Oklahoma Lawmen & Outlaws Misc Newspaper Articles 1895 Submitted by Mollie Stehno Shoop@orcacom.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- USGenWeb notice In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material.These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- OKLAHOMA TERRITORY NEWS CLIPS October 3, 1895-Cherokee Bill was not executed on time, because he took an appeal to the supreme court, which he had a right to do just the same as if he had robbed the United States and murdered a nation. December 19, 1895-United States Marshal Hop Cloud, shot George Merchant, a resident of the Chickasaw country, at 8 o'clock Thursday night, while resisting arrest. The ball entered the right side through the ninth rib and will undoubtedly prove fatal. Merchant was drinking all day, and was becoming boisterous when Hop Cloud remonstrated with him about it. He pulled his gun and commenced shooting at Cloud. He shot three times without effect. Cloud then fired one shot, striking Merchant on the suspender buckle, the bullet carrying the buckle clear through his body. December 26, 1895-It is reported on good Washington authority tht the pursuit of Zip Wyatt alias Dick Yeager by United States marshals cost the federal government $20,000 and they didn't capture him either. Now add about $800 that Zip cost Garfield County and you have a grand total of $20,800, but the $800 crowd captured, shot, nursed and buried the great land pirate. But the people he robbed and murdered have never come up with the rewards they offered for his capture. December 26, 1895-News comes from Coalgate, I. T., that bob and Bill Christian and another man help up the clerk's in the company's store on Saturday night and stole goods to the amount of $200, besides securing about $300 in money. Parties who saw the bandits and know the Christians are certain they were two of the gang, but the identity of the third man is unknown.