The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1918-02-04
One Thousand Dollars is All the Fore
lock of the BIoodiest Butcher
in Europe is Worth,
However.
OLD INDIAN OFFERS IT
Members Of Tribe Would Give Re-
ward to Men In His Nation Who
Are Members of U. 8. Army
and Get Bill.


to a Choctaw Indian, who offers that
much money to any brave in his
tribe, who is member Of the U. >.
army and who will get to Berlin ana
relieve the kaiser Of his top-knot. In
a special to the ST. Louis Republic
Fort Worth, Texas, correspondent
writes:
Many individuals and organizations
from the Atlantic to the Pacific have
offered sundry rewards for the cap
ture or killing of the German KAISER
but It remained for an old ChoctaW
Indian Of Oklahoma to put UP the
first real cash and he asks that the
kaiser be scalped. The proposition
is not open to all corners, however.
Only those Choctaw braves who are
members of Company e at Camp
Bowie here are eligible. Company Il
is commanded by Captain Norris
Veach, himself half Choctaw and all
but fifteen Of his company are In
dams.
Miah-Mich, an aged Choctaw. liv.
ing near Ardmore, Okla, has placed
81 900 in an Ardmore bank, which Is
to go to the Choctaw who scalps the
kaiser, his buck son or Won linden
burg. The money will go to the
brave If he scalps all three or just
one.
Miah- Mich asked that his actual
place Of residence be kept secret for
fear German agents would try to Kill
him. The old man declared In
patriotic. eloquent, but Indianlike
letter, that Kaiser William would
never go to the Happy Hunting
Ground; that he was far worse than
any of the old savage Indians Tor
making war on squaws and papooses;
urged the braves to be loyal to the
White Father in Washington, and
asks each to be heap good soldler
and much fight" Miah-Mich In Choc
taw means "Go-and-Kill," and here is
what he wrote in his letter putting up
the $1,000 wampum:
Choctaw too. You write UNI good
English. You Chotcaw's friend.
send it you 1000. You fix it Choc-
| taw boy who take um kaiser's scalp,
get it $1,000. Maybeso Hindenburg
him get; maybeso kaisers buck SON.
! Maybeso just one; maybeso get UNI
all. You pay UNI money to ChoctaW
boy. Maybeso he die. You pay 1t
money to mother. all family. Big
newspaper give it name when he kill
UNI and,scalp um. l don't know how
rite it lack you.
you know how tell 1t so Choctaw
boys fight fair; take no other scalp;
no fight it squaw or papoose; fight 1t
man Kaiser hell-chicken; he bad
man. He no go happy hunting
ground, cause he no scalp; maybeso
| Choctaw boy get him. You tell it
how Choctaw boy fight it long time
ago. Tell 1t about T>ush-ka-lusa, big
- %Soh{ oil fro III.
ton of Choctaws. You know how rite
Watch UNI big paper; he say when
Choctaw boy get um scalp You pay.
| "Choctaws, you go fight 1t battles
of White Father; Choctaws loyal
people. Go fight for your mothers.
fight for your sisters, fight for your
papooses in Oklahoma Use all the
| old cunning Try um all tricks to
scalp UNI three sons of hell. You
! kill UNI, then Choctaw and all world
| have peace.
"Hoya2a Tussaha! Hoyapa Tus-
saha!"
Hoyapa Tussaha in pale-faoe Ian
guage means Hope and shout, V
which is the ancient battle cry Of
! the Choctaws, and which WAS sung
around camp fires during the war
dance Miah-Mich says he wants to
five long enough to see the kaiser
scalped and the braves return from
France.
And as to wampum, Miah-Mich Is
well fixed, as are many Indians in the
oil and gas region Of Oklahoma.
When the proposition was read to the
Choctaws at Camp Bowie, they didn't
give yells of joy or throw their hats
in the air. as their pale-face comrades
would, but silently and grimly they
declared they would try to scalp um
all three" and earn that $1,000