Van Buren Press Crawford County, Arkansas June 22, 1875 Assassination of Judge Jacob Bushyhead [From the Fort Smith Independent] About the 30th of May, Judge Bushyhead living in Illinois District, was summoned to appear at the Canadian District Court House as a juror, and when on his way there he was waylaid and killed. His body was found a few days ago, pierced with three bullets. It is supposed he was in some way connected with some Indian trials, either as a judge or as an attorney. However, there is one thing certain; and that is, under the present anomalous government of the Indian Country, there is no security for person or property. Every man in that country is, as a general thing, "a walking arsenal" belted around with six-shooters and bowie-knives. Judge Jacob Bushyhead was over sixty years of age, and a good peaceable citizen. He was the brother of the Hon. Jesse Bushyhead, who died some years ago, and who was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Cherokee Nation, and an eminent Baptist preacher. Fran Alverson Warren