The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1898-04-29
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some ~ ago an Oklahoma man who
mas mad side frontier experience and
Is wen alai6ted with the records OF
western / man promised Hal S. Ray,
OF WIGHT Kan, gun with history.
Inc gun IS B notches carved on the
handle a every western man knows
that eacbf These notches represents
the victim shot from the gun. With
1t his friel sent Mr.. Ray am interesting
outline o'ite history and of the des-
perado W, Once carried it. The let
Ter reads part:
The gnTtend you is As, which, by
some, is ,nsidered the best cailber,
owing to te accuracy with which they
shoot. Tb particular gun was car
ried by Gorge Newcomb, alias Bitter
Creek ais 4Slaughter Kid He was
given this AIT alias on account of the
many menlesshot while yet kid.
Il used oSworlS with this fellow on
the range long in 10 or 80. He was
in those dys what was called horse
rustler' fc fhe COW outfit. After he
drifted inttOklahoma he made the run
during theopening, settled on claim
IN porto Of Oklahoma known as the
notorious oTboy fats. ! say notorious
for the reson that of the seven GOV
punchers ybp settled in the fats all
them turn4 out to be train robber.
and all wed eventually killed.
The frs affair of note in which thii
gun figuredin the hands of Bitter
Creek wasAt Cimarron, on the line of
the Atchisn, Topeka &, Santa Fe rail
road, wherj he, with Bill Dalton. 'Tul-
sa 'Jaek,' Dynamite Dick Bob and En-
met Dalton held up passenger. They
shot the CONDUCTOR and some two or
three of tie passengers, but procured
hut little money.
"The neJ affair was the Coffcyvi,le
bank robbery, where he was working
under the direction of Bob Dalton. All
the robbers in this case were killed
with the exception of Bitter Creel:.'
ne being the only man out of seven who
escaped after having killed the city
a barber and one other.
: After being set adrift b. having his
companions killed he disappeared for
while, afterward joining a gang LED by
Bill Dalton. This gang robbed the
'snta Fe train at Wharton, the Mis-
Iri, Kansas &; Texas at Prior Creek |
nd the bank at Southwest City, Mo-;
he bank at Mound Valley. Kan, and |
he Longyiew bank in Texas. etc. After |
ne or two other robberies they re-
urned TO Oklahoma, finally drifting to |
ingalls,, in the eastern portion of tina: |
,rritory, at which place they had
ght with six United States deputy !,
larshals. In this fight there were nine
eopie killed and wounded, including
be deputy marshals, who were al!
lied. Bitter Creek was very badly
ouEded, but managed to get away.
his fight took place on the 1st day of
eptembcr, 1893.
I'm April of the following year the
alton gang being practically broken
Bitter Creek joined a new outfit
hich was headed by Bill Doolin, and
The evening Of April 4, 1894, they
bbed the Rock Island train at Dover.
T., and had fight the following even
z. in which Tulsa jack was killed.
litter Creek again escaping, with his
othing shot full of holes.
ION May S, 1894, Bitter Creek hav-
6 separated from the rest of the gang.
n on to some Of the deputies on the
stern line OF the territory and in the
hit which took place was killed. The
ilroad and express companies and the
vernment paid an aggregate reward
$1,000 on thismoted outlaw.
You will note that there are several !
ugh places or notches on the handle
this gun which 1 send you. II is 9
esumed that Bitter Creek intended (.
enumerate the people he had killed 4
making notch for everyone, as it i
known that he had personally killed s
lite number of men during the fights q
which he was engaged."-Chicago n
ronicle. ,
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