Show aliw ar arlian liln slain ii ii i lAMilA may 1 1 I attorney general sillier u airport from united rit jonen of knit ahw ol 01 libin belf and upon the opening of oklahoma marshal jobita aya 1 I ordered from iny alil experienced deputies coir to co to three new at eliat point to i t dionio broin and after that 22 aliro there had been stationed three of united states troops to preserve peace up 10 that date ind junctions ceased at diio tery alien the Krca test were likely to ex cur and v hen thousands of homo seekers business men ramblers and from and conveyances vey ances malno our fioura the entire face of atas dotted feitli tents and to or oliree of froin 1000 to iu habitants were born in one day proved to gotlie necessity of a respectable number of deputies marshal at king fisher I 1 ordered two old deputies of experience and one new man at I 1 urt lleno I 1 male no cleanne cl ianne mal at oklahoma Okli homa city I 1 ordered laar at alie request of the officer commanding the at st alfred fur the marcial mar Hial to capture certain horse thieves I 1 appointed a couple of deputies atud pent them to that point I 1 also appointed at the request of theoflice rs of the railroad eight ot their o most of whom were condu itura constantly passing through the territory in anticipation of lawlessness on trains the full number of deputies marshal in oklahoma appointed liy me is nineteen besides eight temper airily appointed at hie request of uio railroad corpany con pany I 1 le lelice liue that a few ol 01 ray deputies have attempted to file on many tracts of land in alie territory but I 1 enow many of tham have not and while I 1 instructed them not to do so alien aliey saw themselves aur rounded by from WO to persons at guthrie and at leant one bau that number at olala homa city for alie hosrof 12 to come I 1 do not wonder that doroe 0 them deputies who were pay and only in the interests of nood took the devor and attempted to get a home ai to myself I 1 never lo 10 homestead a foot of land either in Olla lioma or any other or baale in a postscript marshal jones baya the country is absolutely quiet in oklahoma and I 1 am af at the false of bloodshed circulated by the papers there hag not been i single person lillebil by violence in that territory since alio of april the report h dated may ich it ial understood alie attorney beneral is not satisfied with the still all upon the marshal tal retort naino of each officer vi ho filed claims and a description of the land atred et red by liina together with an account attending alio llio |