The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-10-13
PAYING REWARDS.
The Southern Pacific Company
Sends Cash to Kansas
It II to Pay the Men Who Killed the Four
Members of the Notorious Dalton
Gang-Brief History Of the
Criminal Family.
EARNED THE PRICE.

EARNED THE PRICE.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct S.-The South
ern Pacific Railway Company and
Wells, Fargo & Co., has telegraphed to
Coffeyville, Kan. $4,000, to be paid to
the men who killed the Dalton gang.
The express company'ssagent there is
instructed to ascertain at once who
has earned the price set on the bandits
heads and to make immediate payment.
1t is stated here that the rewards Of
fered for the gang, dead or alive, ag-
gregated 30, 600 each.
The Daltons were numerous family. There
we're five boys and three girls. OF the boys, two
are engaged in farming, one in Oklahoma, where
the mother Of the family lives, and one near
Coheyville, where three OF the brothers met
their death Wednesday. The Daltons were
second cousins OF the noted James boys who
defied. the law in Missouri for 80 many years,
and through them were related to the Youngers,
who are now serving life terms of imprisonment
In the penitentiary Of Minnesota Bob Dalton
was the frst Of the boys to enter upon q career
Of crime. While he was scarcely more
than q boy he became cattle thief, and did
thriving business driving of cattle from the
herds on the Cherokee. strip and taking them
across the Indian territory into Colorado,
where he would sell them. He was joined soon
after he entered the business by his brother,
Grant Dalton Their depredations became 80
frequent and troublesome that the cattlemen
organized to drive them from the strip.
posse Of cowboys was formed for that purpose
and gave the Daltons q hard chase, finally
losing them in the wilds Of New Mexico.
The next heard of the Daltons was in Cali
forn1a, where they took to train and stage rob-
bling. While robbing q stage there one OF the
passengers was killed in the attack. This
spurred the officers on to extraordinary efforts
70 effect the capture Of the gang, and Grant
Dalton was finally captured While beng
taken to place for safe keeping he was res
cued by the other members OF the gang, the
whole party finally escaping after being chased
in California and through a good part of
Arizona. In the spring Of 1889 the gang
turned up again in the Indian territory.
Whom Oklahoma was opened to settle
q. ent the Dalton boys secured a choice claim
for their mother near Hennessey where she
still lives supported by one Of her sons. At the
time Of the opening Bob Dalton WAS Q
United States deputy marshal, being selected
on account Of his peculiar fitness TO deal with
desperate characters. After the opening he
returned to his life Of outlawry and he and
Grant were theh Joined by their brother EN-
met the youngest Of the brothers. They were
1t that time also joined by "Texas Jack" and
soon gathered about them several desperate
characters
1t was then that the most successful period
Of the Daltons' career, from their standpoint,
began. Their attention was first directed to
The robbing OF express trains, and perpetrated
many successful ''hold-ups, :" the most noted OF
which are tho robberies Of the Santa Fe At
Wharton and ct Red Rock the Missouri Pacific
1t Adair and tbs Frisco near Vinita. The
amount secured BY the robbers in their various
raids will probably never be known. It was
very great, however, and has been estimated at
$4,000
After the Frisco robbery the Daltons seem
to have diverted their attention to the robbery
Of banks. They rode into FL Reno one day and
attacked the only bank in town. The only per-
son In the bank at the time was the wife Of the
president, who tainted at the first sight Of the
ugly revolvers. The bandits leisurely took
sllthe money in sight, and, remounting their
horses, rode away This raid netted them &c.
600, which was such . severe loss to the bank
that 1t was. forced into liquidation Thursdays
Was the next and last raid Of the gang and
with 1t ended tie existence of band equaled
only In the desperate character of it's undertak-
ings by the James and Younger bands