Oliver Yantis
Orlando, Logan County, Oklahoma
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This morning Oliver Yantis, a desperado, was shot by United States marshals near Orlando. He is one of the three men who robbed a bank at Spearville, Kansas, and is also suspicioned of being one of the train robbers at Wharton. His mother keeps the Commerce hotel, at Stillwater. Some of the bank’s money that was robbed was found on his person. A detective, sheriff of Ford county, Kans., and Tom Huston, marshal of Stillwater surrounded his sister’s house last night, and this morning when he came out of the house was told to hold up. As he did so he lifted a revolver in the air and shot. In return he received two shots, one in the leg and one in the stomach.
He is at Orlando, and is not expected to live.
Editor’s notes: The date of death on Oliver Yantis’ gravestone is recorded as November 29, 1892. He is buried in the Rose Lawn Cemetery, Mulhall, Oklahoma. Wharton Station was the original name of the train stop for the present day city of Perry, Oklahoma. Tom Huston (name in the news article was misspelled and should have read Hueston) was the U.S. marshal at Stillwater, Oklahoma Territory in 1892. Ten months later Hueston was shot at Ingalls, Oklahoma Territory in the shootout with outlaws on September 1, 1893. He died of a gunshot wound to the stomach on September 2, 1893 and is buried in the Fairlawn Cemetery, Stillwater, Oklahoma. [Bill Cooper, June 6, 2001]
 Submitted by: Robert Chada |
Photo from:
"Guthrie: A History of the Capital City 1889-1910"
by Lloyd C. Lentz, IIIPublished by:
Thirty Seconds Press, PO Box 248, Guthrie, OK 73044"The First Published History of Guthrie, OK."Used here with permission
Oliver's body was brought to Guthrie for positive ID, as was the custom back then. While here, it was photographed by Lentz Brothers Studios. Lloyd Lentz II is the grandson of David Lentz, who ran the stuido along with his brother Charles. Lloyd wrote the book "Guthrie" A History of the Capital City 1889-1910".
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