The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-03-21
HE EVADES ARREST.
FruiiIess Search After Mckiefer
in the Woods.
AL HIS Hs.eHsoRs AID HIM


Deputy Sheriff Jack Mcdonald returned
from. Franklin yesterday without having
effected the capture OF William Mckiefer.
who shot and probably fatally wounded
George Washington Smaliey at CunSer-
land on Sunday morning. SFnalley. who
is the eolored constable At Franklin. 10
lying In q precarious condition at the
mines. his skull being fractured Dr.. ]. j.
Smith, the Oregon Improvement Com
pany's resident physician 1t Franklin.
says that unless something unforeseen oc-
ours. the wounded mans chances for ulti-
mate recovery are hopeful. The colored
population at Franklin is very bitter to-
wards the white miners Of Cumberland
and collision might have serious results.
McKiefer, who is about y years OF age.
Is said TO be . bad man with gun
however. little is known of his history
beyond the fact that ne came from British
Columbia about two months ago. Deputy
Mcdonald is assured that he is still in
hiding hear Cumberland, but his exact
whereabouts cannot be axcertained. Pre-
vious TO Sunday morning Mckiefer had
no friends, but now he can count
on every white resident Of the camp as
willing to aid him in any attempt at fight
which he may decide upon. Nearly every
young man in Cumbaran bears evidence
OF having participated in the free-for-ali
fight at Franklin Saturday night; every
other man one meets wears reminder of
the dance in the shape of black eyes, a
torn scalp and a battered face. After the
shooting OF Smalley at Cumberland. as a
result OF the fight in Franklin, ten wild.
eyed and blood-thirsty coiored men from
the latter place, sworn in as special con-
stables. marched into camp bent on cap
turing McKiefer, dead or alive. When
they could not lind him they tore around.
brandishing Winchesters, revolvers aud
knives. entering houses and :errorixing
the inhabitants generally. and would, il is
said, have taken few scalps had not Park
Robinson. Of franklin. who headed them,
cooled their blood-thirsty desires. After
the arrival of the colored deputies the
people in the camp declared that Nc
Kiefer would never be taken ii ii is in
their power to prevent il.
Deputy Mcdonald and a Posr-ISrELlf-
eRScER reporter arrived at Franklin sun
day evening at O'Clock and Immediately
started to walk TO Cumberland. distance
OF three miles, by a devious. muddy and
very dark road winding through the dense
timber, along the edges of hills and down
through guiieys and swamps. At Cum
beriand il was ascertaIhcd that two men,
Tom Harmon and Billy LeClair, knew
the whereabouts of the fugitive; they ad-
mltted as much. but positively declined to
give him up. saying the Triggers" would
tear him 10 pieces A young man named
Collins. who claims TO represent the
Northern Pacific railway at Cumberland,
was especially talkative and, though he
did not make any admissions, cautioned
young LsCiair and tough-iooking young
ster named Evans not to make any
breaks" or give McKiefer away.
At $3.50 o'clock last night Deputy Nc
Donald, satisfying himself that nothing
could be accom- plished at the camp, struck
out for Palmer along the Northern Pacific
tracks. Snow was falling, and few
hundred yards beyond the town fresh
snow, evidently not over half an
easterly direction. Every TWENTY-FIVE or
thirty feet the footprints would deviate
from a stright line and form half circle.
indicating 10 the deputy that the man who
made them had occasionally looked back
rs he walked. as if apprehensive some one
was following him. This deviation of the
mysterious tracks was regarded by the
officer as significant circumstance and
he bounded along. following the foot
prints with as much zeal as hound on
the scent OF fox. About two miles IN
the railroad the footprints were traced at
right angles from the course at first pur-
sued, leading along 8 muddy. crooked and
narrow trail through the underbrush and
timber and bringing up half a mile
further on At shack. The deputy
stationed himself at the front door, while
the reporter went around to the hack en-
trance to guard against the fugitive slip
ping away. Mcdonald then pounded the
door with the handle of his big revolver,
calling out:
"Meksefer, come outP'
AYE. aye. SIR" answered a smoihered
voice from within. and instantly the door
dew open. There stood man with a
grixzled head of hair and a hdeous hair
lip. The deputy saw that be had tracked
the wrong man. but the occupant of the
shack was not worried In the least. ex-
planning:
II stayed IN town until late wild the
byes and came home wild a bit OF a load
onr'
The journey 10 Palmer through the snow
Was made in silence and then. TO cuars,
against Mckleier escaping to Suoauainie
the branch To kangiey was traversed To
Durham, a distance of three miles Their
he returned to Palmer and walked cas-,
along the main line another three miles
Satisfying himself that the man had
not taken either route. he returned In
Cumberland, reaching that place at 3
o'clock ia the morning. B0th the deputy
and the reporter were completely tired ont
by this time, and took four hours seen
Later on they renewed The search. but
without saceess.
bsly leCiair admitted that Mex eter
was being supplied si;b the necessaries of
lie from his mothers kitchen. but posi-
lively declined la eith<smake known the
tngstive's whsreaboass a. bring xard Ia
him irom the deputy. L-g4air said:
Me hleior Is We. sv,scd AID VIA resist
arrest lie thinks the Niger IS dead. aud
Wall De Killed before ne Wili be capfurpd
lie has devii Of a face on him, a here me
blacksmith at Franklin smashed him du--
tGs the dance. and tie Soa't leave until II
gets Vel"
Finding every russ unsuccessful Mcpan.
Asd returned 10 Seattle for further orders
SAeFf ooiery has not yes decided what
he ~'3a 90. IL would be like hunting for a
needle IN a haystack for officers 10 A.
tempt 10 locate Achieter ia the woods. in
fact. 1t would BE utterly Impossible 70
eject hls capture in that manner. Unless
be Voluntarily gives himself up his arres,
esa only he effected by ruse.
AAtskNENTs.