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2 Peace Treaty’s beginnings peace would be to separate the Treaty celebration has focused on Indians regarded as hostile from since the first reenactment in Making the friendly ones; remove all In- 1927. The treaties presented dian tribes onto reservations and hope to many that the white man to make provision for their main- and the Indian would be able to peace tenance. share the land and live in har- The Indian Peace Commission mony with one another. arrived at Fort Larned on Octo- Unfortunately, the treaties in 1867 ber 11, 1867 where a few chiefs were not honored by the Govern- By Doris Sorg were already present. At the in- ment or the Indians. Almost im- The Gyp Hill Premiere sistence of the tribes, the meet- mediately, the treaties became The conflict between the ings were moved from Larned to controversial and contested by white man and the Indians esca- Medicine Lodge Creek, a tradi- not only the leaders of most of lated after the Civil War when tional Indian ceremonial site. the tribes, but also the members. land-hungry settlers continued to The treaties negotiated at The treaties were to be ratified move westward encroaching Medicine Lodge Creek involved by three fourths of the adult upon tribal hunting grounds. the surrendering of traditional males of each of the tribes. Suf- The United States Govern- tribal territories in exchange for ficient votes were never obtained the much smaller reservation in so the treaties were never made Ccathy Colborn Photography Photo ment tried to separate the tribes Representatives of the Indian Peace Commission, soldiers and Indian and settlers from each other by Indian Territory and allowances valid or legal. Those years in his- creating an Indian Territory of food, clothing, equipment, and tory are filled with numerous in- Chiefs from five tribes met in October of 1867 at Medicine Lodge Creek, which is now present-day Okla- weapons and ammunition for stances when the Government a traditional Indian ceremonial site, to sign peace treaties between the homa. The Government’s inten- hunting. delayed food, equipment and Indians and the United States Government. tion was to remove the Indians The first treaty was signed on medical supplies which caused from the path of expansion in October 21, 1867 with the Kiowa sickness and starvation in the Apache tribes. The case was de- Conflicts and struggles were hopes of quieting the conflicts and Comanche tribes. The sec- tribes. The tribes broke the trea- cided on by the U.S. Supreme daily occurrences for the settlers caused by the meeting of two ond treaty, signed the same day, ties by continuing to raid the Court in 1903 with the decision and the Indians. The Peace cultures. was with the Kiowa and Apache white man. These raids were a being that Congress had the Treaty Pageant presents a rare The Indian Peace Commission tribes. The third treaty was result of the Indian’s anger power to make the decisions that opportunity for spectators wish- was established by Congress on signed a week later on October against the violations of the trea- were made. ing to catch a glimpse into the July 20, 1867. The purpose of 28 with the Southern Cheyenne ties by the U.S. Government and Beginning in 1948, the same past of some of the events that the Commission was to negoti- and Arapaho tribes. These trea- their struggle for survival during issues were challenged again. made up the foundation of our ate peace with the Plains Indian ties promised the tribes peace and starving conditions. Over the decades and through state and nation while sitting in tribes who were warring with the protection from white intruders As the years passed, more and several claims, the tribes won a natural amphitheater only a few United States. The Indian Peace in return for amity and relocation more acres were taken by the tens of millions of dollars in com- miles from the actual location of Commission met in St. Louis, to reservations in western Indian U.S. Government from the res- pensation from the Indian Claims the signing of the treaties. Missouri on August 6, 1867. The Territory. ervations. Chief Lone Wolf, of Commission. The re-enactment of the sign- Commissioners decided that the The signing of these three the Kiowa tribe, sued the Secre- Turmoil was mixed liberally ing of the treaties is 1 p.m. on Fri- necessary actions to establish treaties is the historical event tary of the Interior on behalf of throughout the history of the de- day, Sept. 28 and 2 p.m. on Sat- which the Medicine Lodge Peace the Kiowa, Comanche and velopment of the young nation. urday and Sunday, Sept. 29 & 30.

1927 Pageant dig- nitaries: L-R George and Mrs. Hibbard, Mrs. Hunt, General Small Town Justice _____, George Hunt (Nephew of I-See-0), General _____. Some of In the 1970’s, a local law the dignitaries firm consisting of Luke Barber were not able to Chapin, Gordon Penny and County be identified. Alan Goering launched mul- Courhouse 1867 tiple class action cases against some of the biggest oil and gas companies in the world, including Phillips Petroleum, Marathon Oil, Conoco and others. The lead case was titled Irl Shutts v. Phillips Petro- Peace Treaty: The product leum. Irl was a rancher from Sun City, Kansas. Irl was quite a character! He owned of a town working together producing royalties in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas. 1927 Pageant Dignitaries daily mail. Irl learned that Phillips and other companies were The Formation of The The committee also pur- keeping royalties owed to landowners, sometimes Medicine Lodge Indian chased car banners and made for years and refused to pay interest on those royal- Peace Council Treaty Me- sure all cars in town had one, morial Association especially those that were go- ties. Irl said, “That’s not right.” In 1926, the newly formed ing to be traveling out of town. Irl’s attorneys filed a class action that represented Medicine Lodge Indian Peace Window stickers were pur- over 28,000 royalty owners. Other area residents filed Council Treaty Memorial As- chased, and every car that against other major companies, including Loyd sociation invited Kiowa Chief showed up in Medicine Lodge, I-See-O to Medicine Lodge to left with a Peace Treaty sticker Helmley, Martha Sternberger and Bob Sterling. locate the exact spot of the on its windshield. Every case was successfully concluded at the trial signing of the 1867 Peace There were a few difficul- level for the royalty owners. The oil companies ap- Treaty. I-See-O was 18 years ties along the way in planning pealed to the Kansas Supreme Court which also ruled old at the time of the Medicine the celebration. The city ap- Lodge Peace Council. He lo- plied for a government appro- for the royalty owners. Eventually, they even took cated the exact spot where the priation to pay for the Peace the case to the United States Supreme Court. Luke treaties were signed, one- Treaty monument, and was Chapin argued the case in the United States Supreme fourth to one-half mile south turned down. But this didn’t of Medicine Lodge just below stop the citizens of Medicine Court. In 1985, about ten years later, the verdict was where the Medicine River and Lodge. The Association asked upheld. Elm Creek intersect. Thus be- for donations from town busi- The oil companies that had kept and used the roy- gan plans for the first ever The Indian Peace Treaty Memo- nesses and organizations to alty owners’ money were forced to pay interest to Medicine Lodge Indian Peace rial stands at Main and First build the monument. Treaty Pageant. As time neared for the first tens of thousands of royalty owners from every state In August of 1926, just a first step in building the historic Indian Peace Treaty Pageant in the union and many foreign countries. little over a year before the Stockade Museum. They also (held on Oct. 12-14, 1927) the Big ideas can originate in small towns. A rancher’s pageant was to take place, the commissioned a monument to citizens of Medicine Lodge sense of right and wrong, determination to right that Association elected its first of- be built to commemorate the became more involved in ficers and directors. Among Peace Council. That monument preparations for the celebra- wrong led to a just result, which became the law of those elected were Mrs. now stands on the northeast cor- tion. The pageant, which was the land. George Hibbard, John C. Best, ner of First and Main Street, and written and directed by Profes- The law firm of Alan Goering and Bob Slinkard is Samuel Griffin, Joseph C. has been there for 67 years. sor F.L. Gilson of the State Hinshaw, Frank B. Chapin, Surprisingly, the Teacher’s College at Emporia, honored to fulfill those traditions and assure that jus- Sallie Woodward, J. Fueller Association’s organization that required the participation of tice applies equally to the ordinary citizen as it does Groom, Rachel Ann Nixon, first year was very much like it nearly every man, woman and to the rich and mighty, and doing what is right. George Hunt and Lillian Hunt. is today. Many of the commit- child in town. Mr. Best, owner of The Gyp- tees were the same, such as the Index Editor and Owner sum Company, was the first advertising committee and the J.C. Hinshaw described the *********************************************************** president of the Association. Indian committee. town’s excitement by saying, Sponsored by Goering & Slinkard, Attorneys at After the spring of 1926, The Lion’s Club, which had “As time nears, it is evident Law, with over 60 years combined experience repre- news of progress on the pag- only been chartered in Medicine that everybody in Medicine senting farmers, ranchers and ordinary citizens from eant plans were published in Lodge for a year, sponsored the Lodge and surrounding coun- the Barber County Index trip to Medicine Lodge for 250 try will be afire with enthusi- Barber County and throughout the region. nearly every week. It was at Indians from the Comanche, asm concerning the celebra- this time that the citizens of Kiowa, Prairie Apache, Arapaho tion.” Medicine Lodge really began and Cheyenne for the pageant. On Sept. 29, 1927, Editor to delve into the rich history The city had to provide a place Hinshaw printed the first ever of the area. The Index began for the Indians to camp. This Peace Treaty Special Edition. printing old eye-witness ac- was the beginning of the Indian Though long before modern counts of the Peace Council by Village that attracts tourists ev- technology, Hinshaw managed Goering & Slinkard authors such as ex-Tennessee ery Peace Treaty. to publish a 32 page edition Attorneys at Law Governor Alfred A. Taylor and The advertising committee and had to turn some advertis- 201 S. Main - Medicine Lodge correspondents from the New printed 100,000 stickers that ers away. There and then, he York Tribune. first year. The stickers were sold set a precedent that is still be- (620) 886-3751 The Association found the strictly at cost ($2.00 per thou- ing followed today. Alan Goering & Bob Slinkard exact boundaries of the old In- sand) to local businesses so they By DeDe Morgan-Vick, dian stockade, which was the could send them out in their The Gyp Hill Premiere, 1994 The Gyp Hill Premiere - Peace Treaty - September 28, 29, 30, 2018

Cheyennes massacred at Sand Creek, 3 despite efforts to surrender to Chivington Editor's Note: Sand Creek - snow no longer impeded their Chivington, part of companies Colorado, site of a massacre (1864) march. C,D,E,G, H and K, numbering alto- of Cheyenne by Col. John M. On the afternoon of the 28th the gether about two hundred and fifty Chivington. The Cheyennes, led by entire command reached Fort Lyon, men, was divided into two battal- their chief, Black Kettle, had offered a distance of two hundred and sixty ions; the first under command of to make peace with the white men miles, in less than six days, and so Major Anthony, and the second un- and, at the suggestion of military quietly and expeditiously had the der Lieutenant Wilson, until the lat- personnel, had encamped at Sand march been made that the command ter was disabled, when the com- Creek near Fort Lyon while await- at the fort was taken entirely by sur- mand devolved upon Lieutenant ing word from the governor of the prise. When the vanguard appeared Dunn. The three battalions of the territory. There they were attacked in sight it was reported that a body third, Colonel Shoup, were led, re- in a surprise dawn raid on Nov. 29, of Indians were approaching, and spectively, by Lieutenant Colonel 1864. Chivington and his men, precautions were taken for their re- Bowen, Major Sayr, and Captain choosing to ignore the white flag ception. No one upon the route was Cree. The action was begun by the Black Kettle had raised over his permitted to go in advance of the battalion of Lieutenant Wilson, who tent, indiscriminately slaughtered column, and persons who it was sus- occupied the right, and by a quick and mutilated hundreds of men, pected would spread the news of the and bold movement cut off the en- women, and children. To most advance were kept under surveil- emy from their herd of stock. From everyone's surprise Black Kettle lance until all danger from that this circumstance we gained our miraculously escaped harm at the source was past. great advantage. A few Indians se- Sand Creek Massacre, even when At Fort Lyon the force was cured horses, but the great majority he returned to rescue his seriously strengthened by about two hundred of them had to fight or flee on foot. injured wife. The following is the and fifty men of the first regiment, Major Anthony was on the left, and white man's version of what hap- and at nine o’clock in the evening the third in the centre. pened at Sand Creek. Today, we the command set out for the Indian Among the killed were all the know it as "The Massacre of Sand village. The course was due north, Cheyenne chiefs, Black Kettle, Creek or The Sand Creek Massa- and their guide was the Polar star. White Antelope, Little Robe, Left cre". Many of the events listed are As daylight dawned they came in Hand, Knock Knee, One Eye, and not accurate depictions of what ac- sight of the Indian camp, after a another, name unknown. Not a tually happened and many of the forced midnight march of forty-two single prominent man of the tribe men considered "brave soldiers" miles, in eight hours, across the remains, and the tribe itself is al- were no more than butchers of rough, unbroken plain. But little most annihilated. The Arapahoes K. Noland Photo women, children and the elderly. time was required for preparation. probably suffered but little. It has Descendants of the 5 tribes participate in the Medicine Lodge Peace The forces had been divided and ar- been reported that the chief Left Treaty pageant and local PowWows. An Editorial from the Rocky ranged for battle on the march, and Hand, of that tribe, was killed, but Mountain News (1864) just as the sun rose they dashed upon Colonel Chivington is of the opin- The Battle of Sand Creek the enemy with yells that would put ion that he was not. Among the stock Among the brilliant feats of arms a Comanche army to blush. Al- captured were a number of govern- in Indian warfare, the recent cam- though utterly surprised, the savages ment horses and mules, including TheThe FivFivee TTribesribes paign of our Colorado volunteers were not unprepared, and for a time the twenty or thirty stolen from the will stand in history with few rivals, their defense told terribly against command of Lieutenant Chase at and none to exceed it in final results. our ranks. Their main force rallied Jimmy’s camp last summer. ofof TheThe PlainsPlains We are not prepared to write its his- and formed in line of battle on the The Indian camp was well sup- tory, which can only be done by bluffs beyond the creek, where they plied with defensive works. For half Arapaho - Comanche - some one who accompanied the ex- were protected by rudely con- a mile along the creek there was an pedition, but we have gathered from structed rifle-pits, from which they almost continuous chain of rifle- Prairie Apache - Kiowa - Cheyenne those who participated in it and maintained a steady fire until the pits, and another similar line of from others who were in that part shells from company C’s (third regi- works crowned the adjacent bluff. Arapaho of the country, some facts which will ment) howitzers began dropping Pits had been dug at all the salient The Arapaho originally lived doubtless interest many of our read- among them, when they scattered points for miles. After the battle near Lake Superior and were farm- Comanche ers. and fought each for himself in genu- twenty-three dead Indians were ers who raised large amounts of The Comanche originally lived The people of Colorado are well ine Indian fashion. As the battle pro- taken from one of these pits and corn. They eventually drifted to in the Rocky Mountains, where aware of the situation occupied by gressed the field of carnage widened twenty-seven from another. the great plains, where they be- they were primarily hunters and ate the third regiment during the great until it extended over not less than Whether viewed as a march or came nomads, and followed the fish and large game. Their early ex- snow-storm which set in the last of twelve miles of territory. The Indi- as a battle, the exploit has few, if great buffalo herds. plorations to the south of the October. Their rendezvous was in ans who could escaped or secreted any, parallels. A march of 260 miles During the migration, the mountains caused them to come Bijou Basin, about eighty miles themselves, and by three o’clock in in but a fraction more than five days, Arapaho were generally allied into contact with Spanish settlers southeast of this city, and close up the afternoon the carnage had with deep snow, scanty forage, and with the Cheyenne. Eventually, the and their horses. Horses soon be- Arapaho split into two separate came a very important part of the under the foot of the Divide. That ceased. It was estimated that be- no road, is a remarkable feat, whilst tribes, northern Arapaho and Comanche lifestyle, and bands of point had been selected as the base tween three and four hundred of the the utter surprise of a large Indian Southern Arapaho. Comanche would travel as far as for an Indian campaign. Many of the savages got away with their lives. village is unprecedented. In no From earliest documentation to Chihuahua, Mexico to steal or companies reached it after the storm Of the balance there were neither single battle in North America, we the time the Arapaho were put on trade them. set in; marching for days through wounded nor prisoners. Their believe, have so many Indians been reservations, they were fighting One of the Comanche rivals the driving, blinding clouds of snow strength at the beginning of the ac- slain. with the Shoshoni, Ute, Navaho, were the Caddoan people in New and deep drifts. Once there, they tion was estimated at nine hundred. It is said that a short time before and Pawnee tribes. After 1840, the Mexico. The Comanche and were exposed for weeks to an Arc- Their village consisted of one the command reached the scene of Arapaho were at peace with all Caddoan fought repeatedly until tic climate, surrounded by a treeless hundred and thirty Cheyenne and battle of an old squaw partially other Plains Tribes. 1746, when the French succeeded plain covered three feet deep with with Arapahoe lodges. These, with alarmed the village by reporting that The Arapaho were often allied in making a peace alliance between snow. Their animals suffered for their contents, were totally de- a great herd of buffalo were com- with Comanche and Kiowa, not to them. After that, the Comanche food and with cold, and the men stroyed. Among their effects were ing. She heard the rumbling of the mention the ever-present Chey- and Caddoan were generally war fared but little better. They were in- large supplies of flour, sugar, cof- artillery and tramp of the moving enne. allies. sufficiently supplied with tents and fee and tea. Women’s and children’s squadrons, but her people doubted. In 1867, the Arapaho met U.S. As the Comanche moved fur- blankets, and their sufferings were clothing were found; also books and In a little time the doubt was dis- government commissioners at the ther into Oklahoma, they began intense. At the end of a month the many other articles which must have pelled, but not by buffaloes. Medicine River, along with four fighting the Kiowa. In 1790, the snow had settled to the depth of two been taken from captured trains or A thousand incidents of indi- other tribes; the Cheyenne, Kiowa, two tribes held a council, and made feet, and the command set out upon houses. One white man’s scalp was vidual daring and the passing events Comanche and Apache. Chief a peace agreement that has never its long contemplated march. The found which had evidently been of the day might be told, but space Little Raven, the chief of the tribe been broken by either tribe since rear guard left the Basin on the 23rd taken but a few days before. The forbids. We leave the task for eye- and a great orator, made a self-pre- then. of November. Their course was Chiefs fought with unparalleled witnesses to chronicle. All acquit- pared and impassioned speech. The Comanche joined thou- southeast, crossing the Divide and bravery, falling in front of their men. ted themselves well, and Colorado Another distinguished Arapaho sands of other Indians, government thence heading for Fort Lyon. For One of them charged alone against soldiers have again covered them- at the conference was Mrs. Vir- commissioners, army officers, one hundred miles the snow was a force of two or three hundred, and selves with glory. ginia Adams, the daughter of an press representatives and interpret- quite two feet in depth, and for the fell pierced with balls far in advance American trapper and Arapaho ers. Comanche Chief Ten Bears next hundred it ranged from six to of his braves. More on Sand Creek Massacre woman. Mrs. Adams was a great twelve inches. Beyond that the Our attack was made by five bat- in Black Kettle's Bio On page 4 interpreter who knew many Indian See Tribes ground was almost bare and the talions. The first regiment, Colonel languages, as well as English. on page 4

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Chiefs Of War And Peace On The Plains 4 feel sorry. I have spoken.” (7:180) His Kiowa name Setangya, means As it turned out, however, the Only a part of the Southern Satanta’s Reaction to the Treaty Sitting Bear. Though respected by Sand Creek reservation could not Cheyenne nation followed Black of Medicine Bluff: his tribe, his vengeful personality sustain the Indians forced to live Kettle and the others to these new bred fear among his people. In there. All but unfit for agriculture, reservations. Some instead headed ”The white chief seems not to be 1840, Satank was instrumental in the barren tract of land was little north to join the Northern Cheyenne able to control his braves. He some- bringing about peace between the more than a breeding ground for in Lakota territory. Many simply times becomes angry when he sees Kiowas and the Cheyennes, which epidemic diseases which soon ignored the treaty and continued to the wrongs his people commit on allowed the two tribes to combine swept through the Cheyenne en- range over their ancestral lands. the red men, and his voice is as loud forces against the whites. In 1871, campments. By 1862 the nearest This latter group, consisting mainly as the roaring wind; but like the Satank, Satanta, and Cheyenne herd of buffalo was over two hun- of young warriors allied with a wind, it soon dies away and leave Chief Big Tree raided a wagon train dred miles away. Many Cheyennes, Cheyenne war chief named Roman the sullen calm of unheeded oppres- in Young County, Texas, killing especially young men, began to Nose, angered the government by sion... The white man grows jeal- seven white travelers. Satank was leave the reservation to prey upon their refusal to obey a treaty they ous of his red brother. He once came captured, but on his way to trial tried the livestock and goods of nearby had not signed, and General Will- to trade; he now comes as a soldier. to escape and was shot to death. settlers and passing wagon trains. iam Tecumseh Sherman launched a He once put his trust in our friend- One such raid in the spring of 1864 campaign to force them onto their ship and wanted no shield but our so angered white Coloradans that assigned lands. Roman Nose and his fidelity; but now he builds forts and they dispatched their militia, which followers struck back furiously, and Chief Satanta, plants big guns upon their walls... opened fire on the first band of the resulting standoff halted all traf- Orator of the Plains He now covers his face with a cloud Cheyenne they happened to meet. fic across western Kansas for a time. Perhaps the greatest of the of jealousy and anger, and tells us None of the Indians in this band had At this point, government nego- Kiowa chieftains, Satanta was a to be gone, as the offended master participated in the raid, however, tiators sought to move the Cheyenne brave and aggressive warrior. He speaks to his dog... You know what and their leader was actually ap- once again, this time onto two was known for his daring assaults, is best for us; do what is best. Teach proaching the militia for a parlay smaller reservations in Indian Ter- personally leading his braves into us the road to travel, and we shall when the shooting began. ritory (present-day Oklahoma) the attack. The Kiowas were vio- not depart from it forever. For your This incident touched off an un- where they would receive annual lently opposed to the building of the sakes the green grass shall not be coordinated Indian uprising across provisions of food and supplies. Union- Pacific railroad through stained with the blood of the whites; the Great Plains, as Indian peoples Black Kettle was again among the their land and they united with other your people shall again be our from the Comanche in the South to chiefs who signed this treaty, the tribes to attack railroad crews. people and peace shall be our mu- the Lakota in the North took advan- Medicine Lodge Treaty of 1867, but Known as the “Orator of the tual heritage.” (Rister, 1944, p. 58) tage of the army’s involvement in after his people had settled on their Plains,” Satanta and his fellow the Civil War by striking back at new reservation, they did not re- Kiowa leaders, Lone Wolf, Kicking Satanta ended by saying: those who had encroached upon ceive the provisions they had been Bird, and Satank, led the Kiowas on their lands. Black Kettle, however, promised, and by year’s end, more wide-ranging sweeps through the ”Before leaving, as I now intend understood white military su- and more of them were driven to Southern plains, striking quickly to go, I come to say that the Kiowas Chief Black Kettle premacy too well to support the join Roman Nose and his band. and disappearing into the open and Comanches have made with Few biographical details are cause of war. He spoke with the lo- In August 1868, Roman Nose led country on their swift ponies, often you a peace, and they intend to keep known about the Southern Chey- cal military commander at Fort a series of raids on Kansas farms carrying scalps and driving settlers’ it. If it brings prosperity to us, we enne Chief Black Kettle, but his re- Weld in Colorado and believed he that provoked another full-scale livestock ahead of them. Finally of course will like it the better. If it peated efforts to secure a peace with had secured a promise of safety in military response. Under General captured and sentenced to prison at brings poverty and adversity, we honor for his people, despite bro- exchange for leading his band back Philip Sheridan, three columns of Huntsville, Texas, Satanta commit- will not abandon it. It is our con- ken promises and attacks on his own to the Sand Creek reservation. troops converged to launch a win- ted suicide there on October 11, tract and it shall stand.” (Omaha life, speak of him as a great leader But Colonel John Chivington, ter campaign against Cheyenne en- 1878. The following speech was de- Weekly Herald, Nov. 4, 1967) with an almost unique vision of the leader of the Third Colorado Vol- campments, with the Seventh Cav- livered at the Medicine Lodge possiblity for coexistence between unteers, had no intention of honor- alry commanded by George Council held on Medicine Lodge The Omaha Weekly Herald, which white society and the culture of the ing such a promise. His troops had Armstrong Custer selected to take Creek in Kansas in October 1867. reported that portion of Satanta’s plains. been unsuccessful in finding a the lead. Setting out in a snowstorm, His remarks were widely quoted, speech, parenthetically commented Black Kettle lived on the vast Cheyenne band to fight, so when he Custer followed the tracks of a small and even appeared in the New York that Satanta, “the old war chief of territory in western Kansas and east- learned that Black Kettle had re- raiding party to a Cheyenne village Times. There were over 5,000 In- the tribe made a speech which we ern Colorado that had been guaran- turned to Sand Creek, he attacked on the Washita River, where he or- dians gathered for the council from hope Ex-Gov. John Evans will read teed to the Cheyenne under the Fort the unsuspecting encampment at dered an attack at dawn. the Comanches, Kiowas, Arapa- and inwardly digest. He will see in Laramie Treaty of 1851. Within less dawn on November 29, 1864. Some It was Black Kettle’s village, hoes, Cheyennes, and the Kiowa- it how the red savages can instruct than a decade, however, the 1859 two hundred Cheyenne died in the well within the boundaries of the Apaches. “All the land south of the enlightened whites in lessons of fi- Pikes Peak gold rush sparked an ensuing massacre, many of them Cheyenne reservation and with a Arkansas belongs to the Kiowas and delity to plighted faith.” enormous population boom in women and children, and after the white flag flying above the chief’s Comanches, and I don’t want to give Colorado, and this led to extensive slaughter, Chivington’s men sexu- own tipi. Nonetheless, on Novem- away any of it. I love the land and white encroachments on Cheyenne ally mutilated and scalped many of ber 27, 1868, nearly four years to the buffalo and will not part with it. land. Even the U.S. Indian Commis- the dead, later exhibiting their tro- the day after Sand Creek, Custer’s I want you to understand well what sioner admitted that “We have sub- phies to cheering crowds in Denver. troops charged, and this time Black I say. Write it on paper. Let the Great stantially taken possession of the Black Kettle miraculously es- Kettle could not escape: “Both the Father [the President of the United country and deprived the Indians of caped harm at the Sand Creek Mas- chief and his wife fell at the river States] see it, and let me hear what their accustomed means of sup- sacre, even when he returned to res- bank riddled with bullets,” one wit- he has to say. I want you to under- port.” cue his seriously injured wife. And ness reported, “the soldiers rode stand, also, that the Kiowas and Rather than evict white settlers, perhaps more miraculously, he con- right over Black Kettle and his wife Comanches don’t want to fight, and the government sought to resolve tinued to counsel peace when the and their horse as they lay dead on have not been fighting since we the situation by demanding that the Cheyenne attempted to strike back the ground, and their bodies were made the treaty. I hear a great deal Southern Cheyenne sign a new with isolated raids on wagon trains all splashed with mud by the charg- of talk from the gentlemen whom treaty ceding all their lands save the and nearby ranches. By October ing soldiers.” Custer later reported the Great Father sends us, but they small Sand Creek reservation in 1865, he and other Indian leaders that an Osage guide took Black never do what they say....A long southeastern Colorado. Black had arranged an uneasy truce on the Kettle’s scalp. On the Washita, the time ago this land belonged to our Kettle, fearing that overwhelming plains, signing a new treaty that ex- Cheyenne’s hopes of sustaining fathers; but when I go up to the river U.S. military power might result in changed the Sand Creek reservation themselves as an independent I see camps of soldiers on its banks. an even less favorable settlement, for reservations in southwestern people died as well; by 1869, they These soldiers cut down my timber; Chief Satank agreed to the treaty in 1861 and did Kansas but deprived the Cheyenne had been driven from the plains and they kill my buffalo; and when I see Satank (c.1810-71) was a chief what he could to see that the Chey- of access to most of their coveted confined to reservations. that, my heart feels like bursting; I of the Kiowas, along with Satanta. enne obeyed its provisions. Kansas hunting grounds.

Tribes continued from page 3 Black Kettle gave an oration that stands out as bravest and most courageous, yet Satanta, was arrested several one of the finest delivered by an also the most warlike of the Plains times, and in 1874, committed sui- Indian in the history of America. tribes, originally migrated from cide while in prison. In the Medicine Lodge Peace the Rocky Mountains. During the wanted peace Treaty, the Comanche were time of Indian raids, the Kiowa Cheyenne granted 2,968,893 acres of land were said to have killed more The Cheyenne, originally from Black Kettle and other Cheyenne south of the Washita River in Okla- white men than any other tribe. the area that is now Minnesota, chiefs conclude successful peace talks homa. According to legend, the Kiowa were once great agriculturists and with Major Edward W. Wynkoop at The new conditions of tribal started out in the northern Rocky pottery makers. They lived in per- Fort Weld, Colorado, in September life and the disappearance of the Mountains, near Yellowstone Park manent villages, before traveling 1864. Based on the promises made at buffalo caused the Comanche to in Montana. They split after two south with the Arapaho tribes to lash out against the white settlers great chiefs had a dispute that grew become nomadic buffalo hunters. this meeting, Black Kettle led his band and take a rebellious attitude into an angry quarrel. Most of the When the Cheyenne speak of be- back to the Sand Creek reservation, against the government. The treaty Kiowa traveled southward, be- coming nomads, the day they “lost where they were massacred in late No- of Medicine Lodge did not solve coming the Kiowa we know today. the corn”, meaning they gave up vember. the Indian problem. The presence The Kiowa’s first alliance af- farming. The speech given below was made Oc- of soldiers and white settlers on ter migrating was with the Crow The Cheyenne are a character- tober 12, 1865, at a council on the little Arkansas River, when the reservation, who were ready tribe. They settled near the Crow, istically proud, contentious and the United States government was negotiating a treaty with for action at the slightest sign of and it was there that they first came brave people. Their women up- the Cheyennes and Arapahoes. General J. B. Sanborn was trouble, made the Indians wary into possession of horses. hold high moral values. the president of the peace commission and conducted the and more hostile than ever before. The Kiowa later drifted to the The Cheyenne migration to the council. The Mrs. Wilmarth to whom Black Kettle refers was Black Hills, and from there to the Plains was hurried along by the the interpreter for the Cheyennes. Prairie Apache Arkansas River after fighting with fact that they were constantly pur- On November 29, 1864, the Cheyenne village on Sand (Kiowa-Apache) the Cheyenne and Dakota in the sued by the hostile Sioux. The Creek near the reservation was attacked by the forces of The Prairie Apache, also known Black Hills. Cheyenne finally ended up along Major John M. Chivington and the action became known as as the Kiowa-Apache, were asso- In 1790, the Kiowa made peace the Arkansas River, where they the Sand Creek Massacre. Although he was reported killed, ciated with the Kiowa before the with the Comanche, a tribe they began a hostile feud with the Kiowa left the Rocky Mountains. had been fighting for many years. Kiowa. The climax of this bitter Black Kettle was one of the survivors and his speech at the The Prairie Apache were also They also made permanent peace warfare came in 1838 on Wolf Little Arkansas indicated compliance with the white man’s known as Catacka, Kataka, and with the Cheyenne and Arapaho in Creek in northwestern Oklahoma. wishes. Nevertheless, things did not go smoothly for the Chey- Quataquois by explorers such as 1840. There were great losses on both ennes, and they continued depredations over much of their Lewis and Clark, and La Harpe. One of the Kiowa’s most con- sides of the battle. Two years later, territory. Since 1837, when the Prairie stant allies and companions was the Cheyenne made peace with the Mrs. Margaret Wilmarth was the former wife of the late Apache and Kiowa signed their the Prairie Apache or Kiowa- Kiowa. Major Thomas Fitzpatrick, who died while serving as agent first treaty with the United States Apache. In 1864, the Cheyenne suffered for the Arapahoes. Fitzpatrick was a noted western explorer, at Fort Gibson, the two tribes have The Medicine Lodge Peace great tragedy at the hands of the guide, hunter, trapper and friend of the Indians. He was often had a common history. The Prai- Treaty in 1867 gave the Kiowa and American government. Although referred to as “Broken Hand” Fitzpatrick following the explo- rie Apache were also associated Comanche a reservation lying west Cheyenne Chief Black Kettle and sion of a rifle barrel which caused him to lose three fingers of with the Cheyenne for a period of from the 98th meridian between his followers had recently made a his right hand. While he participated in many skirmishes against time, but reunited with the Kiowa the Washita River on the north, and peaceful agreement with an of- many tribes of Indians, the speeches by Indians at this council at the Medicine Lodge Peace the Red River and its North Fork ficer, their village was attacked in 1865 attest to the high regard the Arapahoes had for Major Treaty in 1867. on the south. The Prairie Apache, and destroyed. Most of those slain The Prairie Apache settled in a which were considered a federated were women and children. “Sand Fitzpatrick, and they transferred their respect to his widow. reservation with the Kiowa and part of the Kiowa, were also in- Creek Massacre” as this event was Black Kettle moved with many of his people to a location Comanche tribes. The principal cluded in the reservation. Ten called was referred to as “the on the Washita River in Indian Territory (Oklahoma). There, Prairie Apache chief, Pacer, was Kiowa leaders signed the treaty, foulest and most unjustifiable on the morning of November 27, 1868, in an attack led by known as a peace maker on the including the Chief Satanta, who crime in the annals of America General George A. Custer, the village was obliterated, and reservation until his death in 1875. was considered the most talented (80).” Black Kettle was among the large number of Indians killed. The tribe settled peaceably on the Indian orator present. Here is Black Kettle’s reply to the Indian commissioners: reservation and were highly com- After the Kiowa were forced to Editor’s Note: The informa- “We Want the Privilege of Crossing the Arkansas to Kill mended by the American govern- make their home on the great res- tion presented in this story was Buffalo” ment for their industry and their ervation, they became known as taken from the following source: The Great Father above hears us, and the Great Father at ability to make their own living. the most defiant of the Plains Wright, Muriel H. A Guide to Washington will hear what we say. Is it true that you came tribes. They continued to raid the Indian Tribes of Oklahoma. here from Washington, and is it true what you say here to- Kiowa white villages, stealing horses and University of Oklahoma Press; day? The Big Chief he give his words to me to come and The Kiowa tribe, said to be the killing whites. Their leader, Norton. 1951. See Black Kettle on page 7 The Gyp Hill Premiere - Peace Treaty - September 28-29-30, 2018 Stark’s work gifted to museum By Bree Schaffer Wednesday, July 18, 2018, Glen’s Stark (his son) may remove the The Gyp Hill Premiere son John, presented the statue to figure anytime they may consider 5 In 1996, Glen Stark loaned a the museum. This is a piece of it necessary. life sized carving of Carry Nation history that many will be able to The Carry Nation Board mem- that he had made to the Carry enjoy when visiting the Stockade bers Dorothy and Dwight Reed Nation Home. Glen was a wood and Carry Nation Home for many and Kim Newman were able to carver who was residing in years to come. join the Stockade Board members; Kingman at the time. He had dis- The original copy of agreement Phi Sill, Ginger Goering, Jo played the statue of Carry for sev- states: Stevenson, and Paula Doman for eral years before bringing her to This is an agreement between the formal presentation. Both Medicine Lodge for others to en- the directors of the Carry Nation boards are very grateful to John, joy. Glen, now deceased, was a Home Museum in Medicine Marilyn and Conrad for donating master carver who enjoyed mak- Lodge, Kansas, and Glen Stark, the sculpture to the museum and ing life sized images of cowboys, Kingman, Kansas. The life-sized making a lasting tribute to Glen Indian braves and maidens and woodcarving likeness of Carry Stark and the art of wood carv- other famous people, including Nation is on a loan for indefinite ing. Abraham Lincoln and Amelia time. Glen Stark, who carved the Hours for visiting the Stock- Earhart. His carvings are dis- figure, agrees to loan it to the ade and Carry Nation House are played in a museum in Lucas, Kan- Museum. The Museum may use 10:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Mon- sas, a park in Kingman which it for promotion on special days, day through Saturday and 1:00 to bears his name and many others but it shall be kept in the Carry 5:00 p.m. on Sunday. For a small that are privately owned. Nation Home and not in another admission charge, you can visit B. Schaffer Photo After being on loan for 22 location. The Museum directors both locations and the over 100 Glen Stark loaned a carving of Carry Nation in 1996 to the Carry Nation years, the family of Glen Stark agree to take reasonable good care year old Smith Cabin. Watch for Home. An agreement was made between the Starks and the Carry Na- decided to make the Carry Na- of the wooden figure and not let big changes coming in the next tion Home to give the carving a permanent home. Pictured above: (ran- tion house the permanent home it be outdoors during stormy few weeks as you drive by the dom order) Paula Doman, Ginger Goering, Jo Stevenson, Phil Sill, Kim for the sculpture of Carry. On weather, etc. Glen Stark or John stockade. Newman, Dorothy Reed, John Stark, Marilyn Stark, and Connor Stark.

Welcome To The Medicine Lodge Peace Treaty Pageant This fall there will again be smoke in the wind. In the Gyp Hills of Barber County, Kansas two cultures will clash once more. The white man will come, and the proud civilizations of the Plains Indians will resist the changes in their ancient life-styles that, inevitably, settlement of the untamed prairie must bring. In time, the pipes of peace will be lit, and the smoke over the hills will be as serene as September wind. The Medicine Lodge Peace Treaty Pageant compresses three hundred years of history into two hours of education and entertainment as big as life in a setting that looks as it must have in 1867, when the great peace council took place at the confluence of Elm Creek and the Medicine River, held amid the native grasses and wildflowers of a natural amphitheater. The pageant is a panoramic reenactment of events beginning with the arrival of the Spanish conquistadors and winding through the age of exploration - the wayward days of Lewis and Clark and Pike - and culminating with the settling of the Kansas prairie by the farmers and ranchers whose descendants live here still. With performances daily, the pageant is an invitation to look on as history steps out of the library and onto the landscape. It’s also a time to look in, to examine again the wellsprings of peace. They begin with your family and then, in the symbolism of the rivers where the treaty was signed, they spread to all people of goodwill. In keeping with the lifelike dramatizations of the amphitheater, during the weekend of the pageant the people of Medicine Lodge transform their community into a frontier town. With ceremonial dancing in an authentic Indian village, old-time melodramas, traditional church services, all school reunions and the Kansas Championship Ranch Rodeo featuring working cowboys competing in the day-to-day jobs of the ranch, Medicine Lodge will welcome you to life as it used to be. There will be long colorful parades, and music virtually around the clock. Look for an inflatable carnival for the kids and arts and crafts booths - including Native American crafts in the Indian village. Of course, the ongoing attractions of the city - the Carry Nation Museum, the Stockade Museum, and the rust - colored glory of the Gyp Hills - will be yours to enjoy as always. Clarke Corporation invites you to historic Medicine Lodge for our weekend celebration into the past and salutes all who make this event possible. $30.00 adults $6.00 children Children are ages 7 through 12; kids 6 and under enter for free. Advance tickets must be purchased by September 15 and will incur a $3 shipping and handling charge. After September 15, tickets will be sold downtown before and after parades and at the event location. On Friday, ticket cost is $5 for all school and scout groups with advance ticket purchases. Posters and programs will be sold at several locations for $5 All information is subject to change. Tickets are available from Select-A-Seat Posters will be sold at several locations for $10 Margo and Arnold Zann Photo CLARKE CORPORATION 107 West Fowler - Medicine Lodge - 620-886-5665 The Gyp Hill Premiere - Peace Treaty - September 28-29-30, 2018

The Stockade once surrounded our town 6

What now comprises the center of the business district of Medicine Lodge, was once a protected area sur- rounded by a stockade, to keep the little populace and their guarding militia safe from Indian raids. In 1874, during a period of Indian outbreaks in western and southern Kansas, Thomas A. Osborne, then governor of Kansas, organized the Kansas State Guards. Sun City and Medicine Lodge furnished the two companies for this section of the state. A Captain Ricker commanded the Barber County organization, and John Mosely was second in command. It was the duty of the Medicine Lodge and Sun City militia to guard and keep the territory from Caldwell to Dodge City, and south to the Cimarron River, clear of marauding bands of Indians. The stockade in Medicine Lodge was built by the militia and citizens, and guards were placed. According to old timers, the west line of the stockade ran along what is now the alley west of Main Street where The Peoples Bank stands; the south line about where the Grand Hotel is now; the east line near the west side of the courthouse and the north line about where the Presbyterian Church and Intermediate School are now. The walls of the stockade were cedar posts about nine feet high, set on end in the ground, side by side. Gates were maintained at the north and south. Many times, 200 people would gather in the stockade with the wagon teams, cows and dogs. Rations were issued each day. Corn was ground on a coffee grinder for bread, and buffalo meat was used. The meat wagon stood just north of what is now the Trice building, and everyone helped himself to meat. When the wagon was empty, two men were detailed to get more. In the stockade, time often dragged for the men. The saloon had gone dry, but there were cards, and most of the men played all the time they were not dancing. Dancing took place in the cool mornings and evenings, and many tripped the light, fantastic in their bare feet. The drill ground was outside and southeast of the stockade. A man was kept on guard on top of the stage barn. When ordered, every man had to run to the place he had been assigned to guard, when a gun was fired. Target practice was held quite often. The young men who had no families were kept scouting a good deal of the time. There were over 100 miles of the state line to guard, and there were no roads. The outfit and rations of a scout consisted of rifle, carbine, 100 cartridges tied on the saddle and in the belt. A grain sack with five days rations, including army crackers, bacon, sugar and coffee was tied on the saddle with frying pan and coffee bucket. The rations became pretty stale toward the end of the trip. The militia had but one encounter with the Indians northwest of Sharon, at the foot of the big hills. There were about 50 Indians, and six were killed. Fifty-four ponies, six mules and all the Indians’ camp outfit, saddles, guns, bows, arrows and clothes were taken. On June 17, 1874, the Osage Indians made a raid on Kansas and killed John Marin and Elijah Kennedy, two and one-half miles southwest of Medicine Lodge. Issac Kein was killed on Cedar creek, three and one- half miles west of town. The Peoples Bank has erected a monumental replica fence in remembrance of the original Stockade. It is located in the Washington Street exit of the bank. The Gyp Hill Premiere - Peace Treaty - September 28-29-30, 2018

Black Kettle continued from page 4 7 meet you here, and I take hold have sent up north for my I have been in great hopes and he told us that when he was Wrath, does not get tired. He is and retain what he says. I be- people, and I want the road open that I may see my children that gone we would have trouble, and always ready to go and meet lieve all to be true, and think it is for them to get here. I hope that were taken prisoners last fall, it has proved true. We are sorry. them and give them whatever all true. Their young white men, which you have said will be just and when I get here I do not see But since the death of Major news he has to send to them. when I meet them on the plains, as you have told me, and I am them. I feel disappointed. My Fitzpatrick we have had many There may be wrongs done, but I give them my horse and my glad to hear such good counsel young men here, and friends, agents. I don’t know as we have we want to show who does moccasins, and I am glad today from you. When my friends get when we meet in council and been wronged, but it looks so. these wrongs before you cen- to think that the Great Father has down from the north I think it come to the conclusion, it is the The amount of goods has dimin- sure us. I feel that the Great sent good men to take pity on will be the best time to talk about truth, we do not vary from it. ished; it don’t look right. Has Father has taken pity on us, and us. Your young soldiers I don’t the lands. There are so few here This lady’s husband (Mrs. known Colonel Leavenworth for that ever since we have met think they listen to you. You bring it would not look right to make a Wilmarth, formerly Fitzpatrick) some time; he has treated me Colonel Leavenworth’s words presents, and when I come to get treaty for the whole nation, and Major Fitzpatrick, when he was well; whether it will continue or have been true, and nothing done them I am afraid they will strike so many absent. I hope you will our agent and brought us presents not I do not know. He has got a since that time but what is true. me before I get away. use your influence with the troops he did not take them into forts strong heart, and has done us a I heard that some chiefs were When I come in to receive to open a road for my men to and houses, but would drive his great deal of good. Now that sent here to see us. We have presents I take them up crying. get here. You may mark out the wagons into our villages and times are so uncertain in this brought our women and children, Although wrongs have been lands you propose giving us, but empty them there. Every one country I would like to have my and now we want to see if you done me, I live in hopes. I have I know nothing about them; it is would help themselves and feel old friend Colonel Bent with me. are going to have pity on us. not got two hearts. These young a new country to me. glad. He has gone ahead of us, This young man, Charles men, (Cheyennes) when I call them into the lodge and talk with them, they listen to me and mind what I say. Now we are again together to make peace. My shame (mortification) is as big as the earth, although I will do what my friends advise me to do. I once thought that I was the only man that persevered to be the friend of the white man, but since they have come and cleaned out (robbed) our lodges, horses, and everything else, it is hard for me to believe white men any more. Here we are together, Arapa- hoes and Cheyennes, but few of us, we are one people. As soon as you arrived you started run- ners after us and the Arapahoes, with words that I took hold of immediately on hearing them. From what I can see around me, I feel confident that our Great Father has taken pity on me, and I feel that it is the truth all that has been told me today. All my friends-the Indians that are hold- ing back-they are afraid to come in; are afraid they will be be- trayed as I have been. I am not afraid of white men, but come and take you by the hand, and am glad to have an opportunity of so doing. These lands that you propose to give us I know noth- ing about. There is but a handful here now of the Cheyenne na- tion, and I would rather defer making any permanent treaty until the others come. We are liv- ing friendly now. There are a great many white men. Possibly you may be look- ing for some one with a strong heart. Possibly you may be in- tending to do something for me better than I know of. Inasmuch as my Great Father has sent you here to take us by the hand, why is it that we are prevented from crossing the Ar- kansas? If we give you our hands in peace, we give them also to those of the plains. We want the privilege of crossing the Ar- kansas to kill buffalo. I have but few men here, but what I say to them they listen, and they will abide by their promise whatever it may be. All these young sol- diers are taking us by the hand, and I hope it will come back good times as formerly. It is very hard to have one-half of our nation absent at this time; we wish to get through at once. My friends, I want you to understand that I The Gyp Hill Premiere - Peace Treaty - September 28-29-30, 2018 Annual Pow-Wow to take place during Peace Treaty 8 By Jeff Davenport to watch the activities must The sixth annual Peace bring their own lawn Treaty Pow-wow will take chairs. place September 28-30 at · It is good to ask the Powwow Arena in before taking a picture out Medicine Lodge City Park. of respect for those who David Colborn, the may have religious reasons pow-wow organizer for for avoiding photos. Peace Treaty and Indian · No one should Summer Days, says that ever enter the dance arena the main goal of the event unless invited. is to “honor the natives and · Do not touch the make them want to come clothing of any dancer. to Medicine Lodge.” · A good rule of Those attending the thumb is to wait for the re- powwow have the oppor- action of the Native on- tunity to witness some of lookers. If they clap, then the history of Native everyone claps. Most of Americans. The dances the time the Emcee will tell performed give a glimpse the audience what is go- of a centuries-old tradition ing on and what to do. and a chance to gaze upon Dances, and the cer- the beauty of their ceremo- emonies with which they nial dress while listening to are associated, played an the rhythmic beat of their integral part in the lifestyle drums and their voices of the Native American. A lifted in song. dance was held to ask for The word pow-wow is aid from the spirits before derived from the a battle or a hunt. A dance Algonquian term “pau- was also held to celebrate wau” or “pauau” which joy or to mark a mourning. referred to a gathering of Dances, or pow-wows as medicine men and/or spiri- they are now called, are tual leaders. European ex- still important occasions plorers who observed for the American Indian. It these gatherings pro- is an occasion for making nounced the word wrong new friends and enjoying and passed on the wrong old friendships. There are pronunciation to the Indi- not many activities where ans when they began learn- a great-grandparent and ing English. great-grandchild may par- The history of pow- ticipate in the same activ- K. Noland Photo wows is limited as there ity as they may at a pow- Participants in the pow-wow also participate in contest dancing, which takes place during the Grand Entry events each day was a period of time when wow. of the pow-wow. the gatherings were illegal The most common under orders of the Bu- dance performed at the warriors and the blue Other dances include contest dancing, which · Golden Age (age reau of Indian Affairs. pow-wow is the Gourd meaning victory. the Round Dance, Buffalo takes place during the 55+) – Sunday The modern-day pow- Dance. It originated in the The dances are rich in Dance, War Dance and Grand Entry events each Everyone is welcome to wow gives Native Ameri- 1800s among the Chey- symbolism, such as the the Flag Dance, a dance day of the pow-wow. the pow-wow and admis- cans an occasion to meet, enne, Arapahoe, Kiowa, Snake Dance. It was that nearly every Indian Listed below are the con- sion is free. dance, sing, socialize, and and Comanche tribes. The thought that because the tribe has composed in re- tests, participants, and honor their Native Ameri- Gourd Clan, formerly a snake lived so close to the cent years to honor the days they take place. Pow-Wow can culture and share their warrior’s society, now ground he understood the men and women who have · Tiny Tots (ages 5 Schedule: traditions with non-Indians. may include any member problems of the soil and its served in all branches of and under) – Friday and need for water. The Indi- the armed forces during Saturday Friday: Gourd Dance There are courtesies of the tribe. The members 5:00 p.m., Grand Entry that should be followed of the different Gourd ans performed the dance the various wars. These · Youth (ages 6-12) for the snake so he might songs are the Indian – Saturday 7:00 p.m. while attending the pow- Clans and Clubs can be Saturday: Gourd wow. veterans themselves or are take a message to the gods equivalent of the national · Teens (ages 13- to send rain to the plants. anthem, and all should 17) – Saturday Dance 2:00 p.m., Dinner · Seating that is set representatives of veter- break 6:00 p.m., Grand up around the area where ans. The red and blue blan- The dances portray the stand when this song is · Adult Men (ages snake coiling, striking, re- sung. 18-54) – Sunday Entry 7:00 p.m. the dancing is to take place ket which is worn by the Sunday: Gourd Dance is for the dancers, not the dancers represents the treating and returning to Participants in the pow- · Adult Women strike again. wow also participate in (ages 18-54) – Sunday 2:00 p.m., Grand Entry spectators. Those wanting blood which was shed by 4:00 p.m. The Gyp Hill Premiere - Peace Treaty - September 28-29-30, 2018

9 The Story of the Battle of the Washita Gypsum Hills Trail Rides is Introduction Little Arkansas Treaty in 1865 and the Medicine Lodge Treaty in 1867. The cultural collision between pioneers and Indians reached its peak After giving the two chiefs flour, blankets, and other goods, Hazen told owned and operated by: Bob and on the Great Plains during the decades before and after the Civil War. them that he could not allow them to bring their people to Fort Cobb for Charlene Larson, Robert and U.S. Government policy sought to separate tribes and settlers from each protection because only General Sheridan or Lt. Col. George Custer, his Karen Larson; and Mark and other by establishing an Indian Territory (present-day Oklahoma). Some field commander, had that authority. Disappointed, the chiefs headed back Charyl Zier. Plains tribes accepted life on reservations. Others, including the Chey- to their people at the winter encampments on the Washita River. ennes, Kiowas, and Comanches, did not. They continued to hunt and live The Battle of the Washita on traditional lands outside the Indian Territory. At first, this choice pro- Even as Black Kettle and Big Mouth parlayed with Gen. Hazen, the See great duced little conflict. But following the Civil War, land-hungry settlers 7th Cavalry established a forward base of operations at Camp Supply, scenery and began penetrating the plains in increasing numbers, encroaching upon tribal Indian Territory as part of Sheridan’s winter campaign strategy. Under hunting grounds. Indians could no longer retreat beyond the reach of whites, orders from Sheridan, Custer marched south on November 23 with about wildlife on the and many chose to defend their freedom and lands rather than submit to 800 troopers, traveling through a foot of new snow. After four days travel reservation life. the command reached the Washita valley shortly after midnight on No- Gypsum Hills Prelude To Battle vember 27, and silently took up a position near an Indian encampment Events leading to the Battle of the Washita began with the Sand Creek their scouts had discovered at a bend in the river. Trail Ride Massacre of 1864. On November 29, troops under the command of Col. Black Kettle, who had just returned from Fort Cobb a few days before, Since 1972, horse enthusiasts J.M. Chivington attacked and destroyed the Cheyenne camp of Chief Black had resisted the entreaties of some of his people, including his wife, to have gathered together to spend Kettle and Chief White Antelope on Sand Creek, 40 miles from Fort Lyon, move their camp downriver closer to larger encampments of Cheyennes, a weekend at the Gant-Larson Colorado Territory. Black Kettle’s band flew an American flag and a white Kiowas, and Apaches wintered there. He refused to believe that Sheridan Ranch for trail riding through the flag, and considered themselves at peace and under military protection. would order an attack without first offering an opportunity for peace. Gypsum Hills. The terrible slaughter caused a massive public outcry. In response, a fed- Before dawn, the troopers attacked the 51 lodges, killing a number of These scenic hills, located 10 eral Peace Commission was created to convert Plains Indians from their men, women, and children. Custer reported about 100 killed, though In- miles west of Medicine Lodge, nomadic way of life and settle them on reservations. dian accounts claimed 11 warriors plus 19 women and children lost their present one of the nation’s most On the Southern Plains, the work of the Commission culminated in the lives. More than 50 Cheyennes were captured, mainly women and chil- Medicine Lodge Treaty of October 1867. Under treaty terms the Arapa- dren. Custer’s losses were light: 2 officers and 19 enlisted men killed. perfect paintbrush regions--fea- hos, Cheyennes, Comanches, Kiowas, and Plains Apaches were assigned Most of the soldier casualties belonged to Major Joel Elliott’s detach- turing stark red bluffs and buttes to reservations in the Indian Territory. There they were supposed to re- ment, whose eastward foray was overrun by Cheyenne, Arapaho, and capped with white, gypsum ceive permanent homes, farms, agricultural implements, and annuities of Kiowa warriors coming to Black Kettle’s aid. Chief Black Kettle and his ledges and deep, cedar tree-lined food, blankets, and clothing. The treaty was doomed to failure. Many wife were killed in the attack. canyons. All of this scenery pre- tribal officials refused to sign. Some who did sign had no authority to Following Sheridan’s plan to cripple resistance, Custer ordered the sents an aura of color and beauty compel their people to comply with such an agreement. War parties, mostly slaughter of the Indian pony and mule herd estimated at more than 800 for year-round riding pleasure. young men violently opposed to reservation life, continued to raid white animals. The lodges of Black Kettle’s people, with all their winter supply The rides occur over the same settlements in Kansas. of food and clothing, were torched. Realizing now that many more Indi- land once roamed by the five Great Major General Philip H. Sheridan, in command of the Department of the ans were threatening from the east, Custer feigned an attack toward their Plains Indian Tribes. Riders are Missouri, adopted a policy that “punishment must follow crime.” In retali- downriver camps, then quickly retreated to Camp Supply with his hos- likely to encounter a multitude of ation for the Kansas raids, he planned to mount a winter campaign when tages. wildlife, including white tail and Indian horses would be weak and unfit for all but the most limited service. The engagement at the Washita might have ended very differently if mule deer, wild turkey, coyote and The Indians’ only protection in winter was the isolation afforded by brutal the larger encampments to the east had been closer to Black Kettle’s camp. bobcat. weather. As it happened, the impact of losing winter supplies, plus the knowledge Other upcoming trail rides: Black Kettle and Arapaho Chief Big Mouth went to Fort Cobb in No- that cold weather no longer provided protection from attack, convinced -Carry’s Cavalry All Women’s vember 1868 to petition General William B. Hazen for peace and protection. many bands to accept reservation life. ride: 1st weekend in May A respected leader of the Southern Cheyenne, Black Kettle had signed the The National Park Services, 1998 -3 day trail ride: 3rd weekend in May -Campground open year-round for individual riding or hiking and backpacking. With access to 10,000 acres, riders enjoy the wide-open spaces Forsyth's celebrate that make this ride unlike any other experienced. Both organized and private riding is provided on the ranch year-round. For more information about the 108 years in business Gypsum Hills Trail Rides, contact Robert and Karen Larson at (620) What started as a good reason to get out of the feed 886-9822 or visit mill business back in 1910 for W.R. Forsyth has now, www.gypsumhillstrailrides.com or email 105 years later, resulted in a five generation family legacy [email protected]. that will not soon be ended. Like us on Facebook! He purchased a furniture store and mortuary from a Mr. Gazin in 1910 after working for 11 years in the milling business. Les Forsyth became the second generation to have a part in the family business. His father died while he was just 3 months old, so later W.R. adopted him as his own son. Les graduated from high school, at- tended embalming school, and served in World War 1 before returning to Medicine Lodge in 1919 after his Forsyth Furniture in the 1920's Historical discharge from the Army. Bill, Les’ son, remembers Saturday nights in the 1930’s when the business would remain open as late as 11:00 for marker changed the people who lived out in the country and had to drive quite a distance to come to town. Although the newer sign at the “This was a big deal,” he said. Bill noted that back then, people were required to rely on eachother as there were entrance to the pageant grounds no TV and radios. has decorative sunflowers at the top, the words on the marker “People would just walk up and down Main Street talking,” he said. have been changed. Since its humble beginnings in the early 1900s Forsyth Furniture has grown and expanded greatly as a result of The first historical marker in quality projects and excellent customer service. the state of Kansas was erected in 1930s. The historical marker Bill recalls two elderly women who purchased a chair many years ago that Forsyth's provided assistance to. program was a joint effort by the It was told that the two ladies were unable to load the chair and were helped by the staff and then went on their State of Kansas through the Kan- way to Coldwater. The ladies arrived home only to discover that they couldn’t unload the chair and hauled it back sas Historical Society and the into town. The Forsyths, always ready to serve, loaded the chair up into their own pick up and hauled it to the ladies' Kansas Department of Trans- portation and continued placing home for them. markers through the 1960s. The In 1936 the Forsyth’s purchased the Cavin Funeral Home and an addition was built on to the west of the Calvin historical markers were placed house. Prior to that time, visitation occurred for the deceased in their homes and not as much space was needed. in roadside parks and rest areas In 1942, the Warren Drug Store, just south of the Furniture store was purchased to allow for expansion for so travelers could safely park to read them. merchandise display. In 1948, a metal building behind the store was torn down and a new one constructed, extend- The new marker updated in ing store space to the alley. In 1955, the Deal Lumber Yard was purchased to provide more storage space for the 2015 reads: At Medicine Lodge growing business. Then, during the 1980s two more buildings to the south of the Furniture Store were purchased to Creek in 1867, as many as 15,000 Apaches, Kiowa, provide more showroom floor space for displays. Comanches, Arapahos, and During this time of growth and expansion, Bill’s sons were actively involved in the family business. Both Drew and Cheyennes gathered with a Brad Forsyth attended embalming school and returned to work alongside their father. seven-member peace commis- “When I was growing up I always said that I was never coming back to Medicine Lodge,” said fourth generation sion escorted by U.S. soldiers to conduct one of the nation’s larg- Brad Forsyth. est peace councils. The Ameri- Never say never. can Indian nations selected this Brad is proud of the long tradition that has been passed down through his family. His son Matt Forsyth represents traditional ceremonial site for the nearly two-week council. the fifth generation of the family business. Chiefs Satanta, Little Raven, and Black Kettle gave speeches, Over the years the Forsyth family has been instrumental in many projects that have benefited the commu- held ceremonies, and entered ne- nity including belonging to the Peace Treaty Board, Chamber of Commerce, working to get the first school gotiations. They produced three treaties that reduced the size of in Medicine Lodge, helping to get an Armory built for the city, and having a part in the Signing Scene of the each of their lands and allowed Peace Treaty whether as a director or as an actor. for the construction of railroads and eventual settlement. “I come to say that the Kiowas and Comanches have made with you a peace, and they intend to keep it. If it brings pros- 103 S. Main - Medicine Lodge perity to us, we of course will like it the better.” — Satanta, Kiowa chief. 620-886-5065 Some chiefs signed the trea- ties without popular support; oth- ers misunderstood the agree- Quality Merchandise ments and later renounced them. When the agreements failed, the government responded with & Quality Service force. Thirteen months later Cheyenne Chief Black Kettle died in an attack by the Seventh Since 1910 Cavalry at Washita Creek, Okla- homa. The Gyp Hill Premiere - Peace Treaty - September 28-29-30, 2018

Generals in battle 10 was encamped. Federal army offic- enne. In late 1867 Custer was court- nessee, Kentucky and in Virginia, Kiowa, Comanche, Arapaho and ers had promised Black Kettle martialed and suspended from duty where his campaign through the Cheyenne onto their reservations. safety if he would return to the res- for a year for being absent from duty Shenandoah Valley laid waste to an The key engagement in this success- ervation, and he was in fact flying during the campaign. Custer main- important source of Confederate ful campaign was George the American flag and a white flag tained that he was simply being supplies. At Petersburg he won an Armstrong Custer’s surprise attack of truce over his lodge, but made a scapegoat for a failed cam- important victory that halted Rob- on Black Kettle’s encampment Chivington ordered an attack on the paign, and his old friend General ert E. Lee’s retreat from Richmond along the Washita River, an attack unsuspecting village nonetheless. Phil Sheridan agreed, calling Custer and helped bring the war to an end. that came at dawn after a forced After hours of fighting, the Colo- back to duty in 1868. In the eyes of After the war, Sheridan was first march through a snowstorm. Many rado volunteers had lost only 9 men the army, Custer redeemed himself given command over Texas and historians now regard this victory in the process of murdering between by his November 1868 attack on Louisiana, where his support for as a massacre, since Black Kettle 200 and 400 Cheyenne, most of Black Kettle’s band on the banks of Mexican Republicans helped speed was a peaceful chief whose encamp- them women and children. After the the Washita River. the collapse of Maximillian’s re- ment was on reservation soil, but for slaughter, they scalped and sexually Custer was sent to the Northern gime and where his harsh treatment Sheridan the attack served its pur- John M. Chivington (1821- mutilated many of the bodies, later Plains in 1873, where he soon par- of former Confederates led to pose, helping to persuade other 1894) exhibiting their trophies to cheering ticipated in a few small skirmishes charges of “absolute tyranny.” bands to give up their traditional The hero of Glorietta Pass and crowds in Denver. with the Lakota in the Yellowstone Within six months he was trans- way of life and move onto the res- the butcher of Sand Creek, John M. Chivington was at first widely area. The following year, he lead a ferred to the Department of the Mis- ervations. Chivington stands out as one of the praised for the “battle” at Sand 1,200 person expedition to the souri, where he immediately shaped In 1869, Sheridan succeeded most controversial figures in the Creek, and honored with a widely- Black Hills, whose possession the a battle plan to crush Indian resis- William Tecumseh Sherman as history of the American West. attended parade through the streets United States had guaranteed the tance on the southern plains. commander of the Division of the Chivington was born into an of Denver just two weeks after the Lakota just six years before. Following the tactics he had Missouri, which encompassed the Ohio farm family in 1821. His fa- massacre. Soon, however, rumors of In 1876, Custer was scheduled employed in Virginia, Sheridan entire plains region from the Rocky ther died when he was only five and drunken soldiers butchering un- to lead part of the anti-Lakota ex- sought to strike directly at the ma- Mountains to the Mississippi. With the burden of providing for the fam- armed women and children began pedition, along with Generals John terial basis of the Plains Indian na- Sherman, he refined his tactics — ily fell to Chivington’s mother and to circulate, and at first seemed con- Gibbon and George Crook. He al- tions. He believed — correctly, it massive force directed in surprise older brothers. While he was grow- firmed when Chivington arrested most didn’t make it, however, be- turned out — that attacking the In- attacks against Indian encampments ing up, Chivington worked on the six of his men and charged them cause his March testimony about dians in their encampments during — to mount successful campaigns family farm so much that he re- with cowardice in battle. But the six, Indian Service corruption so infu- the winter would give him the ele- against the tribes of the southern ceived only an irregular education. who included Captain Silas Soule, riated President Ulysses S. Grant ment of surprise and take advantage plains in 1874-1875, and against By the time of his marriage in 1824 a personal friend of Chivington’s that he relieved Custer of his com- of the scarce forage available for In- those of the northern plains in 1876- he had been operating a small tim- who had fought with him at mand and replaced him with Gen- dian mounts. He was unconcerned 1877. Where some of his generals ber business in Ohio for several Glorietta Pass, were in fact militia eral Alfred Terry. Popular disgust, about the likelihood of high casual- in these campaigns, such as Nelson years. members who had refused to par- however, forced Grant to reverse his ties among noncombatants, once re- A. Miles, occasionally expressed a Although he had not been par- ticipate in the massacre and now decision. Custer went West to meet marking that “If a village is attacked soldierly respect for the Indians they ticularly religious as a child and spoke openly of the carnage they his destiny. and women and children killed, the were fighting, Sheridan was notori- young man, Chivington found him- had witnessed. Shortly after their The original United States plan responsibility is not with the sol- ous for his supposed declaration that self drawn toward Methodism when arrest, the U.S. Secretary of War or- for defeating the Lakota called for diers but with the people whose “the only good Indians I ever saw he was in his early twenties. He was dered the six men released and Con- the three forces under the command crimes necessitated the attack.” were dead” — an attribution he ordained in 1844 and soon began gress began preparing for a formal of Crook, Gibbon, and Custer to The first demonstration of this steadfastly denied. his long career as a minister. He ac- investigation of Sand Creek. trap the bulk of the Lakota and strategy came in 1868, when three Sheridan became commanding cepted whatever assignment the Soule himself could not be a wit- Cheyenne population between them columns of troops under Sheridan’s general of the United States Army church gave him, moving his fam- ness at any of the investigations, and deal them a crushing defeat. command converged on what is now in 1884 and held that post until his ily to Illinois in 1848 and then to because less than a week after his Custer, however, advanced much northwestern Oklahoma to force the death in 1888. Missouri the next year. Chivington release he was shot from behind and more quickly than he had been or- was something of a frontier minis- killed on the streets of Denver. Al- dered to do, and neared what he ter, usually establishing congrega- though Chivington was eventually thought was a large Indian village tions, supervising the erection of brought up on court-martial charges on the morning of June 25, 1876. Custer killed in battle churches, and often serving as a de for his involvement in the massa- Custer’s rapid advance had put him facto law enforcement officer. For cre, he was no longer in the U.S. far ahead of Gibbon’s slower-mov- Major General George A. Custer of the Seventh United States Cavalry a time in 1853 he assisted in a Meth- Army and could therefore not be ing infantry brigades, and unbe- Friday, July 7, 1876 The New York Times odist missionary expedition to the punished. No criminal charges were knownst to him, General Crook’s Major Gen. George A. Custer, who was killed with his whole Com- Wyandot Indians in Kansas. ever filed against him. An Army forces had been turned back by mand while attacking an encampment of Sioux Indians under command Chivington’s contempt for sla- judge, however, publicly stated that Crazy Horse and his band at Rose- of Sitting Bull, was one of the bravest and most widely known officers in very and talk of secession caused Sand Creek was “a cowardly and bud Creek. the United States Army. He has for the past fifteen years been known to him enormous trouble in Missouri. cold-blooded slaughter, sufficient to On the verge of what seemed to the country and to his comrades as a man who feared no danger, as a In 1856, pro-slavery members of his cover its perpetrators with indelible him a certain and glorious victory soldier in the truest sense of the word. He was daring to a fault, generous congregation sent him a threatening infamy, and the face of every Ameri- for both the United States and him- beyond most men. His memory will long be kept green in many friendly letter instructing him to cease can with shame and indignation.” self, Custer ordered an immediate hearts. Born in New-Rumley, Harrison County, Ohio, on the 5th of De- preaching. When many of the sig- Although he was never punished attack on the Indian village. Con- cember, 1839, he obtained a good common education, and after graduat- natories attended his service the for his role at Sand Creek, temptuous of Indian military prow- ing engaged for a time in teaching school. In June, 1857, through the next Sunday, intending to tar and Chivington did at least pay some ess, he split his forces into three influence of Hon. John A. Bingham, then member of Congress from Ohio, feather him, Chivington ascended price. He was forced to resign from parts to ensure that fewer Indians he obtained an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West the pulpit with a Bible and two pis- the Colorado militia, to withdraw would escape. The attack was one Point, and entered that institution on the 1st of July of the year named. He tols. His declaration that “By the from politics, and to stay away from the greatest fiascos of the United graduated on the 24th of June, with what was considered the fair standing grace of God and these two revolv- the campaign for statehood. In 1865 States Army, as thousands of of No. 34 in one of the brightest classes that ever left the academy. Imme- ers, I am going to preach here to- he moved back to Nebraska, spend- Lakota, Cheyenne and Arapaho diately upon leaving West Point he was appointed Second Lieutenant in day” earned him the sobriquet the ing several unsuccessful years as a warriors forced Custer’s unit back Company G of the Second United States Cavalry, a regiment which had “Fighting Parson.” freight hauler. He lived briefly in onto a long, dusty ridge parallel to formerly been commanded by Robert E. Lee. He reported to Lieut. Gen. Soon after this incident, the California, and then returned to the Little Bighorn, surrounded Scott on the 20th of July, the day preceding the Battle of Bull Run, and the Methodist Church sent Chivington Ohio where he resumed farming and them, and killed all 210 of them. Commander in Chief gave him the choice of accepting a position on his to Omaha, Nebraska to escape the became editor of a small newspa- Custer’s blunders cost him his staff or of joining his regiment, then under command of Gen. McDowell tumult of Missouri. He and his fam- per. In 1883 he re-entered politics life but gained him everlasting fame. in the field. Longing for an opportunity to see active service, and deter- ily remained in Nebraska until with a campaign for a state legisla- His defeat at the Little Bighorn mined to win distinction Lieut. Custer chose the latter course, and after 1860, when he was made the pre- ture seat, but charges of his guilt in made the life of what would have riding all night through a country filled with people who were, to say the the Sand Creek massacre forced him been an obscure 19th century mili- least, not friendly, he reached McDowell’s head-quarters at daybreak on siding elder of the Rocky Mountain st District of the Methodist Church to withdraw. He quickly returned to tary figure into the subject of count- the morning of the 21 . Preparations for the battle had already begun, and and moved to Denver to build a Denver and worked as a deputy less songs, books and paintings. His after delivering his dispatches from Gen. Scott and hastily partaking of a church and found a congregation. sheriff until shortly before his death widow, Elizabeth Bacon Custer, did mouthful of coffee and a piece of hard bread he joined his company. It is When the Civil War broke out, from cancer in 1892. what she could to further his repu- not necessary now to recount the disasters of the fight that followed. Suf- Colorado’s territorial governor, tation, writing laudatory accounts of fice it to say that Lieut. Custer’s company was among the last to leave the William Gilpin, offered Chivington his life that portrayed him as not field. It did so in good order, bringing off Gen. Heintzelman, who had a commission as a chaplain, but he only a military genius but also a re- been wounded in the engagement. The young officer continued to serve declined the “praying” commission fined and cultivated man, a patron with his company, and was engaged in the drilling of volunteer recruits in and asked for a “fighting” position of the arts, and a budding statesman. and about the defenses of Washington, when upon the appointment of instead. In 1862, Chivington, by that Countless paintings of “Custer’s Phil Kearny to the position of Brigadier General, that lamented officer point a Major in the first Colorado Last Stand” were made of “the gave him a position on his staff. Custer continued in this position until an Volunteer Regiment, played a criti- Custer massacre” — they depicted order was issued from the War Department prohibiting Generals of Vol- cal role in defeating confederate Custer as a gallant victim, sur- unteers from appointing officers of the regular Army to staff duty. Then he forces at Glorietta Pass in eastern rounded by bloodthirsty savages returned to his company, not, however, until he had been warmly New Mexico, where his troops intent upon his annihilation. Forgot- complimented by Gen. Kearny upon the prompt and efficient manner in rapelled down the canyon walls in ten was the other side of the story, which he had performed the duties assigned to him. At the same time the a surprise attack on the enemy’s and that most of Indians present General predicted that Custer would be one of the most successful offic- supply train. He was widely hailed were forced to surrender within a ers in the Army. Nor were these predictions without a speedy realization. as a military hero. year of their greatest battlefield tri- With his company Lieut. Custer marched forward with that part of the Back in Denver after the defeat George Armstrong Custer umph. Army of the Potomac which moved upon Manassas after its evacuation of the Confederacy’s Western (1839-1876) There are many sides to most by the rebels. Our cavalry was in advance, under Gen. Stoneman and en- forces, Chivington seemed destined Flamboyant in life, George historical events, and this one is no countered the rebel horsemen for the first time near Catlett’s Station. The for even greater prominence. He Armstrong Custer has remained one different! No matter which side you commanding officer made a call for volunteers to charge the enemy’s ad- was a leading advocate of quick of the best-known figures in Ameri- align yourself with, in the end it was vance post. Lieut. Custer was among the first to step to the front, and in statehood for Colorado, and the can history and popular mythology another tragedy of war. Many good command of his company he shortly afterward made his first charge. He likely Republican candidate for the long after his death at the hands of people died on both sides. Is there drove the rebels across Muddy Creek, wounded a number of them, and state’s first Congressional seat. In Lakota and Cheyenne warriors at a villain? I don’t believe so, just two had one of his own men injured. This was the first blood drawn in the the midst of his blossoming politi- the Battle of the Little Bighorn. sets of beliefs and values that for campaign under McClellan. After this Custer went with the Army of the cal prospects, tensions between Custer was born in New Rumley, this date and time in our history Potomac to the Peninsula and remained with his company until the Army Colorado’s burgeoning white popu- Ohio, and spent much of his child- couldn’t exist together. settled down before Yorktown, when he was de- lation and the Cheyenne Indians hood with a half-sister in Monroe, tailed as an Assistant Engineer of the left wing, reached a feverish pitch. The Den- Michigan. Immediately after high under Sumner. Acting in this capacity he planned ver newspaper printed a front-page school he enrolled in West Point, and erected the earthworks nearest the enemy’s lines. editorial advocating the “extermi- where he utterly failed to distinguish He also accompanied the advance under Gen. nation of the red devils” and urging himself in any positive way. Several Hancock in pursuit of the enemy from Yorktown. Shortly its readers to “take a few months off days after graduating last in his afterward, he captured the first battle-flag ever secured and dedicate that time to wiping out class, he failed in his duty as officer by the Army of the Potomac. From this time on he was the Indians.” of the guard to stop a fight between nearly always the first in every work of daring. When Chivington took advantage of two cadets. He was court-martialed the Army reached the Chickahominy he was the first this dangerous public mood by and saved from punishment only by man to cross the river; he did so in the face of the fire blasting the territorial governor and the huge need for officers with the of the enemy’s pickets, and at times was obliged to others who counseled peace and outbreak of the Civil War. wade up to his armpits. For this brave act Gen. treaty-making with the Cheyenne. In Custer did unexpectedly well in McClellan promoted him to a Captaincy and made him August of 1864, he declared that the Civil War. He fought in the First Philip Henry Sheridan (1831- one of his personal aids. In this capacity he served “the Cheyennes will have to be Battle of Bull Run, and served with 1888) during most of the Peninsula campaign, roundly whipped — or completely panache and distinction in the Vir- A ruthless warrior, General and participated in all its battles, includ- wiped out — before they will be ginia and Gettysburg campaigns. Philip Sheridan played a decisive ing the bloody seven days fight. He quiet. I say that if any of them are Although his units suffered enor- role in the army’s long campaign preformed the duty of marking out caught in your vicinity, the only mously high casualty rates — even against the native peoples of the the position which was occupied by thing to do is kill them.” A month by the standards of the bloody Civil plains, forcing them onto reserva- the Union Army at the battle of later, while addressing a gathering War — his fearless aggression in tions with the tactics of total war. Gaines’ Mills. He also partici- of church deacons, he dismissed the battle earned him the respect of his Sheridan was born in Albany, pated in the campaign which possibility of making a treaty with commanding generals and increas- New York, in 1831, but grew up in ended in the battles of South the Cheyenne: “It simply is not pos- ingly put him in the public eye. His Ohio. He attended West Point and, Mountain and Antietam. Upon sible for Indians to obey or even un- cavalry units played a critical role after a year’s suspension for assault- the retirement of Gen. McClellan derstand any treaty. I am fully sat- in forcing the retreat of Confeder- ing a fellow cadet with a bayonet, from the command of the Army isfied, gentlemen, that to kill them ate General Robert E. Lee’s forces; graduated near the bottom of his of the Potomac, Custer accom- is the only way we will ever have in gratitude, General Philip class in 1853. panied him, and for a time was peace and quiet in Colorado.” Sheridan purchased and made a gift Like all the U.S. generals of the out of active service. Several months later, Chivington of the Appomatox surrender table Indian wars, Sheridan gained his He was next engaged in the made good on his genocidal prom- to Custer and his wife, Elizabeth Ba- military experience in the Civil War. battle of Chancellorsville, and im- ise. During the early morning hours con Custer. An obscure lieutenant serving in mediately after that fight he was of November 29, 1864, he led a In July of 1866 Custer was ap- Oregon when Fort Sumter was made a personal aid by Gen. regiment of Colorado Volunteers to pointed lieutenant-colonel of the shelled, Sheridan rose to the com- Pleasonton, who was then command- the Cheyenne’s Sand Creek reser- Seventh Cavalry. The next year he mand of the Union’s cavalry by the vation, where a band led by Black led the cavalry in a muddled cam- time the Confederacy surrendered. See Custer Kettle, a well-known “peace” chief, paign against the Southern Chey- He saw action in Mississippi, Ten- on page 11 The Gyp Hill Premiere - Peace Treaty - September 28-29-30, 2018 Custer continued from page 10 ing a division of cavalry. Serving in 11 this capacity he took an active part in a number of hotly-contested en- gagements and marked himself as The History of the 7th U.S. Cavalry one of the most dashing, some said the most reckless, officers in the ser- vice. When Pleasonton was made a At the end of the Civil War, Congress saw a need for a larger Army to ately upon arrival, Indians attacked the camp. Custer ordered his troops, Major General his first pleasure was help control the rising problem with the Indians on the Plains. In October mounted and gave chase. They followed the Indian trail back to Medicine to remember the valuable services of 1866 the 7th. Cavalry was formed at Ft. Riley, Kansas. The task of Lodge Creek, but found no Indians. The only thing left was a deserted of his Aid de Camp. He requested organizing the Officer corps and training the mostly green enlisted Re- Medicine Lodge that Custer stated “Had many scalps of all ages and sex.” the appointment of four Brigadiers cruits, was given to Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer. Custer then returned to their camp on Bluff Creek. There he and General to command under him, and upon Custer was mustered out of the Army early in 1866 after the end of the War, Sheridan planned a winter campaign. They knew that during the winter his recommendation, indorsed by as a “Brevet” Major General, the youngest ever at age 23. With the form- months, the Indians stayed on one location where they would have plenty Gens. Meade and Hooker, young ing up of the new 7th, Custer was appointed to the vacant Lt. Col. posi- of water and firewood for their fires, all Custer had to do was find it. Custer was made a Brigadier Gen- tion. During the War many soldiers were “Breveted” ranks in order to fill Guided by Osage Indian Scouts, the 7th headed for the Washita Valley eral and assigned to the command the positions of fallen officers. At the end of the War, the need was no in Indian territory, (now Oklahoma). On November 27, 1868, they attacked of the First, Fifth, Sixth, and Sev- longer there, so many of them were demoted to lesser ranks. That person the Cheyenne village of Black Kettle, one of the chiefs who had signed the enth Michigan Cavalry. He did was now paid the wages of rank he now held, but was always given the treaty at Medicine Lodge the year before. During the battle, Black Kettle noble service at the battle of respect and the title of the higher rank he held before. That’s why Custer and his wife were killed, along with 140 other Indians. Major Joel Elliott, Gettysburg. He held the right of line, was always referred to as General Custer. who coincidently commanded the troops at Medicine Lodge, was also and was obliged to face Hampton’s General Custer was directly involved with developing the regiment killed. The 7th lost 21 men that day, one of which was Capt. Louis Hamilton, division of cavalry, and after a which consisted of 11 companies of fighting men and one company of the grandson of Alexander Hamilton, our nation’s first Secretary of Trea- hotly-contested fight, utterly routed musicians known as the Regimental Band. The men were transformed into sury under President George Washington. the rebels and prevented them from a disciplined fighting unit through many months of Cavalry drills and Kansas Governor, Samuel Crawford, resigned his political position in reaching the trains of the Union tactics, which were based upon Civil War experience. At that time no one order to lead the 19th, Kansas volunteers on the campaign. But they Army, which they hoped to capture. yet knew what fighting the Plains Indians would be like. became lost in a snow storm and arrived too late for the battle. The “Battle Custer had two horses shot under In March of 1867, when Indian depredations became more and more of Washita” marked the beginning of many encounters to come between him in this fight. Hardly had the violent in western Kansas, the 7th, was given its first opportunity to see the Cavalry and the Indians. battle concluded when he was sent what fighting Indians was all about. Under the command of General In January of 1869, the 7th Cavalry and the 19th, Kansas, were respon- to attack the enemy’s train, which Hancock, they marched from Ft. Riley to Ft. Larned where it was joined by sible for locating a site for a new fort in Indian territory. That fort became was trying to force its way to the 6 infantry companies and a battery of artillery, altogether consisting of known as “Ft. Sill”. When work was competed in March of that year, the Potomac. He destroyed more than some 1,400 men. garrison was turned over to the 10th cavalry, which was an all black regi- four hundred wagons. At In April of 1867, a meeting was held between the Army and a few chiefs ment led by white officers. The 7th and the 19th returned to Ft. Hays. From Hagerstown, Md., during a severe of the Plains Indians. Due to a misunderstanding, when the Army moved 1867 to 1870 the 7th Cavalry fought many skirmishes with the Plains Indi- engagement, he again had his horse their troops closer to the Indian encampment, the Indians feared another ans, from Texas to Nebraska. shot under him. At Falling Waters, “Sand Creek Massacre,” where in November 1864 a group of Army volun- In March of 1871, the 7th was withdrawn from the plains and sent to shortly after, he attacked with his teers attacked a peaceful village of Cheyennes under Chief Black Kettle, Kentucky for a 2 year stay. In 1873, the 7th, led by Gen. Custer, conducted small brigade the entire rebel rear 125 Indians were killed, mostly women and children, so the Indians fled an expedition of the Yellowstone, where they were seeking Northern rail- guard. The Confederate commander under cover of night. way route through Dakota and Montana territory. That same year the 7th Gen. Pettigrew was killed and his Custer and the 7th, were given the task of tracking them down, and was transferred to Ft. Abraham Lincoln in Dakota Territory. command routed, with a loss of spent the entire summer doing so. The only contact they made with the In 1874 the 7th conducted an expedition into the Black Hills. Their 1,300 prisoners, two pieces of can- Indians were with small war parties which constantly harassed the troops. mission was to find a site for a new fort. What they found was “Gold in non, and four battle flags. For some Custer later left his command in the field, and traveled back to Ft. Riley them hills.” This brought a flood of whites into the Sioux Nation, and they time after this fight he was con- to visit his wife “Libbie.” Upon arrival there Custer was placed under were not happy about it. 1874 and 1875 saw the 7th trying to keep the two stantly engaged in skirmishing with arrest for being AWOL. On September 15, 1867, Custer was court-martialed nations apart, but without much luck. In December of 1875, the govern- the enemy, and during the Winter and found guilty. He was sentenced to one year suspension from rank and ment gave the Indians until January 31, 1876 to go to a reservation that which followed in picketing the pay. He went home to Monroe, Michigan where he waited out his suspen- was set aside for them. If they failed to do so they would be considered Rapidan between the two armies. sion. “Hostile” and the Army would be sent out after them. He participated in the battle of the In the meantime, a smaller party of officials were sent out to find the The deadline came and went, so the Army was sent out once again. On Wilderness in 1864, and on the 9th Indians and persuade them to come in and sign a treaty. They were suc- May 17, 1876, the 7th Cavalry consisting of 11 companies with 45 men of May of the same year, under Gen. cessful in doing so, and the Indians agreed to sign the treaty if they were each, set out from Ft. Lincoln. Their destination was the Big Horn Valley. Sheridan, he set out on the famous allowed to keep their original hunting grounds and if the whites agreed to There they expected to find the Indian encampment. On Sunday after- raid toward Richmond. His brigade keep the railroad from crossing their land. One other stipulation was that noon, June 25, 1876, the 7th Cavalry found the Indian village. Custer led the column, captured Beaver the signing itself took place on “Medicine Lodge Creek”. There the Indi- divided his regiment into 3 columns, one under Capt. Benteen, who was to Dam, burned the station and a train ans knew there would be plenty of water and grass for all the tribes. scout out the surrounding area. The second column under Major Reno, of cars loaded with supplies, and In Custer’s absence, Major Joel Elliott, who was second in command, was to attack the southern part of the village, and Custer was to attack the released 400 Union prisoners. Re- took 150 men from the 7th, and a battery of the 4th. Artillery provided the northern end. What they did not know was that the village was well over joining Grant’s Army on the escort for the “Peace Commission” who were to go to Medicine Lodge 5 miles long. The 7th, with a force of 600 men, attacked a village of 7,000 Pamunkey, he took an active part in Creek and meet the Indians. The troops left Ft. Larned on October 12th, Indians, 2,000 of which were considered warriors. several engagements. After the 1867 with over 200 wagons, 30 of which were filled with gifts for the By 3 P.M., Gen. Custer and 225 men lay dead on the hillside near the Big battle of Fisher’s Hill, in which he Indians. They arrived at Medicine Lodge Creek on the morning of the Horn River. Major Reno was trapped on a hillside 5 miles to the south. On did most important service, he was 14th. All tribes were present except the Cheyenne. the morning of the 27th, the Indians pulled up their camp and left the Big placed in command of a division, The first council was held on the 19th, with the Cheyenne still not Horn Valley. Major Reno lost 47 men in his battle. No one knew what and remained in that position until there. The Comanches and the Kiowas, signed their treaty on the 20th. On happened to Custer until a relief column came. On the afternoon of the after Lee’s surrender. At the ever- the 25th the Plains Apache signed theirs. Still no Cheyenne tribe had 27th, they found Gen. Custer and his men. memorable battle of Cedar Creek shown up, so the Peace Commission sent word that they would only wait Five members of the Custer family were killed at the Battle of the Little his division was on the right, and until the 28th and then they would leave. On Sunday evening, the 27th, Big Horn. The Gen., his brother Capt. Tom Custer, brother-in-law Capt. not engaged in the rout of the morn- the Cheyenne tribe came into camp. It was agreed that the council would James Calhoun, younger brother Boston, and Nephew Autie Reed, who ing, so that when Sheridan arrived begin at 9:00 in the morning. On Monday, October 28, 1867 the Cheyenne was only 18, both Boston and Autie were civilians. The 7th lost 272 men on the field, after the twenty-mile and the Arapahos signed their treaty, thus ending the signing of the “Medi- during the battle, almost half the regiment. ride, he found at least one command cine Lodge Peace Treaty.” The last encounter that the 7th cavalry had with the Indians, was at ready for service. His immediate or- With the coming of the new year 1868, the government had failed to live Wounded Knee, South Dakota, on December 29, 1890. Tensions were high der was “Go in Custer!” The brave up to its end of the treaty. So, the Indians had returned to the nomadic way and sparks ready to fly when an accidental discharge of a rifle sent a young General only waited for the of life and the depredations started up again. barrage of gun fire down upon the Indians. 350 Indians were killed that word, he went in and never came On September 24th, 1868, Custer’s court martial was remitted. He joined day, most of which were women, children and old men. out until the enemy was driven sev- his troops on Bluff Creek (near present day Ashland, KS.). Almost immedi- That was the end of the Indian threat in the United States. eral miles beyond the battlefield. Nearly one thousand prisoners were captured, among them a Major Gen- eral. Forty-five pieces of artillery were also taken. For this service Custer was made a Brevet Major General of Volunteers. Sheridan, as a further mark of approbation, de- tailed him to carry the news of the victory and the captured battle-flag to Washington. From this time on Welcome To his fortune was made, and he con- tinued steadily to advance in the es- teem of his superiors and of the American people. When the rebels fell back to Appomattox, Custer had Medicine Lodge the advance of Sheridan’s com- mand, and his share in the action is well described in the entertaining Where History Comes Alive! volume entitled; With Sheridan in His Last Campaign. The book in question says: “When the sun was an hour high in the west, energetic Custer in advance spied the depot and four heavy trains of freight cars; C. Nation he quickly ordered his leading regi- Our ments to circle out to the left through the woods, and as they gained the railroad beyond the sta- tion he led the rest of his division Doors pell-mell down the road and envel- oped the train as quick as winking. Custer might not well conduct a siege of regular approaches; but for Are a sudden dash, Custer against the world.” After many another dash of the same kind as that described, Custer was mustered out of the vol- st Open unteer service on the 1 of Febru- ary, 1866, and on July 28 of the same year he was appointed Lieu- tenant Colonel of the Seventh All Nations "Welcome".... United States Cavalry, and since that time has been almost constantly en- gaged in duty upon the frontier. Recently he has contributed several interesting articles to the magazines. Except CARRY!!! Of his personal appearance Col. Newhall, in With Sheridan in His Last Campaign, speaks as follows: “At the head of the horsemen rode Custer of the golden locks, his broad Tharp's sombrero turned up from his hard, bronzed face, the ends of his crim- son cravat floating over his shoul- der, gold galore, spangling his Retail Liquor jacket sleeves, a pistol in his boots, jangling spurs on his heels, and a ponderous claymore swinging at his 211 S. Iliff Medicine Lodge - side. A wild, dare-devil of a Gen- Monday -Thursday 9 a.m. - 10 p.m. eral and a prince of advance guards.” This description will be Friday & Saturday 9 a.m. - 11 p.m. Sunday noon - 8 p.m. 620-886-3113 recognized by those who knew Gen. Custer as exceedingly true to nature. Where old friends are always welcome! He was not a great General. He was a great fighter. His place in the Army will not easily be filled. -Copied from microfilm, The New York Times The Gyp Hill Premiere - Peace Treaty - September 28-29-30, 2018

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Peace Treaty’s Nighttime Entertainment Aims to Rock Downtown

Jeff Davenport The Gyp Hill Premiere As the events of Peace Treaty throughout the day and evening begin to wind down, there is still more entertainment to take in. Dur- ing Friday and Saturday nights, at- tendees can experience the down- town street dance, fueled by live music. This year’s headliners are the Mike Love Band and Lucky People. Performing Friday night will be the Mike Love Band. Mike Love is a singer, songwriter, and producer with 50,000 miles on him. He is an art- ist who not only grew up in and around the music industry, but has Mike Love spent his entire life strapped with a Bed & Breakfast guitar both onstage and in the stu- dio. After recording a four song EP in 2002, Love is no stranger to the center-stage spotlight. After In the historic Gyp Hills of Kansas taking some time off to raise his family, a decade and million miles later, Love saw it as time to step back onto the stage and take the music where he wants it to go. Love released his most recent EP on July 1, titled Lost Highway and first single, the title track, came 620-739-4788 out August 13. Love’s albums have made a definitive statement – he loves country music. Not what most 1374 NE Goldenrod - Medicine Lodge, KS consider to be country music, but REAL country music. “Songs that are rooted in stories and melodies that don’t cross over onto Adult Contemporary radio,” he said. “Country so authentic that when it comes www.bunkhouseatwildfireranch.net through your car speakers the dashboard starts to smell the same as a stale beer soaked bar stage.” [email protected] Though the band is not seeking super-stardom, they do hope for success on the music charts. “Our Ron, Charlotte, Roger and Rodney Ringer last song got to #52 on the charts, previous was #64, and we’re hoping for “Lost Highway” to get into the 40s,” Love said. Sunrise - Sunsets - Serenity So how is it that this Wichita-based artist chose to come to Medicine Lodge to perform at Peace Treaty? “I met Kevin (Noland) at another concert and we talked for a while,” said Love. “He apparently liked what he heard because he called us this year and asked us to play.” Mike grew up around music as his dad filled his son’s ears with the songs of George Jones, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings. Although he gave up his dreams of becoming an artist in his own right in order to raise his kids, but remained a singer, songwriter and producer for many artists in Kansas. When Mike started playing, his dad worked with him to the point that when Mike became part of a major act, his dad was an integral part of the project from behind the scenes. “My first real country gig was playing rhythm and singing harmony for a friend of mine named Terry Henry,” Love stated. “He had his own deal going so I was basically his sideman. He was based out of Kansas, but we toured all over the country. We tried to get a record deal in ’92 as a duo and when that didn’t work out we parted ways. My dad produced us and we wrote with him as well.” Kansas Oddities! Love continued by saying, “Back then we were just trying to fit into whatever mold Nashville wanted. The look, the sound, trying to be marketable, but as I got older I realized that all of that didn’t matter. What really mattered was the music.” Available at Hibbard's and other Love and his bandmates write and produce their own music as independent artists. They are self- supported and are trying to carve out their own niche through recording and touring and establishing a retailers. Online at Amazon. good regional base throughout Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas. In regards to the music industry now as opposed to when he started out, Love stated “There wasn’t as Available at Amazon, Barnes & much social media when I first started playing unlike today. People today may leave a lot quicker - one hit and gone. There’s not a lot of money left in the music industry unless you’re really big. Of course there’s Noble, Sam's, Costco, and at a lot people who still buy music and support bands like us, and that’s who we try to draw in.” [email protected]. For more information on the Mike Love Band, visit their website at www.mikeloveband.com. See me at the Stockade after the Lucky People is no stranger to Medicine Lodge. Having performed during the last Peace Treaty and previous Indian Summer Days, the parade's on Friday & Saturday. band is excited to make a return to our town. They will perform on Saturday night. “Every time we’re there, the people are so wonderful and fun,” said Steve Green, guitarist/vocal- ist. “We really enjoy playing down there.” Green described the band as a “fun, light-hearted cover band” that performs a wide variety of pop and country music with the primary goal “to play music that all people enjoy,” said Green. Let’sLet’s Lucky People consists of Steve, Alan (drums/vocals), Brad (lead vocals), Shaun (guitar/vo- cals), and Troy (bass/vocals). DanceDance!! Roger Ringer They have been together for 12 years and are based out of Wichita. Lucky People Saturday Night! They frequently play at various events around the Wichita area. Although they have no intention of creating or recording original music, they prefer to be a fun, exciting cover band that will get you out of your seat and keep you on the dance floor. Some bands set up their equipment to blow away the audience, but not Lucky People. “We bring a specific rig that is configured so that the music is able to be heard far away, but not be too loud for those who are up close,” said Green. “The people of Medicine Lodge have been so great to us,” Green stated. “We’ve played there four or five times and when we get asked to come, the band gets really excited to play there.” For more information on the band, check out their website, luckypeopleband.com. Other Music Performers

Del Shields Welcome to Del will play after the parade until 1:15 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. Medicine Lodge Del Shields, a true cowboy, is a western music recording artist, cowboy poet, and featured entertainer and co-host of Best of America by Horseback on RFD-TV. He has traveled from coast to coast, entertaining various audiences across this great country. Del is a member of the Academy of Western Artists and the Ultimate Western Music Association. He has recorded four albums, half of which contain his original music. Del had a single that reached number two and two albums that reached number nine! He has been highlighted in numerous publications, includ- Effex ing Cascade Horse Magazine and Trail Rider Magazine. Del has also shared the privilege of entertaining the troops at Fort Riley in Kansas before they were deployed to Iraq. Shields 886-3352 Lane Haas Lane will play on the downtown stage from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday. Mandy Larrison A young singer and songwriter from Coldwater, Kansas, Lane Haas has been turning heads with a great voice and solid guitar playing. His latest record is Honky Tong Dreams and paints an intricate picture of the love, loss and longing that comes from growing up on a Stylist-Owner farm in south central Kan- sas. Look for his newest 115 N. Main - single called Breakdown Medicine Lodge available everywhere online. Nails - Shellac - Color - Waxing - David Kolbek Perms - Pedicures - Tanning Topeka area native and former Medicine Lodge resident David Kolbek will entertain with his excellent guitar work and fan-favor- ite songs on the downtown stage from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday and Satur- Haas day. Kolbek The Gyp Hill Premiere - Peace Treaty - September 28-29-30, 2018

Caldwell Marshal and Gang Rob 13 Medicine Lodge Bank

On April 30th, 1884, a histori- vent escape the posse surrounded “Hang Them!”. Later that night, cal, yet tragic event took place. the canyon while George Friedly three shots fired rapidly broke the The town of Medicine Lodge was went to town for reinforcements. silence. By this signal a crowd of thrown into a state of excitement Within a short time every gun, re- armed men marched to the jail and by the perpetration of murders volver, horse and mule was on its demanded the prisoners. The and attempted robbery. way to the canyon. However, be- sheriff refused but the sheriff and Shortly after 9:00 a.m., during fore the reinforcements arrived, the posse were overpowered and a heavy rain storm, four men rode the robbers had surrendered. The the jail doors opened. The pris- into town from the west. There captors were surprised to find oners in the cell made a sudden were few people on the streets that the robbers were all well dash for freedom and shots rang and the men were able to hitch known. The leader of the gang out from everywhere. Brown ran their horses to the bank coal shed. was Henry Newton Brown, Mar- a few steps from the jail and fell The bank had been open a short shal of Caldwell; the other three shredded with gunshots. Wheeler time. Mr. Geppert, the cashier, were Ben Wheeler, Assistant Mar- was then captured and was badly had just begun work settling the shal of Caldwell; William Smith, wounded. Smith and Wesley were monthly accounts, while Bank a well known cowboy who captured at the jail door. Wheeler, President, E.W. Payne, sat at his worked for the T 5 Range; and Smith and Wesley were taken by desk writing. Three of the four John Wesley (alias Harry Hill) an- the crowd to an Elm tree in the members entered the bank, one other well known cowboy who bottom east of town and told that The Medicine Valley Bank, now known as going to the cashiers window and worked for Redwell and Clark. it there was anything they would Citizens Bank of Kansas, is looming in stately one going to the lattice door in Of these men, Brown was the like to say, to say it now for their majesty at its familiar corner, surrounded by horse the rear of the office. When or- only one who had acquired any time of life was short. drawn vehicles, board sidewalks, hitching posts and dered to throw up their hands, Mr. notoriety. His history began with At the last Wheeler showed dirt streets. Geppert complied while Mr. his connections with “Billy the weakness and begged for mercy. Payne seized a revolver. Four Kid” during the Lincoln County Wesley was also upset, but an- shots were fired by the robbers, War. Brown also served with Billy swered by requesting that his two were received by Mr. Geppert the Kid during the ambush at body be sent to friends in Vernon, and one by Mr. Payne. Rev. McSween’s Store during the raids Texas. When the ropes were Friedly, who was standing across in New Mexico. He was also a ready they were fastened around the street, heard the shots and companion of the noted deperado the robbers’ necks and were alarmed Marshal Dean, who was during some of his most exciting tossed over a limb. In a few min- standing in front of Herrington’s adventures. On July 5th, 1881, the utes the bodies hung swinging in & Smith’s grocery store. The Caldwell City Council appointed the wind. Marshal opened fire on the rob- Brown as Assistant City Marshal. bers and they also returned shots. Prior to this he had been the City The coroner’s verdict was as The robbers broke for their Marshal of Tuscosa, Texas. follows: horses and rode out of town. In a Brown held an excellent reputa- Henry N. Brown came to his few minutes a group of well tion although never acquired habits death by gun or pistol shots; Ben mounted, well armed, determined which some seem to think are Wheeler came to his death by gun men were in hot pursuit. The necessary to make an officer or pistol shots or hanging; Willie posse was headed by Barney popular with the “boys”. While Smith came to his death by hang- O’Conner, Vernon Lytle and assistant marshal, Brown had nu- ing; and John Wesley came to his Wayne McKinney. merous items appear in the news- death by hanging. Those that remained in town paper attesting to his fearlessness. George Geppert who died at the rushed into the bank only to find For a short time during October scene of the crime. He leaves a Mr. Geppert laying dead in the of 1882, Brown left the police wife and one child, Frank S. vault, weltering in his blood with force and went to the “Strip” to Geppert. He was a man of excel- two holes in his chest. Mr. Payne hunt for rustlers. After rejoining lent business tactics and was a was lying near the vault groaning the police force in the middle of well respected citizen. His death with pain. The pistol ball had en- October 1882, Brown was ap- aroused the deepest sympathy. tered behind his right shoulder pointed as Marshal. He was pre- His funeral took place Friday, May blade, probably grazing his spine. sented with a gold plated Winches- 2nd at 3:00 p.m. at the Presbyte- Hope for his survival was doubt- ter by the citizens of Caldwell, as rian Church. Services by Elder ful. token of their appreciation. D.A.Quick, the pallbearers were The pursuing party first was Several weeks after Brown Judge B. Lacy, H.C. Thompson, the robbers beyond the crossing was appointed Marshal, Ben C.W. Ellis, D. VanSlyke, A.L. of the Medicine Lodge river south Wheeler, an old friend of Browns, Freeman and D. Smith. of town. When spotted, the rob- was hired as Assistant Marshal. E.W.Payne died at 10 o’clock bers turned and opened fire and He was thought of as a good of- on Thursday, May 1, 1884, and several exchanges occurred. ficer but was the man who fired was buried at 10 o’clock the fol- While the fighting was taking the shots that killed George lowing day, under the auspices of place, C.J. Taliaferrow and one Geppert. Afterward he was Delta Lodge No. 77, A.F. and or two other members of the thought of as a cold blooded mur- A.M.. of which he was a mem- posse circled to the south and cut derer. ber. E.W. Payne left behind his the robbers off. The robbers were When the party returned to wife, Susan A. Payne and nine forced to leave their horses, when Medicine Lodge, they were placed children. He was 38 at the time one of them gave out, and took in jail and were surrounded by a of his death and besides being the refuge in a canyon, three or four crowd of angry citizens who cried Bank President he also owned the miles south west of town. To pre- local newspaper. The Gyp Hill Premiere - Peace Treaty - September 28-29-30, 2018

An eye-witness account 14 of the bank robbery

For years, there has been one well-known account of that tragic day of April 30th, 1884. It is the account known by most residents of Medicine Lodge. But recently another account has been re- surfaced. The account is that of early Barber County settler Jacob Achenbach. “Uncle Jake” as he was called was a well-known man in Barber County and his life history appeared in the 1935 50th Anniversary Edition of the Kiowa News-Review-Record. An editor’s note indicated that the story came from the Hardtner Press. Born in Epplesheim, Germany, on March 22, 1846, Achenbach came to America at the age of six. In the spring of 1884, he bought 6300 acres of land in Barber County for $5.00 per acre. Achenbach’s account of the robbery is as follows: My first outstanding experience in Barber County was my first trip to Medicine Lodge in April, 1884. Together with a cousin, Philip Kramer, I left Harper one morning in a spring wagon. We arrived in Medicine Lodge late that night. We left our hotel about nine o’clock the next morning and started up town. When we were about a half-block from the bank, north on the east side of the street, I saw a man standing outside the bank with his gun drawn. I stopped, wondering what it was all about, and at the same time he shot at the marshal who was standing across the street. The shot missed but hit the building which is now Adrian Houck’s office, glanced and went through the window in the building which was on the site of the Home State Bank building. After this we turned around and took cover in a saloon. He who fired the shot proved to be the watch for robbers in the bank. The robbers had killed the cashier and critically wounded the presi- dent, who died before night. When the robbers left the bank they started south on their horses with a bunch of cowboys right after them. The robbers took refuge in a canyon about three or four miles southeast of Medicine Lodge and this proved to be their undoing, because there was only one outlet, which was the way they had entered. The cowboys, finding that they had the bandits trapped, surrounded the canyon and then stopped to consider the best method of capturing them. A report was sent to town that the bandits were surrounded in the canyon. About this time I met Charles Eldridge, whom I had known in Green County, Illinois. When he learned that I had a spring wagon, he suggested that we load a couple of barrels of coal oil on the wagon, drive to the canyon, Before his death, Brown had written a last letter to his wife in Caldwell. roll the barrels over the top, and burn the robbers out. It follows: Just as we were getting ready to load the oil the report came back to town that they had surrendered and were being brought in. When the robbers were brought into town they were literally covered with mud. They were first Henry Brown's Letter taken to a restaurant and given their dinner, then brought out to have their pictures taken, and then Medicine Lodge placed in jail. April 30, 1884 Darling Wife: I am in jail here. Four of us tried to Naturally the news had gone out and cowboys kept coming to town all that afternoon and evening. rob the bank here, and one man shot one of the men in the bank, and There was a great deal of drinking and talk of lynching. he is now at his home. I want you to come and see me as soon as you About eight or nine o’clock the crowd stormed the jail. When they rushed the door one robber can. I will send you all of my things and you can sell them, but keep rushed out but was shot in the doorway. A second one started to run but was shot in the back. The shot the Winchester. This is hard for me to write this letter, but it was all set his coat afire which made it easy to follow him. He was caught in a few minutes. for you, my sweet wife, and for the love I have for you. Do not go The others gave up immediately and they were taken to where the second robber was being held back on me; if you do it will kill me. Be true to me as long as you live, and all three were hanged on the same tree. and come to see me if you think enough of me. My love is just the I walked up to one of them just before the hanging and asked him how he felt. All he would say same as it always was. Oh, how I did hate to leave you on last Sun- was, “My God! My God!” day eve, but I did not think this would happen. I thought we could With all the drinking and shooting, I do not see how it happened that many more were not killed. take in the money and not have any trouble with it; but a man’s fond- est hopes are sometimes broken with trouble. We would not have Achenbach’s eyewitness account adds detail to the traditional story, which goes like this: been arrested, but one of our horses gave out and we could not leave Shortly after 9:00 a.m. on April 30, 1884, four men rode into town from the west during a heavy him alone. I do not know what to write. Do the best you can with everything. I want you to send me some clothes. Sell all the things rain storm. Few people were on the streets, and the men were able to hitch their horses to the bank that you do not need. Have your picture taken and send it to me. coal shed. Now, my dear wife, go and see Mr. Wezleben and Mr. Nyce and get The bank had been open only a short time. The bank’s cashier, a Mr. Geppert, had just begun work the money. If a mob does not kill us we will come out all right after settling the monthly accounts. Bank President, E.W. Payne, sat writing at his desk. Three of the four while. Maude, I did not shoot anyone, and did not want the others to robbers entered the bank; one approached the cashier’s window and another went to the lattice door kill anyone, but they did, and that is all there is about it. in the rear of the office. Now, good-bye, my darling wife.H.N. Brown When ordered to throw up their hands, Mr. Geppert complied while Mr. Payne seized a revolver. This proves that they did not expect to pay too great a penalty for The robbers fired off four shots. Two bullets hit Geppert and one hit Payne. their crime. Sheriff C.F. Rigg, collected the personal items of Brown Standing accros the street, Reverend Friedley heard the shots and alerted Marshal Dean, who was and intended to send them to Caldwell. However, before he did some- standing in front of Herrington’s & Smith’s grocery store. one stole the Winchester Brown prized so highly. It was later located Dean opened fire on the robbers and there followed an exchange of gunfire. The robbers ran for in a collection in Texas. Brown was presented the Winchester after their horses and rode out of town, pursued by a well-armed posse. bringing peace to the dangerous streets of Caldwell, Kansas. Killers The posse was headed by Barney O’Conner, Vernon Lytle and Wayne McKinney. were often times hired to keep other killers in line. Unlike most killers, Townspeople rushed into the bank only to find Geppert dead in the vault with two holes in his Brown had a different personality. It was known that he did not drink, chest. Payne was lying near the vault groaning in pain. The shot entered behind his right shoulder smoke, or chew. Brown settled down, bought a house in Caldwell blade, probably grazing his spine. He was not expected to survive. and married a local girl. It was after this he was presented with the The robbers were pursued to the Medicine River crossing south of town. The robbers turned and engraved rifle in January, 1883. The engraving on the rifle reads: opened fire. A gunfight broke out. “Presented to City Marshall (sic) H.N. Brown for valuable services While the fighting was taking place, C.G. Taliaferro and one or two other members of the posse rendered on behalf of the Citizens of Caldwell, Kas.” circled to the south and cut the robbers off. When one of the robbers’ horses gave out, the men were The gun has now been acquired by the Kansas State Historical forced to travel on foot, and took refuge in a canyon three or four miles southwest of town. Society in Topeka, Ks. on I-70. Kansas traded different artifacts to To prevent escape, the posse surrounded the canyon while George Friedley went to town for rein- the Arkansas Historical Society in the equivalent amount of $40,000.00 forcements. But before reinforcements arrived, the robbers surrendered. to acquire the Winchester. If you are at the museum and would like to Everyone was surprised to find that the robbers were all well-known. The leader of the gang was see the gun, the curator can remove it from the vault for you to view. Henry Newton Brown, Marshal of Caldwell; the other three were Ben Wheeler, Assistant Marshal of R.L. Wilson oh Hadlyme, Conn., an authority on western firearms Caldwell; William Smith, a well-known cowboy who worked for the T 5 Range; and John Wesley and honorary curator of firearms for the society, said the gun is one (alias Harry Hill), another well-known cowboy who worked for Redwell and Clark. of the most interesting and historic of Winchester arms and “stands as a classic collector’s item museum piece from the American west’s most wild and wooly days.”

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Brown Was No Stranger To The Gun 15 1876, Texas Panhandle: thought that the Kid had killed By the following afternoon was released the next day and Bank, they encountered two In a Panhandle cattle camp him, but it was a straight shot the posse had surrounded the he spent Saturday drinking and men, President of the bank, the normally quiet Brown be- from the alley shed where outlaws’ camp, but the thieves proclaiming threats against the E.W.Payne, and a cashier, came involved in a quarrel with Brown was hiding. All three opened fire when given the or- two lawmen. That night George Geppert. When they de- a cowboy. Angry words soon led from the shed went over the der to surrender. A rifle duel en- Wheeler reported to Brown that manded money, Payne went for to gunplay, and Brown put three eight foot wall with the help of sued, with the five lawmen fac- Boyce had threatened him with his pistol and Brown fatally shot slugs into the man, killing him some barrels and made their es- ing a rustler named Ross, his a gun, Brown picked up his Win- him, at which time Wheeler and instantly. cape. wife, his daughter, his two sons, chester and headed down the Wesley put two bullets into April 1, 1878, Lincoln, New August 5, 1878, near the a daughter-in-law, and her child. street to find Boyce. Geppert, who had his hands Mexico: Mescalero Indian Agency, After about a half hour the older He saw Boyce standing in raised. Geppert staggered to the Brown was one of the men New Mexico: Ross son had been killed, and front of Phillip’s saloon, and or- vault and slammed the door, be- along with “Billy the Kid”, who The Kid, Brown, George the other seriously wounded der the man to stop what he was fore sitting down in front of it ambushed Sheriff Brady and his Coe, and six or eight Mexicans several times. The gang gave up. doing and freeze. Boyce reached and died. deputy, George Hindman, as were riding to discover what had May 14, 1883, Caldwell, under his jacket, and Brown Getting no money, and kill- they walked down the street in happened to Dick Brewer’s Kansas: raised his rifle and let two shots ing two men, the robbers bolted Lincoln. The Kid and his bunch corpse after the battle at Blazer’s On a Monday morning a go. One of the bullets struck out of town. Followed by a rose up from behind the wall and Mill. They pull up to water their Pawnee, named Spotted Horse, Boyce and he staggered back posse, led by Barney O’Conner, started firing, the Kid, Brown, horses about a mile outside the was making a nuisance of him- into the saloon, begging Brown who once had employed Brown and Middleton fired the most Mescalero Agency, and mur- self. He was brandishing a pis- not to kill him. It was too late, as a cowboy. Running to get to shots, doing the damage, killing dered a clerk, Morris Bernstein. tol and demanding a meal for the bullet had entered his arm, their spare mounts, they entered Brady and Hindman. Matthews The Mexicans were pursued, himself and his squaw. A com- breaking the bone, then on into the wrong canyon, they entered was also hit, but along with and rode back to their three com- plaint was registered with the side of his chest. He was car- a box canyon. Brown and his Long and Pippin they got to panions in a blaze of bullets. Brown, and the marshal ried to a nearby warehouse gang only lasted two hours in the cover. Moments later the Kid Brown’s horse was killed and promptly sought out Spotted where a doctor looked at him, small boxed canyon before they opened the plank gate on the the Kid, who was on foot, Horse, locating him in Morris’ but he died a few hours later. put down their guns and asked wall and he along with Wait watched his frightened mount grocery store. April 30, Medicine Lodge, for protection from the town’s walked out to steal the two dead run away. The bunch fought Brown ordered the Indian to Kansas: people. lawmen’s rifles. As they ap- their way to cover in a Stand of come with him, but Spotted Brown and Wheeler left town They were put in a log build- proached , Matthews opened trees, discovered a pair of Indian Horse refused and began slap- heavily armed on a Sunday af- ing under protection, with the fire, wounding Wait and nicking ponies, and rode away to Coe’s ping at his six-gun. Brown ternoon, after getting permission town’s people yelling to lynch the Kid in the side. The two ranch. pulled out his weapon and told from the mayor, after telling him them. They had time to eat two scampered back to cover and April 11, 1883, near the Indian to stop, and when the they were going to Oklahoma in meals, Brown wrote a letter to his they all five escaped. Hunnewell, Kansas: Indian went for his pistol, the search of a murderer. But the new wife, saying he had done it April 4, 1878, Blazer’s Mill, Late on a Tuesday morning marshal opened fire. Brown put next day they joined two cow- for her and that he didn’t expect New Mexico: Brown and Ben Wheeler were three slugs into Spotted Horse, boys, William Smith and John to get caught. There were a few Three days later Brown is with asked for assistance by Deputy but when he still was able to Wesley, and the four men shots and the building was over a large party of Regulator’s U.S. Marshal Cash Hollister, raise his gun, Brown put a bul- headed to Medicine Lodge, run by a lynch mob at about 9:00 P.M. Brown had been expecting scouring the country side for who had located a band of horse let into his head. He died about about seventy miles west of the mob and had slipped out of members of the opposition. The thieves camped near Hunnewell. two hours later. Caldwell.The next morning they his hand cuffs. When the door was Regulator’s stopped for a meal (Brown was a sheriff by this December 15, 1883, staked fresh mounts in the Gyp- open, he ran for the alley, where at Blazer’s Mill, and shortly af- time.) When the three lawmen Caldwell, Kansas: sum Hills, a few miles out of a farmer cut him in two with a ter their arrival Buckshot Rob- passed through Hunnewell, they A Texas gambler, named Medicine Lodge, then they rode double blast from his shotgun. erts, a heavily armed member of picked up two more lawmen, Newt Boyce, had cut two men into town in a driving rain. Ar- While on the ground, a few more the opposition, wandered into Deputy Sheriff Wes Thralls and in a Caldwell saloon on Friday riving about a little after nine. bullets were put into him. His their midst. the marshal of Hunnewell, a night, Brown and Wheeler threw Brown, Wheeler, and Wesley three companions were all Brown,Charlie Bowdre, and man named Jackson. him into jail for the night. Boyce entered the Medicine Lodge lynched. George Coe walked up to Rob- erts, and Bowdre pulled a gun and ordered Roberts to surren- der. But Roberts said “Not much, Mary Ann,” whipped up his rifle and the shooting begin. Roberts wounded Coe and Middleton, but he himself was shot in the middle by Bowdre. By now they were outside and Roberts ran for cover inside the Welcome to building, while the Kid and the Welcome to other Regulators headed around the corner. After a time of firing Medicine and hitting nothing, Regulator Medicine leader, Dick Brewer, tried to Lodge's maneuver into position to get a shot. The top of his head was Lodge! Peace Treaty blown off however, and the Kid and the rest of the Regulators Medicine Lodge Memorial 2018 soon rode off, leaving Roberts to die of his wound. Hospital and Physicians Clinic Celebration! May 1, 1878, Lincoln County, New Mexico: Brown was one of several Regu- 710 N. Walnut - Medicine Lodge, Kansas 67104 lators who met members of the Barber County opposition in the streets of Lin- Hospital: 620-886-3771 coln. Shots were exchanged, but no one was seriously hurt. Don R. Ransom, DO Farm Bureau May 14, 1878 Lincoln County, New Mexico: 620-886-3948 Corona M. Hoch Brown was with a small group Justin Morgan, DO 112 N.Main of gunmen led by Billy the Kid, Medicine Lodge, KS on a horse stealing raid against Patty McNamar, DNP, APRN 620-886-3316 a ranch east of Lincoln on the Patrick Martin, APRN Pecos River. The ranch wran- Zel & Carla glers halfheartedly made a fight Leigh Schreiner, PAC to protect their herd, but the Megan Nelson, APRN Regulators rode away with 710 N. Walnut twenty-seven head of horses and killing only one man, someone Medicine Lodge called “Indian”. July 15 - 19, 1878, Lincoln County, New Mexico: During the climatic battle of the Lincoln County War, the Kid fought from McSween’s adobe house along with ten other gun- WWelcomeelcome slingers. Brown spent most of his time in a shed, about thirty yards away from McSween’s, across the alley. Also in the shed was George Coe and Joseph J. Smith.The first days of the siege RRODEOODEO were spent mainly staying out of ATC the way of bullets flying in the windows. On the last day of the battle the house was set on fire, the gunslingers inside had to get up the nerve to break out with Accounting all the people outside shooting FFFans!ans!ans! at them. When only three of the twelve rooms of his house was left, McSween, walked outside armed with just the Bible he had 620-886-3708 clutched to his chest. As he 206 S. Main - Medicine Lodge started to plea for sanity he was shot down by some men who had crept up close to the house. Tom O’Folliard got up enough Welcome nerve to break for the river bed, but as he went out, the man fol- lowing him, Harvey Morris, Native went down. He went back to help him, when he was shot in Americans! the shoulder, he dragged him Greg and Amy Axline back into the house as the rest of the men made a break out the 620-886-1739 door. Three of them were riddled with bullets, but the Kid made Medicine Lodge Proud! it through unharmed. The first to die of the opposition was Bob Medicine Lodge Strong! 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THE FIRST PAPER IN BARBER what he had printed. Whether it was bottom of the Medicine, and admin- tinction such as no other editor per- my brother and his brother-in-law, COUNTY the poor print of the paper or the istered this mixture liberally to the haps had ever received, he would E. W. Iliff; the Barber County Mail We are all familiar with the Medi- flirtatious disposition of the editor nude person of the editor. I do not personally rather have remained a slept the sleep that knows no wak- cine Lodge Cresset, The Gyp Hill that caused him to become unpopu- need to tell my readers who are fa- private and humble citizen on foot. ing and a new paper, the Medicine Premiere and the former Barber lar, I am unable to say, but the fact miliar with the nature of the sand- After carrying the shivering and be- Lodge Cresset, was born. County Index. However, they were was that before his first year in the bur, that it is an unpleasant veg- smeared editor about to their hearts’ The name Cresset was the selec- preceded by the Barber County town had expired a number of resi- etable to have attached to one’s content, occasionally adding to his tion of Iliff, who looked the typical Mail for a short time. Tom McNeal dents gathered together and de- person. Clothed with this un- general discomfort by bouncing him frontiersman, but was really a lover tells the story of its ill-fated editor cided that he must depart thence welcome covering of sand- up and down on the rough and of good literature and an especial in “When Kansas Was Young.” in haste and with a promise never burs and sweetness, splintered corner of the rail, the regu- admirer of Milton. Readers of ‘Para- “In the early part of the year 1878 to return. Cochran was elevated lators told him that he must leave dise Lost’ will recall the vivid de- a man by the name of Cochran con- It was also decided that upon a cedar town within twenty-four hours, scription of Satan’s palace which cluded that there was a field for a there must be meted out to and never show his face or was lighted by ‘cressets.’ This ap- newspaper in the frontier town of him punishment commensu- form there again. pealed to Iliff’s poetic fancy and so Medicine Lodge. He purchased a rate with his offending, and There were other citizens the name, Medicine Lodge Cresset. Washington hand press from on a decidedly cool night of the town, among them a The name called for a good deal of McElroy of the Humboldt Union, to- in the month of February, brother of mine, who, while not explanation. Half the exchanges per- gether with a couple of racks, a few 1879, the regulators took particularly enamored with sisted for years in calling it the Cres- cases, a well worn font of long the editor from his humble Cochran or his style of journal- cent, apparently laboring under the primer type and another font of office, stripped him of his ism, felt that his morals would at impression that some followers of brevier, a few job fonts for advertis- clothing and then administered least average up with those of his the Sultan had migrated to Kansas ing purposes, moved the outfit to a punishment which I think was persecutors. They also organized, and gone into the newspaper busi- Medicine and commenced the pub- entirely unique and unprec- armed themselves with such weap- ness. There was also some consid- lication of the Barber County Mail. edented in the treatment of edi- ons as were convenient, and told erable curiosity among the readers Possibly Cochran concluded that it tors. There was no tar in the the editor that he could remain as of the paper, who had never read didn’t make much difference what town and not a feather bed to long as he wished and they the blind poet’s great creation. kind of a paper was published in be opened, but an enterprising would be responsible for his ‘What’s the meanin’ of this here that kind of a town, or possibly he settler had brought in a sor- safety. Cochran expressed name Cresset?’ asked a rough, didn’t know how to keep the worn ghum molasses mill the year his appreciation of their kind- weatherbeaten cowboy, who type clean and a decent ‘impression’ before and as sorghum gen- ness, but confessed to them that ambled one day into the office. The on the Washington hand press, but erally grew well there, had the atmosphere of the town did not origin of the name was carefully ex- whatever the reason, the fact was manufactured a crop into thick, seem salubrious or congenial to him plained to him. He mused over it for that the paper was generally unread- ropy molasses. Owing to the cold rail and if they would arrange to pur- a time, then looked at the rather able. Cochran was a man of fair abil- weather the molasses was thicker and carried chase his paper and outfit he would meager and not very handsome pa- ity with a rather catchy style of writ- and ropier than usual. The regula- about on the shoulders of the seek other climes where it was not per, and exclaimed: ing, but a good many of his local tors secured a gallon of this, mixed self-appointed regulators. He pri- the habit to decorate editors with ‘Damned fittin’ name I would and editorial observations were lost it well with sandburs, which grew vately acknowledged afterward that sandburs and sorghum molasses. say. This here is a hell of a paper, because it was impossible to read with great luxuriance in the sandy while this was an elevation and dis- His proposition was accepted by isn’t it?’”

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VOLUME XXXI MEDICINE LODGE, KANSAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1912 NUMBER 50.

speech, and the orchestra public buildings, the public tribulations experienced by and several choruses fur- school for instance, where the club in their endeavors Wisner nished delightful and ap- children from 5 to 21 years to give this city a beautiful propriate music for the oc- of age may obtain wisdom and model library. She also donates casion. Mr. Long, who and knowledge; it has a thanked the citizens of this has been a great friend of limitation, but all may drink town and others who had the Wisner family for a at this fountain, it has no sacrificed and in other fountain great many years, in his limitation. The smallest ways helped the ladies of April 2nd, 1912 presentation speech made child, in his innocence and the club obtain funds to The public water foun- the following remarks: play, the young man and give us this library. And tain that was presented to “Thirty-two years ago woman in the beauty of after all their work, to fall this city by Dr. Henry Dr. Henry Wisner came to youth, the grey haired with short the total amount of Wisner of Sharon town- Barber County to engage tottering steps may stoop the expense necessary for ship has arrived and will in the cattle business. He and drink of the elixir of its completion. Then she soon be installed. The lo- had been unfortunate in life. Even the traveler with told of Dr. Wisner coming cation of this beautiful real estate transactions in the prairie schooner pass- forward and wholeheart- fountain is directly in front Chicago and had recently ing through our city on his edly giving them the of the library building, just lost all of his property. The way to his wife’s folks may amount necessary to can- outside the curbing, where capital to engage in this draw rain at this fountain, cel their debt. Her tribute teams can be watered con- new business to him was and his dog may lap from to Dr. Wisner and his be- stantly. furnished by his wife and the basin beneath the loved wife, now dead, was This fountain is built to brother, with whom he trough.” beautiful and expressed the quench the thirst of man or formed a partnership “I see upon some faces gratitude of The Monday beast, even the little dog which continued until their a faint smile brought there Afternoon Club toward will not have to go thirsty. respective deaths. While by the thought of the kind them. It is an up-to-date fountain the cattle business was The Wisner Fountain was dedicated in 1912 and stands at its original of quality of our water, of Next came Hon. new to him, investing in location near Main and First Street. John Nixon had a fundamental which you are asked to Seward I. Field who spoke and will fill one of this part in its restoration which was completed in 1997, when it was re- city’s long-felt wants. land was not. He early be- dedicated to the city. partake, but I prophesy that of the doctor and his Ma- Dr. Wisner has long gan to acquire lands in erelong the persons who sonic life. In his talk, he been contemplating a gift Sharon Valley, which in pecting came first to his cinity of Sharon, but not- drink therefrom will say spoke of the doctor’s de- of this kind to our fair city time as they increased in wife. She had been his withstanding this fact, he that the water in Medicine votion to this great order and a great deal of care value gave him a compe- companion, physician, and has always held dear to his Lodge is not only the best and as to one of his chiefest was taken in the selection tence in his old age.” nurse for many years, and heart the City of Medicine water in the state of Kan- wishes, that the emblem of and construction of this “Dr. Wisner has taken her death was a great loss Lodge and its people.” sas but in the United the order be placed on the gift to the city. He was a an interest in public affairs to him. He wanted to see “For a number of years States, and you may say to fountain. His speech was great lover of the dumb and has had a broad sym- this fountain that he has in my early practice as a him that I will use every filled with great feeling of animal, always seeking to pathy for men and animals. erected to her memory, lawyer, I was opposing effort within my power to the doctor’s life in the make the way easier for He loved men, but he also but that wish may never be counsel in nearly all of his improve the present water Masonic Lodge, his loyalty, them because they are un- had a kindly feeling for the gratified. We do this duty litigation, but in later years, system, so that the water his honor, and assistance to able to speak their wants. dog, the horse, and the for him today which he he became my client, and that bubbles forth from this the order. His address was This Good Old Town cow. He accumulated his cannot do himself.” after having the opportu- fountain may be as pure deeply appreciated by the should feel proud of this property in Barber County “As his representative, nity of knowing him better, and wholesome as this audience and was master- fountain. We will always from the cow, but the dog I present to you, the I have learned to admire fountain is grand and beau- fully delivered. have a warm spot in our and the horse helped him Mayor and Council of the him in many respects, and tiful.” Hon. J.N. Tincher also hearts for the kindness of to do it. This fountain City of Medicine Lodge, I believe that anyone who “I hope that this philan- spoke of the doctor’s alle- the doctor. which is a memorial to his this fountain erected as a knows him well will say, thropic spirit may grow in giance to the Masonic or- Besides giving the city wife represents certain memorial to his departed ‘His life was gentle, and this community. You may der and the county in gen- the fountain, he has paid fixed opinions of Dr. wife, whom he will soon the elements so mixed in not be financially able to eral. He also spoke of the off the remaining indebt- Wisner. He never could join. It is designed for the him, that nature might build a fountain, erect a efforts expanded by the edness on the Lincoln Li- endure and would never comfort and use of dumb stand up and say to all the monument, or found a doctor in helping humanity brary building, which permit any mis- home for charity, but and its dumb servants. He makes him the largest treatment of you can do your little told of his feeling in this giver in this beautiful dumb animals. by giving encour- matter and pledged that he building. When he lived in agement to the would uphold the work of Chicago, he con- different im- this man, always help in tributed to the provements preserving it. Hon. J.N. Unveiling of Humane Society which your city made a fine talk and was and was an ac- officers under- vigorously applauded. Wisner tive supporter and take. You can Hon. Ralph Faxon was Fountain assistant of its of- build your curb then called upon, and his ficers in their and gutters, you response was one that The Cresset, June 6, work. He can terrace and covered his history in 1912 erected this foun- make green the Medicine Lodge, her steps The citizens of Medi- tain so that the parkage in front forward, and other things cine Lodge and Barber horse and dog of your homes, up to the present time. His County who were present that helped him in you can cut your talk was principally on the at this ceremony had the his work and the weeds and im- improvement of the city pleasure of witnessing one cow that made his prove your and her steps forward, and of the most devout and in- fortune should places, which will every word of it found at- spiring scenes which have a place in assist in beautify- tentive ears. He spoke of shows a man’s love for his this city where they might animals and for his fellow world: this was a man.’” ing the city and making the the sacrifices we must fellow man and dumb ani- drink.” men. It will stand here as “I accept this fountain people more comfortable make to have civic im- mals in the unveiling of “This fountain is not for a monument to the kindly in all its beauty and splen- and make it a better and provements and that we the Wisner Memorial animals alone but also for spirit of a good man, and dor, and you may say to more wholesome place in must make these sacri- Fountain on the afternoon man. While Dr. Wisner while you use it, remem- him that as long as I am which to live.” fices. He spoke feelingly of Decoration Day in this loves his fellow man, he ber it is a memorial to a mayor of this city or any- “This city has always of his pride for this good city. Hundreds of people has certain definite views woman of great ability and thing having to do “I ac- had its factions and its in- old town, and we can al- were present on this day to about his actions. He be- wonderful energy, who cept this fountain in all its fluences. Men and women ways count on him as one witness the presentation of lieves in temperance and while she was a competent beauty and splendor, and have gone from here and of our ardent supporters. this beautiful and useful for many years has been physician, was also a de- you may say to him that as occupied stations of pub- The people appreciated gift by Dr. Henry Wisner interested in the different voted wife and loyal friend. long as I am mayor of this lic honor and trust that has the remarks made for this of Barber County to the organizations that are de- Since her death, he has had city or anything having to made the name of Medi- good old town and his Lincoln Library and the voted to that work. He has but one desire. He wanted do with city affairs, I will cine Lodge famous thoughts of it. City of Medicine Lodge. no patience with the mod- to live to finish the work see that its beauty is pre- throughout the United Mr. Faxon’s talk was We cannot better describe erate drinker. He believes which we complete today. served.” States. Those who have the wind up of the ceremo- Dr. Wisner’s intention in in total abstinence. For Now that it is done, he will “It adorns the entrance left here whom I have met, nies, and thus ended one giving this fountain than years, he has never used only wait for that call that of the Lincoln Library, an have expressed a desire to of the greatest days this described in the speeches intoxicants or tobacco, and will not be long in coming institution created by that return and some have re- old town has ever wit- we print this week. It was he does not believe that and which he will gladly time honored association turned. So let us make it a nessed. The Wisner Me- erected to the memory of they are necessary to the welcome and cheerfully known as ‘The Monday place where people will morial Fountain is a monu- his beloved wife and the comfort, health, or happi- answer.” Afternoon Club,’ and I come to live and a place ment that we can rightly prevention of thirst of the ness of man. He has do- At the conclusion of want to say that in my where people will be feel proud of, and each and poor dumb animals to nated to charity, and in his Mr. Long’s speech, his judgment, he could not proud to live. Let the fas- every citizen should con- which he was a devout and declining years he is con- daughter, Miss Margaret, have selected a more ap- cination be great, as great sider it his and her duty to loving friend. sidering commendable ob- unveiled the beautiful propriate and beautiful as that of the waters of the protect this sacred gift. This beautiful piece of jects for his assistance.” fountain, and the water site.” Nile.” Our expression of grati- work is erected directly in “He loves the Masonic was turned on, filling the “I remember that at “The Arabs say: ‘He tude to Dr. Wisner is most front of the Lincoln Li- Lodge and Lincoln Library bowls and tanks. It was a first, some thought it would who drinks of the waters profound, and the memory brary on Main Street. It and has lifted the debt from great moment, and tre- be better if it were placed of the Nile must always of he himself, his departed stands on a cement terrace the library and has made it mendous applause greeted in the center of the square, thirst, no other water can wife, and his beautiful gifts and from its sides pour possible for the lodge to the spectacle. but when I asked him about quench or satisfy.’ Those to Medicine Lodge will three streams of clear wa- have a splendid banquet Mayor Samuel Griffin it, he said, ‘No, Sam, I who have done homage forever remain with the ter from which the weary hall. He has also remem- then made the speech of have been thinking it over, and taken the oath of fe- people of this city. “I see wonderer can quench his bered Highland Cemetery, acceptance, and his words and I don’t believe that you alty to the City of Medi- upon some faces a faint thirst. Directly below, and where rest his brother and expressed the deep grati- had better put it there. It cine Lodge can never be smile brought there by the just above the curbing, his beloved wife and tude of the people of this would only be in the way, alienated or foresworn. thought of the kind of qual- stands a trough where wa- where he expects to rest city for this beautiful monu- and I don’t want to put any- As the gray and mighty ity of our water, of which ter is constantly running soon by them. These ment and the thoughts of thing in anybody’s way, and main to the sailor, as the you are asked to partake, where the horse or cow were charitable acts in the our people for Dr. Wisner. I am afraid that if it was desert to the Bedouim, as but I prophesy that erelong may obtain drink, and at past. The future may have His remarks are as follows: placed in the center of the the Alps to the mountain- the persons who drink the base of this trough are others similar to them.” Ladies and Gentlemen: square, it would look like a eer, so is Medicine Lodge therefrom will say that the two small vessels where “For months, Dr. “I consider it quite an town pump in a Missouri to those who love her.” water in Medicine Lodge there is fresh water all the Wisner has been lying in honor to have the oppor- village.’” Following the speech of is not only the best water time for the dog, cat, his Sharon home, looking tunity as mayor of this city “In making his visits to acceptance by Mayor in the state of Kansas but chickens, and other small forward to these ceremo- to accept on behalf of its our town, his attention was Griffin, Mrs. W.H. in the United States, and animals who are not large nies and hoping he could people this beautiful foun- called to the fact that no- McCague spoke in behalf you may say to him that I enough to obtain relief be present to witness tain, erected and donated where upon our streets of The Monday Afternoon will use every effort within from the higher sources. them. He knew a few to the City of Medicine could be found a watering Club in its sincere thanks my power to improve the Mayor Samuel Griffin days ago that he could not Lodge by Dr. Henry trough, and this condition to Dr. Wisner. She spoke present water system, so acting for the City of come. He is confined Wisner and presented to us led him to express his de- on the life of this organi- that the water that bubbles Medicine Lodge had most of the time to his bed. by his esteemed friend Mr. sire to place upon our zation who planned, ex- forth from this fountain charge of the ceremonies, His body is weak but his Long.” streets in some appropri- ecuted, and completed the may be as pure and whole- and his work was highly mind is clear and active.” “For a great many ate place a public drinking Lincoln Library which we some as this fountain is complimented by all. “Last October, the sum- years, Dr. Wisner has re- fountain for man and are so proud of. She grand and beautiful.” Hon. Chester I. 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By Bree Schaffer tory of this town. It’s so impor- The Gyp Hill Premiere tant for everyone to know the A nine year old boy once had history, it means a lot when you a dream of becoming a cowboy get older. I’ll never forget this someday. Trulin Kinser is now one time when these people from 86 years old and has lived his life New York came down to watch fulfilling his accomplishment of and they wanted to take my pic- being a cowboy. ture of me on my horse, they This cowboy’s dream was to thought that was the coolest get himself a good horse and a thing. In five years I will be 91 good woman. Trulin met his wife years old and I suppose if I could when he was only 16 years of physically be able to participate age and they have been together in the Pageant, I would, but I ever since. To this day, Trulin doubt it, I can barely lift my right has been married to his wife, arm.” Wilma for 67 years. Trulin grew Trulin is so thankful he got to up in Hugoton, Kansas and has experinece all the years in the lived in Medicine Lodge since Peace Treaty and hopes the 1983. younger cowboys will help take Before moving to Medicine over so they can continue with Lodge, Trulin and Wilma had the celebration. heard about the Peace Treaty “Being a young squirt, it re- Celebration that went on in ally was a dream come true. Medicine Lodge. In the late Ever since I was nine years old 1960’s they came to their first I always had it in the back of my Peace Treaty Celebration with mind that I wanted to be a cow- their good friends Betty and Sam boy. Every year when the Peace Rickard. Treaty rolled around, I got so “It was so cold the very first excited. It was interesting all the time we came to watch, but I things I got to see and learn from loved it,” he said. the Peace Treaty, it was most When the Kinsers moved definitely one of the best times here in 1983, the next Peace and experices that I ever had in Treaty was held in 1985. Trulin my life,” he said. of course wanted to be a part of With his wife by his side, riding the celebration. Trulin then real- and sharing the history of this B Schaffer Photo ized how important the history community; this cowboy’s life Trulin and his twelve year old horse, Spice. Trulin shares his story about how this will be the last Peace Treaty of the Peace Treaty was and has has been a dream come true. he participates in. only missed two Peace Treaties since that time. His job was to park the cars at the reenactment, he also parked cars for the Ranch Rodeo. “We would go to Wichita and be in the parades to help adver- tise for the upcoming Peace Treaty. I was nervous one year when people were talking about laying down the Peace Treaty, so a bunch of us guys got to- gether at the Sale Barn, where I worked at the time, and decided we would never let that happen. I’m so glad they didn’t, it’s so Red Dirt Repair much history for our town and the surrounding towns,” Trulin said. James L. Horn - Trulin has had three different horses throughout the years of Peace Treaty. He will be riding Mechanic/Owner his horse who is twelve years old Diesel Repair Specialist now, Spice, this September, and he will be getting on him this Sat- urday for the first time in a long 620-930-8075 time. Trulin said, “My advice to 1670 SW Hwy 160 (Junction Hwy 160 & 281) these younger kids is when you Medicine Lodge, Kansas get older you will start regret- ting not being a part of the his-

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During a fearful his politics. storm his ship was driven ashore “Among the unique and re- near Ludington and it was largely markable characters brought to owing to the masterful courage public notice and notoriety by the and coolness of Jerry Simpson that political upheaval of thirty years the lives of all the crew were ago, no one attained to greater saved. fame or secured wider celebrity “During the seventies he de- than ‘Sockless’ Jerry Simpson, of cided to come to Kansas and ‘Maidson Lodge.’ as the facetious settled in Jackson County, where newspaper reports dubbed him. he engaged in farming and stock Jerry was born in the province of raising with some success, but con- New Brunswick in 1842, of cluded that there were better op- Scotch ancestry. His father mi- portunities in the free-range coun- grated to the United States when try and came to Barber County in Jerry was a very little boy and ’83 or ’84. It was an unfortunate settled in the state of Michigan. Al- time to get into the cattle business. though of an alert mind and pos- He had hardly got fairly started sessed of a real hunger for knowl- when the terrible winter of ’85-’86 “Sockless Jerry” Simpson in a political debate with Chester Long at Harper, Kansas, 1892 edge, Jerry’s educational opportu- came on and nearly wiped his herd nities were exceedingly limited. off the face of the earth. His cows He was illiterate so far as the died faster than he could skin them feated him it was not a victory to bushel or less and was burned for Too late the Republican leaders branches taught in the schools and spring found him nearly blow about. fuel all over Kansas. A few years became alarmed and decided that were concerned, but a voracious broke. He had come to the county “Two years later he was again before the people of the state had the way to retain power was to get reader and, endowed with a re- with some $10,000. a candidate and as that happened plunged into debt with reckless- up a platform about as radical as markable memory, he managed to “In 1886 the Union Labor party to be the year when Kansas rolled ness seldom if ever equaled and anything suggested by the Alliance store his mind with more than an was organized and the old-time up a Republican party majority of now pay day had come and ten- and then release the candidate ordinary equipment of really good Greenbackers, of whom Jerry was 82,000, Jerry was buried under the cent corn and forty-cent wheat to from all party allegiance and au- literature, so that he was entitled one, promptly joined it. Jerry had general landslide. There were pay with. It is not very remarkable thorize him to pay no attention to to be called a well-read man. At already demonstrated some abil- those who predicted that he would that the people saw red, and talked the party caucus. The concessions the outbreak of the Civil War he ity as speaker in country lyceums never come back again, but they of the altar of Matmuon, the great only caused derision and jeers on enlisted, but served only a few and the like, and his party in Bar- had no vision of the future. red dragon, and the ‘crime of ’73.’ the part of the Alliance men and it months until discharged for dis- ber County selected him as its can- Eighteen eighty-nine was the The words of the agitator fell on was in this frame of mind that Al- ability. After the close of the war didate for the Legislature. I hap- greatest corn year of all Kansas fertile ground. The Farmers’ Alli- he became a sailor on the great pened to have the honor of run- history, but the price went down ance spread like a fire on the dry See Simpson lakes, and gradually rose to the ning against him and while I de- until corn sold at ten cents per prairie driven by the high wind. on page 24

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Carry Nation and alcohol did not mix 21

One of the famous jail scenes of Carry Nation.

Carry A. Nation People in Medicine Lodge - as everywhere - still debate the wisdom of Carry A. Nation’s violence in attacking the liquor evil in the early 1900’s, but it is agreed her colorful air with the satchel of rocks and the hatchet gave the city more notoriety than any other single resident ever was able to do. Medicine Lodge has been the home of a number of famous people - like “Sockless” Jerry Simpson, Chester I. Long, Tom McNeal, Eugene and Otis Lorton, C.Q. Chandler, J.N. “Poly” Tincher, Elbert Rule - and in this genera- tion, B.H. Born - each making a name for himself and Medicine Lodge in his own pursuits. But none of the others made the headlines all over the world, as Carry Nation did. Carry, daughter of George Moore and Mary Campbell, was born in Garrard County, Kentucky, on November 25, 1846. Her father was at one time a prosperous man, but through bad investments he eventually became impoverished. He was a wanderer and consequently Carry’s education was badly neglected. She was an invalid much of the time from her ninth to fifteenth years, and David Nation was unable to participate in the normal pastimes of childhood. During this time she had little to engage either her mind or body. Her thoughts became David Nation weak and depressing, and she turned more to the reading of the Bible. In 1865 Carry fell in love with Dr. Charles Gloyd, a young physician, and The Death of files for on November 21, 1867, they were married in Belton, Mo. However, after a brief period of marriage she was forced to leave her husband because of his “Old Prince”, Carry’s drinking and failure to make a living. Six months afterward, he died a divorce drunkard’s death. transportation and Editor’s Note: This is After this, Carry went back to Belton to make a home for herself, her little the actual divorce docu- daughter, and Dr. Gloyd’s widowed mother. Her funds were soon exhausted, ment filed by David Nation. so she went to Warrensburg, Mo., and entered the state normal school where crusade companion It contains errors in spell- she prepared herself for a teaching career. When David Nation was to take charge of a church in ing and grammar. She then taught the primary grade in Holden Public School for four years, Holton, Kansas (around 1891-1893) he went ahead by train AMENDED PETITION but at length was dismissed because she could not pronounce her words with to Holton. Carry drove the 400 miles by horse and buggy Now comes David Na- perfect accent. to save the shipping fee. tion Plaintiff in the above She then decided her best chance for a living was to marry again. In 1877, When Carry reached Topeka, David met her there. He she wed David Nation, a lawyer, minister of the Christian church, Union vet- was so pleased to see her, he said, “You shall have this entitled action and in com- horse and buggy for your own.” A year later when they pliance of the order of the eran of the Civil War, and editor of the Warrensburg Journal. left Holton, Carry drove the horse and buggy back to Medi- Court made herein, on this Carry lived with David Nation for 24 years, but it was a period of quarrels cine Lodge. 15th day of October A.D. and strife, for they did not love each other and had few things in common. The following article is taken from the Barber County 1901, presents this his The greatest bone of contention, it is said, was her excessive dominating be- Index (From the files of Aug. 24, 1910) amended petition against lief in religion, and he viewed with great disgust her plans for changing man- “Old Prince,” the faithful old steed that carried Mrs. the defendant Carrie Nation kind. Nation to her first crusade of joint smashing, is dead. The and alleges. The years just following that marriage were particularly hard. They moved old nag was owned in his latter days by Col. Thomas Kidd That he has been a resident often, and lived in actual hunger many times. The daughter was ill a great of the city, and departed this life and took flight to horse of the State of Kansas for deal of the time and was always a worry to Carry. The daughter partially heaven in the late hours of Sunday night. He was past 23 more than one year last past, recovered and was later married to a likable man who owned several saloons years of age and owes his demise to an overloaded stom- and is at this time a resident in Texas, and often sent money to Carry when she was in need. ach. He did not heed the admonition of his former and in good faith of Barber About 1890, the Nations traded their hotel property in Richmond, Tex., for famous guardian and “took on” too much. But his intem- County. the T.A. McCleary property in Medicine Lodge, where they moved. Here perance was not the common kind. Prince was a moral This plaintiff is now Nation became pastor of the Christian Church, but resigned within a few horse but on this occasion he consumed too much alfalfa. months to accept a pastorate in Holton, KS. The passing of “Old Prince” deserves to have a place in turned in his seventy fourth Carry was glad to leave Richmond and escape the hard work of the hotel, history, for next to her God, Carry worshipped her noble year of age and has been but she was not pleased to see her husband preaching again, for she did not steed most. It is related that Carry and Prince had a lan- feeble and in poor health for believe that he had ever been converted, or had ever been called to preach. guage of their own; they understood each other and con- several years, while the de- She therefore decided to guide and instruct his work. Not only did she tell versed often. fendant in this action is him what text to use, but she sometimes wrote his sermons, including in them We have often heard Carry say that when she started nearly twenty years his jun- attacks on tobacco and liquor and other iniquities. While he preached, she sat on that memorable ride to Kiowa in obedience to her Lord ior and has been and is now in a front row and acted as helper, instructing him to raise or lower his voice, and Master, “Old Prince” was “next” and he was in full as plaintiff believes strong to speak slower or faster, and to make proper facial motions. sympathy with her. He made that trip with vim of a three- and ruggid in body and When she decided he had exhausted his subject, she might step into the year old and when the Kiowa saloons were demolished he mind. aisle and declare: “That will be about all for today, David!” Sometimes he gave vent to his joy and enthusiasm in a neigh that startled all Kiowa. 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Nation’s newspaper 22 Carry’d her message The ubiquitous Carry Nation of Medicine Lodge, Hell and Elsewhere Among the Wicked,” long the nemesis of Kansas saloon-keepers, did not con- but most of the publication was devoted to fine her work merely to extra-legal methods of stop- praise of the course she followed. ping the liquor traffic. Carry also filled many columns with po- After smashing bars in several Kansas cities, includ- ems from her admirers. ing Wichita, Enterprise and Topeka, she entered the Mrs. Nation did not hesitate to castigate realm of journalism on March 9, 1901, as editor of the anyone who would not wholeheartedly sup- Plaindealer, Smasher’s Mail. port her stand against liquor. a Negro paper. Her objective was to print “A Newspaper for the In the May 18, 1901 issue, she blasts Gov. W.E. Ironically, Chiles later fell on evil days and was ar- Suppression of the Rum Traffic,” but she also found Stanley, accusing him of being a “wolf in sheep’s cloth- rested for being a jointist. space to criticize the evils of tobacco. ing” where liquor interests were concerned. (Note: This article is taken from the publication Mrs. Nation did allow her opposition to be heard Business manager and publisher of the Smasher’s “Kansas in Newspapers ... excerpted from Smasher’s from on an inside page under the banner “Letters from Mail was Nick Chiles, who also owned the Topeka Mail Vol.1. No.6. May 18, 1901)

Carry continued from page 21 would fail to quit speaking where- Many prisoners told her that drink that Strong had horse-whipped a left town - and for the first time January 21, 1901, was a notable upon she would walk to the pul- was responsible for their incar- woman. Finally, about midnight, since Kansas had voted prohibi- date in the Carry Nation career, for pit, shut his Bible, hand him his ceration. She began to trouble the the mayor and several councilmen tion, Medicine Lodge was a place it marked her first use of the hat and tell him to go home. saloon keepers. She often rose in went in a body to Strong’s place where one could not buy a drink. hatchet which was ever afterward She followed this procedure in church and prayer meetings and re- and expressed surprise and indig- Surging with success, Carry so closely identified with her ac- Holton, and as a result the church cited their names and asked why nation at finding beer and whisky Nation embarked on her noted sa- tivities. The hatchet was first used board asked him to hand in his res- the city and county officials per- on the premises. They sternly told loon-smashing career and temper- when she, with three others, at- ignation - which he did gladly, and mitted them to operate in violation Strong that he must leave town at ance crusade which was to take her tacked the saloon of James Burnes. the Nations moved back to Medi- of the state prohibition. But they once or take the consequences. He thousands of miles - even to for- From there, they went to John cine Lodge. did not close, and it was not popu- left next morning, and Carry Na- eign countries. Before it ended, Hereg’s Palace cafe and were ar- David Nation never again took lar in those days for the town offi- tion rejoiced that there were only she had been martyred by jail, rested again. They were released charge of a church, but resumed cials to enforce the prohibitory six saloons remaining in her town. beatings, insults - and had gone to on bail of $1,000 each, which was the practice of law, this time with law. Her next attack was on Henry the extreme of asking Britians to made several hours later by a considerable success. Mrs. Nation Carry Nation decided that Durst’s, but this time she changed forego their tea drinking. member of the W.C.T.U. often used him to prosecute the li- something must be done. It was on her methods. She made no attempt It was June 6, 1899, that Carry By this time, Carry was receiv- quor interests. one afternoon in 1899 that, after a to enter the saloon, but knelt in Nation felt that she had a divine ing letters from people in other cit- Carry continued to attend the day of prayer, she and Mrs. Cain front of the door and began to pray. call to go to Kiowa, in southern ies of Kansas to come and free Christian Church. One day when put on their best dresses and bon- Durst, curious to see what was oc- Barber County, and smash the sa- their towns of the saloons. So from the pastor was delivering a sermon nets and started out. Men, women curring and amazed that she had loons there. She secured a great then on her time was spent travel- on the proper conduct of people, and children promptly fell in be- not tried his door, made the mis- pile of stones, hitched up her ing, lecturing and smashing sa- Carry got up out of her seat and hind the crusaders to see what was take of going into the street. Mrs. buggy and drove to Kiowa, where loons. From Wichita she went to defied the minister to prove cer- going to happen, and when they Nation immediately attacked him, she created havoc at the bars. Enterprise, then Topeka, into tain statements. At this, the rever- reached Mort Strong’s saloon, they and catching his coat lapels, Standing amid the rubble of her southwestern Iowa, Chicago, Peo- end replied, “After the sermon, we were surrounded by more than 200 screamed that he would go to hell damage, she dared the city officials ria, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Kansas will settle your case.” persons. unless he closed his saloon. to arrest her, but they declined. City, Terre Haute, New York, out Mrs. Nation retorted: “Do your As Carry started to go inside, Durst twisted away and ran So she returned gleefully to to California, and to almost every worst and do your best.” the town constable stepped up and back into his barroom, where he Medicine Lodge, where the details other important city in the United The elders met and asked her to said, “I wish I could take you off locked and barred the door. But he of her successful defiance of the States. leave the church because she was the streets.” heard Carry shout to the crowd that Kiowa officials had been tele- She was in Columbus, Ohio, a “stumbling block” and a “dis- “Yes,” she replied, “you want if the joint were not closed within graphed ahead. She was met by a when she heard that David Nation turber of the peace.” She hated to take me, a woman whose heart three days she would hold prayer large crowd of supporters. had brought suit for divorce. She this, since her family had been is breaking to see the ruin of these meetings before the entrance twice A few days later she made a had refused to let him go with her Christians for many years. But she men, the desolate homes and bro- a day until the saloon keeper saw speech in front of the local post on her travels. He was granted the continued to attend services as if ken laws - and you, a constable, the error of his ways, or until God office in which she charged that divorce and died October 13, nothing had happened. oath-bound to close this man’s un- smote him with suffering and di- Samuel Griffin, the county attor- 1903. The voters of Kansas in 1880 lawful business!” saster. It seemed too big a chance ney, was taking bribes of $5.00 per Carry Nation’s travels and ad- adopted a constitutional amend- Carry stepped forward, pushed to take, so before the time had ex- month from each of the saloon ventures during the remainder of ment whereby the manufacture aside the swinging doors and pired, Durst abandoned his busi- keepers in Kiowa. Griffin coun- her life were about the same as and sale of intoxicating beverages strode into the saloon. She had ness and left Medicine Lodge. tered promptly with a slander suit those of the other years. She con- became illegal, except for medi- gone no farther than the front room One by one, four more of the for $5,000.00 damages. Griffin tinued to attack Masonry, to grab cal, scientific and industrial pur- when Strong hurried from the bar, remaining joints in Medicine won the case, Carry Nation being cigarettes and cigars from smok- poses, and the Murray enforce- took her by the shoulders, turned Lodge closed, three at the request fined $1.00 and costs of the action ers, to make fun of people with ment act, passed a year later by the her around and regardless of her of the annoyed city and county of- which amounted to $113.65. fine clothing, to advocate women’s legislature, was upheld in 1883 by shrieks, pushed her back into the ficials. Then Carry Nation joyfully She failed to pay the costs of suffrage, and to fight the liquor in- the state supreme court. During her street. concentrated her attention upon the trial and in September, 1901, terests. Her later onslaughts upon residence in the southwest, Carry With tears streaming from her O.L. Day, a druggist, who had no an order of sale against her prop- the saloon, however, were mainly had heard glowing reports of the eyes, Carry Nation continued al- permit to sell liquor, but whose erty was issued. Later she paid the verbal, but wherever she went and benefits of the Kansas enforce- ternately to sing and hurl curses at store, nevertheless, had become a costs by selling souvenir hatchets. whatever she did, she stirred up ex- ment, and when she moved to the saloon keeper, and Mrs. Cain popular loafing place for known For several years, up to the time citement and commotion. Before Medicine Lodge she expected to and half dozen other women drinkers. of Carry Nation’s crusade with the the infirmities of old age had com- live in a city where whiskey was joined in the song. Their shrill On February 16, 1900, Mrs. stones and then the hatchet, the pelled her to retire to her farm in despised. voices carried over town, and soon Nation learned that the druggist W.C.T.U. and other anti-liquor or- Arkansas, and thereafter to make But to her surprise, she discov- the crowd about the saloon num- had just received a suspicious ganizations had more or less con- only occasional public appear- ered as much drinking as she had bered some 500. Some encouraged looking keg, and she promptly centrated their efforts upon ances, she had been beaten by seen in Missouri and Texas. There her, while others shouted defiance. called meeting of the W.C.T.U. A Wichita, for it was recognized that many saloon keepers, been ar- were seven places in the Barber After several more unsuccess- group of women left the meeting that town was a mainspring in the rested principally for causing un- County seat where liquor was sold. ful attempts to enter the saloon, and hastened to the drug counter. entire liquor question and that if ruly crowds to collect, and had For several years she did not make Mrs. Nation started off toward Carry turned it over and rolled it the saloons and warehouses there made trips to England and Canada. any move to disturb them. She was home, singing. Behind her came into the front room and then into could be put out of order, many (Editor’s Note: In May, 1976, content to make speeches and aid Mrs. Cain, and an ever increasing the street. Here she smashed the counties in Kansas would be dry - the Carry Nation Home in Medi- in the work of the Women’s Chris- stream of women. At Carry’s side of the keg with a huge sledge at least until new distributing chan- cine Lodge, was declared a Na- tian Temperance Union, of which home, throughout the remainder of hammer obtained from a black- nels had been made. tional Historic Landmark by the she and Mrs. Wesley Chain, wife the afternoon, the excited women smith across the street, poured the So Carry Nation descended National Park Service of the De- of the Baptist minister, organized sang, prayed and rejoiced over the contents into the gutter and set it upon Wichita. There she went to partment of the Interior. The home a chapter in Medicine Lodge dur- downfall of the saloon, while a afire. the gaudy saloon in the Hotel is open daily, admission charged. ing the 1890’s. crowd hung about outside and Later a trial was held and a doc- Carey and smashed everything in The public is invited to tour the Being jail evangelist of the or- called for more action. tor swore that the drink was Cali- view with a rod and cane she had house and view a large number of ganization, it was Carry Nation’s That evening, there was great fornia Brandy, and that he had concealed beneath her cape, and items associated with Carry’s ca- duty to visit the people in jail and excitement throughout town and given Day a permit to sell it. some large stones. She was imme- reer.) tell them the evils of drunkenness. finally the rumor was passed about Within a month, Day sold out and diately arrested and lodged in jail.

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Divorce continued from page 21 23 That on the thirtieth day of one Willie Tucker to the house Vice Gerent of God on earth, and wit, Lots 24-26-28—, also a tract court do grant him a decree of ab- November eighteen hundred and of plaintiff where and when he, claims that she is not subject to commencing 111ft. East 30 ft. solute divorcement from the de- seventy four (1874) and in the plaintiff, had to feed and clothe human laws; but by immediate South of the N.W. corner S.E. 1/ fendant, from the defendant, and city of Holden in the County of him from the year 1893 to the impulse from God himself. She 4 12-32-12, thence East 160 ft., that he be given as alimony the Johnson and state of Missouri, he year 1898. has studied Osteopathy as a thence South 514 ft. West 160 ft. homestead herein described as intermarried with the defendants That defendant has affected branch of Medical Science, and thence North 514 ft. to the place his absolute property, and that he who at that time was a widow, broad sympathy with the poor her tuition in that branch cost of beginning off in Durst’s addi- be declared to be the owner in fee whose name was Carrie Gloyd and down trodden and has $100, which plaintiff paid in the tion to the city of Medicine simple of all the residue and re- and whose maiden name was brought to their house for this year 1900, and at a time when he Lodge, The foregoing property mainder of their real estate, Carrie Moore; that plaintiff had plaintiff to feed and support with could illy afford or spare the was also purchased by Carrie Na- herein described and that he also been married before and had sev- his moderate means, Willie money. That she was not satisfied tion the defendant with this have all the rents of the said eral children and the defendant Tucker, Claud Tucker, Mrs. with her proficiency in Osteopa- plaintiff’s money and is plaintiff’ homestead accrued from said had one child by her first mar- Mueller and three children, and thy and she also took a course in property. Griffin, and that defendant be riage; that they lived together Carrie Moore, and has given Magnetic healing, for which Plaintiff further states that the adjudged to pay the costs of this agreeable and happy from the away plaintiff’s clothing, shoes, plaintiff paid $25 at about the defendant left plaintiff’s home in action, and for all other and date of their marriage up to A.D. stockings, pants, shirts, coats and same time. Medicine Lodge, Kansas, the last proper relief. 1879 and the defendant was a other unknown articles of cloth- That about one year ago she days of December, 1900, and G.M. Martin reasonable good wife until about ing, and given them to the afore- became dissatisfied with the old soon there after went to Topeka, Atty. for plaintiff that time; but about that time the said parties and others unknown furniture in the house and refused Kansas, and engaged with a dis- State of Kansas, County of defendant became unmindful of to plaintiff, and in the months of to longer use it and compelled reputable negro dive keeper in Barber, ss: her duties as a housewife toward May 1895 defendant drew from plaintiff at great expense to-wit the publication of a paper called David Nation of lawful age plaintiff and began to neglect the Citizens State Bank in Medi- $400 to refurnish the house im- the “Smashers Mail”, and on the and being duly sworn upon his those duties and assumed the roll cine Lodge, about eight hundred mediately. After the furnishing of day of August 1901, she was tried oath says that he is the plaintiff of boss and became and was ar- dollar, money belonging to the the house, she insisted on the and convicted on the charge of in the foregoing action, that he rogant and treated the plaintiff plaintiff and wasted it and bought renting of the house to Rev. Grif- unlawfully destroying property has read the above and forego- with extreme cruelty and has so property therewith taking title fin, pastor of the Baptist Church on Sunday in the city of Topeka, ing petition and knows the con- continued to neglect her duties as thereto in her own name and all in Medicine Lodge, Kansas. She Kansas, and placed in jail. That tents thereof and affiant avers a wife, by leaving the plaintiff in this without the knowledge and being in Topeka, Kansas at that the church of which she was a that the said petition is true. the City of Richmond, Texas, and consent of this plaintiff and time, and on being advised that member in the city of Medicine David Nation was absent for three months at against his will and that during the house was rented, she in- Lodge, Barber County, Kansas, Subscribed and sworn to be- one time in the sumner of 1883 these latter years she had become duced plaintiff to go on a visit to withdrew its fellowship from her fore me this the 15th day of Oc- or 1884, and during all the time very ambitious and desirous of his brother’s in Neosho County, a few years ago on account of her tober 1901. from the year 1879 to the months gaining great notoriety as a tem- Kansas, and that plaintiff notified dictorial medelsomeness and that A.W. Smith, of December 1900. She treated perance reformer and by her pub- defendant that he would leave during all these years she has ut- (Seal) Clerk of District the plaintiff with extreme cruelty lic denunciation of public offic- Medicine Lodge on the 17th of terly neglected to perform the Court in to-wit. That Plaintiff is and was ers of the state and men in au- April, and that as soon as she got duties of wife in keeping and Filed Oct. 15, 1901, A.W. a preacher of the Gospel in good thority and by attempting to en- this letter she came the day after maintaining her home and by her Smith, Clerk of the District standing in the Christian Church, force her views by lawful as well plaintiff left on his said visit to acts and conducts as aforesaid Court. and the defendant was a profes- as unlawful means she has been his brother, appeared in Medicine she has given this plaintiff great SUMMONS sor of piety and religion and a ridiculed, caricatured and held up Lodge, Kansas, and cancelled the pain; made his life miserable and Summons issued Aug. 9, member of the same church; but together with the plaintiff as her lease to said Griffin, and re- has been guilty of extreme cru- 1901, over signature and seal of has without provocation and in husband to the contempt and ridi- moved the furniture from the elty toward plaintiff and plaintiff the Clerk of the District Court, the presence of Wm. Norton, cule of the people, by the public house, stored some, sold some has been turned out in his old age, commanding the Sheriff of Mrs. Cook, whose given name is press, that she has against the and took most of what was left to of his home and compelled to Shawnee Co., Kansas to notify to the plaintiff unknown, Rev. plaintiff’s will and consent, en- the home she had established in seek a home among his children. Carrie Nation that she has been Machett and Elder Nicholson, in tered the public saloons and dives Topeka, Kansas. In the mean time Therefore plaintiff prays that this sued in said action. the house of plaintiff and defen- and vile dens in the cities of she registered as a voter for the dant in the year 1893 in presence Kiowa, Wichita and Topeka, to spring election in Topeka, and on of A.B. Wilkins in Medicine correct the inmates and to en- or about the 12th day of April Lodge, and in 1897, at their home force the laws without warrant of 1901, she notified plaintiff that Mrs. Carry Nation: near Ceiling in Oklahoma, and authority from the state and has she was no longer his wife, and has in their home life called a liar thereby made herself and this that during the last days of De- a hyocrite and a pretender and plaintiff objects of contempt and cember 1900, defendant left the charged him with hypocracy and ridicule by the rabble and by plaintiff and entirely abandoned AA VindicationVindication has at different time called plain- bums and thugs and thereby has him since which time plaintiff tiff almost every vile named used brought the plaintiff into dis- and defendant have not lived and (Copied from the “Prohibitionist of Dundee”) in the catalogue of common grace. cohabited together as husband Sir: -London is awakening to the fact that in its midst is a re- speech and all this without cause That she, the defendant, has and wife. That by reason of the markable personality; a woman, whose sole message is, “thus saith or provocation on the part of been arrested for maliciously de- aforesaid acts and conduct of the Lord” and because the messenger speaks with an authority from plaintiff. stroying the property of the Carey defendant she has been guilty of heaven this modern Nineveh is so steeped in its vices that the voice That in the sumner of 1899, Amnes in the city of Wichita, extreme cruelty towards plaintiff, is like one crying in the Wilderness. The churches feared, the Press the defendant left plaintiff at their Kansas, and for maliciously de- has cause him great mental an- ridiculed, the Metropolis, true to itself, was indifferent. After a home in Medicine Lodge, and stroying the property of divers guish and physical suffering and month’s sojourn amongst us this state of things is becoming went to Texas, and left plaintiff other persons in the city of has clouded and darkened changed, and the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, sick and unable to wait on him- Wichita and Topeka, whose thereby the remaining days of his is penetrating the mountains of prejudice, and even ministers of self, and that at one time during names to this plaintiff are un- life. the Gospel realize that God’s methods, whilst sometimes inscru- her absence William Norton a known, and has been incarcer- That they have no personal table, are always availing. near neighbor found plaintiff so ated in the jails of Wichita, To- property except household Mrs. Carry A. Nation has found a hearty response wherever an bad that he was speechless; that peka, Kansas City, New York and goods; but own in their joint open door has been provided, possessing those qualities which the defendant remained from in Leynchburg, Virginia for the names the following described Britishers justly claim a preference for truth, a dauntless courage home one month, and that the above named offenses and for real estate, commencing at the in proclaiming its powers to others, and always appealing to the said Norton and one Eubanks, disturbing the peace of the citi- N.W. corner of the N.E. 1/4 of human judgment for its enforcement at whatever cost. Multitudes visited and cared for plaintiff, sat zens of those cities, and all this S.W. 1/4 of section 12 township will thank God for her life, her book, and even the hatchet, which up with plaintiff, furnished food during the months of December 32, range 12, thence South 216 influences enormously the young mind in its suggestiveness, viz., and medicines. 1900, and the months of January, ft. thence East 182 ft, thence that all evils must be attacked at the root to be effectual. That the territory of Oklahoma February, March, April, May, north 216 ft., thence West 182 ft., Prohibitionists welcome her as the greatest exponent of its prin- in the year 1898, said defendant June and July 1901, and that she to the place of beginning in the ciple that has ever visited Britain, and we appeal to the people - do left plaintiff at house sick and was kept in such jails for weeks city of Medicine Lodge, Kansas. your own thinking, work out the material salvation of our country went on a trip to Enid, Kingfisher at a time, while plaintiff has fol- The foregoing property is the upon lines which we have inherited and determine to maintain; and Hennessy, Oklahoma, and lowed her from place to place, homestead of this plaintiff and freedom to all and privilege to none; and in selecting representa- was gone a couple of weeks, and paid out his hard earnings in rail- was bought with his individual without the knowledge or con- road fare, hotel bills and lawyers means and has been cared for, tives take care that none have authority who perpetuate the crime sent of plaintiff, brought one fees, trying to defend her and to protected and all takes paid by by enslaving the community to the Drink Curse. Barrie Moore, a niece of defen- get her, and to persuade her to him. Electors: rise to your responsibilities, break shackles which pre- dants of the age of ten years, and return to her home in Medicine That she has in her individual vent this nation taking its proper place as the leader in the van of plaintiff had to support her with Lodge, which she refused to do. name the following described freedom, wipe out this blot of civilization, solve the unemployed food and raiment until the month That she pretends to be a real estate situated in the County problem, and act the Christian faith by votes as well as creed. of April 1901; that she brought preacher of the Gospel and the of Barber and State of Kansas to- Yours truly,Napoleon Sharman London Road, Southwark.

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Carrie Nation is Dead 24 Taken from the June 16, plished what she could in Kan- Nation declares herself to be a Simpson continued from page 19 1911files of the Medicine Lodge sas she looked for fresh fields resident of Cresset to conquer. Her doughty little Washington. liance delegates met in the spring of 1890 to nominate a candidate for CARRIE NATION IS DEAD hatchet worked havoc in many The estate Congress.” Former Medicine Lodge places and it was Mrs. Nation’s is valued “Jerry Simpson went to the (Farmers’ Alliance) convention as a del- Resident Passes Away in a Sani- boast that she had slept in over at egate, but his name had not been mentioned as a probable candidate. S. tarium at Leavenworth, Kansas twenty-three jails throughout the $10,000. M. Scott of McPherson, the author of a pamphlet on the sub-treasury, th was the man to be nominated, but Scott could not get it into his mind On Friday Night, June 9 – country. At one time, she edited It con- that it was possible to overcome the majority of 14,000 rolled up by the World-Famous as a Temperance a little temperance sheet called sists of Republicans only two years before and pushed the proffered honor aside. Reformer The Smasher’s Mail. Through houses Jerry Simpson had been called on to make a speech and caught the Carrie Nation, famous the proceeds of her lectures and and lots crowd. With Scott out of it, the delegates turned to the ex-sailor and throughout two continents as a various contributions she estab- in nominated him. They builded better than they knew. Under the condi- temperance reformer, died at 7 lished a home for drunkards’ Guthrie tions then prevailing Jerry Simpson was an ideal candidate. He was a o’clock on Friday, June 9th, at a wives in Kansas City, Kansas, and good talker, possessed of a ready wit, and with an instinctive and cor- sanitarium in Leavenworth, which later was taken in charge Shawnee, rect appraisement of the value of publicity. A correspondent of the Kans. The cause of her death by the Associated Charities of Ok., an account of $1,000 in an Wichita Eagle accused him of wearing no socks. Jerry did not attempt was paresis, the result of a ner- that city. Alexandria (Va.) bank and a life to deny the charge and charged in turn that his opponent, Colonel J. R. vous breakdown. Mrs. Nation Two or three years ago she insurance policy. Hallowell, wore silk hose. He wove this skillfully into his speeches was born in Kentucky in 1846. made a trip to England and after To the Woman’s Christian and roused unbounded enthusiasm by the turn. He confessed his pov- her maiden name was Moore coming back to this country she Temperance Union of the State erty and his audience, carried away with the zeal of crusaders, threw the few dollars they had in their pockets on to the platform to help pay and she has a brother or two liv- lectured on what she had seen of Kansas, Mrs. Nation be- the campaign expenses of their Candidate. ing in Kansas City, Kansas, at of the effects of the liquor habit queathed her “book of my life” “Jerry was a good storyteller. His stories were not new, but an old the present time. on the women and children of and all rights thereunder. The story well told is often as effective as a brand new one. He covered the Her first husband was ad- the lower classes in England. will bequeaths the sum of $60 a Republican platform, adopted in Dodge City, with ridicule and amid dicted to the use of intoxicants Mrs. Nation, being a woman month from the estate to howls of delight told the following story: A Jew and an Irishman were and she had many times asserted of strong convictions, had many Charlton A. McNab, the only crossing a stream in a boat when it occurred to the Irishman that he that after his death her lifework friends and many enemies; it Child of Mrs. Nation, provided could convert the Jew. He demanded that the descendant of Abraham would be the suppression of the could not be otherwise; she pur- she is not in an asylum for the renounce his faith and acknowledge the divinity of Christ and the Vir- liquor traffic. She was married sued the straight line of duty as insane, with the provision that gin Mary. The Jew refused, whereupon the Irishman threw him out the second time to David Nation she saw it regardless of what the sum is not to be allowed if into the water. He came up choking and sputtering and tried to climb and together they lived in this others thought. She was a fa- she is so confined, the income back into the boat, but the Irishman refused to let him in unless he city for a number of years. Mr. miliar sight on our streets for to be derived from the houses would confess and give up his ‘dombed hathenism.’ The Jew still re- Nation at one time preached in many years with the old sorrel and lots in Guthrie and fusing, the Irishman shoved him under again and held him there until the Christian church here. Mrs. horse and buggy going about on Shawnee. After the death of her he was almost drowned. At last he let him come to the surface gasping Nation did a little saloon smash- her errands of mercy and char- daughter, a house and three lots and almost speechless. When he was able to talk, seeing no evidence of mercy on the part of the Hibernian he said that he would renounce and ing in Kiowa, but her first big ity and one of the pictures of her in Guthrie are devised to the confess. ‘Oim glad to hear that,’ said the IriShman, ‘but 0im av the attempt was in the bar room of that we are most familiar with Free Methodist Church of Okla- opinion that if iver yez git to land ye dombed sheeney, yez will take it the Carey Hotel where she de- is the one taken with the black homa. back so 0im goin’ to drown yez now and save yure immortal soul.’ The molished the elegant bar fixtures bonnet and veil with Bible and After the death of Mrs. application was that the Republican party should be killed while it was and some valuable paintings at hatchet in hand labeled “For McNab, her children are to re- in a repentant frame of mind. Wichita in 1900. There she was God and Home.” ceive the sum of $500 each. The “The result of the election was a surprise even to the most sanguine arrested and thrown into jail for Mrs. Nation has passed from remainder of the estate is to be of Jerry’s supporters. A Republican majority of 14,000 was succeeded several days before she was re- this world of sin and sorrow and given to the Carry Nation Home by a Populist majority of more than 8,000 and Jerry Simpson suddenly leased on bond. Early in the fol- while we may not have always for Drunkards’ Wives and Wid- found himself one of the most talked of men in the United States. To lowing year she smashed two agreed with her in her way of ows at Kansas City and for a his credit let it be said that he did not lose his head. In Congress he joints in Wichita. doing things we can only say, home for children 12 years old rapidly acquired polish and was recognized as the leader of his party. Her favorite weapon was a “she hath done what she could.” and under. The will appoints His political views broadened; his crudities of speech were mostly aban- hatchet and with this in her hand The funeral services of Mrs. Henry D. Gordon of this city doned. He held his own in the rough and tumble debates in the lower she hewed her way through Carrie Nation were held from executor. house and gained favor with the then speaker of the house, Tom Reed, many a saloon when she started the home of her niece, Mrs. M. The Carry Nation Home for of Maine. In 1892 he was re-elected, but the Populist party had already passed the crest and was on the decline. His majority of more than in. Many joint keepers on see- D. Moore in Kansas City, Kan- Drunkards’ Wives and Widows 8,000 was reduced to less than 2,000 and two years later was wiped out ing her approach locked their sas. A large number of friends in Kansas City, Kansas, has been entirely, when Chester I. Long (of Medicine Lodge) defeated him by a doors and fled. attended the services. Mrs. Na- turned over to the International comfortable majority. Mrs. Nation kept up her tion was buried at Belton, Mo., Sunshine Society. Its original “In his experience Jerry Simpson had learned to be a very fair rough smashing for several months in beside her parents. purpose was abandoned because and tumble fighter, although never inclined to quarrel. A burly black- various parts of Kansas until she MRS. NATIONS’S WILL there appeared to be no drunk- smith by the name of Corson became offended at a remark made by succeeded in arousing the tem- Washington, June 12 – The ards’ wives to patronize it. The Jerry and announced that he intended to whip him and give him a plenty perance people all over the state will of Carry A. Nation, who home for children mentioned in while he was at it. He attacked Jerry without warning, but got the sur- and as a result of her efforts and died at Leavenworth, Kansas, the will has not been established. prise of his life. In less than a minute it was Corson who was whipped, agitation, bills were passed by Friday night, has been filed in The courts will have to decide while Jerry had not suffered so much as a scratch. the next legislature that showed the probate court here. The will what disposition will be made of Afterward, Corson became one of Jerry’s greatest admirers and the effects of Mrs. Nation’s is dated in 1907 and in it Mrs. that bequest in Mrs. Nation’s staunchest political supporters. work. After she had accom- will. Saddle up and git on down to Hibbard’s for all your Peace Treaty go'in needs! Over 137 Years of Pharmacy Service Hibbard’s Prescriptions Plus has what Coffee - Tea - Candy you need for Peace Treaty! We’ve been a pillar in the community since 1881. Our phar- Sunscreen - Sunglasses macists can help you choose the right over the counter medications for your need. We Gifts - Jewelry - Scarves have sunscreen, bug spray, chapstick, and lotions, as well as travel sized toiletries. We Colonial Candles - Kansas and Indian Collectables carry several lines of figurines, including Pre- cious Moments and Hallmark. Our gift sec- Monday - Friday 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. tion has an array of items such as Indian collectibles, kitchen supplies, and other in- Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. terior home décor. There is also tea and cof- fee available. Closed Sunday We are happy to be a part of Peace Treaty on Main Street. We hope you stop in this weekend to shop with us! HIBBARD'S PRESCRIPTIONS PLUS 126 N. Main - Medicine Lodge, KS 67104 620-886-5161 The Gyp Hill Premiere - Peace Treaty - September 28-29-30, 2018

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K. Noland Photo Retired Navy Seal and 1988 MLHS Graduate Nix White will make his jump during Peace Treaty 2018, weather permitting! He will be assisted by DWTA Helicopters. The company is also offering air tours over the weekend around Medicine Lodge. Nix White to make jumps during Peace Treaty 2018

Courtesy Photo Nix White exits for a jump he made in San Diego, California. Look to the DWTA Helicopters to offer skies for White on Saturday and Sunday of Peace Treaty. helicopter rides for thrill seekers Weather permitting, it will be the third time for Peace Treaty! Helicopter rides and skydiving!!! MLHS Graduate and Retired Navy Seal Nix White jumped into Saturday’s parade during Peace Treaty 2011 and 2015. This year, he plans two jumps! Nix will jumpstart Saturday and Sunday morning’s parades in Medicine Lodge this year. If conditions are good, just before 10 a.m., White will jump onto Main Street at the begin- ning of the parades. White currently resides near San Diego, California with his wife Wendy and their children Zane, Zack, Samantha and Sara. White retired in 2009 from the Courtesy Photo United States Navy as an E6 and DWTA will be operating at the MLHS campus east of the High School has been a shooting instructor for during the Peace Treaty and offering tours in the air around Medicine Navy Seal candidates, a former Lodge. They will also be dropping off Nix White for Saturday’s parade. FFowler'sowler's jump instructor and jump special- ist with CPS and NEK. He now is owner of FrogX. to remember for all riders. Antiques!Antiques! White performs at sporting events, jumping into stadiums What: A 3 1/2 - 4 minute heli- TheThe storestore thatthat makesmakes and special events all across the copter tour, $40 per person, mini- collectingcollecting fun!fun! United States. mum of two people, maximum OpenOpen 10:0010:00 a.m.a.m. -- 5:305:30 p.m.p.m. He has jumped with golfer of three people Monday - Saturday Tiger Woods and New Orleans When: Friday, 5 p.m.- 8 p.m. Starting our Saints Quarter Back Drew Saturday 10 a.m.- 8 p.m., 21st year of business Brees along with other celebri- Sun 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. 120 N. Main - Medicine Lodge ties. Where: Medicine Lodge High 620-886-3413620-886-3413 The jumps are sponsored by School, 400 West El Dorado Av- DWTA Helicopter of Wichita, enue, Medicine Lodge. KS, Red Hills Consulting, Old Snicklebaum, SCTelcom and Kevin and Ronda Noland of The Gyp Hill Premiere. DWTA has graciously do- nated their helicopter and fuel to carry Nix White, leader and owner of Frog-X Parachute Team, to altitude before the pa- rades on Saturday and Sunday. DWTA will be operating at the MLHS campus east of the LAMAL & WAYDEN, INC. High School during the Peace Treaty and offering tours in the air around Medicine Lodge. S S DWTA Helicopters, an FAA/ DOT Certified Commercial Air Established Abstract Office Carrier based in Wichita, KS of- fers professional helicopter ser- Since 1885 vices locally and nationwide ranging from Air Transportation, to Private and Corporate events as well as Certified Helicopter Abstracts Pilot Flight Training. “The thrill of helicopter flight Title Insurance remains high on most peoples’ ‘have to do it’ lists,” says Wolf Closings Zon, DWTA Helicopters Chief Pilot, “ and it is always awesome to see the look and smiles on Slamal and Swayden, Inc. peoples’ faces and hear them whoop and holler with excite- welcomes you to the ment as we takeoff. We are truly honored to have the oppor- Medicine Lodge tunity to fly during the Peace Treaty event.” Peace Treaty Pageant. DWTA Helicopters will be flying a Robinson RFF Raven. 105 E. Kansas Avenue The world’s most popular heli- copter, the Raven, has a seating Medicine Lodge, KS 67104 capacity of up to (3) passengers Phone (620) 886-5141 and a top speed of almost 150 mph. This flight is sure to deliver on the promise of an experience The Gyp Hill Premiere - Peace Treaty - September 28-29-30, 2018

There are many volunteers who make Peace Treaty happen 26 By Staff The Gyp Hill Premiere Peace Treaty 2018 marks the 25th reenactment of the Peace Treaty Pageant. It marks the 25th time that the community has joined together and given thou- sands of volunteer hours to en- sure the success of the event. Rick Swayden, President of the Peace Treaty Board of Direc- tors stated, “The only thing that will make all of this work is for the whole village to participate and they have.” It is as impossible to count the number of volunteer hours incor- porated into the presentation of the 2018 Peace Treaty Pageant as it is to know the time involved in the production of the first Peace Treaty Pageant produc- tion in 1927. Those who come closest to knowing the man hours involved in the event are those on the Peace Treaty Board of Direc- tors. Led by President Rick Back row: David Colborn, Mike Roe, Steve Bryan, Kevin Noland, Norm Clouse, Robert Larson, Aaron Traffas, Kyle Thomas, Richard Raleigh and Swayden, Kevin Noland is 1st Rick Swayden. Front row: Deb Kolb, Joscelyn Nitter, Ronda Noland, Cathy Colborn, Sara Whelan, Barbara Bedwell and Betty Jo Swayden. Vice President and Joscelyn Nittler is 2nd Vice President. assisted by numerous commit- Committee members in Suellen Bryan will be working on The many tasks include hours Sara Whelan is Immediate Past tees. Charlotte Hoagland works charge of costumes include Pam the entrance to the grounds of planning and painting, President and Steve Bryan and with the Alumni School Reunion Packard and Susan Raleigh. Rick Swayden is over Build- fundraising and fixing, sponsor- Richard Raleigh are Past Presi- and Sandy Smith with the Arts Second Vice President Joscelyn ing Maintenance and Norm ships and scheduling, preparation dents. Jim Colborn and Tom and Crafts. Nittler also works with Promo- Clouse is in charge of the Pag- and practice, and managing and Bedwell are honorary Past Deb Kolb has become an as- tion, Advertising and Publica- eant Pantry and Concessions. mowing; busy people giving of Presidents. Kaye Kuhn is Ex- set to the board with her tions. Sara Whelan works with Larry Dick and BHI employees their time to make the 2018 ecutive Director; Ronda fundraising efforts. Publications and heads the Fi- are in charge of the rehearsal din- Peace Treaty a success. Noland, Treasurer; and Betty Jo Nittler and Kolb also head the nance, Fundraising and Sponsor- ner. Kevin Noland commented, “I Swayden, Secretary. Kyle Tho- committee for the youth enter- ship Committee. Sheryl Daven- Principal Darryl Honas will couldn’t be any prouder to work mas is in charge of the livestock, tainment, including the inflatables port and Heather Smith work take care of the School Work with such a great group of conveyances, and equipment carnival. Kevin Noland assists with the Indian Maidens and Days with the help of students people. We work as a team, get and David Colborn with Indian in Publications, is the Entertain- Heather Smith and Becky Catlin in our district, Sheriff Lonnie things accomplished and we Affairs, and the Powwow. Gary ment Chairman for the down- and M-Club are in charge of Pro- Small and Chief of Police Terry have a good time doing it!” Moore is the Ranch Rodeo Liai- town Street Dances, is on the gram Sales. Barbara and Tom Love and their deputies and of- He continued by noting that son President; Cathy Colborn is Finance Committee and is work- Bedwell head the Parades Com- ficers will handle Traffic, and everyone helps in all depart- Pageant Director and also di- ing with the sound crew for the mittee. Jerry McNamar helps City Administrator Jeff Porter is ments, “Nobody has just one spe- rects the Night Show. Mike Roe pageant grounds and downtown with announcing and Teresa the City’s Liaison. cific job. We help others with and Robert Larson are in charge stages. Aaron Traffas also Poindexter at The Peoples Bank Swayden emphasized, “Ev- their responsibilities too. Most of of the Pageant Grounds. works with Media Publications, has other bank employees work- eryone on the Board has stepped us are even participants in the Earlier in the year, Larson led lends expertise in sound and ing with her on the Ticket Com- up and done whatever they pageant. Being on Peace a group of volunteers that burned does Web Support. mittee. needed to do. It has been awe- Treaty’s Board means sacrific- the pageant grounds. Roe works Justin Jacobs did the Art Work Those in charge of parking will some! The whole community, ing your time, your money and to keep things nice and tidy at Design for the Peace Treaty be Gaten Wood, with the Medi- including the City of Medicine sometimes your sanity, but it is the grounds. poster and program cover again cine Lodge Golf Course, Mike Lodge and all businesses, have absolutely one of the most re- Swayden mused, “You know this year. Farrar, Zach Wesley, and Mark all gone above and beyond to help warding things I have been a part that it takes a lot of people, but Mike Roe did the recovering Buck with USD 254. Steve pull this thing off. The County of. I hope God blesses us with you really don’t fully know until of the billboard and Earl Kuhn Probst will be in charge of the comes and does whatever needs good weather, good crowds and you see everything everybody paints the new dates on the bot- Ammunition and David Colborn to be done as soon as we call good memories!” does.” The Board assists and is tom of the billboard. is doing the Electrical. Steve and them.”

101 N. Main Medicine Lodge, KS Byron, Jr. and Carolyn Hummon - Owners The Gyp Hill Premiere - Peace Treaty - September 28-29-30, 2018 Renovations happening at the Stockade Museum 27 By Jeff Davenport Some much needed upgrades are happening at the Medicine Lodge Stockade Museum. Over the last few months, efforts have been underway to raise funds to make repairs to the exterior walls of the museum. Through dona- tions, those efforts are coming to fruition as the first phase of reno- vations were completed. New logs have been delivered and more are on their way as construction began the first weekend of Au- gust. This initial phase saw recon- struction of the front façade and New logs have been delivered as construction began the first weekend the two guard towers on the north of August. side of the museum. Lumber for the northwest tower has already houses through organization, iden- her home and gather as much his- arrived and the remaining logs tification, and digitizing their tory about her as he could. have been ordered. Construction records and the aforementioned Tourists from the United States is expected to be completed be- artifacts. Through their efforts, have made their way through our fore the Peace Treaty Pageant at museum staff and board mem- area to absorb our history. For the end of September. According bers have seen some increase in some of these visitors, the mu- to Belinda Kimball, Treasurer for traffic as well as compliments and seum has brought back memo- the Medicine Lodge Historical commendations from visitors near ries of their past and relatives long HU Society, the construction was and far. passed. Some have been so spearheaded by individuals from Though some may not think greatly affected, that they have New York State who have exten- of how many visitors the museum donated money, artifacts, and sive experience in log construc- receives, or where they come purchased logs for the renova- Magnison Bits and Spurs tion. These individuals are ac- from, Kimball said that many pa- tions. quaintances of John Nixon. trons come from all corners of There is no doubt the Stock- Bits, Spurs, Buckles & Stirrups A goal of $20,000 was set for the nation and world. Kimball said ade Museum has had a tremen- these initial renovations and the that within the last year, visitors dous impact on our history and Custom or Retail Historical Society was close to from 10 foreign nations have economy, making the renovations meeting this goal through dona- made their way to Medicine a must to continue the impact. Bobby Magnison tions and volunteer support in Lodge. These nations include The Historical Society and stock- July. Of course, the remaining Denmark, China, Australia, and ade museum is still in need of sup- [email protected] walls of the stockade are in need Italy. There was even one Japa- port in terms of donations and 620-886-9823 of repair and/or replacement. nese man, who teaches American volunteer support for labor and Kimball said that costs for this History in his home country, who other efforts. To offer your sup- 206 W. First Ave. would range from $20,000 to made a pilgrimage of sorts to visit port in whatever manner, contact Medicine Lodge, KS 67104 $40,000. In addition to the mon- the Carry Nation home. The man the museum at 620-886-3553 or etary support, volunteers have was so enamored with the tem- visit their website at made efforts to transport logs perance leader that he had to see MedicineLodgeStockade.org. from their origination to Medicine Lodge as well as supplying equip- ment needed for the project. Vol- unteer assistance is always appre- ciated, especially for those who are willing to donate their time, money, and labor to this under- taking. “Thank you to Southern Pio- neer Electric for the donation of labor and equipment,” stated Nixon. “We sure appreciate you guys.” In addition to the stockade it-  self, upgrades and repairs are also needed on the Carry Nation home and the “Uncle Bob” Smith home 6 Foot Longs for $4.99 each inside the stockade walls. The primary need for the Nation home is paint as the southcentral Kan- Biscuits and Gravy, Omelet Sandwiches sas weather has taken the current paint job to its limits. The Smith Now Serving Breakfast & Lunch Wraps! house is in need of upgrades to Full Menu Sandwiches served all day! its exterior, mostly in repairing/ replacing some of the boards and windows. This is not the first time the museum has required major re- Breakfast pairs. After closing in 1981 be- cause of a lack of funding for re- pairs, Nixon led a major effort to 7 -11 a.m. re-open the museum by focusing on fund raising and increasing Open 7 a.m. - 9 p.m. community involvement in the renovations. These efforts paid Corner of 281 and Kansas off as the museum reopened prior Medicine Lodge, Kansas to the 1982 Peace Treaty Pageant. Originally built in 1961, the Stockade Museum has been a major tourist attraction for visi- 620-930-Subs tors to Medicine Lodge. Paired with the Nation home, the site has ©2015 Doctor’s Associates Inc. SUBWAY® is a registered trademark of Doctor’s drawn many travelers to our area. Associates Inc. All Rights Reserved. Recently, the museum has made some upgrades to the artifacts it

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Spirit of the Prairie represents awakening of life By Jeff Davenport The Gyp Hill Premiere 28 The Spirit of the Prairie scene establishes a vital foundation to the events leading up to the sign- ing of the Treaty of 1867. Prior to man’s creation on Earth, the scene dramatizes the birth of the prairie. Giving life to the prairie In Memory and is the prominent figure known as the Spirit of the Prairie. Starring Honor of all, past in the role of the Spirit for Peace Treaty 2018 is Brooklyn and present, who Hernandez. have volunteered Brooklyn is a senior at Medi- cine Lodge Junior-Senior High their time to start School and is the daughter of Robert and Christal Heffington and continue to and Eric Hernandez. “The first Peace Treaty I re- keep the Peace member was when I was a Prai- rie Flower in 2006,” Brooklyn Treaty celebration said. “I knew then that I just had to be the Spirit of the Prairie going through the when I was old enough. I thought she was the most beau- years. May the tiful girl I had ever seen.” That desire carried on for community spirit Brooklyn as she communicated to those involved with the scene that has made these that it was something she was greatly interested in doing. She Peace Treaty also made it a point to take on leadership roles within the Peace Pageants possible Treaty so that the organizers continue into would see that she was a viable candidate for the role of the the future. Spirit. Brooklyn was the Indian Lulu’s Photography Maiden Princess in 2015, repre- senting Medicine Lodge and the Hernandez is Spirit of the Prairie 2018 pageant by travelling to area The daughter of Robert and Christal Heffington and Eric Hernandez, events and parades. Brooklyn is a senior at Medicine Lodge High School and this year’s Spirit As the Prairie Flower scene of the Prairie. 114 West First Ave. - Medicine Lodge, KS 67104 materializes, the Spirit enters to bring the prairie flowers to life, hope to be the Spirit of the Prai- that shows that you are excited symbolizing the awakening of the rie, Brooklyn gave this advice, and proud of your community prairie. Grade school and middle “I would tell younger girls to get and definitely participate in other school age girls within the com- involved with their community Peace Treaty events as much as munity fulfill the role of the prai- and to take on a leadership role possible. rie flowers. There are eight prai- rie flowers, wherein the younger girls are placed in groups with each group dressed in a differ- Jelly & Jams, Home Made ent color to represent the vari- ety of flowers on the prairie. The Pies, Cookies and flowers are made up of a center Welcome to and 10 petals. First through fifth Cinnamon Rolls, Deli grade girls make up the petals Peace Treaty! with seventh and eighth grade Peace Treaty! Sandwiches, Meats and girls as the flower centers. Cheeses, Home Made As the Spirit of the Prairie, Brooklyn will also lead the Soaps and Gift Items! younger girls in the Dance of the Flowers. Co-directors for the Prairie Flowers scene is Alisa Boyce and Christal Heffington. These ladies have begun the process of Thursday 11am – 8pm organizing the younger girls and setting up rehearsals. Of course, 104 N. Main Friday 7am – 8pm Heffington is quite the proud Medicine Lodge mother. Saturday 7am – 4pm “I think it is wonderful,” she (620) 886-3121 stated. “Brooklyn works very hard at everything she does and I knew that the Spirit of the Prai- rie was something she was Candles, Gifts,,, working very hard at to achieve. She has always loved being on Fresh Flowers and stage and entertaining and this is just another way for her to do Arrangements,,, that.” Made to Order The Spirit of the Prairie will have a new dress for this year’s Clothing Peace Treaty. After 30 years, the previous dress has been retired. 201 S. Main St / P.O. Box 57 Diane Gieswein took on the task of making a beautiful new Spirit Sawyer, KS 67134 of the Prairie costume. (620) 594-2483 [BITE] For younger girls who one day The Gyp Hill Premiere - Peace Treaty - September 28-29-30, 2018 What Peace Treaty means to me By Cathy Colborn a tremendous amount of time. It gian horses for a while. I think 29 Pageant Director has continued through time with at one time we had 11 or 12 of As I looked out over the pas- its continual documentation of them he was raising and train- ture through the window of our Kansas history through 24 pre- ing. My sons literally grew up pickup, my attention was brought sentations. Quite the milestone, around those horses and being back to Dad standing next to an 2018 will be the 25th presenta- in the wagon train. Now, Ted area that was a recession in the tion within a span of 91 years. drives a team in the wagon train earth. Could it be any better tool for scene. One of my prize pictures “What’s that?” I asked him. living history and to educate, not is from the director’s booth with “A buffalo wallow,” he re- only school children but adults? the wagon train coming into the plied. “The buffalo once roamed Using all senses, we drink in the arena. The lead wagon is driven this area, as did the Indians,” atmosphere and become im- by my son Ted, his grandpa Dale I was maybe 10-years-old at mersed into another time period. sitting next to him. Jim is Wagon the time. Dad was such the his- Being a sixth grade teacher for Master and leading the wagon torian and he has been gone a so many years, I loved teaching train. My other son, Matt, is long time. My boys didn’t get to about the Peace Treaty and that riding a horse alongside the fam- know him as grandpa. Many sto- time period. Hands on experi- ily wagon. That’s priceless. ries and memories were lost. ences abound. Another picture I possess is Peace Treaty is a legacy. His- Having access to all the pro- again from the director’s booth. tory was made and written into grams since the Peace Treaty This time I cued the narrator for the history books. Native Ameri- Pageant’s inception, I have ex- the stagecoach scene and cans came together with the gov- plored everything my family was stepped out of the booth to take ernment to sign a treaty that was involved in. I have a dress my a picture of the stagecoach that C. Colborn Photo meant to bring peace to the land. grandmother wore for the first my husband was driving. My two Cathy Colborn’s husband and sons are pictured above in the wagon Although the desired outcome Peace Treaty. I know that my young sons were also in the train scene of the Peace Treaty Pageant. was not met, it is still a part of dad was a young lad on the stagecoach. I proceeded to look Kansas history. wagon train, along with my up to see my husband on the am still doing. My sons also grew Peace Treaty pageant is very As a social studies teacher, grandmother, aunt, and uncle. ground and the stagecoach rac- up in the Night Show, being chil- generational. Scene directors exploring and preserving history Dad was in charge of ing toward the crowd. Unfortu- dren of widows, and eventually seem to change when it is is important. The Medicine Coronado’s scene until he was nately, when Jim went to put his becoming cowboys and dancers. handed down to someone in their Lodge Peace Treaty was part of physically unable to do it any- foot on the brake, the brake Ted plays the part of Frank family. Many family members our heritage. Western expansion more. It hurt when he couldn’t broke and he toppled to the Chapin, my relative that had left are included within that became a problem for the Na- do it anymore. ground taking the reins with him. the bank to go to the post office director’s scene. tive Americans and brought strife My sisters were stagecoach As the stage coach barreled so he was not shot when the So, what does Peace Treaty across the land. Peace was girls, and I couldn’t wait to be down the fence, the shotgun bank robbers came in. Matt now mean to me? A LOT of work! needed and the treaty signed was the next stagecoach girl riding driver was hanging on for dear plays Henry Brown, the But, it means pride in the dedi- an attempt to do just that. with my aunt. But, because of life. The stage coach traveled on Caldwell marshal that robbed the cation and work that it takes a Maybe the desired results that, I was never a prairie its way and then it vicariously Medicine Valley Bank. community to preserve history. were not achieved to their full- flower. Then, for me it was be- went up on two wheels. Every- Everyone knows the phrase: It means PRIDE that the gen- est, but the community of Medi- ing an Indian Maiden. I went off thing turned out alright. The au- “Fourscore and seven years erations before me took the time cine Lodge felt that it was im- to college and lived away from dience loved it. Wow that was ago……” Another phrase I will and effort to tell our story. We portant to commemorate the Medicine Lodge. When we came great acting! always remember will be: “Upon need to keep that alive as I have event. It took tremendous com- home I became a part of Peace My role stepped up to being a a stormy April morn, four men instilled in my children to con- munity effort to bring the major- Treaty through photographing it dancer in the Night Show, and rode into town, led by an outlaw tinue to do (or they might say I ity of townspeople together, with and joining my husband Jim’s then becoming director of the sheriff whose name was Henry forced them to do) but I know the farmers/ranchers who family in the wagon train. Night Show. I also became di- Brown. that in their heart they will con- owned livestock, buggies, and Jim’s dad, Dale, raised Bel- rector of the Pageant, which I It is easy to see that the tinue the saga. wagons. It made the next gen- erations proud of what their families accomplished. I know what it takes, the amount of people, and the money to put on the pageant today. We have the past pageants to know Troy Maydew, O.D. what was done and presented. To start something new, com- pletely from scratch - script, props, costumes - was a tremen- Seth Thibault, O.D. dous undertaking. Meticulous research was done for historical Maydew-Thibault accuracy. Bringing in I-See-O, from the Kiowa tribe, to find the exact location, since he was 19- Optometry, L.L.C. years-old and present at the ac- Enjoy your time in tual signing of the treaty. They 604 North Walnut - Medicine Lodge presented their interpretation of 620-886-3222 Kansas history and it absorbed Medicine Lodge! 216 S. Oak - Pratt - 620-672-5934 501 S. Walnut - Greensburg 620-672-5934 104 Ave. C West - Kingman 620-532-3154 700 W. 13th, Suite 24 - Harper 620-896-7000

2669 SE Highway 160 Medicine Lodge 620-930-4030 Welcome! Jon & Angela McDonald 308 13th Ave Medicine Lodge, KS 67104 Jon- 620-886-1830, Office - 620-450-7171 The Gyp Hill Premiere - Peace Treaty - September 28-29-30, 2018

30 Medicine Lodge Peace Treaty Alumni Rendezvous 2018 The Medicine Lodge High School Alumni Rendezvous will take place during the evenings of Friday, September RARAYKIESYKIES 29th and Saturday, September 30th. A tent with tables and Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner chairs will be available on the east side of the intersection of Peace Treaty Hours: 1st and Main Streets in front of Friday: 6 a.m. - 8 p.m., Saturday: 7 a.m. - 8 p.m. the former high school/middle Sunday: 7 a.m. - 2 p.m. school for alumni to use as a gathering place during the 2018 Large Menu Selection Peace Treaty celebration. There will NOT be any formal activity such as a banquet or main event this year. Featuring Soft Serve Listed below is the time schedule of when groups of graduating classes may gather together at the tent. This schedule is intended to help organize classes that graduated close to each other and give them specific times to meet. There will be message boards available to sign- ICE CREAM! in or just leave a message if you so desire. If a class or group of classes wants to plan something Sundaes - Shakes - Floats - more than just a get-together during their time slot, they are welcome to do so provided it doesn’t Freezes - Limeades conflict with the time schedule. Alumni are welcome to drop by the tent at any time! So that we can plan future alumni events, please make a donation on the Peace Treaty website: www.peacetreaty.org. You can pay with Pay Pal or a credit card. Dine In or Carry Out Friday, September 29th 110 W. Fowler Classes of 1940-1954 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Classes of 1955-1959 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Medicine Lodge Saturday, September 30th 620-886-5938 Classes of 1960-1969 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Classes of 1970-1979 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Classes of 1980-1999 8:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Classes of 2000-2017 9:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Make sure you plan to take a group photo. The picture of the class with the best atten- dance will be displayed at MLJSHS and on the Peace Treaty website. Buck skinners and cowboys at muzzleloader’s encampment By Jeff Davenport Welcome To A unique opportunity for those attending the Peace Treaty festivi- ties is the Muzzleloaders encamp- ment. This authentic display will be located just west of the junction of Highways 281 and 160. Medicine Lodge Visitors will be able to see how Lanette's fur trappers, mountain men, buck skinners, and cowboys lived from the 1700s up to the 1890s. A popu- Hair lar attraction, the muzzleloader en- campment has been a regular fea- Palace ture at the Peace Treaty celebration since the 1980s. A group of those Lanette Wagner involved in the gathering will also take part in the parades. owner/stylist Local residents, Pat McCullough and Mike Harper who wanted to 400 W. Stolp give visitors a chance to experience Medicine Lodge, living history, started the encamp- ment. McCullough stated, Kansas “We are an informal group,” said McCullough. “We never know how 620-886-3251 many participants, who are mainly affiliated with the Kansas G&L Muzzleloaders Association, will take part in the encampment. They 605 N Iliff St. Medicine Lodge just show up, not only men, but women and children, too.” According to McCullough, ev- erything visible in the encampment 620-886-3727 is true to the time period. “We like sharing our knowledge with visitors so they can experience how things were done in the past,” said McCullough. All participants are dressed in authentic clothing and stay in a primitive camp – those without modern-day amenities such as flash- lights, coolers, or electronics. The shelters, which they stay in during the entire weekend, are reflective of those that were used throughout this time period. Structures such as teepees, pyramids, wedges, and wall tents are on display. The re-enac- tors staying at the encampment will also show how they prepare their Enjoy meals which will give visitors a vi- Welcome sual history lesson in the difference Ranch the arts between food preparations of today & crafts as opposed to those from 150 years Rodeo ago. Visitors may also see various Fans! show! demonstrations and purchase items from some of the traders. Items which have been for sale during the last Peace Treaty celebrations have included guns, knives, beads and clothing. Crowdis Water The individuals who are staying in the camp do request that visitors respect their boundaries and prop- Well Service erty. As many of these individuals Irrigation Well Repair will be participating in other events, Welcome to Medicine Lodge they ask that visitors do not tres- New Water System Installation pass or disturb their camps. The re- Windmill Sales and Service Cowboys and Cowgirls! enactors are physically living at 24 Hour Service their campsites throughout the weekend, so please maintain eti- Water Well Drilling Robert D. Householter quette before entering someone’s Solar Systems camp. In the event of inclement weather, an alternative site will be Tom Crowdis set up just east of Indian Oil on Public Accountant Highway 160, near the pageant 620-672-2161 or 620-886-0623 arena. There will be signs posted Pratt, Kansas guiding the way for those wishing 110 N. Main to take a step back in time and view Medicine Lodge the living conditions of the 1800s. The muzzleloader encampment 620-886-3507 See Encampment on page 35 The Gyp Hill Premiere - Peace Treaty - September 28-29-30, 2018

MarMartinatina McBrideMcBride 31 Sharon’s Rose - Barber County’s Pride and Joy By Jeff Davenport Brooks offered her the opportu- The McBride family returned Although Martina McBride is nity to be his opening act if she to Sharon for the July Fourth known internationally for her could land a recording contract. celebration in 2007. Along with music, and she now lives in Using a demo recorded by John, celebrating Independence Day Nashville, Tennessee, Barber Martina signed with RCA. with family and friends, her County, Kansas is where she Her 1992 debut album, The hometown honored her by dedi- developed the roots that have Time Has Come, was followed cating the park as the Martina given her strength, stability, and by her 1993 hit album The Way McBride Park. self-assurance in the music in- That I Am. Her next album, Playlist: The dustry. All of Barber County shared Very Best of Martina McBride, Peace Treaty is always a fa- in the small town of Sharon’s was released on December 16, vorite time for Martina, but excitement to see one of their 2008 as part of the Sony-BMG scheduling conflicts will have her own gaining popularity in the Playlist series. on the other side of the country. music world. Her song, “My Her album Shine was re- “I have so many amazing Baby Loves Me”, jumped to leased in 2009 by RCA Records memories surrounding the Peace number two on the music charts, and debuted at the top of the U.S. Treaty, both as a child and as an followed by “Life #9”, which Country album chart and was adult. My favorite part is just also made it into the Top Ten. number ten on the Billboard being downtown, with the pa- Her song, “Independence Day” 200. rade, the shop windows all deco- won her Video of the Year by In 2010, Martina left RCA and rated, the great food, and seeing the Country Music Association signed with Republic Nashville. old friends and catching up. Sing- in 1994. Martina received an Honorary ing the National Anthem at the The McBrides also cel- Award from the Academy of start of the parade one year was ebrated the birth of their first Country Music Awards in 2011 such an honor, and another fa- daughter that year. Delaney and also released Eleven, that vorite memory is riding in the Katherine McBride was born on year. She followed Eleven with parade with my Dad on his mo- December 22, 1994. two compilation albums, Hits and torcycle,” she stated. In 1995 Martina released More and The Essential Many in this area know the Wild Angels and not only picked Martina McBride, in 2012. story how Martina, the daughter up her first number one single She released her latest album, of Daryl and Jean Shiff of from the album’s title track, but Everlasting, on April 8, 2014. Sharon, started out singing at a she was also inducted into the The collection of R&B and Soul very young age with the Grand Ole Opry that year. covers of the 1950s and 60s origi- Courtesy Photo Schiffters, the family’s country Martina’s 1997 album, Evo- nals was so well received that Barber County is proud that Martina McBride’s roots were formed and band. Her focus continued on lution, became a Top Ten hit and Martina made history as the first nourished in this area as she continues to find success in the music music after graduating from high a double-platinum record. Evo- solo female artist to debut at industry. Watch for her newest Christmas album and cookbook coming school as she pursued musical lution produced several hits and number one on the Top Country to stores near you. opportunities and explored dif- caused the spotlight to shine Albums chart with an indepen- ferent genres. brighter on the singer from Kan- dently released and distributed Martina remarked, “I couldn’t sas. album in the chart’s 50-year his- have asked for a better place to Martina’s next album, White tory. “Everlasting” is also grow up and be from. I owe a Christmas, was released in Martina’s fifth number one on lot to my parents and I’m grate- 1998. When she earned her first the Top Country Albums chart. ful that they always supported CMA award for Female Vocal- The album is Martina’s first in- my dreams, even though they ist of the Year in 1999, the dependent project on her new must have seemed crazy at the McBrides were the parents of label Vinyl Recordings, marketed time. They never made me feel two daughters after the birth of and distributed by Kobalt Label like they were crazy or unattain- Emma Justine on March 29, Services. able and that gave me the confi- 1998. The album includes duets with Visit the dence to go for it.” Emotion was released in 1999 Kelly Clarkson and Gavin The multi-platinum award win- and its lead single, “I Love You,” DeGraw, and was produced by ning singer will be releasing a reached number one on the Bill- Grammy’s “Album of the Year” Christmas album on October 19th board country charts in 1999 and and “Producer of the Year” win- Stockade called It’s The Holiday Season. also crossed over to the Adult ner Don Was. It was recorded “It’s been 20 years since Contemporary chart. at Blackbird Studio which is White Christmas and I’m in love Her first compilation, Great- owned by the McBrides. They with this album. It’s classic like est Hits, was released in 2001 incorporated vintage mics, in- Museum! White Christmas was,” McBride and was certified three times struments, amps and equipment said. “I think people will want to Platinum in sales by the Record- from the era the originals were keep listening year after year, but ing Industry Association of recorded for the authentic in a bit of different way. I went America. The album also in- sounds of the time. the way of those old Ella cluded four new songs which all While Martina has been mak- Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Dean made the top ten on the country ing her mark and topping the Martin records. Big band swing music charts between 2001 and charts, John has been as suc- and more of the pop Christmas 2003. cessful behind the scenes work- songs rather than the hymns we In 2001, Martina won Top ing on the technical side. In did on White Christmas. Don’t Female Vocalist from the Acad- 2002, the McBrides purchased get me wrong, the hymns are my emy of Country Music Awards the former Creative Recording favorites, but this is more of a and also the Female Video of the Studios, rebuilt it, and renamed record you are going to want to Year for “Blessed” from the it Blackbird Studio. Sprawling dance in your living room to while CMT Flameworthy Awards. across an entire block, it includes you have a family gathering or Martina was voted Top Fe- eight studios and has a client’s holiday party,” she added. “We male Vocalist by the Academy list that reads like a Who’s Who covered songs like “Frosty the of Country Music Awards and in Music directory. Blackbird Snowman” and “It’s The Most the Female Vocalist of the Year Studio has the resources to pro- Wonderful Time of the Year,” all by the Country Music Associa- vide their clients with whatever John Nixon, Realtor and Auctioneer with a big band that we recorded tion Awards in 2002. they need to achieve their de- 204 W. Fowler at Capitol Studios in Los Ange- Her album titled Martina was sired results. M-F 9-5 les. We will do a limited tour of released in 2003. Celebrating The Blackbird Studio is also (620) 886-3340 8-10 dates and we will be per- womanhood, the first single, home to the Blackbird Academy, [email protected] forming with symphony orches- “This One’s for the Girls,” went a post-secondary, sound engi- tras. I’m super excited for ev- to number three on the country neering school. The program, six eryone to hear it!” charts and hit number one on the years in the making, recently McBride will also be releas- Adult Contemporary charts. graduated its first class. ing her second cookbook, called That year she received the Fe- Although music is what Martina’s Kitchen Mix…My male Vocalist of the Year from Martina is most associated with, Recipe Playlist for Real Life on the Country Music Association, being a wife and mother to her October 30th. Favorite Country Female Artist three daughters take priority. “The ‘playlist’ and ‘mix’ from the American Music She stated, “I think so much of words are a play on music terms Awards, Female Video of the how John and I have raised the Thank You For Coming and how we share playlists of Year for “Concrete Angel” from girls comes from how we were our favorite songs that we love the CMT Flameworthy Awards, raised and the values and mor- To Medicine Lodge! in the moment,” she said. “So and Humanitarian of the Year als we were taught. We are a these are recipes I am cooking from the Academy of Country very close family and I feel like in my own kitchen right now and Music Awards. we have raised the girls to be want to share with everyone. It’s In 2004, Martina won the Fe- very down to earth and practi- not really a book about a spe- male Vocalist of the Year from cal and kind. My girls know the Winter cific diet, like vegetarian or the Country Music Association value of hard work, the impor- Whole 30, but more of a book for the fourth time. tance of family, the satisfaction that highlights the way I think In 2005, she released Time- of a job well done, and the good & Sons, LLC most people, including myself, less which included cover ver- feeling that comes from caring eat. A good balance between sions of country music standards. for others.” Heating - A/C, Refrigeration, Electrical, healthy recipes and good old- Wanting everything to fit the Barber County is proud that Plumbing, Commercial & Residential fashioned comfort food.” classic country style, the her roots were formed and nour- Although Martina was fo- McBrides hired older Nashville ished in this area as she contin- cused on a music career, she had session players and used out- ues to find success in the music to work her way up the ranks dated analog equipment. Time- industry. Tim & Cheryl Winter like many before her. Her focus less sold over 250,000 copies Valuing those roots, Martina sharpened after meeting studio within the first week. stated, “I think growing up in Owners engineer John McBride in 1987 The McBride family also in- Barber County was great for me while living in Wichita. They creased during 2005 with the in so many ways. It taught me soon became engaged and on birth of Ava Rose Kathleen accountability because when 620-886-0266 May 15, 1988, they were mar- McBride on June 20th. you are from such a small town ried. In 2007, Martina released everyone knows everything you They turned their sights on Waking Up Laughing, her do so you can’t really get away Have A Nashville and moved there on eighth studio album which in- with much! It also taught me New Year’s Day in 1990. John cluded the song “Anyway”. The about community. That’s why I Safe And took a job with Garth Brooks’ song won her Most Played Song love Nashville. There is a real sound crew and later became his of The Year from BMI, Female sense of community here and in Happy concert production manager. Song of the Year and Song of some ways it’s so much like a Martina performed a variety of The Year from ASCAP. She also small town rather than a big Weekend! odd jobs that included selling T- won Top Country Grossing Tour city.” shirts at Brooks’ concerts. of The Year from Billboard Mu- Recognizing her talent, sic Awards that year. The Gyp Hill Premiere - Peace Treaty - September 28-29-30, 2018 30th Annual Kansas Championship Ranch 32 Rodeo Set for Peace Treaty The 30th Annual Kansas Championship Ranch Rodeo (KCRR), sanctioned by the Working Ranch Cowboys Association, works to preserve the heritage and lifestyle of Kansas working ranches, the cowboys who work there, and their skilled horses. Only ranches that have all or part of their land and livestock in Kansas are invited to be included as a team in the KCRR. The event is Friday, September 29th and Saturday, September 30th at 7:30 p.m. each evening at the Pageant Arena, southeast of Medicine Lodge on Rodeo Drive. The events in the Kansas Championship Ranch Rodeo are similar to what many cowboys do in their normal activities on the ranch and are approved by the Working Ranch Cowboys Association. The featured events for this year’s rodeo include two go-rounds of Ranch Bronc Riding, Calf Branding, Stray Gathering, Team Penning, and Wild Cow Milking. The 2018 invited ranch teams include: Alfalfa Co., Beachner, Buck Creek/Arrow H, Eight Over Quarter Circle/Stinson, Haywire, Lonesome Pine, Nelson/Flying W, Rezac, Robbins & Keith, Snyder & Woolfolk, and Stock & Felt. New to this year’s rodeo is the Kid’s Rodeo Activities that will take place before Saturday’s KCRR rodeo. The events include: · Stick Horse Races: 6:30 p.m., children five and under will compete in these races. A belt buckle will be awarded to winners of each age group – age 2 and under, age 3, age 4, and age 5. · Dummy Roping: following the stick horse races, children 12 and under will rope dummies. Winners of each age group will receive a belt buckles – age 5 and under, ages 6 and 7, ages 8 and 9, and ages 10 through 12. The KCRR cowboys, horses and teams have always placed high in events, with Top Horse and Top Hand. Several teams have placed in the Top 4 at the World Championships. This year’s KCRR will be a tough competition with teams that are hoping to still qualify for the World Championship Ranch Rodeo. The Cowboy Trappings and Trade Show will showcase fine artisans and their workmanship. Included in the show will be saddle makers, bootmakers, western décor, logo products, and fashion. Trappings exhibits open Friday at 6:00 p.m., and will open Saturday at 9:00 a.m. The Midwest Ranch Horse Association’s Ranch Horse Show begins at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday. This event at the KCRR is listed as the last event before the MRHA K. Noland Photo semi-finals. Don’t miss two action-packed nights of the 30th annual Kansas Championship Ranch KCRR tickets are available in advance at the Peace Treaty Office or at the gate Rodeo on Friday and Saturday of Peace Treaty. for $10.00 for adults; admission is free for those 14 and under.

The history of the National Gypsum Corporation, Medicine Lodge Plant and Sun City Mine, begins in the middle 1880s in London, England. At that time two brothers, Thomas and William Best, were planning a pleasure trip to America from London. In their planning, they learned of the gypsum deposits at Medicine Lodge and came here to see them and get some samples of the rock. In 1887 the Best Brothers returned to Barber County and built a water powered gypsum mill on the west bank of the Medicine River. Spring floods washed out their dam so they rebuilt the plant in 1899 at its present site. The gypsum rock was hauled by horse or mule teams and wagons from the gyp hills to the plant, a nine mile trip over rough terrain and a shaky bridge over the river. By 1907 rock was being hauled to the plant by rail from Kling, Kansas, west of the town of Sun City. By 1907, a tornado destroyed the mill and a new and larger mill was built. The company was by now known throughout the U.S. and was famous for its pure white gypsum and Best Brothers Keenes Cement. The Kling opera- tion was closed down in 1920 and the Quarry Mine equipment was transferred to the present site of 2 miles south and west of Sun City. The Sun City Mine and Quarry operation was very complicated, requiring 140 men to operate it. Rock was extracted from the ground by hand, loaded into small mine cars by hand, and hauled to the crusher. After crushing, the rock was moved by overhead tram to the railroad, where it was loaded into rail cars and transported to Medicine Lodge. Later a spur track was extended to the mine site and the tram was abandoned. Rock is now hauled to the plant by a local trucking industry. The Sun City Mine holds the distinction of being the first gypsum mine to use mechanized mining. This mechani- zation was introduced by Mr. Dudley Chads, former Plant Manager in Medicine Lodge. In 1926 Thomas Best retired from active management and John Best, William's son, became President of the company. In 1938, the Best Brothers Keenes Cement Company was sold to the National Gypsum Company of Buf- falo, New York. Mr. Best became a Vice-President of National Gypsum and operations at the Medicine Lodge Plant and the Sun City Mine continued with steady growth. In 1950 National Gypsum decided to build a wallboard plant at the Medicine Lodge site and in 1951, this plant began production, producing gypsum wallboard for use in the building of homes, apartments and commercial build- ings. Since that time the gypsum wallboard plant has continued to produce a quality product for use nationwide. In 1975 the Keenes Cement operations were curtailed at this Medicine Lodge Plant, ending 87 years of production of this product at this location. Keenes Cement can be found in buildings as famous as the White House in Washington, D.C. The Medicine Lodge plant over the years has developed into one of National Gypsum's largest plaster plant, manufacturing gypsum veneer plaster for sale and use throughout the United States. In 1982 the Medicine Lodge Facility was expanded to include an addional wallboard manufacturing machine. The two wallboard manufacturing processes have a capacity in excess of 260 linear feet per minute. Presently, ap- proximately 1.5 million square feet of wallboard and 250 tons of plaster are produced daily. The Gyp Hill Premiere - Peace Treaty - September 28-29-30, 2018

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In 2003, Robert and Dorothy (Kirkbride) Stutler decided to pur- chase the Grand Hotel to bring life back into he dilapidated building that has become a historical landmark. The Stutlers lived in Arizona, where Robert worked as Senior Vice President with Sturm, Ruger & Company for 21 years and he is also a retired U.S. Marine officer with 25 years of service. The Stutlers run The Gun Room at The Grand Hotel Tuesday through Saturday each week and Major Bob Stutler is the City of Medicine Lodge’s Mayor. The history of the Grand Hotel can be considered as spectacular to not only the residents of Medicine Lodge, but also to Bob and Dorothy Stutler. The late Bev McCullom, Medicine Lodge native, shared a special story about her memories of the hotel. Her father, George Horney, Jr., owned the hotel from 1929-1939, her aunt “Sweet” Skinner owned the hotel from 1939-1980, and Bev had spent most of her life growing up in the nostalgic hotel. “I spent my life here until I was seven years old,” Bev said. “Where the courtyard was, I used it as a backyard and used to play in it.” In an article found in the history of the Grand, it read, “The Grand! That is the Name of the New and Elegant Hotel of which Medicine Lodge is Justly Proud. A $25,000 Brick Building, Where Yesterday The Buffalo Roamed and the Coyotes Howled!” There have been many previous owners before the Stutlers bought the hotel in 2003. The firm of Geppert & Stone were the first own- ers in 1885-1886. The beginning of the Grand Hotel is exciting and knowing what the Grand consisted of is nothing short of awesome to history buffs. In January 1884, a number of Medicine Lodge citizens concluded Bob and Dorothy Stutler that a first class hotel was needed in the city and these citizens started the work of getting up a stock company. The late George Geppert, E.W. Payne, W.W. Cook, S.E. Stone, Standiford, Youmans & Co., and D. VanSlyke were the citizens especially active in bring- ing the matter into public notice. A public meeting was held on Jan. 24, 1884, which was attended by parties who had indicated a will- ingness to subscribe to the capital stock of a hotel building associa- tion. Laws were prepared and a board of directors was elected to hold office for the first year. From that time on, the proposition to build the hotel was regarded as an assumed fact, and there was no difficulty in securing the co- operation of the business men generally not of the city. The Grand, viewed from the outside, commanding as it does a prominent posi- tion in the city, at the intersections of Washington and Main Street, the Grand was an imposing structure in 1885. The frontage of the Grand was 55 feet on Main Street and had a depth of 94 feet. There are four stories to the hotel, including a full floor on the basement level. According to the history of the hotel, “The walls were completed before frost, and were carefully put up, nothing in the way of carelessness being permitted.” The inside of the majestic hotel was nothing less than amazing in the eyes of the beholder. There was a wide hall leading to a private club, barbershop, and bathrooms. In the basement, there was also a large, dry storeroom, laundry room, and coal and vegetable cellars. The first story, the office floor, had an extra high ceiling, large plate glass windows, and was beautifully finished on the inside. The entire floor was grained in imitation walnut with French wal- nut panels. The stair rail and newel posts were of natural walnut, sanded and polished, making a surface equal to glass, and as du- rable as the wood itself. The Grand Hotel in the 1920s The second and third floors were of Arkansas pine, finished in hard oil, the most durable and desirable finish to be had, especially so, for public buildings. The billiards room, now the present Tea Room, was furnished also with excellent taste. “A man by the name of Tom Yeates was renting a room on the third floor. The cowboys noticed that he was not himself and checked on him. They found that he had taken Strychnine and brought him down and placed him on the pool table to try and revive him,” Bev told as she stood in the Tea Room. “My grandfather also had a medicine shop set up in this room, that was during the Prohibition times.” A bar 16 feet long of solid ash and cherry was furnished with all the latest improvements in the way of cut-glass ware, a large bev- eled glass mirror measuring 50x70, an extensive solid ash refrigera- tor, improved billiards tables and pool tables of the Brunswick-Balks make. “There were two rooms that were used as what they called ‘sample rooms’,” Bev reminisced. “The traveling salesmen would bring in samples for the local mer- chants.” It is interesting to find out the actual cost behind the Grand Hotel. The paid up capital stock was $10,000 with the lots being donated. When completed in detail, including cisterns, wells, outhouses, and walks, a little less than $23,000 was expended on the Grand Hotel. The Stutler’s operated their business out of the Hotel for ten years, but have now retired and converted the Hotel into their pri- vate residence with a most elegant study. The Grand Hotel today. Grand Hotel 124 South Main Street Est. 1885 Medicine Lodge, KS The Gyp Hill Premiere - Peace Treaty - September 28-29-30, 2018

Jacobs designs new 34 Peace Treaty poster Peace Treaty poster creator Justin Jacobs commented, “I have always enjoyed the Medi- Welcome to Our cine Lodge Peace Treaty and take great pride being from the Community Medicine Lodge area. My fam- ily has always participated in the Peace Treaty in one form or an- other for as long as I can re- member so when the opportu- nity came about to put my graphic design skills to work on helping to promote and market the Peace Treaty for the second time, I was very excited and ea- ger to get started.” Justin Jacobs was the previous designer of the poster and brochure in 2015. He continued, “This particu- lar design I wanted to keep Woolsey Operating Company, simple and clean while still hav- L.L.C. ing that Vintage feel to it. I have always liked the vintage and his- Field Office: torical look and I tried to keep 1966 SE Rodeo Drive Road that look in this poster as I did the previous poster design. The Medicine Lodge, Kansas 67104 Peace Treaty is about a time long past, and thus it should reflect D. Sorg Photo (620) 886-5606 that in the promotion material as Justin Jacobs, native to Barber County, created the poster for the 2015 much as possible. I look forward and 2018 Peace Treaties. to celebrating the Peace Treaty Corporate Office: Pageant this year and also look dian on a horse. Charlotte, North Carolina, Medi- 125 N. Market, Suite 1000 forward to the opportunity to Designed by a Barber County cine Lodge, Kansas will always work with the Peace Treaty As- native who knows and under- be home.” Wichita , Ks 67202 sociation for years to come.” stands the importance of the his- Advertising Chair Joscelyn (316) 267-4379 Jacobs also lent his hand to the tory of the event, both the poster Nittler commended Jacobs for tri-fold brochure for the Peace and tri-fold stand out in our world donating his talents, “He’s been Treaty incorporating a design of many colors and epitomizes great to work with and we all that reflected the first ever the spirit of Peace Treaty. Jacobs appreciate his willingness to help Peace Treaty Poster of an In- stated, “While I may live near promote Peace Treaty.”

Thank you for Welcome To attending Indian Maidens, Peace Treaty Ambassadors are getting ready for the 2018 the upcoming Peace Treaty 2018. Indian Maidens: Medicine Lodge! Peace Treaty! Peace Treaty Enjoy The Pageant Ambassadors

By Bree Schaffer and Ranch Rodeo! The Gyp Hill Premiere With the 2018 Peace Treaty upon us, the Indian Maidens have RUTAN been busy making preparations for the 2018 Peace Treaty cel- CONSTRUCTION INC ebration. They have gone from town to town handing out bro- 209 W. Stolp Ave. chures to encourage attendance for the Peace Treaty Pageant. 620-886-3581 Sheryl Davenport and Heather Smith are the sponsors this year for the Indian Maidens. They started sending out announcments in March of this year for any high school age girl interested in becoming an Indian Maiden. The girls this year for the 2018 Indian Maiden’s are: Corbin Smith, Madison Pilkington, Audrey Bowen, Kate Young, Sophia Dawson, Samantha Ba- Professional Auto Body con, Olivia Worsham, Piper Guy, and Delaney Davenport. The In- Specialist dian Princess this year is Corbin Smith. In preparation for the role as Indian Princess, Corbin at- tended a meeting dedicated to learning the history and other de- tails of the event. The girls have gone out and PEACE TREATY gotten sponsorships for the Moc- Lodge casins, boots and headbands. The Indian Maiden’s attended ten dif- ferent parades plus the State Fair WELCOME just this year. The Indian Maid- ens job requires them to be am- Welcome! bassadors for the Peace Treaty and spread the word. They walk Larry Klusman in the parades, help pass out fly- ers, invite people to attend, and at 114 W. Kansas the Peace Treaty Pagent they help Medicine Lodge people to their seats. Each Maiden YA’LL! is required to sign up for as many 620-886-5523 parades as possible. Ricke “Our end goal is to get as many people as we can to come to the Peace Treaty, that way we can Service continue the Pagent. We have enjoyed a great summer with a & Hardware good group of girls to promote 412 N. Iliff - Peace Treaty 2018,” Sheryl said. 1st Vice President Kevin Noland Medicine Lodge had this to say about the girls. “It’s 886-3478 or 888-559-9821 a selfless thing that they do, spending their off time promot- Serving Barber County and Surrounding ing the Peace Treaty. We’re so areas since 1980 happy that the next generation loves this as much as the previ- ous generations. We couldn’t do this wihtout them!” The Gyp Hill Premiere - Peace Treaty - September 28-29-30, 2018 Art Exhibition Showcases Local Artists Visitors to the Medicine Lodge tured by attending the art work- them, such as t-shirts, magnets, Peace Treaty festivities will have the shops of Clyde Aspevig and Wayne notecards, and home goods. 35 opportunity to take in the fine arts Wolfe. Vollbracht is a Signature “Many of my designs are trib- through the artwork and creations Member of the Oil Painters of utes to my love of Medicine Lodge of local artisans. America. He has shown his work at and the Gyp Hills,” she stated. The 2018 Professional Western numerous shows including Paints Some of the other artists whose Art Show and Sale will take place the Parks, Mountain Oyster Club work will be on display at Maker on September 28, 29, and 30 from Shows, National Oil Painters of Mercantile are photographers Mark 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at the Peoples American Exhibitions, American Sherman of Coldwater and Scott Bank Sunflower Room at 121 S. Plains Art Shows, Kansas Masters Bean of Manhattan in addition to Main Street. International, Paint America, and local metalsmith Pake McNally and Three nationally acclaimed various Kansas and Colorado Plein Rise Groth, a silversmith from Western artists will be featured for Air Shows. Satanta. their works in different media. These In addition to the art show, other Additionally there will be local artists specialize in various mediums artisans will display their creations and national hand-crafted goods on such as oil, watercolor, and bronze at various locations throughout sale. These include jewelry from in a variety of styles, but not in sub- Medicine Lodge such as the craft Andrea Fisher of Medicine Lodge ject matter. Artists featured at the show at the former middle school at and Laura Ingalls from Wisconsin, show are David Vollbracht, Harold the corner of Main and 1st Streets, handmade candles and soaps from T. Holden, Earl Kuhn, and Elisa the Pow-wow grounds at city park, Nectar Republic in Wichita, metal Stone. the Muzzleloaders encampment just work by Rick Pyle of Sharon and Harold T. Holden is the first fine west of the junction of Highways Iron Maid Art based in Wisconsin artist in his family. Going by the 281 and 160, and at local busi- and Minnesota, personal accesso- monogram “H,” he grew up in Enid, nesses. ries from Chloe and Lex, a variety of Oklahoma, in a creative family that One local artisan that will be handmade baby items from several 118 S. Main Medicine Lodge counted among its members, inven- showcasing various works of art and makers, and three local authors’ tors, engineers and horsemen. craftsmanship is Maker Mercantile, books. As with everything in the Karen Larson / Agent Holden and wife, Edna Mae, live located at 217 N. Main. The gallery, gallery, Stone wants to offer unique, near Kremlin, Oklahoma. Holden owned by Elisa Stone, will display hand-created items at affordable Marci Hackney / Agent describes himself as “a man who the clay pieces formed by Elisa’s prices can make a living doing what he hands, as well as providing a venue Another item that is very popu- 620-886-5663 loves is truly blessed, and I con- for other artists to exhibit their lar at Maker Mercantile is the “Make sider myself to be one of those wares. She will have her pottery and Your Own Necklace Bar” where cus- men.” other unique ceramic creations for tomers can become designers and Insurance Solutions “My subject matter has always visitors to view. make their own necklaces. been the west,” Holden stated. “I have my own work, art pieces Stone will be participating in “That is what inspires me and that and every day, usable pottery, for other Peace Treaty activities, but will is what I want to capture in my art.” sale as well as work by other artists try to keep her gallery/store open Group Health Holden’s art career began after and artisans,” said Stone. “My goal as much as possible. Store hours Cancer Ins. he attended Oklahoma State Univer- for my store is to have only items will be 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. on Fri- Farm Ins. sity and graduated from the Texas made by the human hand.” day and Saturday (Sept. 28 and 29) Long Term Care Academy of Art in Houston. He In addition to the handcrafted and 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Sun- Medicare Sup. began in the commercial art field and items, Stone will also have products day (Sept. 30). Home/Auto eventually took the position as the with her own original designs on Accident Ins. art director of the Horseman Maga- zine. In 1973, Holden made the leap to full-time artist and gained com- missions from the National Cattlemen’s Association from 1982- Encampment continued from page 30 1986 to bolster his artistic endeav- ors along the way. His work is in- will be open from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. Friday and Saturday and from 8:00 cluded in the museum collections a.m. Sunday until the encampments are disbanded. Admission into the Yep, we'll insure that too! of the National Cowboy and West- encampment is free. ern Heritage Museum, the Okla- homa State Capitol, the Ranch Heri- tage Museum (Lubbock, Texas), the Whitney Gallery at the Buffalo Bill Museum (Cody, Wyoming), and the Oklahoma History Center (Okla- homa City). In addition to private and mu- seum collectors, Holden has com- pleted 22 monuments of public art in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas, and Arkansas. One of Holden’s larger- than-life monuments – “The Ranger” is placed along Highway 281 at the southwest corner of Northwestern Oklahoma State Uni- versity in Alva. Holden has received many dis- Water Softeners tinguished awards and accolades Reverse Osmosis Drinking Water Systems throughout his career. These in- clude: the Lifetime Achievement Bottled Water and Water Coolers Award from the Oklahoma Sculpture 405 W. Kansas - Medicine Lodge Society in 2000, induction into the Sales Service Rentals Mountain Oyster Club as a lifetime 620-886-5550 member that same year, the Governor’s Art Award from Okla- homa Governor Frank Keating in Cal Ben Natural Soap Products 620-886-1105 2001, election to Professional Mem- Salt and Bottled Water Delivery bership in the National Sculpture Society in 2004, Western Artist of Case Water the Year award (2004) from the Acad- emy of Western Artists, a Distin- guished Alumni Award from Okla- Over 50 years of continuous homa State University in 2005, the service Cowboy Culture Award (2010), membership in the Cowboy Artists of America (2012), and most recently, 327 ½ W. Stolp Ave, he was inducted into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 2014, the highest Medicine Lodge honor the state of Oklahoma can ecowaterml.com bestow. Earl Kuhn of Medicine Lodge is Self-Service Drinking Water an iconic local western artist that Filler uses scenes of contemporary ranch cowboys, horses, livestock, and 37 cents a gallon landscapes as his subject matter. Two key components characteris- 620-886-5016 tic of his watercolors are the details in the animals, and his use of light. Kuhn was selected as the 2013 Signature Artist for the American Quarter Horse Association’s America’s Horse in Art in Amarillo, Texas. His works are in major West- ern Art shows throughout the United States. Kuhn’s artwork has also been featured on the El Paso Southwestern Roundup program, Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo poster, Working Ranch Cowboys Associations’ World Championship Ranch Rodeo program, and the World Paint Horse Show poster and SALES - SHOP SERVICE - SUPPLIES program cover. He was selected to do the painting for the Kansas Live- stock Association’s 100th Anniver- WATER WELL DRILLING sary Commemorative Limited Edi- tion print. In addition, Kuhn paints WATER SYSTEMS several commissions throughout the year. Kuhn’s works have been fea- Enjoy our area’s tured within the pages and covers of a variety of magazines including rich history! the Western Horseman, Paint Horse Journal, America’s Horse and Art, The Cowboy, Western Horseman, Paint Horse Journal, Kansas Horseman, and Super Looper. Lyman’s, Inc Kuhn was inducted into the 2010 Kansas Cowboy Hall of Fame at Boot Hill in Dodge City. 610 North Iliff David Vollbracht is another Medicine Lodge artist whose sub- Medicine Lodge, KS ject matter focuses on the landscape 620-886-5731 of the West. Vollbracht is a repre- sentational landscape painter and his work reflects the quality of light, nature, and spirit drawn from the Dean Lyman land. Vollbracht emphasizes the beauty and importance of the natural land- scape in his compositions, through painting ‘plein air’ and in the stu- dio. 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MELEA G. BANMAN CPA Accounting, Indians attack the wagon train in the 1947 Peace Treaty Pageant. Auditing, Business Early settlements in the Consulting & Gyp Hills and Medicine Lodge Tax Preparation Excerpts from Chosen Land improve and staff the reserva- of the valley at the forks of the My Business is One of the new settlements in tions, or even to furnish the pro- Medicine Lodge River and Elm 1873, on the Kansas prairies 80 visions, rations and goods prom- Creek and looked down on the Helping Your miles southwest of Wichita, was ised. So the Indians, hungry, beautiful timbered site of the peace called Medicine Lodge. Thirteen homeless, and angry again took treaty, still marked by the beaten log cabins built near the Medicine to the warpath against the whites. earth of the Commission com- Business Succeed! River, not far from the Medicine The year of 1868, and those im- pound and a scattering of whis- Lodge Indian Peace Treaty site, mediately following, saw bitter key bottles. 210 S. Main Street made up the town. warfare in Kansas, for white Updegraff was looking for a A hotel and a trading post were travel and settlement were grow- place to establish a trading post, Contact Melea, Sarah or Rita among the first buildings, and al- ing apace on the wide prairies and and here, he knew, was the likeli- though the new village was only the tribesmen were fighting for est spot one could hope to find. a year old when a deluge of grass- their homeland for their lives. By spring he had set up a sawmill hoppers and insects destroyed all However, according to a tale on the river and built himself a 620-886-5454 crops and gardens (1874, the told in later years by Scott one room log house, which grasshopper year), people deter- Cummins, the Pilgrim Bard, not doubled as a hotel. And none too minedly stayed in the farthest “out all of the Indians were hostile all soon, for that spring and summer west” point in southern Kansas. of the time. “In the winter of of 1873 droves of people came (Most towns in the western half 1871,” he wrote, “our party of and went in the Timbered Hill of Kansas at the time were sta- seven men was on a buffalo hunt. country. Some were hunters and tions along the railroad tracks We had good luck and our wagon some were settlers, looking for crossing through the central part was loaded with choice buffalo locations, and the little hotel, the of the state.) and venison meat when we went Medicine Lodge House, was said A stagecoach line established to camp for the night on Spring to have sheltered as many as forty in March 1873 between Creek (near present Medicine men in a single night. Hutchinson and Medicine Lodge Lodge). After we ate supper and In February, about two was the first public transportation had our pipes going, I said, `Boys, months after Updegraff’s arrival system into that part of Kansas. it’s Christmas Eve. So hang up at the forks of the river, a town TheThe BusyBusy BB Long, long ago, a tribe of In- your stockings, tomorrow will be site was laid out by Bemis, dians known as the Kiowa had Christmas. `Then everyone Hutchinson and Company on 400 chosen that part of North America seemed suddenly to remember acres of land recently preempted CUSTOM for their own. Probably one of the Christmases at home in the days by the hotel keeper at $1.25 per most scenic and beautiful regions gone by, and we spent the evening acre. The town was named for FRAMING of Kansas, it was all that an In- telling stories around the camp- the river, and for the ruins of the dian could want, for no other part fire.” old Kiowa medicine lodge a little Need your of the state is so plentifully sup- Probably most of white men further downstream. The town plied with swift running streams, who first visited the valley at the site company put up an office Peace Treaty with sweet native grasses, or with forks of the Medicine Lodge, were beside the hotel, and a bit later a such abundant natural shelter in also buffalo hunters. But some D.E. Sheldon opened a general Poster framed? the form of timber, hills, bluffs saw other opportunities, and that store with a twelve foot shelf of and canyons. The beautiful river same winter, about the same time goods and a counter made of two Stop by today! that flowed from the Northwest that the Cheyennes and the buf- boards laid on flour barrels. Specialty Work, to the southeast supplied many falo hunters were socializing on Very shortly a livery stable, a miles of living water. Numerous Spring Creek, a man named Grif- drug store, and three dwellings Complete Flower Design creeks emptied in the river, and fin located a ranch on another were added to the village, and a banks of all were bordered by branch of the Medicine, about doctor, C.T. Rigg, and two law- & Gift Lines thick stands of red cedar, elm, eighteen miles to the northwest. yers, W.E. Hutchinson and M cottonwood, hackberry, and wal- And still another, R.M. (Dick) Sutton had come to town. Under nut trees. Vast herds of buffalo, Woodward, set up a camp on Bit- stress of the boom, Updegraff elk, deer, and antelope grazed the ter Creek on a mound which soon hurried to build a new hotel in 606 N. Iliff valleys and bear, turkey and other came to be known as “Dick’s front of his old one. A two-story animals and fowl inhabited the Peak”. Woodward hunted buffalo frame, of native lumber, it boasted Medicine Lodge timber. until the shaggy beasts were all six rooms upstairs, an office and In addition to all this, the gone, and then became a freighter. a big dining room downstairs-and Kiowas had discovered that the About the same time, a fron- from its opening day it was over- 620-886-5021 waters of the river were endowed tiersman, Derrick Updegraff, loaded, with guests sleeping in the [email protected] with healing properties; and so packed up his family, left eastern hallway during rush season they came yearly to the river to a Kansas because it was becoming nights. lovely spot in the angle made by too civilized”, and pulled out for the confluence of the river and a a new frontier. In December, See Settlements creek. Here they pitched their tee- 1872, he topped a rise northeast on page 37 pees, bathed in the river, and drank of its laxative mineral wa- ters. In time, they also discovered the healing properties of many of the herbs and plants that grew on the banks of the streams. The better to use them, they built a Rejuvany Massage great “medicine lodge” on the Rejuvany Massage bank of the river, setting slender logs on end in a circle, bending and Wellness the tops to the center, and cover- ing the whole with ruses and earth. 620-255-4937 There in the right lodge they heated big rocks and placed their 304 W Fowler healing herbs on them. They poured on the water, thus filling the enclosure with clouds of aro- matic steam. Bathed in the steam, Book online from our the red people sweated and soaked away their ills. And who Facebook page is to say that those early sauna baths were no less effective than We offer those today? CBD products,,, And so the years passed. The main stream came to be known hand made bath and as the Medicine River; the creek Buffet!Buffet! which joined it, due to the great body products, massage groves of elms that lined its banks, Friday, Saturday, Sunday was called, Elm. Other streams and spa treatments draining the hills of the region bore 11:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. such descriptive names as Bear, and 5 p.m. - 7 p.m. Cedar, Antelope, Spring, Turkey, PLUS FULL MENU!!! Cottonwood, Elk, Hackberry, Bit- ter and Big and Little Mule. Settling Up 1871—1880 That the great Indian Peace HWY 281 and 160 Treaty of 1867 was not more suc- cessful was not the fault of any Medicine Lodge of those that took part at the Medi- cine Lodge River. Rather, the 620-886-3784 blame must rest on Congress, for that body took no action to ratify the agreement for many months, nor to make funds available to The Gyp Hill Premiere - Peace Treaty - September 28-29-30, 2018

Settlements continued from page 36 37 The year, 1874 was one of lower Medicine two years earlier, stood guard at all times on top of unrest in Barber County, not only was second in command. These the stage barn, and if alarm was because of the tangled political men were to guard the territory given every man inside the walls and financial situation, but because from Dodge City to Caldwell and ran to the place assigned him in of the drought and grasshoppers. on south to the Cimarron River case of an attack. Drills and tar- In addition, the hungry Indians, and keep it clear of Indians. get practice were held frequently completely at outs over the bro- To aid in protecting the town outside and to the southeast of the Welcome ken treaty promises, the non-ar- of Medicine Lodge, the guards, stockade, the young, unmarried rival of annuities and increased with the help of the frightened men were put on scout duty, pa- settlement within their favorite citizens built a nine-foot high ce- trolling more than one hundred ToTown buffalo grounds, had taken to dar log stockade around the vil- miles of territory along the state raiding and burning across south- lage, which at that time was lo- line. Senior and ern and western Kansas. cated where the main business Scott Cummins and Wood- According to one account, the district is today. Sun City, too, was ward hauled bones to Wichita, Commercial Rates Osage Indians on June 17 stockaded and so was Forrest said to be the greatest bone mar- swooped down on the farms of City, a village west of Medicine ket in the world at that time. There In Room Coffee John Martin and Elijah Kennedy, Lodge. they unloaded them in huge ricks Free WiFi and 32” two and one-half miles southwest R.M. (Dick) Woodward’s wife beside the railroad tracks to await of Medicine Lodge. Both men and son, until the Indian threat shipment east by the trainload, LED TVs in all were killed. The Indians then drove them to Forrest City, had where they would be used for swung around to Cedar Creek tended the hide camp at Dick’s fertilizer, or for processing sugar. rooms and killed Isaac Kein at his place, Peak while Dick hunted. But Dick The bones brought six to twelve three and one-half miles west of spent no time in any stockade. dollars a ton at the pile, but it took town. Some resources assert that Instead, he supplied buffalo meat an awful lot of bones to make a the Indians were led by white men for those who did, both at Forrest ton. The freighters collected the in disguise. Other stories agree, City and Medicine Lodge. That cash, deducted their freighter’s Vick Bhakta - Manager even adding that the raiders had year, the only year in which he fees, and took the rest back to been hired by white “higher-ups” kept track of the buffalo he killed, the ragged pickers. As an added to drive out the white population his stack was 1,700; a good year, bonus for themselves, there were and cover up the Barber County what with hides bringing seventy- always loads of goods to be swindlers, whose activities were five cents to three dollars a piece. hauled back to the settlement about to be uncovered. “Old citi- At times, there were as many stores; food, clothes, whisky, Copa Budget Inn zens don’t like to say much about as 200 people inside the cedar guns, ammunition. that raid...preferring to let the dead walls of Medicine Lodge, together Cutting and hauling cedar 401 W. Fowler past bury its dead—the dead In- with their teams, cows, and dogs. posts to Wichita and Hutchinson, dians being already buried.” The refugees ground corn with a cities of the treeless plains, like- Junction Hwy 281/160 At any rate, the attack, along coffee grinder to make bread, and wise supplied early Barberites with with others in the besieged terri- drew their daily ration of buffalo cash money. Most of the timber Medicine Lodge tory, caused Governor Thomas from a “meat wagon” located a in Barber County grew on land Osborne to organize the Kansas handy stop in the stockade. Dur- held in trust by the government 620-886-5673 State Guard. Sun City and Medi- ing prolonged danger periods the for the Osage Indians, and no cine Lodge each furnished a com- town’s saloons went dry, but white man had a legal right to cut pany. A Captain Ricker com- dancing and card playing whiled and haul away, all but denuding manded the Barber County away the hours. Most of the danc- the beautiful wooded canyons by Guards, and John Mosley, son of ers, it is said, “tripped the light the end of the settlement period. the E.H. Mosley, killed on the fantastic in their bare feet”. A man

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The Cowboy Trappings and Trade Show will be making its ninth appearance at the 2018 Peace Treaty. The show will be held at the Pageant Rodeo Arena and will be open Friday at 5:00 p.m. and all day Saturday. “The purpose of the event is to showcase country artisans and crafters,” said Peace Treaty Execu- tive Director Kaye Kuhn. “A lot of the people who come to the Ranch Rodeo aren’t competitors, and the show is a chance for them and the public to see them work.” Kuhn said handmade items found at the Trappings and Trade Show cannot be purchased in stores. She also explained that the word “trappings” means all of the things a cowboy uses to do what he needs to do on the ranch. “The crafted works at this show can only be found at these type of events,” Kuhn said. “The Trappings and Trade Show is a unique show. We feel these crafters and artisans are some of the best in what they do. They show all over the United States.” The 2018 Cowboy Trappings and Trade Show will have items that will appeal to anyone looking for something unique, unusual, and useful. The Gyp Hill Premiere - Peace Treaty - September 28-29-30, 2018

The Treaty of Medicine Lodge Creek 39 (Note by the Department of rized to enter upon said Indian when so surveyed, Congress of twenty-five thousand dollars neer, farmer, and blacksmiths, as State: The words of this treaty reservation in discharge of duties shall provide for protecting the shall be annually appropriated for herein contemplated, and that which are put in parenthesis with enjoined by law, shall ever be right of settlers in their improve- a period of thirty years, to be used such appropriations shall be an asterisk are written in the permitted to pass over, settle ments, and may fix the character by the secretary of the interior in made from time to time, on the original with black pencil, the upon, or reside in the territory de- of the title held by each. The the purchase of said articles, estimates of the secretary of the rest of the original treaty being scribed in this article, or in such United States may pass such upon the recommendation of the interior, as will be sufficient to written with black ink.) territory as may be added to this laws, on the subject of alienation commissioner of Indian affairs, employ such persons. Articles of a treaty and agree- reservation for the use of said and descent of property and on as from time to time the condi- Article 15. It is agreed that the ments made and entered into at Indians. all subjects connected with the tion and necessities of the Indi- sum of seven hundred and fifty the council camp, on Medicine Article 3. If it should appear government of the said Indians ans may indicate to be proper; dollars be appropriated for the Lodge creek, seventy miles of from actual survey or other sat- on said reservations, and the in- and if at any time within the thirty purpose of building a dwelling Fort Larned, in the state of Kan- isfactory examination of said ternal police thereof, as may be years it shall appear that the house on the reservation for sas, on the twenty-first day of tract of land that it contains less thought proper. amount of money needed for “Tosh-e-wa” (or the Silver October, one thousand eight hun- than one hundred and sixty acres Article 7. In order to insure the clothing under this article can be Brooch), the Comanche chief, dred and sixty-seven, by and be- of tillable land for each person civilization of the tribes entering appropriated to better uses for the who has already commenced tween the United States of who at the time may the agency into this treaty the necessity of tribes herein named, Congress farming on said reservation, and America, represented by its com- building, that he shall reside education is admitted especially may by law change the appro- the sum of five hundred dollars missioners duly appointed among them keep an office open by such of them as are or may be priation to other purposes, but in annually, for three years from thereto, to-wit: Nathaniel G. Tay- at all be authorized to reside on settled on said agricultural res- no event shall the amount of this date, shall be expended in pre- lor, William S. Harney, C.C. Au- it under the provisions of this ervations; and they therefore appropriation be withdrawn or sents to the ten persons of said gust and J. B. Henderson, of the treaty, and a very considerable pledge themselves to compel discontinued for the period tribes who, in the judgement of one part, and the confederate number of such persons shall be their children, male and female, named; and the president shall the agent, may grow the most tribes of Kiowa and Comanche disposed to commence cultivat- between the ages of six and six- annually, detail an officer of the valuable crops for the period Indians, represented by their ing the soil as farmers, the United teen years, to attend school; and army to be present and attest the named. chiefs and headmen, duly autho- States agrees to set such addi- it is hereby made the duty of the delivery of the goods herein Article 16. The tribes herein rized and empowered to act for tional quantity of tillable land agent for said Indians to see that named to the Indians, and he named agree, when the agency the body of the people of said adjoining to said reservation, or this stipulation is strictly com- shall inspect and report on the house and other buildings shall tribes (the names of said chiefs as near the same as it can be ob- plied with; and the United States quantity and quality of the goods be constructed on the reservation and headmen being herein sub- tained, as may be required to pro- agrees that for every thirty chil- and the manner of their delivery. named, they will make no per- scribed), of the other part, wit- vide the necessary amount. dren between said ages who can Article 11. In consideration of manent settlement elsewhere, but ness: Article 4. The United States be induced or compelled to at- the advantages and benefits con- they shall have the right to hunt Article 1. From this day for- agrees at its own proper expense tend schools a house shall be pro- ferred by this treaty and the many on the lands south of the Arkan- ward all war between the parties to construct at some place near vided, and a teacher competent pledges of friendship by the sas river, formerly called theirs, to this agreement shall forever the center of said reservation, to teach the elementary branches United States, the tribes who are in the same manner, subject to cease. where timber and water may be of an English education shall be parties to this agreement hereby the modification named in this The government of the United convenient, the following build- furnished, who will reside among stipulate that they will relinquish treaty, as agreed on by the treaty States desires peace, and its ings to-wit: A warehouse or store- said Indians, and faithfully dis- all right to occupy permanently of the Little Arkansas, concluded honor is here pledged to keep it. room for the use of the agent, in charge his or her duties as a the territory outside their reser- on the eighteenth day of Octo- The Indians desire peace and storing goods belonging to the In- teacher. The provisions of this vation as herein defined, but they ber, one thousand eight hundred they now pledge their honor to dians, to cost not exceeding fif- article to continue for not less yet reserve the right to hunt on and sixty-five. maintain it. If bad men among the teen hundred dollars; and agency than twenty years. many lands south of the Arkan- In testimony of which we have whites, or among other people building for the residence of the Article 8. When the head of a sas (River X) so long as buffalo hereunto set our hands and seals subject to the authority of the agent, to cost not exceeding three family or lodge shall have se- may range therein such numbers on the day and year aforesaid. United States, shall commit any thousand dollars; and five other lected lands and received his cer- to justify the chase (and no white (Seal) wrong upon the persons or prop- buildings, for a carpenter, farmer, tificate as above directed, the settlements shall be permitted on N.G. Taylor erty of the Indians, the United blacksmith, miller and engineer, agent shall be satisfied that he in- any part of the lands contained President of the Indian Com- States will upon proof made to each to cost not exceeding two tends in good faith to commence in the old reservation as defined mission the agent and forwarded to the thousand dollars; also a school cultivating the soil for a living, by the treaty made between the (Seal) commissioner of Indian affairs at house or mission building, as he shall be entitled to receive United States and the Cheyenne, Wm. S. Harney Washington City, proceed at once soon as a sufficient number of seeds and agricultural imple- Arapahoe, and Apache tribes of Brevet Major General to cause the offender to be ar- children can be induced by the ments for the first year not ex- Indians, at the mouth of the Little (Seal) rested and punished according to agent to attend school, which ceeding in value one hundred Arkansas, under date of October C.C. Auger the laws of the United States, and shall not cost exceeding five dollars, and for each succeeding fourteenth, one thousand eight Brevet Major General also reimburse the injured per- thousand dollars. year he shall continue to farm for hundred and sixty-five, within (Seal) son for the loss sustained. The United States agrees fur- a period of three years more, he three years from this date); and Alfred H. Terry If bad men among the Indians ther to cause to be erected on said shall be entitled to receive seeds they (the said tribes) further ex- Brigadier and Brevet Major shall commit a wrong or depre- reservation, near the other build- and implements as aforesaid not pressly agree - First. That they General dation upon the person or prop- ings, herein authorized, a good exceeding in value twenty-five will withdraw all opposition to (Seal) erty of anyone, white, black or steam circular saw mill, with a dollars. And it is further stipu- the construction of the railroad John B. Sandborn Indians, subject to the authority grist mill and single machine at- lated that such persons as com- now being built on the Smokey (Seal) of the United States and at peace tached, the same to cost not ex- mence farming shall receive in- Hill river, whether it be built in Samuel F. Tappin therewith, tribes here named sol- ceeding eight thousand dollars. structions from the farmer herein Colorado or New Mexico. Sec- (Seal) emnly agree that they will, on Article 5. The United States provided for, and whenever more ond. That they will permit the J.B. Henderson proof made by him, deliver up the agrees that the agent for the said than one hundred persons shall peaceable construction of any Attest: wrongdoer to the United States, Indians in the future shall make enter upon the cultivation of the railroad not passing over their Ashton S. H. White - Secre- to be tried and punished accord- his home at times for the purpose soil a second blacksmith shall be reservation as herein defined. tary ing to its laws, and in case they of prompt and diligent inquiry provided, together with such Third. That they will not attack Jas. A Hardy - Inspector Gen- willfully refuse so to do, the per- into such matters of complaint by iron, steel and other material as any persons at home, nor travel- eral, US Army son injured shall be reimbursed and against the Indians as may may be needed. ing, nor molest or disturb wagon Henry Stanley - Correspon- for his loss from the annuities or be presented for investigation Article 9. At any time after ten trains, coaches, mules or cattle dent other moneys due or to become under the provision of their treaty years from the making of this belonging to the people of the A.A. Taylor - Assistant Sec- due to them under this or other stipulations, as also for the faith- treaty the United States shall United States, or to persons retary treaties made with the United ful discharge of other duties en- have the privilege of withdraw- friendly therewith. Fourth. They J.H. Leavenworth - United States. And the president, on ad- joined on him be law. In all cases ing the physician, farmer, black- will never capture or carry off States Indian Agent vising with the commissioner of of depreciation on person or smiths, carpenter, engineer, and from the settlement white women Satank or Sitting Bear Indian affairs, shall prescribe property he shall cause the evi- miller herein provided for; but in or children. Fifth. They will (His X mark) (Seal) such rules and regulations for as- dence to be taken in writing and case of such withdrawal, an ad- never kill or scalp white men nor Sa-tan-ta or White Bear certaining damages under the forwarded together with his find- ditional sum thereafter of ten attempt to do them harm. Sixth. (His X mark) (Seal) provisions of this article as, in his ings to the commissioner of In- thousand dollars per annum shall They withdraw all pretense of Wa-toh-konk, or Black Eagle judgement, may be proper; but dian affairs, where decision, sub- be devoted to the education of opposition to the construction of (His X mark) (Seal) no such damages shall be ad- ject to revision of the secretary said Indians, and the commis- the railroad now being built Ton-a-en-ko, or Kicking Eagle justed and paid until thoroughly of the interior, shall be binding sioner of Indian affairs shall, along the Platte river and west- (His X mark) (Seal) examined and passed upon by the on the parties to this treaty. upon careful inquiry into the con- ward to the Pacific Ocean; and Fish-e-more, or Sinking commissioner of Indian affairs Article 6. If any individual be- dition of said Indians, make such they will not, in the future, ob- Saddle and the secretary of the interior; longing to said tribes of Indians rules and regulations for the ex- ject to the construction of rail- (His X mark) (Seal) and no one sustaining loss, while of legally incorporated with penditure of said sum as will best roads, wagon roads, mail sta- Ma-ye-tim, or Woman’s Heart violating or because of his vio- them, being the head of a family promote the educational and tions, or other works of utility or (His X mark) (Seal) lating, the provisions of this shall desire to commence farm- moral improvement of said necessity which may be ordered Sa-tim-gear, or Stumbling treaty or the laws of the United ing he shall have the privilege to tribes. or permitted by the laws of the Bear States, shall be reimbursed there- select in the presence and with Article 10. In lieu of all sums United States. But should such (His X mark) (Seal) for. the agent then in charge, a tract of money or other annuities pro- road or other works be con- Sit-par-ga, or One Bear Article 2. The United States of land within said reservation, vided to be paid to the Indians structed on the land of their res- (His X mark) (Seal) agrees that (the) following dis- not exceeding three hundred and herein named under the treaty of ervation, the government will pay Corbeau, or the Crow trict or county, to-wit: commenc- twenty acres in extent, which October eighteenth, one thou- the tribes whatever amount of (His X mark) (Seal) ing at a point where the Washita tract, when so selected, certified, sand eight hundred and sixty- damage may be assessed by three Sa-ta-more, or Bear Lying river crosses the 98th meridian, and recorded in the “Landbook” five, made at the mouth of the disinterested commissioners, to Down west from Greenwich, thence up as herein directed, shall cease to “Little Arkansas,” and under all be appointed by the president for (His X mark) (Seal) the Washita river, in the middle be held in the common, but the treaties made previous thereto, that purpose, of one of said com- Parry-wah-say-men, or Ten of the main channel thereof, to a same may be occupied and held the United States agrees to de- missioners to chief, or headman Bears point thirty miles by river, west in exclusive possession of the liver at the agency house on the of the tribes. (His X mark) (Seal) of Fort Cobb as now established; person selecting it, and of his reservation herein named, on the Seventh. They agree to with- Tep-pe-navon, or Painted Lips thence due west to the north fork family so long as he or they may fifteenth day of October of each draw all opposition to the mili- (His X mark) (Seal) of Red river, provided said line continue to cultivate it. Any per- year, for thirty years, the follow- tary posts now established in the To-sa-in, or Silver Brooch of Red river east of the one hun- son over eighteen years of age, ing articles, to-wit: For each male western territories. (His X mark) (Seal) dredth meridian line, and thence not being the head of the family, person over fourteen years of Article 12. No treaty for the Cear-chi-neka, or Standing down said north fork, in the may in like manner select and age, a suit of good substantial cession of any portion or part of Feather middle of the main channel cause to be certified by him or woolen clothing, consisting of the reservation herein described, (His X mark) (Seal) threreof, from the point where it her for purposes of cultivation, a coat, pantaloons, flannel shirt, which may be held in common, Ho-we-ar, or Gap in the may be intersected by the lines quantity of land not exceeding hat, and a pair of homemade shall be of any validity or force Woods above described to the main Red eight acres in extent, and there- socks. For each female person as against said Indians, unless (His X mark) (Seal) river; thence down said river in upon be entitled to the exclusive over twelve years of age, a flan- executed and signed by at least Tir-ha-yah-guahip, or Horse’s the middle of the main channel possession of the same as above nel shirt, or the goods necessary three fourths of all adult male In- Back thereof to its intersection with the directed. For each tract of land to make it, a pair of woolen hose, dians occupying the same, and no (His X mark) (Seal) ninety-eighth meridian of longi- so selected a certificate contain- and twelve yards of calico, and cession by the tribe shall be un- Es-a-nanaca, or Wolf’s Name tude west from Greenwich; ing a description thereof and the twelve yards of “domestic”. derstood or construed in such (His X mark) (Seal) thence north, on said meridian name of the person selecting it, For the boys and girls under manner as to deprive, without his Ah-te-es-ta, or Little Horn line, to the place of beginning, with a certificate indorsed the ages named, dutch flannel consent, any individual member (His X mark) (Seal) shall be and the same is hereby thereon that the same has been and cotton goods as may be of the tribe of his rights to any Poo-yah-to-yeh-be, or Iron set apart for the absolute and un- recorded, shall be delivered to needed to make each suit as tract of land selected by him as Mountain disturbed use and occupation of the party entitled to it, by the aforesaid, together with a pair of provided in Article III (IV) of this (His X mark) (Seal) the tribes herein name, and such agent, after the same shall have woolen hose for each; and in or- treaty. Sad-dy-yo, or Dog Fat other friendly tribes or individual been recorded, shall be delivered der that the commissioner of In- Article 13. The Indian agent, (His X mark) (Seal) Indians as, from time to time they to the party entitled to it, by the dian affairs may be able to esti- in employing a farmer, black- (Editor’s Note: Another sign- may be willing (with the consent agent, after the same shall have mate properly for the articles smith, miller, and other employ- ing took place the same date, of the United States) to admit been recorded by him in a book herein named, it shall be the duty ees herein provided for, qualifi- with representatives of the among them and the United to be kept in his office, subject of the agent, each year, to for- cations being equal shall give Apache tribe taking part; and on States now solemnly agrees that to inspection, which said book ward him a full and exact census preference to Indians. October 28, the Cheyennes and no person except those herein au- shall be known as the “Kiowa of the Indians on which the esti- Article 14. The United States Arapahoes signed a treaty with thorized so to do and except such and Comanche land book.” The mates from year to year can be hereby agrees to furnish annually the same government commis- offers, agents and employees of president may, at any time, order based; and, in addition to the to the Indians the physician, sioners.) the government as may be autho- a survey of the reservation, and, clothing herein named, the sum teachers, carpenter, miller, engi- The Gyp Hill Premiere - Peace Treaty - September 28-29-30, 2018

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Call Steve or Kraig in Medicine Lodge, KS 620-886-5622 www.bowechevy.com 205 E Fowler Ave Medicine Lodge, Kansas 1-800-464-26931-800-464-2693 Medicine Lodge Peace Treaty Pageant Event Schedule September 28, 29 and 30, 2018 Schedule subject to change. For the most up to date events list visit www.peacetreaty.org Friday, September 28, 2018 Time Event Location 6:00 am to 10:00 am Sonshine Puppet Breakfast First Christian Church 6:45 am to 7:00 am Powwow Flag Raising City Park 7:30 am to 11:00 am Golf Course Open Golf Course 8:00 am to 12:00 am Historical Window Displays N Main St 8:30am to 5:00 pm Arts and Crafts Fair Middle School 9:00 am to 8:00 pm Stockade Museum activities Stockade Museum 10:00 am to 11:00 am Parade on Main Street Main Street 10:00 am to 7:00 pm Muzzleloader Encampment Hwy 160 and Hwy 281 10:00 am to 11:00 pm Pageant Pantry Food Vendors Main St. and KS Ave. 11:00 am to 1:15 pm Del Shields Downtown Stage 11:00 am to 12:40 pm Shuttle bus every 20 minutes Peace Treaty office 11:00 am to 11:00 pm Powwow Pavilion City Park 11:00 am to 11:00 pm Powwow Contest Sign-Up City Park 11:30 am to 12:30 pm Meet & Greet at Pageant Memorial Peace Park Peace Treaty Activities 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm Peace Treaty Pageant Memorial Peace Park 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm David Kolbek Downtown Stage September 28-30, 2018 3:00 pm to 7:30 pm Golf Course Open Golf Course 4:00 pm to 10:30 pm Ranch Rodeo admission opens Pageant Arena The Medicine Lodge Stockade Museum will be open 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm Powwow Dance City Park 9 AM to 8 PM on Friday and Saturday 5:00 pm to 10:30 pm Cowboy Trappings &Trade Show Pageant Arena 9 AM to 5 PM on Sunday 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm MLHS Alumni Rendezvous First St. and Main St. There will be a wide variety of activities including author appearances, 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm Powwow Grand Entry City Park hands-on demonstrations, historic cowboy songs, and much more. 7:30 pm to 10:30 pm Rodeo Pageant Arena 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm Night Show Historical Reenactment Downtown Stage A full weekend pass is 9:00 pm to 12:30 a.m. Street dance -Mike Love Band Main Street $10 for adults & seniors 10:00 pm to 11:00 pm Night Show Historical Reenactment Downtown Stage $6 for children ages 7-14 This is a wristband, which allowed visitors to come and go to all events for all three days. Saturday, September 29, 2018 Friday’s Scheduled Events 6:00 am to 10:00 am Sonshine Puppet Breakfast First Christian Church Times are approximate. 6:45 am to 7:00 am Powwow Flag Raising City Park Time Event 7:30 am to 11:00 am Golf Course Open Golf Course 11:15 PM Steve Cormier, musical historian 8:00 am to 12:00 am Historical Window Displays N Main St 12-2 PM Roger Ringer, Kansas Oddities 8:30 am to 5:00 pm Arts and Crafts Fair Middle School 1-4 PM Cheri Harbaugh Keefer, artist 9:00 am to 8:00 pm Stockade Museum activities Stockade Museum 1-4 PM Lisa Kellerby, skull art 9:55 a.m. - 10 a.m. National Anthem Skydiver Main Street 1-4 PM Marla Thompson Craven, photographer 10:00 am to 11:00 am Parade on Main Street Main Street 3:00 PM Visit with Carry Nation, portrayed by Kim Newman, 10:00 am to 12:00 am Pageant Pantry Food Vendors Main St & Kansas in her home 10:00 am to 7:00 pm Muzzleloader Encampment Hwy 160 and Hwy 281 4-5 PM Jan Bertoglio, The Vanishing Cowboy 11:00 am to 11:00 pm Powwow Pavilion City Park 4:15 PM Steve Cormier, musical historian 11:00 am to 6:30 pm Powwow Contest Sign-Up City Park 11:00 am to 1:15 pm Del Shields Downtown Stage Saturday’s Scheduled Events 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm David Kolbeck Downtown Stage Times are approximate. 2:00 pm to 11:00 pm Powwow Dance City Park Time Event 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm Peace Treaty Pageant Memorial Peace Park 11:15 PM Steve Cormier, musical historian 3:00 pm to 7:30 pm Golf Course Open Golf Course 12-2 PM “Cattle Tales”, Georgiana Jackson, storyteller, portrayed 4:00 pm to 10:30 pm Ranch Rodeo admission opens Pageant Arena by Dr. Joyce Thierer 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm Lane Haas Downtown Stage 1-2 PM Roger Ringer, Kansas Oddities 5:00 pm to 10:30 pm Cowboy Trappings &Trade Show Pageant Arena 2-4 PM Visit with Carry Nation, portrayed by Kim Newman, 7:00 pm to 8:00 pm Powwow Grand entry City Park in her home 8:00 pm to 9:00 pm Night Show Historical Reenactment Downtown Stage 4-5 PM Jan Bertoglio, The Vanishing Cowboy 9:00 pm to 11:59 pm Street dance -Lucky People Main Street 4:15 PM Steve Cormier, musical historian 10:00 pm to 11:00 pm Night Show Historical Reenactment Downtown Stage 5-7 PM “Cattle Tales”, Georgiana Jackson, storyteller, Sunday September 30, 2018 portrayed by Dr. Joyce Thierer 6:00 am to 10:00 am Sonshine Puppet Breakfast First Christian Church 6:45 am to 7:00 am Powwow Flag Raising City Park 7:30 am to 11:00 am Golf Course Open Golf Course New at the Ranch Rodeo! 8:00 am to 12:00 am Historical Window Displays N Main St KIDS KORRAL: All you little cowboys and cowgirls get ready for the 8:30 am to 9:30 am Community Church Service Downtown Stage Kansas Championship Ranch Rodeo on Sept. 28 and 29. At 6:00 each 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Stockade Museum activities 209 W Fowler Ave evening the kids events will be held on the north side of the pavilion.. On 9:00 am to 1:00 pm Arts and Crafts Fair Middle School Friday evening kids stick horse races will be held for ages 3,4, and 5. Then 10:00 am to 11:00 am Parade on Main Street Main Street the stick horse barrel racing will be held for ages 4,5, and 6. On Saturday 10:00 am to 4:00 pm Pageant Pantry Food Vendors Main & Kansas evening at 6:00 will be held the dummy roping for ages 4,5, and 6. Then the 10:00 am to 7:00 pm Muzzleloader Encampment Hwy 160 and Hwy 281 duck cutting will be held for kids up to age 7. Contact Patti Barnard at 620 11:00 am to 6:00 pm Powwow Pavilion City Park 930 2074. A prize buckle will be presented to the winner of each age group 11:00 am to 12:00 pm Night Show Historical Reenactment Downtown Stage in each event. Parents, come on out for a fun evening. Ages 14 and under 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm Powwow Dance City Park will be admitted free. The following people provided the buckles for the 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm Peace Treaty Pageant Memorial Peace Park Kids Korral: Ken and Kay Dohm, Ralph and Myra Dick, Roger Simpson, 3:00 pm to 7:30 pm Golf Course Open Golf Course Carrol Gibson, Larry Inslee, Bill Trantham, Werner Farms, and Richard 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm Powwow Grand entry City Park and Judy Becker. www.bowechevy.com