Johnny Zeke DUSM
March 2, 1872—The Cherokee Advocate—A letter is published in the Sedalia Times from a correspondent at Muskogee Station in the Creek Nation, giving an account of the killing of deputy Marshal Johnny Zeke, which fact was published by us last week. According to the writer, a bad state of affairs exists at Muskogee Station and neither life nor property is safe. As to that we don’t know—though we hope it is not so. Yet we do believe from what we have heard, that Muskogee Stations is a fast place—and it could scarcely be anything else under present circumstances. The killing of Johnny Zeek as we have heard it, was the result of a drunker brawl in a whiskey shop, in which all the parties concerned and the whiskey seller too were citizens of the United States. But, is the condition of affairs at Muskogee Station had enough to justify the correspondent in desiring as he does the intervention and authority of a vigilance committee?