The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-03-01
DEATH OF JUDGE sTILWEUL.
Former Citizen Of FL Reno Died a
His Hcme in Wyoming.


Guthrie, o. t., Feb. Z1.--Judge 5. L
stinwen, well known in Oklahoma, for.
| merly police judge of Ell Reno. died al
Cody, Wyoming, of pneumonia. The Cody
| Enterprise tells OF his death as follows
Judge Stillwell died at his home IN Coas
on Tuesday morning, from pneumonia
He was i'll only ten days, but he had
| twice before been stricken with the same
| complaint, in one instance being nurseo
| back TO life by the Indians. DR.. Howe
| who attended him, said that the right
| lung was very weak, owing TO previous
| attacks and that death was almost
/ foregone conclusion from the first mo-
ment of his last illness.
The funeral was held on Wednesday
afternoon in the Episcopal church. fhe
| friends and neighbors of the deceased,
| eager to pay a tribute by their presence
| in the memory OF ore Of their foremost
townsmen. The Rev. G. w. VanWinkie
| conducted the service, which was in the
impressive ritual of the Protestant Epis-
copal creed.
The church choir led in the musical
selections. which included Asleep in
Jesus" and Nearer, My God, to Thee
Mrs. ]. NJ Schwoob and Mrs. G. w.
Schwoob sang a very effective duet,
Jesus Knows Our Every Care" After
viewing the face of the deceased the con-
gregation adjourned TO the cemetery no
less than twenty-four conveyances being
called into service.
At the grave the local members Of
the Masonic fraternity had charge OF the
burial, John L. Burns reading the service.
The pall-bearers were chosen from their
own number and included Messrs. Cham
berlin. Pearce, Creason, Lane, Watkins
and Nuckols.
From earliest youth Judge Stillwell' S
life was cast in the environment of IN
dams His father was an Indian agent
in Iowa and brought a large band OF
Sacs and Eek Indians to Kansas, where,
in 1850, his son, Jack was born When
onl ythirteen years of age Jack hit the
trail'' for the unknown dangers of the
southwest. In Mexico, Arizona and Texas
he slowly blazed his way to unconscious
fame in the country of the Comanche,
Kiowa and Arapaho Indians as govern
ment scout, guide and Interpreter. He
was always III demand at the army posts
and Fort Sill, Fort Reno, Fort Elliot,
Concho, Davis, and Stockton are places
in the route of his wide wanderings which
have often echoed to the stories of his
intrepid exploits, however, always told
by some other tina nthis modest border
hero.
When the dove of peace began to hover
over the wilder couatry, the judge steeled
down in Oklahoma, as soon as it was
opened for settlement, and for several
years was police judge at FL Reno. Pres
ident Cleveland appointed him United
States commissioner fors the Kiowa and
Comanche reservation (by which he ac-
uired the title of "Judge'D with head
quarters at Anadarko.
one of the best known of the judges
exploits was his valient rescue of his
comrades at the famous battle of the
Aricaree lin Kansas, in 1868. Beseiged
by 1000 Cheyennes, led by Old Soman
Nose, with their ranks dessimated by bull
lets and starvation, the little band re-
luctantly let Jack Stilweil, lad of
IS, start off for Wallace, rs miles away,
for reinforcements. With the skill of
a. veteran and the courage of Spartan,
he wormed his way through the lines
or redskins, and weak from hunger and
exposure, gained the fort and started tho
relief party for the beieaguered garrison,
whose pitiable remnant of half-starved
men was snatched away from the very
portals of death.
For for years Cody was fortunate in
numbering Judge Stillwell among her
honored citizens and unfortunate in the
one regrettable fact that the judge was
an invalid and confined to his home by
infirmities which so many frontier veter-
ans suffer as the price of patriotism and
personal brewery.
Honest, jovial Judge Stillwell Who
in Cody or the Big Horn Basin did not
know or at least know Of this veter-
an pioneer of the frontier Among all
the so-called "old timers who have made
a-home in this part of the country, Judge
Stillwen stod as one OF the most con-
spicuous and most loved Of those fast
disappearing characters who stand as
human links between savagry and civili-
cation, living memorials to the long,
hard-fought tsruggle between the white
man and the red