Show bA1i 18 l 1IITIthTUYiT IN I IN lAN TERRITORY Everybody pt the Mercy of Bill Cook and His Reckless Followers t BANDITS CAN DO JUST AS THEY PLEASE PLEASP COMPLETE COMMERCIAL PARALYSIS PARALY-SIS THE RESULT Xot Hal of tIle Terrible Crimes Committed Com-mitted Kind Their Way Into the Newspapers Organized Bands Go From Place to Place Plundering Right and Left Witliout Und raiice Crime Scents to Be Congenial Conge-nial to a Majority of the Resi dentsWily Military Aid Was Re fused l Little Rock Ark Nov 161n the opinion of Major C B Moore a prominent prom-inent attorney of this city who has just returned from a trip in the Indian territory where Bandit Bill Cook and his reckless and ravenous followers hold sway the situation in the territory is indescribable There is practically no such thing as an enforcement of the law the bandits are virtually unmolested in their appalling palling depredations Major Moore spent several days at Muskogee and Fort Gibson and he says the business men and property owner there arc panicstricken at the complete com-plete commercial paralysis resultant from the reign of lawlessness Not half of the crimes committed find space in the newspapers in fact the half has not been told of the terrible condition of affairs Organized gangs go from place to place plundering right and left and adding murder to their category of crimes when resistance is offered them Marshal Crump and his men are sparing spar-ing no efforts to protect property and life tout they seem to be powerless to check the sway of the bandits i 1 the situation is Major Moore says te stuaton I I growing worse all the time Crime is congenial to a heavy percentage of territory j ter-ritory population hence there is of course strong opposition from a certain cer-tain contingent to a change in the present pres-ent run of things preI |