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"coMANcHE JACKS" RECORD.
In His Lifetime He Has Shot Thirty-one
Men and Helped Hang Seventeen.

In His Lifetime He Has Shot Thirty.one
Men and Helped Hang Seventeen.
| In this western city on the streets
and in the hotel Hobbies every day one
meets with many Of the most noted
western characters of the day. Bret
Harte would here find many subjects
Cor 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, so that Wichita
IS often called upon to entertain visi-
tors of almost as much notoriety as
BILLY the Kid" or Jesse James.
Chief among this number is Deputy
United States Marshal jack Stillwell,
now stationed at Fort Reno, l. r.
Jack, or rather "Comanche jack" as
he is Familiarity known, is handsome
looking chap with laughing blue
eye, curly hair slightly tmged with
gray, for this noted borderman is just
30 years OF age, about feet 10 or II
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
Us wild Bill" who never missed
shot, Jack Stillwell ranked high.
The number of men killed by Jack
is variously estimated at from twenty
five to thirty one, and it is known
that in addition he has aided in send
ing seventeen other men over the val.
ley of death by means of the hang
mans moose. 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 i'll his bloody work. On
the contrary, he is rather retiring in
his disposition and only when he has
been drinking boasts OF his deeds.
When desperate work is to be done or
bad desperate is to be taken Stillwcll
is always tho man who is detailed to
accomplish it. The territory despera-
uOcS anu Cut tuTOatS uii huOW duu lcdr
the intrepid officer, and are aware Of
the fact that il he goes after them he
will get them, dead or alive. Many
are the traps that have been laid to
kill him, but he is Us cunning as he is
brave, and has always managed to
evade the snares that would have
caused the death OF a less accomplished
plainsman.
Brought up as he was among the
Comanche Indians, Jack has never
exercised the right of franchise, and
at the age Of 30 has never cast vote.
He speaks the Comanche and several
other Indian languages as we'll as the
Indians do themselves, and during the
sitting OF the United States court in
this city it is always an amusing sight
to sec the Indians, dressed in their
primitive way. following the great
white Chief" Us they call Jack,
about the streets. He calls them his
'menagerie" and says they are lot
Of dirty, thieving wretches for the
most part, as well as the most accom-
plished liars in the world. Wichita
(Kaa.l Cor. st. Louis Post Dispatch.