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ATTACKED BY BAND IN INDIANTERRITORY.SEEK SHETER BEHIND ROCKSBattle Follows and Three Officers Axe Killed Outright — Reinforcements En Route to the Scene.Vlmta, Ind. T., March 13.—Six Cnit-ed States deputy marshals ucre ambushed in Spavinaw Hills, near Kansas. Ind. T. by a band of Indian full* blood outlaws Sunday night. In afight that ensued three deputies, I. L. Gilstrap, of Kansas; Otis Tuttle, of Vineta, and Richard Carey, of Table-quah, were willed.Thomas Wofford, one of the deputies who escaped, carried the news to Tahlqueha, Monday, and Marshal Darraugh issued orders to rush eveiy deputy marshal in the northern district of the Indian territory to the acene.Officers Are Ambushed.The six deputy marshals were ambushed while hunting the Wickliffes for the murder of Deputy Vier. The horses of the deputies were shot fromunder them, and Deputies Glistrup, Tuttle and Carey were killed outright. The other three sought shelter behind some rocks. One of them, Wofford, was sent hack on font toTahlequah for reinforcements. When he left the others were holding the Indians at bay.Marshal Darraugh in addition wired the department of justice at Washington asking authority to swear in 100 additional deputies and to offer $1,000reward for each of the outlaws, dead oralive lie has gone to Kansas and will personally direct operations against the outlaws The outlaws are alleged to be headed by Charley, John and Thomas Wlckllffe, sons of former Justice of the Cherokees. The threeWlckllffe boys began their careersfive years ago, when they wereconcerned in a stabbing affair at an Indian dance.Last March members of the gang killed Deputy Vier and escaped of a bat tie with a posse, and they are creditedwith having committed many othorcrimes. They are alleged to be professional horse thieves and have given (beauthorities much trouble.Another Clash Feared.More bloodshed is feared. It is said thnt many of the younger full-bloodedIndians in the .Spavinaw Hills are joining the Wickliffes and a second clash seems inevitable when the reinforlt;e-ments of deputies meet with the outlaws Several famous Indian fighters are among the posses. Among them are two brothers of Tuttle, the dead deputy. The Tuttles belong to a family celebrated for fighting In the early days of Indian territory, and when thetwo brothers left for the scene they declared they would avenge the death of their brother.
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Fort Madison Weekly Democrat
Fort Madison, Iowa, US
Wed, Mar 14, 1906
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