The Wichita daily eagle., 1893-12-16
KILLED THE HOUND
TOM KING THE FEMALE DESPERATE
CAUSES ANOTHER SENSATION.
With Unerring Aim She Kills the Pursuing
Bloodhound and With Daring Goodness
Invites the Sheriff to Tun Looss
Some More Of His
Dogs Of War.

Some More Of His
Dogs Of War.
Miss Tom King has made one Of her pnr-
suers bite the dust.
The Youkon bloodhound that was
turned loose te run her down has been dis
covered, dead.
The noted female desperate was just
sixty miles south of Ell Reno when the
ferocions hound came bounding after
| her. The following card pinned to the
hounds ear, with hairpin. explains the
| rest.
Turn luse som mora OF your dogs OF
war. l have still twenty rounds in my
| belt. If the sheriff of 'Lreno will follow
me, will give him . dose of the salm
medisine. ION KING.
| The hound was discovered by two Com
| manchc Indians who brought him to their
camp after days hunt, to the great de-
| light of their squaws and papooses, whose
teeth are always whetted for a canine
feast. A scout from Anadarko happened
to be at the camp on that day, who was
| able to read, and the legend on the paper
| being given to him for Interpretation, he
at once remembered the story of Tom
| Kings flight and explained it to
the great astonishment of the Indian
maidens who had gathered around.
| He at once bought the hound for
80 cents, strung it to his saddle and reach
ing Anadarko he shipped 1t to an army
officer at Fort Reno where the brute vic
tim of the famous Tom Kings unerring
| aim is now on exhibition as warning, as
| it were, to her pursuers to beware OF her
| rifle. The hound belonged to Bohemian
| who lives at Youkon. 1t was sent to him
| from his native country eighteen months
ago, while yet mere pup. and it is said
| that he belonged TO the highest known
| breed OF bloodhounds. The Bohemian is
SO enraged over the loss of his dog that he
has rendered the services of himself and
two fellow countrymen, fully equipped, to
the sheriff of Canadian county to run
down the daring outlaw and avenge the
| loss Of his dog.
| The hound was shot under the neck be-
tween the two fore legs end the bullet
passed out between the shoulder blades.
| This indicates that she shot the dog from
her saddle while he was in the act of max
ing lunge at her from the ground. He
evidently had caught her trousers leg; for
beside where he lay Il piece Of Scotch
| tweed of irregular form and about the
size of the half sole of mans shoe. was
found. which is said to be piece of the
suit of mems clothes which Miss King
was allowed, through the courtesy of the
officers, to wear while she was in Jail.
! Another evidence of the suppostion that
| the hound was close to her when she Tired
! the shot is found in the fact that the hair
of the dogs breast was powder-burnt.
| 1t is said that the sheriff of Canadian
county is fully as highly enraged as his
| Bohemian friend on account OF the threat
directed against him by Tom King and that
be is determined to recapture her II 1t
costs him the entire income of his Office.
| Judge Merchant, who gave the .above
| information to an EAGLE reporter last
| night, knows Tom King well. He knew
her in Green county, Missouri, when she
! was girl, and Afterwards met her quite
frequently since both of them have been in
| the territory. He said that he went to
school with her one year. but the evidence
furnished by the note which she pinned to
the hounds ear and which is given above.
shows that she didn't graduate She
spells loose 'luse," and Ell Reno IL reno"
He says that the story that she has Cher
okee blood in her veins is not true. Her
mother was half breed Usage. and not
| Cherokee. Her father was native Mis-
sourian. who had lived nearly all his life
In the Ozark mountains. He WAS feet
inches in height, aud the hottest day in
summer found him wearing coonskin
cap. He owned a small mountain farm,
but obtained his living nearly altogether
from hunting and trapping. Miss Tom
accompanied him in his daily excursions
through the mountain businesses, and
| before she had arrived at the age
| of 13 years she had the reputation
| of being the best marksman with rifle in
the Ozark mountains.
Mr. Merchant says that there was a re-
port current in the neighborhood where
she was raised that she was not old man
Grimshaw's daughter at all, but that she
was kidnapped from the Usage nation, and
that her real father was the son of a
wealthy Tennessee planter. who, for some
offense, took refuge during the war among
the Usage Indians, married into the tribe,
became wealthy aud disappeared mysteri-
| ously IN lsi4
There was not much foundation for this
report. but the fact that the girl always
appeared to the rustics of the Ozark noun
tains to be too highly bred for old man
| Grimshaw's daughter. In her early you'll
she possessed the dashing and suave
habits that characterize her today as an
outlaw. While she is not educated she is
| very polite and has that Invisible some
thing about her bearing that challenges
the admiration Of everyone. II she was a
man she would be fine type of the cavalier
the ideal cavalier OF the south. She has
| fine suit Of hair as black as the raven s
wing. with eyes like sloes. Notwithstand d.
| ing her out door life she still retains her
fine olive complexion. Her figure is fault
! less, and If she had been isss Wild. better
educated and raised in New Ysrk or
Boston she woulG be classed a positive
| beauty.
| BROKE His LEG.
r. s Caldwell, an aged gentle nan--s-
I SolT he l..