Arizona republican., 1899-03-13
UNUSUAL CHARITY.
Home for the Families of Captured
 Outlaws. :.
Ts Be Established by the Man Who Has Made Hia Money by Run ming the Desp&radOes
 to EaRtA.


 Jim Jenkins, the man who has fol
 forty odd years been the great night
 mare of every outlaw in the west;
 man who, in his time, has brought to
 earth more bandits than any other sin
 gle man in the world, aud who has all
 most single-handed arrested over 15O
 famous desperadoes, such AS the Dal-
 tons, the James boys and others, has now turned a new leaf in his life. He has turned philanthropist. Not only that, but he has the strangest scheme imaginable into which he has now be- gun to pour his wealth.
 Jenkins is counted as a. very wealthy man out around Wichita, Kan, where he lives, for he has over $50,0 900 at his personal disposal, and men with sum like that are scarce out there.
 Jim Jenkins accumulated this great sum as prizes for running to earth some of the most notorious outlaws the wild west has ever known. Jim is still at work running criminals to death, but in the meantime he has planned and is putting into execution one of the queer est schemes of philan thropy that have ever been known:
 It is estimated that there are still in prison in this part of the world nearly 100 men who would not have been be- hind the bars were it not that Jim Jenkins caught them and had them placed there. In most of these cases the wives and children of these prison CTS are eking out miserable existenees in various ways, bat none of them can afford to throw away a cent, and still others are in actual want. This is where Jim Jenkins great scheme comes in. For capturing these men, who are now in prison, he has received from the gov .ernment, the state and county authori- ties, and the express and railway com panies, prizes which have made him wealthy. Jim is getting old, and he knows it. He knows that in a com para lively short time he will be laid under the sod with no, one to weep over what is left of him. He has no near relatives, and his money would get all twisted up in the courts. Therefore he has decided to. do what good he can in this world, and he has begun to build | a very nice home, which will cost him $20, GOO in cash. In this building and with the odd $30, ,0OO which he will have left Jim will found home to which the z wives and children of the criminals who are now in, prison because Jim got the best of them will always be welcome, where they can live, eat and be merry The home is to be. open to all of them, free of charge. It is to be located at Pryor Creek, Indian territory. During his forty odd years as a scout Jenkins has helped capture Jesse James, Bob Ford, Bill Dalton, Bill :, Cook, and many other lesser lights lmong the outlaw fraternity. He was eader of the crowd of deputy marshals hat captured Cherokee Bill in 1895, and le ran to earth both Jennings and the Williams gangs. Jenkins said without ,Oasting that he had assisted in the cap ure of over 150 real bad men, that is, nen who had gained a reputation as rain robbers, to say nothing of the 1. ther, criminals. In the Dalton raid at 'ofeyville, Kan, when that gang was learly extinguished, Jenkins was shot ight times in various parts of the body s nd laid out for dead, from a shot in the l houlder. Guess I was too tough to die then" T e said with a smile when recounting is experiences. Any way lived, but s was mighty close call" When young Bill Cook started out on v is train robbing career, Jenkins was s mong the first to start after him, and g nany assisted in his capture in Ari- a ona several years ago.-Chicago Inter $ 'cean. V