The Red Cloud chief., 1899-08-04
BLACK JAKE, OUTLAW
BIO REWARD FOR HIM DEAD
OR ALIVE.
An outlaw from Youth who Has Ter
rorised Arizona and New Mexico Hts
Career of Crime In Arizona 49, Worth
Five Thousand Dollars.

Five Thousand Dollars.
Black Jake. the Arizona desperate. |
is worth $1,000 to the man who takes
him either dead or alive. This outlaw.
who has been terrorizing Arizona and
New Mexico for several years. has sue
c~essfully eluded the detectives and
cowboys who have been on his trail.
Black Jake has been u tough from
boyhood and committed his first muir
der when but 20 years old. He was
left 81, 800 by q relative in 1898. and
spent all the money In a month In
Phoenix and Yuma. Then he drifted
down to Sonora, Mexico, and the few
people who remember him thought he
was probably dead down there until
the news came that he was the head
Of a reckless gang of bandits who were
after gold coin at the sacrifice Of any
life that bafled their Efforts.
About August s. 1896. several men
employed In the general merchandise
store Of the Hualipi Mining Company.
two miles north Of Kingman, Arizona,
were reused from their MONDAY siestas
behind the counters one hot, blistering
day, by four cowboys who walked In
and asked to see some saddles. One
OF the store men started to go upstairs
to show the strangers his stock of sad
dies. The others were too warm and
sleepy to move, but the moment they
saw each of the supposed purchasers
whip out two long. murderous rovolv-
ers at full cock they were instantly
very much awake.
When each OF the store men looked
into the muzzle OF a pistol AS II into
the mouth OF a railroad tunnel he saw
that he and his store companions were
In the hands Of bandits. While n
bandit, a tall, dark complexioned fell
low, with deep-set eyes and mammoth
tattooed stars on his hands, went
about the store seeking money and
transportable valuables, the store men
were kept looking at very close range
into the muzzles Of cooked revolvers.
In ten minutes. perhaps. some $l,4OO
In coin was taken, for there Is not the
convenience of bank deposits In from
tier settlements.
Then the storekeepers were bound
and gagged. One OF them, John A.
Bishop, resisted. and in the scrimmago
was stabbed to death. The bandits
bound the other men tighter. and,
Fastening out, were soon on their bron-
cos outside. Before any Of the men
In the store could get loose and give
the alarm the bandits were miles away
on the alkali desert, where no one but
a few poor, starved Hualipi Indians
live in a territory of about 700 square
miles.
The sheriff had no sooner set out to
seek the bandits than the information
came that the Office force of the Reso-
lutte Mining Company, fifty miles over
toward Ash Fork, had been held up,
bound, and gagged by the same gang
on the day previous to the robbery
and murder at Kingman. Some thirty
unces of gold and coin to the amount
of 500 had been stolen from the cafe.
In the latter part of the following
month Black Jake and his gang robbed
the bank at the rich cattle and mining
town of Nogales, Arizona. It was a
very bold deed. Three entered the
hank. One covered the president, who
was outside the railing; another
stepped to the window and called the
teller, who was sitting at some dis
lance. and ordered him to hold up his
hands. The teller promptly obeyed,
and started to walk to the window, but
was stopped before he could get there.
The third man went down to the end
Of the railing to get behind 1t and at
the cash. At the end he saw an open
door leading into a room where sew
eral men were planning an irrigation