The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1873-07-31
THR RAILROAD KU KLUx.
Additional and Interesting Partic-
ulars-A Close Pursuit.

4 eeSSA
ulars-A Close Pursuit.
E..ctly nissty. sIne thousand time.
Ivesterday, the vesacions reporter tha'
dishes % In such elegant style th,
sood thiags oDthis page Of the Regis
4 a.. was asked what news from th,
IKu Klux ?" and as often were ",
compelled to reply that there wa
nothing new. At this time of writing
there is realty nothing new, and ye
there is much confirmatory Of all thai
has been received before. A large adj
ditional force Of men was Dispatched
yesterday from numerous places 10
Iowa and Missouri to complete the
Gordon that already surrounds the
robbers. and it Is thought by many
that their capture will soon be re-
ported.
Dispatches were received yesterday
by Superintendent Royce Is follows
CREsToN, July "a
II. +. RoYCE:-Reports from the
south saw the robbers were near Plat
tensburg, NO., yesterday. going south.
1. j. PATTEN.
mfr. Patten is the agent at Creston.1
ST.. JOE, July p.
II. F. RoYCE:-The five men were
seen in Worth county on "Wednesday
morning, Their horses were all tired.
and they were trying to trade them
OF for fresh ones. Bringolf and Jack
con left this morning on the II. d st.
Joe train to get In below them ii pos
able. Men are following them up
from the north and west l will go
back to the Bluffs today on mail
train. :. ,. sTENENs.
Superintendent Quick received the
following:
PETERSBURG, July ..
w. II. QUICK :-Bringolf is here
organizing party to head off the rob
bers. Everything possible is being
done. ;. I. MAGILL.
Mr.. Quick also received another tel
egram from San Francisco stating that
the first report sent in reference to the
sealed bag belonging to Wells. Fargo
& Co, was an error. 1t contained
81 ,637 instead Of 1857, as at first sup
posed. This makes the total loss of
the Express Company S.. S37.
Trustworthy intelligence was re-
ceived at . late hour last night that
the house at which five Of the ruffians
stayed the Sunday night before the
robbery, had been discovered. 1t was
q small, white, farm house, about four
miles from the scene OF the crime.
The people living there say they were
unacquainted with the party. that
they represented themselves to be
land hunters. They went away Mon
day morning. After they were gone
1t was discovered that they had left
an old cap and some other clothing.
Before leaving they exercised their
horses on the prairie near the house.
A complete and minute description of
the party was furnished by the people
Of the house.
On the prairie near the place where
the train was wrecked were found
some cast off garments and one of the
masks used by the robbers. 1t was
evidently made from the tail of
mans shirt The eye and nose holes
were burned out. The descriptions Of
the men correspond with those furn-
ished by Mr.. and Mrs. Stuckeye, of
Taylor county.-Register, 2eth.
LATER.-A Dispatch to the Inter
Ocean, dated July %, Council Bluffs
iowa, says that five men crossed the
Missouri River from Clay to Jackson
county, by q skiff and swimming
heir horses Friday morning and
reached their rendezvous in Jackson
26 miles from Kansas City !:
hat Bringolf was close after them with
. posse of sixty men, and expected to
capture them at daylight this morning
Further advices have been anxiously
waited all day, but nothing has been
'eceived.
Detectives just in from the pursuit
II the railroad robbers, report that
hey are in Jackson county, Mo. Their
names are Jesse and Frank James,
Bill Shepard, Cole. Lounger, and Nc
Coy. They are old and well-known
offenders.
Train men, route. and express agents
on the Rock Island Road have been
armed by the State with breech-load-
ing rifles.