THE ADAIR COUNTY NEWSVOLUME 4 i 501 UMBIA A v AIR COUNTY KENTUCKY WEDNESDAY APRIL 24 1901 NUMBER 24

POSTUFFICE DIRECTORY

J M Russell PostmasterOffice hours week days 700 a m to 93i pm

COURT DIRECTORY

Clnausessions a yearThirdIn nay andthirdMonday in January

third Monday In September

SommonwealthsAttornoyNIl W Aaro-nSheriffJ W HurtClerkJno B Coffey j

COUNTY CcuBTFirst Monday In each wont

Judge J W ButlerCounty AttorneyJasG rnett JrClerkT It StultsJailerS H Mitchell 0

Assessora ABradshawSurveyorR T McCaffree

School SuptW DJones-CoronerLeonard Fletchery3KT CoOBTRegularcourt second Monday I

ach monthidgeJ W Atkins-

orneyGordon Montgomery

CHURCH DIRECTORY

PRESBYTERINiBCBHTIUB STUEETROV T F Walton

pastor Services second and fourth Sundaym evelYSnndaysehoolat9each month

bath Prayer meeting every v

Light

METHODIST

BOBKSVLLB S TReTW P Cordon

pastor Services first Sunday in each month

Sundayschool every Sabbath at 9 a m Prayer

meeting ThursdaynightvB PTISTS

GBBKJCSBOBQ STRBETRevastor Services third Sunday In each monthJ

at 9amiandayscholmeeting Tuesday nightJ

OHBISTIN

CAMPBKLL8VILLK P KElder L Williams

First Sunday Iri eachPastor Services

Sabbath at 9 ammonth Sundayschool overtPrayer meeU ng Wednesday nigh-

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COMTUBIA LODGE No 98 F and A IReguear meeting In their ball over bank on Frt

lynlghton or before the full moon In each

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COLUMBIA CHAPTER R A M No 7meetsfirst Monday night In each month

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KILLING OF WITCHES

Thrilling Account of the Trial of Hotema the Indian Chief A Law-

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and an Able Minister

AN INTERESTING AND TRUE STORY

JJY J ate SCOTT rAms TEXI

hIkportedtorTbeNereaIn a beautiful valley six miles

North West from Grant I T a snuglittle village situated on the FriscoRailroad thirty miles north of ParisTexas Is the home of a noted Indianjurist and preacher Solomon Hotema-

n the witch killer who was tried duringthe present term of the federal courtin Paris charged with murder

A man of rare abilities and owninhundreds of acres of grazing and farm ¬

ing lands Hotema who is a fullblood choctaw became the leading manin all his country His witch killingfeat wasa great blow to his palefacefriends It is a striking instance ofthe force of heredity and early instilledbelief He is fortyeight years old iswell educated is an entertaining con-

versationalist¬

and a good writer Hefor the ministry in a Presby-

terian College at Roanoke Va threeAfter his return he was elected

and held the office a number ofconsecutive terms He also was dlsdistrict attorney and was a member ofthe national council eight years

At the age of forty Hotema took upthe ministry and became a power inthe church He had just returnedfrom the general assembly of hischurch at New Orleans when be kill

the Witches In Ills early boyhoodhe became imbued with the belief inwitchcraft by hearing his father CaptJohn Hotema speak of it

Ilotema being asked why half breedsand pale faces were not molested bywitches replied that the witches cantshoot balls into them because they eat

much salt the balls wont penetrateHistory shows he says that when theepale face came to America he discovxed witches among the Indians andIthat they bad been among them ever

sinceThe

Hotema case is one of the mostcelebrated cases ever tried in the Uni ¬

ted States being the first of the kindsince the trial of witch killers in Newc

He was the pastor of achurch near his home and was verycpopular with the Hock whom he guarde

as carefully and tenderly as a fatherwould care fur his family Two years

then were several deaths fromMeningitis swung his flock and he believtd that two women and two menhad placed an evil charm on the strick-en

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persons He accordingly called in awitch doctor and Sam Frye and began

investigation The doctor after Inmany burning lots of roots

herbs told Ilotema that five per¬

sons were implicated In bewitchlnghisflicU and that tht >y should be gotten

f hi way or other deaths wouldw It iii retired tsihisfttudy

arm p adillag and earnestly that hisduiWight be revealed W him by theGreat Spirit He spent the night inreading the Bible and religious works

henext morning he announced thatduty had been made clear and that awould rid his country of witchescalled Frye to accompany him and

taking his breach loading shotgun be-

atarrrdut oh a murderous mission

lit first slopped at the home of theGreenwoods and finding Mrs Greenwoodat home said Sister Greenwood

folks all die soon have no church ig nng ro kill watches Doctor say

u witch anal me kill you The wo-

man begged for her life but the redSkinned Gospel wjout deliberately rais

his gun and blew her brains outHe then proceeded torthe home of is

GSrmans Mrs Coleman was sit¬ I

ting lu brr room with thn baby in her fi

arms when lie entered the room andcalled henijrtitdi She sprang up andtufted to runhUk hrfdrr she could aach rbe4lo r hrshot hi r twice kin

hr ifirittfhily IUd WunrtliiL thNbab> an111tHirdrwturcdttlt + brnty

tnrrlNui ijig here hrmrtGrruo u fie1lUVt and of hits first victim

intl idtlsatfim Near his home hq foo-ttarusherman whom the witch doctorhallmarked upd would have killed himthen and there but the man plead soearnestly tnathe told him togu home

would not kill hint Ml nHXtdav

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dy and brought to Paris and placed injail where he has been ever since

On Sunday before the tragedy Hotema preached to his congregation aboutwitchcraft and declared in a deploringmanner that his people were goingback fo the sorceries and practices ofold instead of conforming to the waysof Enlightened people He told themthat while he was praying be had seenwitches coming through the alriin theshape of balls of fire

Mrs Hotema testified during the trlal that their only child died a shorttime before the killing and for twoweeks after her husband spent mosof his time in prayer reading the Band interesting passages about witch ¬

craft He would cry quite often andprayed that the witches might bebvercome He interpreted the turning of

Aarons rod into a serpent and otherwitchgcraftThekilling of the supposed witches

by Hotema is but one of many suchkillings which have occurred amongthe Choctaws in years past One of themost striking of these witch executions took place in Blue county on Boggy several years ago Stephen Belvina member of the national council hadpneumonia and was being treated by awhite physician Being a full bloodand unable to speak English Mary

Folsom a beautiful half breed girl was

sent for to nurse and act as interpreter and see that the medicine was ad¬

ministered properly Belvin did notIiImprove and dismissed the white doctor and called in a Choctaw doctorknown as Blind Isom who was fatmous as a witch doctor He examinedthe patient and said he had been shotby a witch ball and that the girl whowas nursing him was the witch Hedeclared that Belvin could not recoverunless he killed the witch with his ownhands and hacked her to pieces Belsvin consented to carry out the sugges ¬

tion and was provided with a long blad-

ed knife which he concealed under hisbed cover While the girl was bending over the bed administering medi¬

cine Blind Isom siezed and pressed herdown until Belvin could stab herShe was literally cut to pieces No ie ¬

punishment was ever inflicted tortthis horrible crime

There is now a law on the Choctawstatue books which makes it an offensepunishable with fifty lashes on thetbare back to say that any one lsa witch

that any one has been oewitcbedDespite the law however the beliefexists among the full bloods and witchececutlocs arc frequent in some beau-

ties Let the report once get circulated that sonic old woman is a witchand in a short time she turns up dead

The full bloods believe that thewitches shoot their balls in an invisable manner The victim does not feelany pain until the spell begins to workThe witch balls are made difIerentlyIsome are made from a grain of andanother a blade of grass or it may besomething else but the bullet or ballh> always very minute Wneu in tbeIdiaguois of a case the doctor discoversthat the patient has been bewItchedhe bleb to work to locate the witchHe makes a fire with red oak barksucks blood from the patient and d

spurts it into the lire This will theyclaim cause the witch to become violently ill with colic Of course when

person is bewitched suspicion restsupon some particular individual as theIwitch After having gone throughthe incantation with the red oak barknthe party suspected hi watched and ifhe fails to become sick thou the doctorand his assistants mount their horsesand scour the country until some one-

s found sick with the colic or someotner ailment When lound the doctor puts a spell on him in order to relieve the person bewitched or killshim Beside this there is anotherway to dispel the evil charm A pit

dug in the ground a little fire waden it and a kettle of water set over the-re Into the kettle different roots

are thrown Sticks are then placedacross toe pit a blanket stretched

cross and the patient placed uu thebiauKet In this souse lie io thurfiou hly steamed white theu witch due P

fur suck one uioutuiui or oKod afterauOiher uutu thewiuh uali to extract-ed While this ptoce sis guiuguu the tofttiuiiyuf the patient furor a circlearound the pit and chadt It the lllMen t survives lJe must pay tots doctor S

WLiHt 110 is able to pity or be will relapse and have to Suffer many lioMbtorhinos

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says that he had a right to kill as God

directed him to destroy those whom

he believed to be witches In killingthe witches he claims that be was do-

Ing the work Godcommissioned him todo and that he is not criminally re-

sponsible for the killing During hisconfinement Hotema has written a bi

ography and sketches in which hemakes copious citations from the Bibleto prove the existence of witches

The trial continued several days andwas given to the jury on the 10th instIt is believed that the jnry will acquitor disagree

tSay Do you Know

That the averge man counts timeby pay days

That no woman is as pretty as shesometimes looks

That it you want to be successful

dont squeal but root

That the road to success is pavewith good advertisements

That whether life is worth livingdepends greatly upon the liver

That a bright smile is a womansmolasses that catches the flies

That when a man marries he halveshis rights and doubles his duties

That a loaded pistol is a bad thingto fool with or to have a fool with

That it never occurs to a boy thathe will some day know as little as hisfatherC1That the sweetest girls are seldomest

because they are at home busy atwork

That the best thing that can happena man is to nave a wife who is also

his chum

That those who make hay while thesun shines are the most liable to getsunstruck

That to go through life with no

of humor is like riding a buggywithout springs

That good advice is good for thewayward boy but it is nothing like a isgood whipping very often

That you cant always judge by apapearances The girl with a sailor hatprobably never saw a rowboat

That a mans friends often know of

engagement before he and the girlmost interested are aware of it

That a palmist may tell all aboutthe human hand but when it comes

a poker band they have to pass

That when a woman is in great t

trouble she cries but when a man isdeeply distressed he gets bn a drunk

That much of the trouble in thiscountry happens because men take toobmuch time to make money and too

little to enjoy itThat the reason why BO many people

live beyond their means is because of

the credit system They buy morethan they are able to pay for

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