The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1894-10-24
HAYE NO PROTECTION.
The Express Companies in In
dian Territory.
SHIPMENTS OF MONEY REFUSED.

1t Costs a Great Deal More to Protect 1t
Than They Get For Carrying IT. nicers
DO Not Consider 1t Their Duty 60 Cap
ture Train Robbers Unless Good Re-
wards Are offered.
ST.. LOUIS, Oct. 23.-Bankers and
business men living in the towns in the
Indian territory, as well as those living
outside the Territory, but doing bust
ness with territory firms, are greatly
which has made it necessary for the Pa
cific Express company to refuse money
shipments either into or ont of the terri
tory. So far as the express company is
concerned, however, they take philo-
sophicai view of the situation, and not
a complaint has been registered.
No Protection Given.
1.-THE situation in the Indian Terri
tory today" said Superintendent o. w.
Case of the Pacific Express company,
sis worse than it ever was. There is
absolutely 10 protection for life or prop
erty except as we furnish it ourselves.
This continual carrying Of such an
armed force makes the business too ex-
pensive to be profitable. We have lost
more by the expense tlIan we ever did
Saturday robbery, o. it we lost just
$417. This consisted of return G. o.
ID. s, which we are still handling, and
our own aud the railroad remittances.
But you can sec that to protect even a
small amount what it would cost when
such gang as that attacked the train.
The other companies are still carrying
money, but [ am informed by Mr.. Simp-
son of the Wells-Fargo that he has
nS-n1 tltn n1.sfl MT ara6aIlt tn
issue an order similar to ours.
1t Doesn't Pay.
''To give you a little idea of what we
have paid out will speak of the Oil
plant robbery. Our loss there was
about $500, but it cost us IS, 800 to cap
ture the robbers. AT the present rates
for carrying money we would have to
take into the territory So, SOC, 900 to get
that back. For some time before the
Dalton gang was wiped out the Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas and the Pacific
had a standing reward of s.. COO each on
the eight men comprising the gang.
This had only been shortly before with
drawn. Why, unless there IS a reward
or we pay the expenses OF the deputies,
the United States marshal does not
SEEM to think that it is his duty to at
tempt to capture these robbers.
Only One Way to Stop 1t.
"There is but one way to stop this
lawlessnesS; that is to make a state of
the territory. OF course. If the federal
government would send q few troops,
| even few regiments of soldiers, down
there Instead of keeping them in the
barracks and in these eastern military
stations, it might do something. A
war of determination, such as Governor
Crittenden waged against the James
gang III Missouri, is what is needed.
This can only properly be done by adj
uniting the territory to statehood.
''This order of ours not greatly af-
fects st. Louis, as most of the money is
shipped to those banks from Little
Rock or nearer points. a good deal of
money in payment for goods comes out
of the territory by express. This sys-
tenn can be temporarily changed. -
After the Cook Gang.
General Superintendent L. A. Fuller
of the Pacific company and General Su-
perintendent Peck of the Iron Mountain
have gone to Waggoner and Will spend
several days in the territory i'll an at
! tempt to have the Cook gang, which
perpetrated the last robbery, captured.
The information received here is that
Bill Cook is a young man not yet 22
! years of age, and Cherokee Bill, his
chief lieutenant, is but IS. Superintend.
ent Case says they are desperadoes sim
ply for the notoriety and not for the
money they can get. Still they always
| take all they can. The gang which eff
fected the robbery at Claremore short
time ago was the Means gang, headed
! by Columbus Means. This lis q bad
! gang, as is also the Bill DooEan gang,
which Is said to have sprung from the
ashes of the Dalton gang.