Hello everyone! It's been a while! FIDDLER WOUNDED AT COUNTRY DANCE Muskogee, March 11.- A D Archer, a middle-aged fisherman who lives on the banks of the Arkansas River near the Bluff, this county, is in the Baptist Hospital, shot five times, his condition very critical, and officers are searching for Willard Fields, a young Cherokee Indian nicknamed "Bullet", who has been missing since the shooting. The trouble occurred about 2 o’clock yesterday morning at a dance in the home of Robert Collins, a farmer. According to those present Fields attempted to prevent anyone from leaving the house, stood in front of a farmer and his wife and commanded them to keep on dancing, and that Archer, who was the fiddler, attempted to act as a peacemaker. Archer was brought into Muskogee very weak from the loss of blood. His is shot through the nose and four times in the breast. Physicians said they could not determine whether or not he will live. Archer is declared to have made the statement that after Fields shot him, he went into another room, obtained a shot gun and, himself, fired at his assailant. A deputy sheriff from Braggs, who was sent to the Fields’ home yesterday, reported that the man was not there and that one of his horses and a saddle were also missing. SKELETON OF UNKNOWN MAN FOUND Sequoyah County Democrat E N Milliken, a farmer living 9 miles west of this city, while breaking land in a field on Drake Prairie, found the body of a man, who from all appearances, had been dead for about four or five months. The field had been burned over in preparing for cultivation, and the fire had destroyed the clothing of the deceased, except the shoes and hat. We understand that those articles have been identified as belonging to a J W Watson, who worked for Tom Morris in this neighborhood last fall. A silver dollar and a knife were also found beside the body. Watson was known to have had one silver dollar when he left the Morris home, and the knife, which was open when found, is supposed to have been the instrument of death used by the unfortunate man in destroying his life. He was of a morse disposition and had talked of suicide to the Morris family, and although he left their house with the expressed purpose of going to Colorado, it is surmised that he decided upon self destruction and we! nt to this remote field to commit the deed. Sheriff Gay left for the scene as soon as notified and made a thorough investigation, and the following day Undersheriff Goodale and County Attorney J B Allen made an investigation and interrogated a number of people living in that neighborhood. The officers believe that it was a case of suicide but they are going into the matter thoroughly and making a rigid investigation. A brother of J W Watson who lives at Gore, has been notified and will come here to identify the body. The condition of the remains is such that a positive identification would be impossible, except for a peculiar formation of the lower teeth, and it is thought that anyone who had known him intimately would be able to identify him on account of this peculiarity. The body is now being held by county officials for identification and will be buried as soon as the investigation is completed. Fran Alverson Warren e-mail: alverson@valuelinx.net 479-369-2703 http://www.crawfordcountyarkansas.net/