Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1901 — SERIOUS INDIAN UPRISING. [ARTICLE]

SE RIOUS INDIAN UPRISING.

Creeks on the Warpath In the Territory. ORGANIZE A GOVERNMENT. Snake Bands Elect Officers and Adopt a Code of Law*—Troop. Are Bnshed to the Scene of the Trouble —Whippings Administered to Whites. The Creek uprising in Indian territory is growing to dangerous proportions. Marshal Bennett at Muskogee received a telegram from Bristow, I. T., announcing that 600 armed Creeks, stationed two miles from there, were preparing to attack the town,, and pleading for protection from the marshal. Soldiers hurried from Fort Reno to the scene iof trouble. Indian Agent Shoenfelt asked for more help, as it was found that one company of cavalry could not handle the situation, for the Indians divided up into bands of a hundred. The Snake band was within three miles of Bristow when last reported, and had whipped two white men. Many are fearful for the safety of the party of appraisers, headed by Representative Hackbust of Leavenworth, Kan., who are in the Wetumpka district. Nothing has been heard from them for two days. United States Marshal Bennett of the northern district of the Indian territory has issued, through former Chief Mclntosh, the following proclamation: "I am Indeed sorry to learn that the so-called Snake bands have continued to organize a so-called government and to elect officers and adopt a code of laws, and are endeavoring to now enforce such laws. I say I am sorry to learn this, because these misguided people are thus getting themselves Vato open rebellion against the constituted authorities, and are thereby themselves violating the laws of this country. These people, the members of the socalled Shake band, have become violators of the laws, and, while justice may be sometimes slow to get in motion, there is no sort of question that every one concerned with the Snake band, whether as principal chief, so called, or as light horseman, judge, or otherwise as an aider and abettor in the outrages which they have committed, will be brought to justice and required to answer in the courts for their offenses and crimes. “Every person, whether citizen ‘lndian’ or has the legal right to resist this band in attempts to arrest or to in any way interfere with such person in the pursuit of his lawful business, and this resistance, if necessary, may go so far as to take the lives of these men when such person is attacked. Troops have been called for, and it is with a desire to save these misguided people from this fate that some more determined action has not been taken ere this. But the time has now come when force will be used against force, and the warrants I now have, and may receive, for members of this band will be served, no matter what the cost to them.” Crazy Snake, Creek chief, captured hy a marshal. Indians refused parley with Major Little. Reds buned ranch in Oklahoma^