Kate’s notes: Although this news was published in a Texas paper, because it concerns Kansa I have filed it with other news articles for that state.

The Waco Evening News
Waco, Texas
30 January, 1894

Brutally Treated by Bandits.

ARKANSAS CITY, Kan., Jan 30. – Information has just been received here of the brutal treatment to which Robert Gilleland, a settler on the Cherokee strip, was subjected to at the hands of two bandits who are supposed to belong to the Dalton gang. They rode up to within 50 feet of his dugout, which is located on Coon creek, 20 miles south of here, and called him by name. As soon as he opened the door he was covered with two Winchesters and ordered to hold up his hands. Instead of complying he fell back into the dugout, the door closing after him. After firing several shots through the door they went in and demanded his money. When he refused they tied him to the floor with barb wire and then went through his boxes, in which were $132. After securing his money, watch and gun they left him alone in his perilous condition miles from any other habitation. He at last succeeded in extricating himself and came to the city and related his painful experience.

-transcription by Kate Maynard, 2012