Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1889-03-14
"coMANcHe JACKS" RECORD.
In His Lifetime He Has Shot Thirty-sn
Men and Helpt Hang seventsea.

In His Lifetime He Has Shot Thirfy-sas
Men and Heipao Hang seventsea.
In this western city on the streets
and in the hotel lobbies every day one
meets with many Of the moet noted
western characters II the day. Bret
Harte would here find many subjects
for wild western history that would
throw some Of his previous creations
of fiction into the shade. The Indian
territory is near by, where there is
employed large number of brave and
hardy men as deputy United States
marshals who appear periodically in
the largest city most convenient TO
their working place, 80 that Wichita
Is often called upon to entertain visi-
tors of almost as much notoriety %
BILLY the Kid" or Jesse James.
Chief among this number is Deputy
United States Marshal Jack Stllwell,
now stationed at Fort Reno, 1 T.
Jack, or rather ''Comanche Jack" as
he is Familiarity known, is q handsome
looking chap, with a laughing blue
eye, curly hair slightly tinged with
gray, for this noted borderman is just
80 years Of age, about 5 feet 10 or IL
inches in height, and Of massive build
He is also the acknowledged crack
pistol shot of the west, and even in
the days of that Kansas cyclone known
as wild Bill" who never missed a
shot, Jack Stillwen ranked high.
The number of men killed BY Jack
is variously estimated at from twenty
FIVE to thirty-one, and ii Is known
that in addition he has aided in send
ing seventeen other men over the ~
ley of death by means of the hang
mans moore. Even in this country,
where ''killers" are TO be met with
every day, ''Comanche Jack" Stillwell
is curiosity, and is pointed out to
strangers with strange mixture Of
awe and pride
By this it must not be understood
that this gallant deputy United States
marshal is a desperate who goes
about glorying in his bloody work. On
the contrary, he is rather retiring in
his disposition and only when he has
been drinking boasts of his deedR
When desperate work is 10 be done or .
bad desperate is to be taken 6tIlwell
is always the man who is detailed 70
accomplish il. The territory despera-
does and cut throats all know and fear
the intrepid officer, and are aware Of
the fact that If he goes after them be
will get them, dead or alive Many
are the traps that have been laid TO
kill him, but he Is a. cunning as he is
brave, and has always managed TO
evade the snares that would have
caused the death of o less accomplished
plainsman.
Brought up as be was among the
Comanche Indians, Jack has never
exercised the right of franchise, and
at the age OF 80 has never cast a vote.
He speaks the Comanche and several
other Indian languages as well a. the
Indians do themselves, and during the
sitting of the United States court in
this city IL is always an amusing sight
to see the Indians, dressed in their
primitive way, following the great
''NNhite Chief,s as they call Jack,
about the streets He calls them HIS
''menagerie" and says they are lot
Of dirty, thieving wrctches for the
most part, as we'll as the most accom-
plished liars in tho world.-Wichita
Kan.) Cor. St Louis Post Dispatch