The Portland daily press., 1892-10-08

redators.
CoFFEYvILLE, Kan, October 7.-Em-
metsDalton, the wounded member of the
Dalton gang of robbers, all of whom but
one were killed or wounded and captur-
ed while making a raid on two banks
here Wednesday, is closely guarded by a
company of citizens. 1t is believed he
cannot recover. The robber who sue
ceeded in escaping has not been recap
tured, and as he probably is making his
way toward the Indian Territory, where
he has many friends, it is not thought he
will be. The bodies or the dead robbers
were buried today. They were enclosed
in cheap pine cofins. Funeral services
were held over the remains of George
Cubine and City Marshal Connolly, who
were shot by the robbers. The body OF
Charles Brown will be sent to Harley, s.
D., for interment and the body of Lucas
Baldwin was shipped to Burlington, Kan.
where his family live.
OF Distinguished Brigand Lineage
were the Daltons. They were second
cousins to the James boys, and their
mother was Younger. United States
Deputy Marshal Ransom Payne of Guth-
rie, Okla, who was once ''held up by
them on a Missouri, Kansas d Texas
train, has said that they were the great
est outlaws in the world, and as he coup
led the assertion with the information
that they had made 100000 at train rob-
bing in two years, the assertion has
weight
That they got rid of this in the time
mentioned and were compelled by grind
ing poverty to attempt the capture OF the
town of Coffeyville is an evidence that
they were great ''spenders'' as well as
great outlaws A crowd of six men who
can spend at the rate of $25, 900 per year
apiece in regions like Oklahoma, Indian
Territory and Southern Kansas is an ag-
gregation of Coal Oil Johnny outlaws
who make the James and Younger boys
misers by comparison, and the Cooleys
and Buzzards of the effete East beggarly
melon patch depredators.
Their beginnings, like those of other
great men. were small. They began
The Study of Their Profession
in the Cherokee strip, and their first en-
gagements were in running cattle over
the Colorado line to sell them to herders.
Graduated from this elementary school
they entered the larger field of stage
coach robbery in California, and there
perfected themselves in their calling un-
til, upon their return to the Southwest
they felt equal to the high. remunerative
and important branch of train robbing.
| This was in 1889, at the time of the open
| ing of the new Territory of Oklahoma,
| and the deaths of three United States
Deputy Marshals, four members OF
! posses. the seizure and squandering OF
! the sum above mentioned and the grad
| ual increase of offers of reward for their
| arrest. until now the total amount on
| their heads has reached the unprecedent-
ed sum of $22 900, make the sum total
| of their achievements up to the time OF
their attempted capture of Coffeyville.
This last summer has been busy and
| fruitful one for the industry which has
assumed such proportions in their hands
| The wonder is what became of the pro.
ceeds of their ventures. They were salo
| to have taken from $50, 900 to $75, 900 out
| of the express Car of train which they
held up at Adair, I. T., on July l4th last
and $4,000 more from bank at e.
Reno, Okla, on July 9th. Yet Emmei
| Dalton, the only surviving one OF the
brothers, says that they were impelleo
| by poverty quite as much as by ambl-
| ton in their attempt to wipe out the
records of all previous American out
laws by robbing both the banks of
populous town at the same time and II
broad daylight.