Show INVEST IN SMELTER CIT CiTy If you are arc seekIng a safe investment for your our idle cash buy a lot in n Smelter City Ute the new addition at Garf Garfield Price ot of lots 60 to Sl SMELTER ELTER CITY TOWNSITE CO Selling SeIling D F Bell phone 6 F AMBUSHED BY BAND OF INDIANS Three United States Deputy Mar Marshals Marshals Killed in Indian Territory by Dusky Outlaws MORE BLOODSHED FEARED POSSES ARE HURRYING TO THE SCENE Vinita I T March United States deputy were ambush ambushed ed In Spavinaw hills I T near Kan Kansas can sas by a band of Indian tull blood out outlaws outlaws laws last night In a fight that en ensued ensued sued three deputies I T Gilstrap of Kansas Otis Tuttle of Vinita and Richard Carry ot of Tahlequah I T 1 were killed Thomas Wofford one of the deput deputIes s who escaped carried the news to Tah today and Marshal Darragh issued orders 0 rush every deputy marshal in the northern district of the Indian territory to the scene De DetaIls DetaiLs taIls of the fight have not Dot yet been received Marshal Darragh In addition wired the department of justice at Washing ton asking authority to swear In additional deputies and to offer 1000 reward for each of the outlaws dead or He has gone to Kansas I IT IT T and will personally direct opera operations operations against the outlaws Headed by the s The outlaws are alleged to be head headed headed ed by Charley John and Tom Wick Wickliffe i iliffe liffe sons eons of the former justice of the Cherokee supreme court The three WicklIffe bo boys s five fie years ago were con concerned concerned In a stab stabbing ing affray at an In Indian Indian dian dance Last March members of the gang killed Deputy Deput Viler and escaped after a battle with a posse and they are cred credited credited with having committed many other primes crimes They are alleged to be professional horse thieves and for a along along long time have ave given the authorities much trouble More Bloodshed Feared More bloodshed d is feared It is sid said that many of the younger fun full blood Indians inthe hills are join joining joining ing the and a clash seems inevitable when the reinforcements of deputies meet up with them Several Seer 1 famous IndIan fighters are among the posseS Among them ar are two brothers of Tuttle tile the dead deputy The Tut tIes belong to a family of celebrated fighters in the early days of the Indian territory and when the two left for the scene today they declared they would av the death of their brother Caught in Ambush The six deputy marshals were am ambushed ambushed bushed last night while hunting the for the murder of Deputy Vier The horses of the deputies were shot from under th thim m and three of the deputies were killed outright The Th Theother other three sought shelter behind some rocks One of them Wofford was sent back on foot to for reinforcements When he left the ers era were holding the Indians at bay baj bayThe The ambush was laid In the Saline Creek in the Sp Spavinaw hills In the Cherokee nation about miles southeast of Vinita The place in which the fight occurred was In a mountainous region and the outlaws laid their trap well The officers were fired upon without the 1 least warning and eScape for an any of them for a while seemed ImpossIble The deputies fought desperately |