Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1895-01-24
FORT SMITH NOTES.
Items of Court, Oity and Coun-
try.

Fr. SMITH, ARK, Jan. p,
The event of the week, eclipsing
all others, has been the arrival of
Bill Cook. He came in yesterday
morning at one O'Clock accompan-
led by Sherifis Perry and Love and
two guards. lie held a regular
levee at the Jail and fifteen hun.
dred people called to get glimpse
of the man who has gained great
newspaper notoriety as bandit
chieitain and has been accredited
the greatest outlaw of modern
times. Yesterday morning he was
sketched by young lady and
interviewed by the newspaper men
and today he was photographed.
He admits his participation in the
robbery of the train at Red Fork
and the McDermott store robbery
and will plead guilty to them. He
says Cherokee Bill fred the shot
that killed Sequoyah Houston and
has done most of the devilment
laid on his shoulders. He seems
happy and contented and is hav.
ing a good time. He says he
didn't like scouting and is glad it
Is over with.
Judge Parker returned today
from his eastern trip and tomor-
row the wheels of justice in the
U. S. court will begin to grind
again.
The examination off. S. Daven.
fort for the killing of w. T. Co
forth is in progress before commits
sioner Wheeler and will not be
concluded until tomorrow after
noon.
Considerable of sensation was
created last week by the finding of
the body of a man on Garrison
creek not far from the city. The
man was identified as one of two
strangers who left here about the
middle of December for a camp
hunt. The drayman who hauled
them TO their camp says the man
had plenty OF money. The other
man has not been found and sus-
picion rests on him as the MUIR
derer. The murder is supposed to
have been committed about De-
cember %. The memoranda and
papers found among the dead
mans belongings lead to the belief
that he was a stockman from near
Canton, o., though his name could
not be learned.
The above crime and that for
which the two Pierce boys are in
Jail bear a wonderful similarity TO
the crimes Of Poynter and Holder,
the last two men executed here.
The similarity is made more stick.
ing by the fact that the man mur.
dered near Wagner was named
Vandever which was the name
of one of Poynters victims.
Gus Brown, the pugilist who
visited a number of the payments
last su inner, bested Billy Poole,
one OF the leading light weights OF
the northwest, in ten round 60,
at Little Rock last week.
Considerable joy was manifest
ed here Saturday, over the report
that Bill Doolin and Tulsa Jack,
with two others of the gang, had
been killed near Hennessy. Later
developments prove that it was a
joke perpetrated by the notorious
Guthrie correspondent.
The old Ballnan furniture fac
tory burned Friday night. Los.
$4,000. The building was used
only as store room for some old
unused machinery, and the fire
does not at all interfere with the
factory as it was moved into new
building last summer.
The money to pay off the X. e.
I. miners at Huntington was sent
out on the Manifold train this after
noon. Just before the train pulled
out, report reached the city that
a holdup was planned and 1t went
out under guard, but no trouble
was experienced
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