The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-10-13
Evans and Sontag Seen by a Stock.
Raiser in Squaw Valley.
A LONG WAYS FROM All INTERVIEW.
On the Day After They We're Said to Have
Talked They Turn Up Hungry at a Ranch
Over the Hjuntains.
Special 10 THE MORNING CALL.

FRESNO, Oct. 12.-Evans and Sontag are
the posessors of the seven-league boots of
fable and the seven-league boots can no
longer be regarded as myth.
That is the boots are not a myth, and
Evans and Sontag have the boots. If the in
formation that reached this city to-day bo
reliable, and thatinformation is reliable. CT
that fact there can be no possible doubt.
The information was brought here BY
Emil l.. Tretton. one Of the leading stock
men and landowners OF SQuaw Valley
Mr.. Trett0n was in town to-day, and he
told the story that contains the latest reli-
able information relative to the movements
of the bandits-presumably meaning the
seven-league boots.
1t takes four days to come from Squaw
Valley to Fresno on horse back, and from
Centervle, which is the modern name Tor
the old town of Kings River. there re two
roads leading into the valley. 1y either Of
which, in a wagon. it is possible to reach
the valley after a journey OF between
twenty-five and thirty miles. That is a good
days travel in that country.
There are also trails over Campbell Noun
tain from Centerviile 10 Squaw Valley. bat
they are bliaa trails md would not. pgeba
y
| Evans aud Sontag upea she Typography os
the country in going from one place 10 the
other.
The Examiner, 10 its great story Of the
Evans and S0ntag alleged interview, fxeC
tue dates Hpon which its agile renoFter saw
the bandits as Tuesday and Wednesday,
the 4th and 9Th Of October The place of
meeting is conveniently left ia doubt but
the story says the interview took place
north Of Kings River sad few miles from
the town of Centervile.
Squaw Valley is south of Kings River
and is fifteen miles over the toughest SOFT Of
mountains from Centerville in a south.
easteriy direction. 1t was on the 9th of Oc-
rober that Mr.. Tretton saw the bandits in
SQuaw Valley.
There is no way of reconciling these two
stories, unless, as before stated, the myth
of the Seven League Boots" be taken out
of the realm of childish fiction and accepted
as a sober verify.
Again the agile interviewer of outlaws
found his men in one of their camps"
we'll fixed and with plenty to eat, where. it
was inferred from the story, they were
prepared to stay for an indefinite time anC
to defy all pursuit.
On the day the agile interviewer left
them, these same men came TO Tretten's
ranch. fifteen miles over a rugged mountain.
hungry and desperate, mucn as any other
miserable fugltives from justice finding no
rest for the soles Of their feet might have
come
There is no pursuit of Evans and Sontag
now on that anybody knows of-or
no close pursuit-and there are not even
any seyen-eague boots TO reconcile these
two stories. Men, even outlaws, in COM
Portable camp do not wander so far afed as
fifteen miles over rough mountain trails to
get their dinner, at least not when they are
well enough provided with the necessaries
of life to entertain guests and to trade shoes
with them.
The agile interviewer, who was so much
more acute than the officers pursuing the
bandits-and that is not high measure of
acuteness-sdppled the bandits with all
the latest information concerning them
selves from the outside world, and Mr..
Tretton gave his guests copy OF the Ex-
aminer containing dispatches from the pur-
suing party, several days old, which was
the latest paper they had seen, or that he
possessed.
This was on the day after the alleged in
view. Apparently Evans and Sontag have
short memories. which will be good news to
several detectives.