The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1907-08-05
SAPuLPA HAS KIND REMEMBRAN.
CEs OF THE INDIAN.
WAS HUMAN BLOODHOUND
He Never Wore Star or Had a Com.
mission But the Surrounding coun.
try Never Felt the Need Of
Other Protection.

Tulsa. l. T, Aug. 3.-Tiger Jacks
sister came to town the other day.
and talked about him and b'7 achiey.
ments Tiger Jack was the terror OF
every laVbreaker for miles and miles
around Sapulpa in the old days when
the arm of the law stretched lightly
over this territory and it was a house
Of refuge for all the criminals, big and
little.
Tiger Jack was an Eucheo Indian
and his sister. Mrs. Jesse Allen, is
mll blood Euchee Mrs. Allen has al
ways lived in the territory and has
done some things herself. She was for
years the official interpreter in Judge
Parkcr's court at Fort Smith when
the judge was known as the hanging
Judge. She says that she has personal.
Is attended more murder trials and
heard more sentences OF death than
almost any person now alive.
Tiger Jack lived about - miles
south of Sapulpa On a small ranch
with his sister lie was a human blood.
hound with am extraordinary capacity
for no ing ont crime and tracing the
criminals. ON one occasion a litu"
more than fifteen years ago, he saw
two men making away with his stock.
H, was standing Ia the door ot
shack and the men were a half a mile
away. He got his winchester in ac'
ton and killed them both. one was
Lon Gordon and the other Henry Nun
son. who had just held up a train In
Oklahoma and were fleeing through
the country. The bodies were loaded
I'm wagon and brought to Sapulpa
where they remained on exhibition Tor
a day and were buried in coff'ns made
from binder cases. there being col
fin famine In the town at the time
The body OF Munson was afterwards
claimed by his mother and removed to
Baruesyille, where it was finally in
TERED.
Tiger Jack was not commission
ed officer OF the government. Some
times he was employed by the caitl"
people to protect their stock, but be
never wore star. When he heard OF
a strange character floaing around
ne would make a reconnaissance, and
if the stranger was criminal he was
arrested and turned over 20 the Off
GERS. He was shot at time and again,
efforts at assassination We're frequent,
but the native cunning Of the man car
ricd him through all Of the vissitudes
OF border warfare. OF course, II was
necessary for him TO shoot. and this
he did. always killing his man, be-
cause no better hand with a rifle or
pistol could be found hereabouts.
On two or three occasions Tiger
Jack arrested the members of the
Dalton gang but this was before
they started on the larger field of
bank robbing. After this they never
came around Sapulpa once or twice
there was rumors that they were sour
rying through the country, bu, they
never campcd around Jacks place.
His part of the country was safe from
depreciation and the Sapulpa bank and
other places never thought IL necess1.
rs to provide any extraordinary pro-
lection as long as Jack was on watch
and guard
Tiger Jack las been dead and bur
led for several years, but his fame as
a thief taker remains, and the rccol-
lection of him even yet is enough o.
scare the ordinary criminal out OF the
country.
Mrs. Aliens husband, although a
mllhlood Euchoe has light blue eyes,
light hair and a light complexion,