wounded
MORE TROUBLE EXPECTED
Indian Chief and His Band Are Out laws and Resisted Arrest In Con- nection With Recent Fight
 With Posse.

cial.)-During a pitched battle this even- ing at 6 o'clock near Hickory Ground, the scene of the recent battles between a posse of officers and Indians, two off,
 cers were killed outright, one dangerously
 wounded and the others fled to telephone the news of the battle to officers at Mus
 kogee and ask for endorsements. The posse attacked was composed of five men, while the attacking party was l composed of 20 Creek Indians of the Snake clan, who were anxious to reap
 revenge for the late killing of several of their number.
 Those killed were: Edward Daum, Che cotah, Okla, and Herman Odom, Che cotah, Okla
 Frank Swift of Muskogee. Okla, was dangerously wounded.
 Two other deputies, Frank Jones and William Carr, who were members of the posse, fled to the settlements, where the news of the battle was telephoned
 to Shriff Odom of Mcintosh county. At o'clock a posse of 50 men had
 been formed in Checotah to go to the
 scene of the battle, which is 15 miles west
 of that place.
 
 peals have been made to Governor Has ken for troops and a company of state
 militia at Muskogee has been ordered to
 be in readiness to leave at a moment s | notice.
 The posse of officers were dispatched 1 this afternoon to serve a warrant on ! Chitt Harjo, chief of the Snake Indians, 1 charging him with melting the fight that l occurred Thursday morning in which
 three men are reported to have been 1 killed. As they drew near Hickory I Grounds, the council meeting place of l the Snakes, 20 Indians opened fire. The volley first fired killed the two officers 1 It is believed that Chitti Harjo has is 1 sued a general call to arms.
 Frank Swift a member of the posse
 of officers sent to the home of Chitti Harjo, chief of the Snake clan of the Creek Indians, to serve a warrant on
 the chief, was not killed, but probably fatally wounded. Herman Odom, son of the sheriff of Mcintosh county, and Ed 1 ward Daum, city marshal of Checotah, l were killed outright. Swift dragged him self from the scene of the battle and
 was later picked up by William Carr,
 one of the escaping officers, and taken
 to Pierce, station one mile away. Frank 1 Jones, another of the posse who escaped, 1 boarded a train at Pierce and went to Checotah early in the evening, bearing I some details of the battle.
 | A dispatch from Checotah says the i Snake Indians have been purchasing l rifles and ammunition for month and
 that they are supplied with powder and 1 lead enough to last two days. 1 Harjo who has often within the past 1 two years expressed his displeasure at | the restraints of law and who has often , called his men into council on that ac- I count is believed to have determined l to make a firm stand in behalf of his l ideas of liberty His band has been ! outlaws for years. It required the ser l vices of United States officers and the
 threat of a call for the state militia l to quell his band last fall during a
 session of the council at Hickory i Ground When Sheriff Odom received 1 day a warrant for the arrest of Harjo l the clerk admonished him that he would have trouble.
 "The negroes are towards" said ! Odom, "and there Is no danger" i Officers from Henrietta visited flick
 ory Ground today and found it practi- ], cally deserted. They returned late this
 afternoon and reported that the four
 negroes killed in the fight of Thursday
 morning were buried today.
 Military In Readiness. 1 Guthrie, Okla., March 27.-At the i telephoned request of Sheriff Odom of Mcintosh county, Governor Haskell 1 directed Adjutant General Canton to as- | sunle charge of the situation and order rna ,,,f1i fn