July 4, 1895—The Shawnee Quill—Officers are hot on the trail of the fleeing desperadoes, who appear to be making for their old haunts near Violet Springs, in the southeast part of this county.

J. M. Jones, the murdered chief of police was a splendid officer, a brave man, and his death, through promptly avenged, is deeply regretted by a large circle of his friends.

Casey, the reckless young desperado whose desperate act resulted so quickly in his own deserved death, would have been released on bond in a few days.

The Christian boys were under sentence of five and ten years respectively, but if recaptured they will now have to face charges of jail breaking and accessories to the murder of Chief Jones.

July 4, 1895—At Wichita last Thursday Clyde Mattox was sentenced for the fourth time to be hung for the murder of John Mullins, at Oklahoma City in 1889. The details of his crime, and the strenuous efforts that have been made to save the daring young desperado from the gallows, are well known to our readers. His mother’s tireless efforts in his behalf appear to have been of no avail, and her last hope turns upon the clemency of the president. There is little prospect that he will interfere, and on Friday, October 11, 1895, it is altogether likely that Clyde will reach the end of the rope for which he appears to have been hung.

July 25, 1895—The Shawnee, Quill—A dispatch from Hennessey, Oklahoma says:
The posse of farmers organize at Sheridan to capture Yeager’s gang of horse thieves, found the trail twenty five mile west of Waukomis and ran part of the gang to cover in a log house. They surrounded the house, captured the desperadoes’ horses and saddles and some arms. After twenty hours siege the outlaws, five in number forced two women living there to walk ahead of them as shields to kept the posse from shooting, and, each drawing a brace of Colt’s revolvers, they made their escape to the heavy timber, firing a number of shots to keep the posse from pressing them too closely. They release the women after making them walk over a mile and stealing horses from farmers made their escape. They headed for their rendezvous in a section of the Glass mountain known as “The Boot,’ where they are known to have a fortified stronghold. The posse is still determined and is being recruited daily.

TO KILL THE FEE SYSTEM

March 25, 1897—The Shawnee Quill—Washington, March 22—Senator Vest has introduced bills fixing the salary of the marshal of Kansas at $5,000 and of the chief deputy at $1,500 of the clerks of the circuit and district courts at $2,500 each, and of the clerk of the two courts at Fort Dodge at $500; of the United States marshal for the western district of Missouri at $4,000 and of the chief deputy at $2,000; of the clerk of the circuit of Kansas City at $2,000; of the clerk of the district court at $2,000; of the clerk of the circuit and district courts at St. Joseph and Hannibal at $500, at Springfield $1,000 and at Jefferson City at $1,500.

Senator Vest has introduced a bill fixing the salary of United States marshal of Oklahoma at $5,500 and the chief deputy at $1,500. He also proposes to fix the salary of the clerk of the court, for the district of the Indian Territory at $2,500; that of the clerk of the supreme court of Oklahoma of $750 and fees; the clerk of the first district court of that territory at $2,500 and of the other districts at $2,000.

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