Show JONES OF OKLAHOMA The Marshal Makes his Report on Deputes Doings S ut MERE ARE ° IIIjLJONS TXZST P 1 Bjit Short S35The RaIlway BostesThe Hotel Mens Convention A Th ological Professor WASHINGTON May AttorneyGeneral Miller has received a report from United States Marshal Jones of Kansas in regard t the conduct of himself and deputies upon the opening of Oklahoma Marshal Jones says I ordered from my old experienced deputies four to Guthrie together with three new appointees at that point to protect pro-tect home seekers against lawlessness from and after that critical moment April 22 where there had been stationed two or thre companies of United States troops to pro serve the peace up to that date whose functions ceased at the very moment wnen the greatest difficulties were likely t occur and when thousands of homeseekers business men gamblers and whisky dealers who rushed from incoming in-coming trains and private conveyances until within twentyfour hours the entire face of the country was dotted with homesteaders home-steaders tents and two or three cities of ctes from 1000 to 15000 inhabitants born in one day proved to me the necessity for a respectable re-spectable number of deputy marshals At Kingfisher I ordered two old deputies of experience and a new man to Darlington at Fort Reno I made no change and at Oklahoma l city nl ordered four At the request of the office commanding the troops at St Alfred for a marshal t capture horse thieves I appointed ap-pointed a couple of deputies and sent them to that point I also appointed at the request re-quest of the officers of the Atchison railroad eight of their employee most of whom were conductors constantly passing through the territor in anticipation of I lawlessness on trains The fulKriumbcr of deputy marshals in Oklahoma appointed by me is nineteen besides eight temporarily tempor-arily appointed at the request of the railroad rail-road company I believe that a few of my deputies have attempted t file on many tracts of land in the territory but I know many of them save not and while I instructed them not tQ d9 so when they saw themselves surrounded sur-rounded by from five to seven hundred persons per-sons at Guthrie and at leastonebalf that number at Oklahoma waiting for the hour of 12 to come I do not wonder that some of the deputies who werfcservirij without pay and only there in tneintereatSof good ordertopk tIe evoi ttgnipted to get a hom As to myself Jiievcr attempted to homestead home-stead afoot ofland either in Oklahoma or WM other territory state RPother tertryur flaA postscript Marslfal Jones says Tho COU1 try is absolutely quiet in Oklahoma and lam astonished at the false reports of bloodshed circulated by thepapers There has not been a single person killed by violence vio-lence in that territory since the fi2d of April The report is dated May 9 I is under stood the attorneygeneral is not satisfied with thereport ana he ir call uponthe marshal for a supplemental report giving the name of each officer who ted a claim and a description of the land secured by him together with an account of attend ng circumstances |