Daily Arizona silver belt., 1909-04-01
WycklHe Boys Brought to
 Bar at 7ahlequah for Crimes

returned to settlement for provisions. At Spavinaw one of the deputies, Henry Holderman, saw friend of the Wyck. liffes, an Indian, purchasing supplies. He was followed, and when he reached his home, which was near that of John Wyckliffe, the possemen concealed themselves in the bushes and watched the house.
 Sends for Re-enforcements
 At daybreak a man came out of the house and was joined by four other men. The. party disappeared in she woods on the oposite side of the clear. ing from the posse. Re-enforcements were sent for and the marshals ques. tioned the Indian. He declared the men we're neighbors and stuck to his deelara- tion until Marshal Gilstrap handcuffed him, chained him to a tree, and threat. ened to keep him there until he gave the names of the men. The Indian fin ally admitted they were the Wyck- lilies.
 Pursuit was taken mp as soon as the re-enforeements--two deputies with a pack of odhounds--arrived. Tho chase lasted until late in the afternoon, when both men and horses were almost exhausted. The posse was traveling down a slope, when the marshal in the lead shouted, "there they are,' and un- leashed the bloodhounds.
 The band in front scattered, three of them opening fire on the posse from under a cliff scarcely thirty yards in front, while the other two took refuge behind a ledge of rock to the left and poured in cross-fire.
 At the first crack of rife the dep uties all dismounted and lodged behind rocks and trees, with the exception of Gilstrap. The leader remained on his horse and tried to spur him toward the outlaws to get better shot. His horse was shot from under him and he con tinued toward the cliff on foot A bail pierced his body in vital spot before he reached his goal.
 During this entire engagement no member of the gang could be seen, save the hat of one of the men under the cliff. The two desperadoes behind the rocks were driven from their positions and forced to retreat into the woods when the deputies, enraged at Gilstrap s death, concentrated their fire.
 With the two outlaws on the left out of the fighting for the time being. the posse turned its attention to the three under the cliff, and when both sides had emptied the magazines of their rifles, Marshal Dick Terry was wounded in the side and two horses and one of tue bloodhounds were killed.
 With their leader dead, the members of the posse decided to abandon ire fight and make detOur, coming ipon the three men under the cliff from the side. Two of them stayed in front to draw the fire, while the rest crept through the underbrush and over the rocks to the right When they reached an opening through which they could fire under the cliff the saw that the ,ut- laws nad agan escaped.
 A shot and derisive shout drew their attention overhead, where they saw the five men disappearing over tine hill.
 When the news of the fight reached w. H. Darrough, United States marshal for the northern district of Indian Ter ritory, he immediately called for forty eight of the best marksmen in the ter ritory, armed thrn to the teeth and started them i"t the mountains to bring in the Wy Nlif'es. They were each paid $65O lay but though they were led by pack of bloodhounds, this company of almost half hundred mep secured the mountains and woods from March until May without getting in shooting distance of their prey.
 Bandits Rob Kansas Bank
 It was during this period that tho bank in a small Kansas town, near the border, wds robbed in broad daylight. and the town terrified by the bandits It was while in pursuit of this same band of outlaws, who were headed for the Oklahoma mountains, that Unite' States marshal and his posse were sur prised. dismOunted and disarmed by the men they were hunting
 The bandits stopped at blacksmith shop in the country to have a shoe reset on one of their horses, and to rest. While they were lounging about the smithy's shop the posse hove in sight, and found itself gazing into the guns of the hunted. The leader of the gang after confscating the posses guns and horses, gently scolded the marshal for his recklessness, and started him and luis band back to town, afoot.
 The Wyckliffes were given credit for being with this band of outlaws, though their friends declare they were at their own homes when the Kansas bank was robbed
 When Marshal Darrough called off his posse and the hunt relaxed, the brothers returned to their homes and took up their farm work. Though reasonably safe from attack their vigilance never relaxed for minute, and in addition to being safeguarded and warned by their friends, they carried their weapons 10 tbo foId u,ith tham