Daltons Not Killed

Telegraphic reports in the papers last week stated that in a fight between deputy marshals and members of the Dalton gang east of Stillwater Bill Dalton was killed and Bill Doolin wounded. The facts are that a United States officer named Mackley, with a posse of six deputies, fired into the house of the sympathizers of the Daltons, named Miller, thinking the Daltons were in the house. Instead of this they were three miles from there on the ranch owned by Ed Dunn. When the firing was heard at Dunn’s house the Daltons saddled their horses and escaped. From Monday afternoon until Wednesday morning the Miller house was closely watched by the officer, who fired some eight shots into the house, and received in return four shots from the Winchester of the occupants, which consisted of the two Miller brothers, the wife of one of the brothers, a little girl and a German hired man. During the storm early Wednesday morning Mrs. Miller in company with the hired man, went to the barn and saddled and bridled two horses upon which the two miller brothers escaped. On retuning to the house the German was shot through the heart. The little girl was shot through the shoulder, and is now at Ingalls under the care of a doctor. None of the Dalton gang was in the fight.