Texas, Papa Jones and the Outlaws........

Papa Jones- Texas- sometime in the late1880's.

The following is an article from a Texas newspaper about Papa Jones.  I am not sure what paper- I found it as a clipping but had no date or newspaper name.  



Stinnett, aside from being the county seat of rich Hutchinson County, is credited with being the home of the earliest Panhandle doctor to continue to practice.

He is Dr. E.A. Jones, physician and surgeon. Dr. Jones opened a drug store in Amarillo's Old Town in 1888. While the town moved to it's present day location, Dr. Jones moved too. He sold out the drug store to the late L.O. Thompson, pioneer druggist and father of state railroad commissioner Ernest O. Thompson.

Dr. Jones doesn't show but a part of his actual years. He remains active in practice, having been in Stinnett and Plemons since 1926. He has also practiced in Vernon and Sayre, Okla.

"I wish I had stayed in the drug business in Amarillo," he says.

Nevertheless, he is not the least bit dissatisfied with things in Stinnett. The busy highway, which serves as an oil field as well as connects the North Plains with the traffic arteries and the cities of the Central Plains, passes by his office door. And he has hosts of friends who continuously drop in to pass the time of day when professional duties are not demanding his attention.

Before locating to Stinnett, Dr. Jones spent six months in Signal Hill, in the fervid days when it appeared that Signal Hill was due to become one of the bigger oil field communities. During this time a couple of the Southwest's most notorious badmen, Matt Kimes and Ray Terrell, made that place their headquarters.

"But I didn't know it until they were gone," the doctor says.

He once dressed a mashed hand for Kimes without knowing the identity of his patient. Kimes, his brother George, and Ray Terrell, another of the same ilk, are all in the Oklahoma State pen.
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The article above