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John Marker, U. S. Marshal

State Pioneer Dies Saturday At City Home User

John Marker Had Served As Peace Officer

April 25, 1937—The Oklahoman—John Marker, 79 years old, a prominent figure in years following the run around Orlando, died Saturday night at his home, 947 Northeast Eighteenth Street.

            Although he had been in ill health several months, the pioneer refused to retire to a wheel chair, and persisted in daily walks about he house, even as late as Friday.

            He had been a deputy sheriff and a federal marshal.

            Marker settled in Orlando in 1890, coming to the state from Kansas.  He opened a newspaper, the Orlando Herald, which he ran until 1898.  He was a stanch Bryan supporter in his ’96 campaign and took the stump for the silver advocate to supplement editorial support.

            Marker later entered the hardware business and was widely known in Payne, Logan and Noble counties.  He served on the town board, was a justice of the peace and acted in other public capacities.  He came to the city in 1920, when he retired.

            Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Lucy J. Marker; two daughters, Mrs. Stella Wagoner, city, and Mrs. C. M. Potter, Kansas City; and three sons, Mert, Walter, and Jerry Marker, all of Oklahoma City.  Arrangements will be made by the Guardian funeral home.

John Mayes, Deputy U. S. Marshal

Pawhuska Inquest Is Order For Former Marshal

July 31, 1942—Pawhuska, OK—An inquest into the death of Henry Mayse, one-time deputy United States marshal, has been called here for Friday before H. H. Stickelmeier, justice of the peace.

            A decomposed body found earlier in the week in a culvert about 20 miles northwest of Pawhuska was identified as that of Mayse, 55 years old, missing since March.

            Mayse, who served as a posse man aiding in the roundup of the Al “Spencer gang nearly 20 years ago, was convicted of manslaughter in 1925 following the death of Mrs. Josie Peck in an auto accident in Oklahoma City.  Sentenced to three years in McAlester penitentiary, he broke into the limelight with a release from Henry S. Johnston, then governor, on the grounds he was not the drier.  With Johnston’s impeachment and removal from office,

W. J. Holloway became governor and refused to extend Mayse’s leave.