The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-06-01

maZoo county and even the whole of
central Michigan was infested by horse
thieves and despcradoes who had for
wears committed their laWlesS depreda-
| lions with apparent impunity; and al
| Though detectives had been employed,
and societies had been formed among
| the inhabitants for self-protection and
| for the purpose of hunting down the
depredators and bringing them to jus.
| tice. thus far nothing in that line had
been accomplished.
Their headquarters was believed to be
somewhere in the forests of Kalamazoo.
but if 50. their retreat thus far remained
hidden from all the world save their
own gang.
Most of the forest settlers were poor
in worldly goods, and their log cabins
contained little to tempt the cupidity
of robbers; yet occasionally one of these
settlers would awake some fine morn
| ing to find that the rude lock upon his
| door had been tempered with. or a win
| dow in condition den0ting that it had
been opened duringJhe night, while the
| absence of money or some valuable
| article gave ample testimony that he
| had received nocturnal visit from
some member Of the mysterious gang.
But the weather. farmers WHO resid-
ed in the Older-Settled portions Of the
country, and the merchants and wealthy
citizens Of the cities and villages with
in a radius OF fifty or sixty miles, were
| the greatest SUITE aers.
Doubtless many robberies We're per-
| petrated of which the outlaws of Kaa-
maZoO County were as innocent as the
| unborn generations; but the Kalamazoo
| outlaws had long since earned an I'M
| enviahle nOtoriety, and hence every
depreciation committed anywhere in
this vicinity was accredited to them be-
cause the people knew Of no one else TO
| charge with IT,
People were afraid to keep money and
| articles of value in their houses over
night Farmers who CHANGED to own
valuable horses, locked their stable
doors securely every night, and some Of
| them would awaken i'll the morning TO
| find the stable door standing wide open
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| By success: but after following the trail
for few miles. all traces of the miss
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| li% property Wo,'iu uis"Ppeai, anu INC
FARMER would lliid lllilaeli ooilSed 10
return nome ana hole Ill MS account
| DOCK upon Iile page oi loSS' 'ile value Vi
llle SIoieh morse
III was somewhat reillarkaple tilal no
| stolen morse ilau as Nel' ever peeil re-
covered. a stolen morse seemed 10 nave
as eiiectually disappeared from lhe lace
OF the earlh as dld LllJah Wheh he
assembled III his chariot OF lire from the
presence OF his aStonished friend; al
| lhotlgh ii Is not reasonable 10 presume
that the stolen horses were translated
TO the same comfortable quarters.
AS the prevalent belief established
| the headquarters of the thieving gang
somewhere III Kalamazoo County. OF
course every resident OF that county
who could not or did not give agood ac-
count of himself, or III other words,
whose means of obtaining livelihood
were not certainly known, wasregardcd
with degree of suspicion by his honest
nelghborS
There was portion OF kalamazoo
! County which 1t was believed had never
been explored, ana Whlch indeed was
considered inaccessible except 10 plTGS
and the smaller ANIMALS Such as collld
travel among the tree tops ms was
an extensive tamarack swamp, covered
during most OF the season WIN wafer
except during month OF TWO III VIM
ter, when II was frozen over rom
this swamp flowed the Strea'h when we
have already lhelltlolltu Us passing III
the Vlclnlly OF MI La trghe log resi-
dence.
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