The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-10

| Black, Lets pull for the canyon
meaning Greever canyon, as was founc
| out afterwards by following their trail
We waited at the store for some time
until we knew that Yeager and Black
had had time to get there if they were
coming, and made up our minds thai
we might have been mistaken as tc
their intention of robbing the store as
they did not show up. We then went
north, in the direction the trial was
thought to be, and came to the house
where Yeager and Black had stopped
and found out the reception awaiting
| them at the country store. Inquiry was
then made about the condition of theiI
| horses,-found that they were pretty
badly jaded. 1t was evident that they
could not hold out much longer as they
| were getting very tired. We also
found out that they intended to rob the
| store. They were then trailed into
| the Greever canyon. They were run
out of that and given hard chase, as
on entering the canyon we had dismoun
| ted. and we were forcing them on foot
while the outlaws We're sticking to their
| horses, owing TO the roughness of the
| country, gave the men on foot the adj
vantage. Before the outlaws were driv-
| en- into the other canyon, the pursuers
met four armed men. They were ask
go to join our party but they refused
to go. not believing that We were on
| the right trail The four armed men
were two deputy sheriffs from Alva, a
deputy marshal and a private citizen.
We insisted that we were on the right
! trail-one of the outlaws horses having
broken hoof which wac easily detect
ed from any other track. The Alva
! officers went off on their trail-they
went north and we kept in a souther-
| ~ direction We followed Yea
-hof lob
as their track were to be seen by moon
light. Yeager was riding behind Black,
whipping Blacks horse along. This
pursuit was made Wednesday night.
Thursday our party took a late din
ner where Black and Yeager had taken
a late breakfast. They were bending
then to straight course towards the
foothills northeast Of Cantonment. 1t
was found, where they had taken break
fast, that their horses were almost fag
ged out, and we learned the reason
that Yeager was riding behind Black.
Our horses being nearly in the same
condition, we were satisfied that they
were pulling into the settlement to get
fresh horses. We tried to get fresh
horses, but were refused. We found
that the entire country was thorough
ly organized, but when the farmers
were asked to join in the search, they
replied that if F'ossett and his party
would drive the outlaws out of the
canyons, they would assist. We met
two of these farmers at little store
north Of Cantonment about twelve
miles. We asked them if they couldn't
get some men to assist, saying that
Yeager and Black could be caught in
twenty-fOur hours. They said that
they had fifteen men in their posse, but
they wouldn't go into the canyons.
However, Ito leave the farmers and re-
turn to the outlaws) the latters We're
now being driven directly into the set
tlement where we supposed they would
attempt to get fresh horses. This was
the vicinity where the farmers had
promised to assist in their capture
We had ascertained previously that the
outlaws had two fresh horses secreted
in pasture, owned by man named
Hanley and this explained to our minds
their Southerly course. When they
came out of the hills they struck the
bottom lands close to the little grove
northeast Of Cantonment six miles
called the Cottonwood grove. There a
man saw two men horseback, one driv- |
ing the other mans horse along in front !
OF him with a whip. This farmer had a |
field glass. and saw that it was Yeager |
and Black. He started out to get a |
posse of farmers. Yeager and Black |
stopped at a little house back Of corn |
field. The corn field ran down east and |
north of the house within twenty or |
thirty feet Stopping there to get some |
water they ordered something to eat. |
While there, the posse crawled in |
through the corn, and got within thirty |
of forty feet of the outlaws, firing on |
them, killing Black and wounding Yea
ger. Yeager took to the corn field,
went but little ways north into the |
corn, thence east up over sand hill.
and was in plain view for nearly half a
mile, as his tracks afterWard showed.
Following the track took the farmers
posse to the doctors house. where Yea
ger had had his wounds dressed. We
trailed a horse from the doctors in a
northWesterly course for six or seven |
miles. There the horse had evidently
been turned loose and gone back. but
not believing that Yeager had ridden
Inc morse back but had taken it afoot,
we Kept on in that course and out close
to Homestead in Blaine county. we
found where he had got a boy and a
cart Here we learned that he was
unable TO ride horse back, and couldn't
drive his own horse. He had. there
fore. compelled the boy to go along and
drive He went north till he came
close to the Cimarron river. There he
sent the morse and boy back and start
ed afoot again. This was on Friday
he stopped at house, and got some
thing 10 eat, got another horse and
pressed a neighbors cart into service.
compelled boy to go along and drive
ana started east. Crossing the river
ard taking through the sand hills on
the north side; all tl'~yarmers in that
country were notified as we passed
along in pursuit. Everybody turned
out and took the trail and about 6
o clock Saturday morning, Yeager and
me boy had come out of a melon patch
about ten miles east of where he had
sot the horse, and started east again.
We followed on with a faded LOT of
norseS until We got on Turkey creek
we stopped here and tried to get fresh
horSes from farmer and were refused
went ahead till our horses gave ont.
we then had forty men in pursuit. We
rested our horses on Turkey creek for
q couple OF hours and then drove on
mo HenneSsey and got fresh horses.
! heh Went over northeast on the Skele- :
loh Where we heard that another party
which had Joined in the pursuit had
eager surrounded in a corn patch
hen Neager reached the Skeleton )
he had turned the boy back with the
morse We knew he was lust as good
as captured, as he was so badly wound
4d that ne could neither ride horseback
or hardly go afoot When We arrived
III the cane patch where they Claimed )
% nave him surrounded we were satis-l
ieu that they were mistaken and we
lroVe down the creek about TWO miles
ana stopped there until daylight S,n-
lay morning. We started 0ut the,
south. inquired of a farnner. if he baS
seen man aToot. He said last night
ust before shutdown he saw a man.
IN a southeast direction or