Posted By:	Liz Freeman
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	Subject:	Rufus Highnote in Hardin County
	Post Date:	January 09, 2009 at 19:42:57
	Message URL:	http://genforum.genealogy.com/tx/hardin/messages/229.html
	Forum:	Hardin County, TX Genealogy Forum
	Forum URL:	http://genforum.genealogy.com/tx/hardin/

I have been researching one Rufus P. Highnote (sometimes spelled Hynote). He is often called R. P. or Rufe Highnote. He originally came out of Navarro County; was a police officer in Corsicana and managed to kill a few people in that capacity. I have numerous articles out of the Dallas Morning News concerning Rufus. Just recently I came across a fairly lengthy article out of an Oklhaoma newspaper which states "what Highntoe does not know about keeping the peace in oil field towns wouldnot be worth recording.....he officiated (as a peace officer) in the Beaumont boom, at Spindletop, Sour Lake and across the line in Louisana when the Caddo field was brought in." Rufus served as a city marshall in northern OK in 1909-1910, owned his own detective agency, and served as a deputy sheriff in Carter County, OK when he was killed in 1918. My question is this - many of the newspaper articles that I have found about him say that he had "nineteen notches on his gun". However, I've only been able to identiy seven. I was wondering if anyone reading this board might know of newspaper articles or of any information of any killilngs by Rufust Highnote while he was in Hardin County - probably in the 1902 - 1907 time frame. Any information appreciated.