The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-05
KING OF THE cHicKASAWS.
''PIGHTIxG BILL" CARR AND HIs
MANY DEEDS OF DARING.

First Victim N Card Shnrper-His
Fight With the FranLIIns-A From
tier Romance.
Wichita correspondence New York Times
The man who goes down in the Chicka-
saw Indian country and says he never
heard OF Fighting Biz Carr is consid-
cred the greenest kind OF a tenderfoos.
"A man who don't know Carr should
not be permitted to live in the territory
Rowdy Kate Daniels used to say. while
holding court in the Red Light saloon.
at Purcell. in 1889
Never heard of Bill CARR" says jim
Davis. who has been in the country
since Their days NV Sam Bass" wal.
stranger. you'd better git acquainted with
him. Jist now he's laying up at the cir
ton house nursing a sore arm. one NV
the Rogers gang shot him last week.
Who is Bnl2 He's a double-distiIIed
rattler, a bunch Of catamounts. a whole
heard Of Texas long-horns, and "a grizzly
all tied together with chain-lightning. BY
profes sion he's deputy marshal In this
yer district. and he's a killer from way
up near the head waters of Bitter creek.
You can jest yen that he is daisy
continued the old man. bill civilized
this heather country. He's the chap VINO
made angels of the Franklns and WASH
ingtons and Christianized the Indians.
and he dun it with cold lead. the only
simon-pure religion of any use on the
border"
rs he the man they call the King of
the Chickasaw Nation?'' asked an Inter-
eSted tenderfoot, while the gang strolled
up and took drink OF chain lightning
Carr; the officer in question. is hand
some Pennsylvania with a record as "A
deputy marshal that is little short of
miraculous. The story, as stated by old
man Davis, would appear, in the vernac-
II not backed up by the testimony of
| United States Marshals Nix and Walker
Billy Carr came here before the okla
homa BOOM" resumed Davis rehectively
as he shot a mouthful OF saliva at
crack in the floor. yep I believe he's
called the King of the Chicasaw coun-
4th Of July, in 1887 Down there in the
bottom lot of sharks were fleeing
suckers. pretty girl was in one of the
crowds trying to induce her fool brother
TO quit brace game. but the grinning
sharp only gave her the laugh and jo1ed
me fool boy into playing until an his
ordered them to clear out and let him
alone The girl cried bitterly over her
brothers. losses, and the tough gang
stood about and laughed. Nobody knowed
BIZ Carr them days, and so he didn't
cut much hgger The man who had
robbed the boy was Coyote Dave and
he had killed a man or two, and had
private graveyard down in No Mans
Land Wen. Bill he sorter stood round
awhile after the pretty girl and her
brother had left, and then he began to
play. Coyote Dave won some of his
money. and when Carr accused him of
recourse / did, tender. wat YOU
| going to do about II, hey2
The camp turned out an buried Dave
| next day. and here the old-timer's face
| took on a contented frown. as his mind
! travelled back to that delightful occasion
Yes, Billy put three holes In David's
carcass inside a second, and as he walked
away / heard him say, That's for that
pretty girl with blue eyes; durn his ugly
| picture
well, aday or two after this wild and
woolly chap from the Brazos country
plugged a hole through our city marshal
and then skipped out for Oklahoma. There
wasn't any one to foller him, and no one
| wanted the job of marshal till Bill Carr
! said he'd take il If he could have an as
sistant. and he chose Joe AleNally. poor
Smith month or so ago. While Joe
/ held down the town Bill Carr mounted his
horse and chased the murderer down to
| where Oklahoma City now stands. The
skunk turned on Bill. and there was
another killing. A burned fool
United states marshal arrested
Carr and took him to Wichita
for trial, but he beat the case,
/ and when he came back to the territory
the boys lynched Horse Thief Johnny a
will. Bin said he'd a-knowed their hearts
was all right without this proof but he
couldn't bring Johnny back to life, so he
| helped plant him.
| "Bill and Joe had their prison about
| three miles out of town, in the hills. They
| dug hole back into a bank and staked
their prisoners out in pen till they had
i a load for Fort Smith. They made a
| camp up on a hill where they could over
| look this PEN and II any of them burned
murderers, horse thieves, whisky peddlers
! or outlaws generally thought they could
| skip out, they were usually brought to
their senses with bullet in their car
| cases.
| blooded Chickasaw Indian who had been
| killing people worse than the Bender fam
| lily for about ten years, did some new dew
| ilment, and the Fort Smith officers want
| cd him captured. The old heather had
| the whole country 'buffaloed except Bill
! Carr, and some OF the boys said he didn't
have sense enough TO know when he was a
/ fool So Bill he got on his old sorrel pony
and rode out to this Indians lair in the
mountains. He laid for him at daylight,
| and when the old red man came out to
| the spring for water Bill popped out and
| tried to arrest him, but the chief wouldn't
/ have il that way and slid behind a tree.
4 Bill and him banged away at one another
from under cover for about an hour and
1 then Bill put three bullets into the old ras.
/ cal. That night he landed him into town
4 across his horses back. The Indian re-
/ covered and was afterward hung at Fort
/ Smith.
but the very worst fight Billy ever
] 0dQ was WIN Lne + TdHkllnS ana WASH
/ ington. They was niger horse thieves
/ and lived in a cabin back in the hills
When Bill went after them he took
posse along. and when they reached the
! cabin a posseman personal friend of
| Bills, rode up and pounded on the door.
! Then those heather niggers just opened
/ a crack and stuck out their guns and
killed that posse man. BIZ vowed then
J and there that he would kill every one Of
! them for numbering his pard. SO he set
/ fire to the woods back of the house and
! when those heathens came running out
with their guns in their hands he shot
/ them all down. There were five in tn,>
| party. Three he killed and two were
! taken to Fort Smith and hanged
whisky peddling was one of the bad
/ crimes about now, and a gang of outlaws
along the Red River district took TO
sending in their red liquor by the gallon.
You see the boys rather liked the poison
and didn't think the traffic ought 10 be
curtailed by law, so that when Bill started
in TO stop the supply the boys were agin
it. One night Bill corralled three mem
/ bers of gang Of smugglers near Dennf-
SON They were Lewis Jackson his
brother and Walter Keene, a full-blood
Injun. Together with a sheriffs poss,,
Carr sat down to watch bridge. About
dark the posse just went to supper ami
Bill staId on guard, While his friends