The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-01-14
AFTER 40 YEARS OF EXILE THE
TRIBE is GOING HoME-A VERY
HoMEsIck TRIBE.
HATE THE OREGON MOOOCS
Since Captain Jacks Band Killed Gen.
eral Candy In the Lava Beds They
Have Lived in Oklahoma Must
Live Among Their Enemies.

Baxter Springs, Kan. Jan l3.-The
hlodoc Indians in Oklahoma are going
home to the AVA beds ia Cali
fornia. whence they were taken to
the Quapaw Indian reservation near.
ly forty years ago. but to the Klam-
aUh Reservation of the Modocs in
Oregon. where they will be given
LnGs in exchange for their allot-
ments in oklahoma. 1t Is Il peculiar
ity Of the Modoc that he desires to
die on the spot where he was born.
The MOlOCs have been homtsick ever
since they went to Oklahoma. and
their return 20 tho northwest Is the
result of their constant appeal to tIe
authorities in Washington.
The removal OF the Modocs to OK.
lahomi followed their defeat after
their bloody campaign against gov.
crnment troops in the lava beds.
where they were commanded by Cap
uiin Jack. They assas5inlted and
butchered all except two of the peace
commission sent to them by the sec.
retary of war. When the Modocs
reached Oklahoma there were thirty
nine men, ifty-iuur women and sixty
children, many OF whom were sCre,y
wounded. Among them were such
notable leaders a. Scar.iaccd Char
ley, Steamboat Frank and Shacknas
ty jim. Their arrival in Baxter
Springs is well remembered by old
citzers Age and disease have cut
down the Modocs until only sixty re-
main. Near,y all their Old leaders
have died.
/ In going to the Klamath country
| from which they fed when they
entered the lava beds in California
these Modocs VIII be among the
Klamath ModoCs, whom they thor
oughly hate ard despise. because oi
the arrogance of the Klamath band
! The Oklahoma Modocs were moved
from California to Oregon. only To
have their Oregon kinsmen say 10
them:
You can stay here, but il is our
/ country. Your horses can ult the
/ grass, but II is our grass. You can
catch fish. but they are our fish"
This was more than Captain Jack
and his people could bear. rnd they
/ stole away and returned to their old
/ haunts in California. When the fed.
/ eral government tired TO make them
/ so back To Oregon, the Modocs begai
fighting. and sought refuge in the in
/ accessible lava beds. \ commission
was sent TO treat with them The
/ commission established its camp
about two miles from the retreat OF
the Modocs in the ava beds and
midway was pitched tent at which
the council should be- held
NO sooner had the commissioners
assembled in the tent than they
/ found that death was at hand Cap
tain Jack suddenly shot General
4 Candy, adviser of the commissio~e ers
/ Canby's throat was cut and his uni
/ form stolen The Rev. Eleazer
/ Thomas, a commissioner. also was
slain and his body robbed and mu
Il iated. Two of the commissioners
escaped
The United states COVER. .ment ther
put large body of troops in the field
and the Modocs were pursued night
and day until they surrendered
October =, 1873. Captain Jack B,acl
jim. Boston Charley and Schronchi,
Jim were hanged at Fort Klamath
Ore, for the murder OF Candy anC
Thomas Soon afterward the Cali
fornia ModoCs were taken To lndiai
Territory
A GOOD COUGH MIXTURE.