The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-08-15
before daylight be sleeping in their
mountain caves again

before daylight be sleeping in thei
mountain caves again.
If they wanted something from a gro
Ger they would enter one of the quie
Mormon villages, disguised as cowboys
or Indians, play drunk, shoot up the
town and in the excitement help them
selves and ride away while the people
peered after them, only too glad to lei
them go.
An Indian chief, who had been a
warrior of some note in his time, Of
! fered, for a considerable reward, to
! capture or kill the outlaws. With a
dozen men, well mounted, this Indian
started for the hills to hunt the BAN
dts. All the people of the valley gave
aid to the Indians, thinking, perhaps,
that whatever the result might be, the
loss to the church would be tritiing.
AT the last little town near the foot of
the range the red chief and his band
were given an ovation, with red liquor
on the side. Nothing can be worse for
community than the mixing of fire
water, firearms and Indians.
The outlaws heard of the coming of
the red sheriff, and arranged a. recep-
ton for him.
They had their hiding place in a mar
row canyon, that pinched out at the
top so that a horseman could ride SO
far and no farther.
The trail to this canyon led over a
sweep of the barren rock. so that it
was difficult to follow. But now, being
anxious to have the Indians find them.
the bandits rode down the canyon to
the valley, turned and came back again,
making a new, plain trail. Then. carry
ing their horses and other chattels out
over the blind trail, they established
themselves at a point above the old
camp and beyond where the canyon
walls came together.
The Indians soon found the trail. and,
flushed with fire water, they gave
chase. In a few hours. and much
sooner than they expected, they came
upon the old camp, and before they
could raise their rifles the outlaws were
pouring lead into them from the crags
above
Three or four of the Indians fell at
the first fire. and wath added to the
horror of the situation was that they
were unable to return the fire. so COM
pletely were the outlaws hidden in the !
Jagged rock. Panic stricken. the In |
dians dashed down the canyon. but the !
bandits continued TO shower the lead /
after them. The leader and two more /
Of his men fell in the retreat. and that /
was the last time the Indians of Utah
To arrest the DdHGllS.
1t was shortly after this fight that
the railroad was opened, and the gang
to enter upon the more ro-
mantle business Of train robbing.
The first two or three attempts made
% the Utah gang to hold UP the mid
hight express had resulted to their en-
larrassment.
Once the air had failed to work. and
1t another time a desperate COW boz,
engers, disputed the territory, and put
he band to flight. Another such water
laul would bring about the leaders
and that distinguished
Individual determined to re-establish ,
imseif in the confidence and esteem of
is companions. s
Solitude, about desolate a spot as
here is on the American continent. was
elected as the proper place to rob the
rain.
There was not house at that sta !
on: only a solitary switch target at !
ither end of long and lonely, side
-ack. A red cotton handkerchief
baked in bears oil was set ablaze as :
lie long train with two engines, came !
pairing down the desert. Instead Y
Z swinging the torch steadily back
nth across the track. the amateur h
agman allowed the light 10 bob about t
fused the man on the leading locomo- !
We to mistrust the token" =
lie blew his whistle long and loud,
iding with the two familiar foot o
OTIS" in answer to the signal and /,
tut off The waiting robbers hastily o
It out the torch as the train came on. g
1t instead of applying the air which
as his business, the leading engineer
otto voce) sounded "Of brake" and o.
ened up again. Before the be- o.
Idered robbers could realize what lie
d happened, the train, the speed of fl
lich had scarcely slackened, went W
by. e
lust what had been avoided by the cl
gacity of the daring engineer might it
We remained a secret had not the sc
fled bandits been so indiscreet as to in
Id a shower of bullets into the rear
+ of the flying train.
t is a dangerous thing to run by a h,
ID signal but whatever succeeds is m
ecessful and the wisdom of the engi- is
sr's action was not Questioned. so pr
as we know, by any of the railway ev
Gals. Indeed, the same trick has to
n worked more than once since. 1t w
5 done very successfully in the lone pc