Bisbee daily review., 1907-10-04
OFFICERS MISS FRONTIER
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Oklahoma Tame Compared To A Few Years Ago When Bad Men Went Cunning For MinionS Of The Law.

KINGFISHER. O. T.. Oct. 3.-The fife of ss deputy Unitei States marshal in Oklahoma in these late days is child's play compared with what it was ten or twelve years ago. when the country was new and infested with desperate characters. men who made their living by robbing trains and banks. The outlaws are gone be- cause they have been killed off. and there is no opportunity for others to grow up.
 Sopie of the men who served as mar ,hals did not draw back from taking the same chances as their dep uties, though. like officers in battle they were not required for any good reason to march against a battery in advance of their men. William Crimes, afterward territorial secIe- tary. and for years manager of the republican party in Oklahoma. was one of the mrshals who rode with his men.
 The story of Crimes pursuit of the bandits that robbed the Santa Fe passenger train at Red Rock in 1892 gives some idea of the everyday life in the marshal's office at that time
 No sooner had the train been rob bed than the outlaws started to get out of the country,
 Texas deputies were soon on their trail. which led directly toward the Cheyenne and Arapahoe country in Oklahoma. then unopened to settle ment. Near Cantonment the outlaws stole a horse and killed the Indian to whom it belonged. Further to the northeast they robbed the postoffice at Wanamaker.
 Grimes was at Kingfisher when he got news of the robbery at Wanamak- CT. The postmaster there said that there were five men in the outfit
 With single deputy Grimes start ed from Kingfisher next morning and kept the trail to the neighborhood of Red Rock. Grimes told his men to drive slowly and he would make the arrest.
 Just as the rider was alongside the hack, Grimes showed his rifle. with the commend of Hands up!'' The outlaw, not susepecting trnnhle. was taken by surprise. He reached gfor his pistol, but saw his dangerans sur rendered. ns rg1lUg1
 The man refused to taika 'gThree- finger Jack" knew him. however. and told Grimes that the man was Oscar Smith, a dangerous character. Fur theTmore. "Threefinger Jack" was confident that two of the younger members of the notorious Poe family were n the band.
 The deputies had been daying at a fast trot or a galIop ever since they had left Guthrie, relayiDg teams by changing at farm houses. sometimes taking horses at work in the fields.
 The capture of Smith increased the load. and to Tighten t long shot was taken near Yukon and Three Finger Jack released upon his honor to re- turn to Guthrie. A horse was given him, siX-shooter and S20 in money. When next heard of Three Finger Jack had gone to "The Corner Sa- loon" notorious place aoa the South Canadian river, in southwestern Okla. homa where he gambled away his horse and gun and was arrested for stealing whisky Later he was killed in row at Perry.
 The Poe brothers. for such they proved afterward to be. had passed under the Rock Island railroad bridge below Union City, about sorty-nye minutes before the deputies headed 5oEEEH NEIE-OENE IT. Grimes ehaese Q 9 blind trail in the q. rection of Chickasaw. Soon they saw two men riding leis-reiy. side by side in the same direction the deputies were moving.
 Night was at hand. and if the out , laws should reach the timber some ! body would get killed.
 [ Madsen, for this was the deputy with Grimes. looked across the prai Tie in disgust when Grimes made the ayowal that he would take the two men alive.
 The wagon had approached within fifty yards. Get up your hands, shouted Grimes. The men reached to draw their pistols. Then up wen their hands
 l Grimes rode a horse that had seer much shooting. but had formed tn, annoying habit of shaking its heas
 and backing when a pistol was drawn l The horse began these antics anC l fTnx1 ~ -L !