The following is a news item about Robert "Bob" Dalton, brother of the famous "Dalton Gang" Daltons. Van Buren Press Van Buren, Arkansas (Crawford County) July 20, 1889 KILLED EACH OTHER Topeka, Kansas, July 15.- Information was received at the office of the United States Attorney this morning of the killing of Robert Dalton, a deputy United States Marshal in Oklahoma yesterday afternoon. Dalton was in the act of arresting Lee West, a notorious criminal for being a 'moonshiner' or whiskey peddler. West drew a Winchester and shot Dalton fatally, but before he expired the latter shot West, killing him instantly. The fatal affray occurred near the Arkansas River and near the border of the Osage Indian Reservation. West had notified the officers that he would not submit to arrest alive and he kept his threat. This is the third affray in which a United States deputy marshal has been killed in the Oklahoma in the last two weeks Fran Alverson Warren