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ROBERT KING'S OKLAHOMA U. S. MARSHALS AND DEPUTY U. S. MARSHALS

Dick Kinhead to J. H. Kyle

Kilpatrick, Robert E. was commissioned in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas, serving under Marshal Jacob Yoes.  In March of 1892, he brought James Patterson to the Ft. Smith jail on charges of violation of postal laws violated in the Choctaw Nation.  He traveled to Indian Territory in November of 1893, to arrest Edward King and J. W. Ferguson on larceny charges.  The two prisoners were taken to federal jail in Ft. Smith, Arkansas, to await trial. 

Ft. Smith Elevator - March 4, 1892

The Weekly Elevator - November 17, 1893

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Kimbell was a deputy marshal who was appointed by Marshal Love in Texas.  His district included Navajo. 

 Indian Pioneer History - Mrs. Guy P. Horton

King, C. G. was commissioned at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Territory in 1895 by Marshal Evett Nix.  He worked in the Taloga, Oklahoma Territory in April of 1895. His commission was pulled by Marshal Evett Nix after September 30, 1895.

Taloga Advocate - April 27, 1895

U.S. Deputy Marshals, I. T. & O. T., 1893 - 1896

King, D. G. was commissioned on June 8, 1889, in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas, serving under Marshal Jacob Yoes. 

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King, Peter C. was commissioned on July 26, 1872, in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas, serving under Marshal Logan S. Roots.  Deputy Marshal King lived in Ft. Smith, Arkansas. 

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King, Forrest was commissioned in the Western District of Arkansas in 1899. 

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King, John H. was commissioned in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas, where he was a special deputy. 

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King, Schell was commissioned in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas.  Deputy King with a posse of Sac and Fox arrested Ben Grant who was the leader of a notorious gang that had a hideout near the junction of the Arkansas and Cimarron Rivers, in January of 1888. 

Indian Chieftain, Vinita - January 5, 1888

King, William was commissioned in the Western District of Arkansas in 1897. 

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King, Z. A. was commissioned at Sayer, Oklahoma Territory from October of 1894 through December of 1895, serving under Marshal Evett Nix. 

 U.S. Deputy Marshals, I. T. & O. T., 1893 - 1896

Kinnan, Ed W. was commissioned at Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory from July of 1894 through December of 1895, serving under Marshal Evett Nix.  Deputy Marshal Kinnan traveled with John Hale to Farmington, Massachusetts, to deliver sixteen year old outlaw, Annie McDoulet alias “Cattle Annie” to reform school.  Annie had been arrested two years earlier with her companion Jennie Metcalf nee Stevens alias “Little Britches” and both girls had been serving time in an Oklahoma reform school. 

The Kingfisher Times - September 5, 1895

U.S. Deputy Marshals, I. T. & O. T., 1893 - 1896

Kinnet, was commissioned in the Western District of Arkansas at Ft. Smith.  He was working with Charles Leflore and Sid Johnson in 1892, when the Dalton gang robbed the Katy railroad train near Adair.  Even though thirteen officers tried to protect the train, the robbery was pulled off after a brief gun fight which left all three officers wounded. 

Bill Doolin

Kirk, W. R. was commissioned on July 20, 1893, in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas, serving under Marshal George J. Crump.  Deputy Marshal Kirk lived in Cauthron, Arkansas. 

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Kirksey, William “Bill” was commissioned in the Western District of Arkansas. Kirksey was killed on May 1, 1885. 

Oklahombres

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Kitchen, John with two posse men were in pursuit of a noted Negro whiskey peddler.  The officers met their foe near midnight on an old road.  When asked to surrender, the Negro fired on the posse, wheeled on his horse, riding away.  The marshals gave chase until they came to an opening where they were fired upon by two men who emerged from the brush.  Shots then rang out from the other side of the clearing.  Deputy Marshal Kitchen continued to fire at the Negro whiskey peddler while the rest of his posse continued their battle with the rest of the gang who were all white.  Kitchen fired a shot that he believed hit the whiskey peddler but there was not any effect from it.  His next shot felled the peddler’s horse, breaking his neck.  As the horse went to his death, his rider dismounted, making his escape in the moonlight.  The other five members of the gang joined in the escape without being identified.

Muskogee Weekly Phoenix - March 2, 1905

Kittrell, J. D. of Muskogee, Indian Territory arrested D. M. Pate on assault charges and transported him to the federal jail in Ft. Smith, Arkansas to await trial. 

The Weekly Elevator - September 29, 1893

Klanue, shot and killed Dick Paine, a member of the Ryan Gang, near Charing in October of 1895.  The rest of the gang escaped during the gun battle. 

The Woodward News - October 24, 1895

Knight, Ben Sr. was commissioned on December 15, 1891, in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas, under Marshal Jacob Yoes.  He rode with the sixteen man posse when feared Cherokee outlaw Ned Christie was killed on November 2, 1892.  Ben Knight, a full blooded Cherokee himself and Tom Johnson served as guides for the posse. See: “Capture of Ned Christie” for more information.  

Black Red and Deadly

Outlaws and Peace Officers of Indian Territory

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Knight, George, Jr. was commissioned in the Northern District of Texas, where his father George Knight served as marshal.  He was deployed In August of 1889, to help Chief Deputy Jim Huffington of the Northern District of Texas to serve a warrant of arrest to three men charged with stealing forty head of horses in Kiowa and Comanche country.  The prisoners were sent to Dallas Texas. The men were most likely the Marlowe brothers who lived 20 miles east of Ft. Sill along Hell Creek. The Marlows were released when witness feared to testify against them. 

Ft. Smith Elevator - August 23, 1889

The Fighting Marlows

Knight, H. J. was commissioned on April 11, 1894, in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas, serving under Marshal George J. Crump.  Deputy Marshal Knight lived in Eufaula, Creek Nation. 

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Knowlton, J. D. was commissioned on March 23, 1889, in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas, serving under Marshal Jacob Yoes.

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Knox, James G. was appointed deputy marshal at Pond Creek replacing Deputy Marshal Pat Murphy.  Knox served under Marshal Jack Abernathy in 1906 until 1907, working out of the Western District Indian Territory.  James Knox was in charge of the Enid District.  Knox served in the marshals’ force for eight years before transferring to Guthrie as guard in the federal prison. 

Indian Pioneer History - Nellie Pollie Knox

Shoot from the Lip

Koonce, J. B. 1889 Land Rush Deputy served under Marshal William Jones in 1889 at the Oklahoma Station, Oklahoma Territory. 

Oklahoma Land Rush Of 1889

Chronicles Of Oklahoma - Volume 35, 1957

Krebs, Robert C. became a deputy marshal when he was twenty-one in 1889.  In April of 1886, Deputy Marshal William Irwin arrested Felix Griffin, a member of the Belle Starr gang, for horse stealing.  The officer was transporting his prisoner to Ft. Smith, Arkansas when he was ambushed along the Arkansas River near Pheasant Bluff by outlaws Jack Spaniard and Frank Palmer who were also members of the Belle Starr gang.  William Irwin was shot in the back at close range as he passed by his assailants.  The deputy marshal was killed, not able to defend himself.  Griffin and the two assassins fled the scene to their hide-out in the Choctaw Nation.  One witness that helped the officers crack the case was Jack Spaniard’s dog.  The federal court summoned Officers Krebs and West Harris to serve the warrant of arrest.  The officers found the dog in Mrs. Griffin’s yard about ten miles northeast of Webber Falls.  Krebs was acquainted with Mrs. Griffin who did not know that he was a deputy marshal.  The two deputy marshals were invited to eat dinner, which they accepted.  After eating a few bites West Harris excused himself going outside where he took a chain and caught the dog.  Mrs. Griffin, hearing the commotion, went to the door followed by Officer Krebs.  Mrs. Griffin saw Harris with the dog and asked, “What the hell are you doing with my dog”?  Krebs told her they were marshals and had a warrant for the dog.  Mrs. Griffin ran inside of the house to get her Winchester rifle.  The two officers left before she returned.  Jack Spaniard was later caught, convicted and executed on August 30, 1889. 

Indian Pioneer History - Robert C. Krebs

Krebs, Samuel F. was commissioned in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas.  He was a deputy marshal under the administration of Robert Owens.  Samuel was the father of Deputy Marshal Robert C. Krebs.  Samuel Krebs died at Skulleyville in 1891.

Indian Pioneer History - Robert C. Krebs

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Kress, Frank G. was commissioned in Oklahoma Territory on August 12, 1893, and served from July of 1894 through December of 1895, under Marshal Evett Nix.  He worked with George Thornton whose headquarters was Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Territory.  The lawmen tried to arrest the Dalton Gang after they robbed the Wharton train.  Frank lived in Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory. 

West of Hell’s Fringe

Shoot from the Lip

U.S. Deputy Marshals, I. T. & O. T., 1893 - 1896

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Kuhn, Mart “The Kid” “The Texas Wolf” was a deputy marshal during the opening of the strip, who served for three years.  Mart was born in 1858, coming to Indian Territory in 1876. 

Indian Pioneer History - Mart Kuhn

Kuykendall, Mark was commissioned in the Western District of Arkansas.  On January 17, 1887, Kuykendall rode with Deputy Marshals Phillips, Henry Smith and William Kelly in the Creek Nation.  They had a prisoner in their custody named Seaborn Kalijah whom they were transporting to Ft. Smith on an indictment for selling whiskey in Indian Territory.  Phillips went to Eufaula on business leaving Kalijah with the officers.  When Phillips returned he found the officers dead.  Kuykendall and Smith had been killed with an axe.  Kelly’s body was found away from the other two lawmen.  He had been shot, and mutilated with an axe.  Kuykendall and Smith’s bodies had been drug to the fire where a log ember was placed across their legs.  Phillips buried the three officers near the camp where they were killed. Seaborn Kalijah was trailed by Deputy Marshal Phillips, then recaptured.  Within a few days, two relatives of Kalijah were taken into custody for having in their possession property taken from the officer’s camp.  Kalijah’s relatives were tried for the murders but were acquitted when Kalijah testified that he had done the killings alone.  Seaborn Kalijah was taken before Judge Parker where he was hung from the gallows on October 7, 1887. 

Ft. Smith Elevator - February 4, 1887

Hell on the Border-Harman Oklahombres

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Killed in the line of duty.

Kyle, G. H. was a well known lawman who met his fate in the winter of 1879, when he led a posse to arrest Samuel Ratcliffe, a desperado in Bird Creek Cooweescoowee District.  During the arrest a shoot-out occurred in which Deputy Marshal Kyle was killed by the blast of a shotgun.  The desperado also shot a young man in the posse leaving him critically wounded.  The Indian Journal reported that young posse member, Johnny Woods, was not yet out of the woods. 

Muskogee - The Indian Journal - December 4, 25, 1879

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Killed in the line of duty.

Kyle, J. H. was commissioned in the Western District at Ft. Smith, Arkansas.  In April of 1880, Deputy Marshal Kyle passed through Muskogee transporting eight prisoners to the Ft. Smith jail.   Four would be charged with violation of internal revenue laws, two charged with assault with intent to kill, one charged with counterfeiting and one charged with larceny.

The Indian Journal - April 10, 1880

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