The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-29
BLACK JACK, OESPERADo.
Big Reward for Him Either Dead OF
Alive.


Black Jake, the Arizona Desperate is
worth $4,000 to the man who takes him
either dead or alive. This outlaw, who
has been terrorizing Arizona and New
Mexico for several years. has success
fully eluded the detectives and COW
boys who have been on his trail.
Black Jake has been a tough from
boyhood, and committed his first muir
der when but 20 years of age. He was
left $500 by a 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 CT
a reckless gang of bandits who were
after gold coin at the sacrifice of any
life that baff1ed their efforts.
About August s, 1896. several men
employed in the general merchandise
store of the Hualipi Mining Company,
two miles north of Kingman, Ariz.,
We're aroused from their MONDAY 81
estas behind the counters one hot, Bills
tering day, by four cowboys who walk
ed in and asked to see some saddles
One of the storemen started to go up
stairs to show the strangers his stock
of saddles. The others We're too warm
and sleepy to move, but the moment
they saw each of the supposed pur-
chasers whip out two long murderous
revolverS at full cock they were in
stantly very much awake.
When each of the storemen looked
into the muzzle of a pistol as if into
the mouth of a railroad tunnel he saw
that he and his store companions were
in the hands of bandits. While one
bandit, a tall, complex oned fell
low, with deep-set eyes and mammoth
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the store seeking money and transport
able valuables, the storemen were kept
looking at very close range into the
muZzles of cooked revolvers. In ten
minutes, perhaps, some 81, 400 in coin
was taken, for there is not the con-
venience of bank deposits in frontier
settlements.
Then the storekeepers were bound
and gagged. One of them, John A
Bishop, resisted, and in the scrimmage
was stabbed to death. The bandits
bound the other men tighter, and hast
ening out, were soon on their broncos
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
I'm territory of about 700 miles square.
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, so miles over to-
ward 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 80 ounces
of gold and coin to the amount of 500
had been stolen form the safe.
In the latter part of the following
month Black Jake and his gang robbed
the bank of the rich cattle and mining
town of Nogales, Ariz. 1t was a very
bold deed. Three entered the bank
One covered the president who was
outside the railing, another stepped to
the window and called the teller. who
was sitting at some distance. and or
dered him to hold up his hands. The
teller promptly obeyed, and started tC
walk to the window, but was stopped
before he could get there. The third
man went down to the end of the rail-
ing to get behind it and at the cash
AT the end he saw an open door lead