The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-02-20

home band o, these mzfs1ders aJ-
yeared WdIe the store Vas 14.ug
p.Laged he women fled 10 the dark
nea4 and hid DO q cornfeld nearby.
The store was se, ol FIRE after j. ha1
been iOo'ed and then the house vas
stripped Of its contents. even 70 The
Jolts o' silk ma, Ms Callahan had
~ make her own dresses from. While
the Dl1ndering var going On Nrs
Callahan, with her tWo children and
q negro nurse, secured tWO hofses
and fled They started south for
Texas. Nrs. Callahan carried a bag
o' god which she had kep, hidden.
4, zas sprngtlme and most Of the
streams we're swollen. There we're
no bridges
Swan Swollen Streams.
Bl' the women who lived in Indian
Territory in those days we're no,
daInted by tr.nes. The two women
swan their horses acroEs the Cana.
dian and Red rivers, a. xe.l as many
smaller streams. and finally reached
Sulphur Spring., Tex, where their
friends lived. There Captain Gala
ban found them. I, was 20 years be
fore Nn. Callahan could be induced
~ return ~ Indian Territory. As q
reward for the faithfuluess Of the old
negro nurse. Clara Callahan. Captain
Callahan gave her email farm near
Sulphur Springs and built her a house
on r. There she lived until her death,
tHo years ago.
Captain Callahan returned 10 the In
dian country and rebuilt his ranch. A
second time he amassed a fortune
and again +, was swept away when
blackleg became epidemic in his herds
and $500 cattle died In a single sea
sOn. In the meantime he vas active
In Indian politics. Sam Checoteh
was chief OF the Creeks in 1889 and
Captain Callahan was his secretary.
Checoteh was reelected chief and Is
parheecher claimed that he had been
euchered out OF the chleftiancy by a
false count.
War was declared by the rival
chiefs and It was known as the Green
Peach war. II was June and the
peaches were green an Indian method
Of recording an event. Checoteh was
victorious and It was the Intervention
o. Callahan that prevented Tsparhee-
cher from being shot when he was
captured.
Checoteh died and Isparheecher
succeeded him as chief Callahan be-
came secretary under Isparheecher.
Whenever lsparheecher went to-
Washington Callahan accompanied
him, either az delegate to represent
the Creek nation in tribal legislation,
or as Interpreter for his chief.
Chief Is Welded.
In Washington Isparheecher fell in
love with a white girl, the daughter
Of his laundress This girl, Alma Har-
rover, came 10 the hotel one day to
deliver the chief his laundry. He
asked her to come back again, and a
romantic courtship ensued. Isparhee-
cher could not speak English and the
cCurtship was carried on through |
Captain Callahan as Interpreter. The
chief and the white girl was married
before the chief left Washington. He
brought her to his home in the coun-
try six miles from Okmulgee, and !
she lived there for a number OF years
Apparently the union was happy one
until lsparheecher employed a white
farmland. His white girlwfe be-
came infatuated with this man and
finally fled with him TO Wichita. Is
parheecher promptly divorced her and
married a full-blood Creek woman.
Fate or destiny brought desertion TO
the white woman by her paramour
and a few years later she was again
a laundress, and in an Indian mission
school near the chiefs home at Ok
mulgee
A daughter, Alice Callahan, showed
a remarkable literary talent, and be-
fore she died in her twentieth year,
she wrote a book. "Wimeta." abe
story Of an Indian maiden, which had
% great run for a year or so, after it
was placed on the market Three 9th
or children Mrs. II. Il. Spaulding,
Dr j. O. Callahan and DR.. w. X.
Callahan-all live in Muskogee.
Captain Callahan never attended
hut one reunion Of confederate vet
Grams. That was at Richmond. When
he returned he stated that the affairs