STORY OF CHEROKEE INDIAN FLIGHT IS TOLD BY PIONEER

Cushing, Okla., Dec. 10 (UP)-The story of the desperate flight of a band of Cherokee Indians from their homes in Texas with all their possessions, including a treasure in gold, to what is now Oklahoma and the pursuit by a band of renegade whites, determined to get the gold, is being recounted by Cushing pioneers.

The Indians, according to the story, reached Twin Mounds near here before the renegades caught up with them. A furious battle followed and the small band of red men almost entirely wiped out.

Shortly before the battle, however, a group of the Indians took the gold to one of the mounds and buried, it so they story goes. The men who buried the treasure were killed in the fight with the renegades and the survivors were unable to discover the hiding place pioneers relate. Since then, Indians, come of them survivors of the battle have returned, intermittently to Twin Mounds to dig for the gold. White men have brought divining rods, that were supposed to reveal the presence of the precious metal underground, with them to aid in locating the treasure. But despite all the starching and digging, as far as is known, the treasure is till buried where the Indians were supposed to have left it that day many years ago.

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