Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1901 — INDIANS UNDER ARMS [ARTICLE]

INDIANS UNDER ARMS

FIVE NATIONS ARE REPORTED IN REBELLION. Towne in Indian Territory and -Oklahoma Threatened—A Troop of the Eighth United States Cavalry Ordered to the Front by Gen. Miles. Dispatches from South McAlester, Checotah, Enfala and other points in fte Indian country indicate that the Snake band of the Creek Indian nation has succeeded in spreading rebellion throughout the Five Nations and that a general uprising throughout the territory of fullbloods who are opposed to progressive government is to be feared. More United States troops will lie naked for, ns it is thought the one troop at Wetunpkn will not be strong enough to copo with the Indians. It is estimated that 1,500 full bloods are under arms. The whole country is excited and under arms. Whites and peaceable Indians nre organizing for mutual protection. Isolated squatters are fleeing to towns for greater safety. Troops Ordered to the Front. Lieut. Gen. Miles sent an order to Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, commanding the Department of the Missouri, at Omaha, directing him -to take immediate action in suppressing the raid of the Snake band of outlaws in Indian Territory, He is instructed to send a troop of cavalry to Henrietta to act in conjunction with the United States marshal. Gen. Lee has sent Troop A of the Eighth cavalry from Fort Reno, Okla., to Muskogee, Indian Territory, to aid in suppressing the uprising of Creek outlaw bands. The Choctaws claim to have a strength of 2,500, and have adopted the same resolutions and tactics as the Creeks. Indians Threaten Oklahoma. Oklahoma is also threatened with invasion by the Indiana. This is the alarming tenor of advices received at Guthrie from the scene of the Indian uprising in the Creel Nation. Ghost dances are the order of the night, and to the terror inspired by the Indians is added the fear of outlaw bands which threaten to overrun the county and pillage, loot nnd ravish regardless of the merits of any controversy which may exist. The Insubordinate Snake band of Creek Indians living on the reservation east of Lincoln County threaten to invade Oklahoma. Gov. Barnes received a telephone message from Stroud stating the town was in danger of a raid from the outlaws and half-breeds of the Creek Nation, who would take advantage of the disturbances among the Indians to raid •everal towns nnd rob banks.