Wichita eagle., 1889-03-07
COMANCHE JACKS RECORD.
a Man Who Has Shot Thir3y-One Others
and Helped Hang Seventeen.

A Man Who Has Shot Thirty One Others
and Helped Hang Seventeen.
In this West m city on the streets and m
the hotel lobbles every day one meets with
many of the most noted Western characters
Of the day, writes the Wichita Kan cor
respondent of the St Louis Post-Dispatch.
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 a large
number of brave and hardy men as Deputy
United States Marshals who appear period
ically in the largest city most convenient to
their working place, so that Wichita is
often called upon to entertain visitors of al
most as much notorietyas 'Billy, the Kid,
or Jesse James. Chief among this number
IS Deputy United States Marshal Jack
Stillwell, now stationed at Fort Reno, Ind.
I. Jack, or rather "Comanche jack as
he Is Familiarity known, is handsome-look-
ing chap, with laughing blue eye, curly
hair slightly tinged with gray, for this
noted borderman is just fifty years of age,
about five feet ten or eleven 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 ''Nid Bill" who never
missed a shot, Jack Stillweu ranked high.
The number Of men killed by Jack is vari-
ously estimated at from twenty-five to thir-
ty-one, and it is known that in addition he
has aided in sending seventeen other men
over the valley of death by means of the
hangman's moose. Only few months ago,
in fact on November 81, Jack sprung the
trap IN this city which sent to their death
the two noted Creek Indian murderers,
Jack and Joe Tobler Even in this country,
where KILLERS are to be met with every
day, "Conanche Jackn Stulwell is curios-
ity, and is pointed out to strangers with q
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 deeds.
When desperate work is to be done or bad
desperate is to be taken Stillwell is always
the man who is detailed to accomplish it.
The Territory desperadoes and cut-throats
all know and fear the intrepid officer, and
are aware of the fact that if he goes after
them he will get them, dead or alive. Many
are the traps that have been laid to kill
HlL4li pNt no - dS CuuuIuS ne Is brave,
and has always managed to evade the snares
that would have caused the death of less
accomplished plainsman.
Brought up as he was among the Co
manche Indians, Jack has never exercised
the right Of franchise, and at the age Of
fifty has never cast vote. He speaks the
Comanche and several other Indian Ian
guages as well as the Indians do them
eo1, !
States Court in this city it is always an
amusing sight to see the Indians dressed IN
their primitive way, following the great
"White Chief" as they call Jack, about the
streets. He calls them his ''menagerie" and
says they are a lot of dirty, thievin wretch
es for the most part, as web as the most &C
complished liars in the world