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From: "Fran Warren" <>
Subject: [OUTLAWS] June 1, 1889 Van Buren Press
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 16:34:27 -0800

Van Buren Press
Van Buren, Arkansas- Crawford County
June 1, 1889

Hon. Jacob Yoes, the newly appointed U. S. Marshal for the Western District
of Arkansas, at Fort Smith, was qualified Tuesday and took possession of the
office. He has appointed as his Chief Deputy Hon. Sam A. Williams, a
gentleman fully competent for the duties of the office. The retiring
Marshal, John Carroll, leaves his successor over 100 prisoners in jail with
one or two deputies to report. Some of those in jail are under conviction of
murder. The new Marshal is besieged by numerous applications for subordinate
positions, from jail guard up. There are already twenty-three applications
for the contract to feed the prisoners, and the returns are not yet all in.
It has been a long time since Van Buren has had a position under the U. S.
Marshal and we trust she will not be overlooked now. The more the better. As
far as heard from the appointments are as follows: R. B. Creekmore, second
clerk, W. B. Pape, jailer, Van Buren, A. J. Roberts, Deputy jailer,
Mountainburg; W. R. Dye, turnkey, Eureka Springs; John Craddick, J. B.
Snell, Joseph Barnes, day guards, Chester; John W. Yoes, Murphy Porton,
Mountainburg; George Maledon, Fort Smith, night guards; John T. Bloomberg,
George Winston, Bailiff's, Fort Smith; R. A. Caldwell, contract feeding
prisoners; Wm. W. Bailey, M. D., jail physician. Tynor Hughes, Jim Lee, and
Charles Barnhill were sworn in as deputies.

Fran Alverson Warren

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