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TERROR or FOUR STATES
"BU1CH" CASSIDY And HIS FIVE
HUNDRED.
Governors Hold Meeting to Talk Up a
Way of DISCRIMINATING the Gang.

In our western states, If in no other
part of the earth, the old saying that
truth is stranger than fiction holds
good. Who would believe in these days
there could exist among the Businesses
of the Rocky mountains band of 500
outlaws whose defiance of the law
should call for a conference between
the governors of four states to determ-
| inc upon a plan of campaign against
them? Yet such conference was held
| last Monday between the governors of
Colorado, Utah, Wyoming and Idaho,
and Butch" Cassidy and his 500 fol-
! lowers have brought about this un-
wonted proceeding.
Butch Cassidy is bad man. He
is the worst man in four states. These
| states are Utah, Colorado, Idaho and
| Wyoming, and when the four governors
met in secret conclave on Monday it
was for the purpose of deciding upon
a plan of campaign against the most
notorious outlaw the west has ever had
| to cope with The achievements of
| Jesse James and his followers pale into
tawdy insigniicance before those of
Butch Cassidy and his 500. For sew
| eral years-in fact, ever since the live
| stock commission drove the Wyoming
| rustlers out of business, in 1892
Butch" has proven a thorn in the
flesh of the authorities of the four
states in which he carries on his ioper-
| ations. He has laughed the militia to
scorn. Sheriffs and deputies he regards
with pity and contempt. He is power
unto himself.
After the ordinary method of hunt
| ing outlaws had been tried unsuccess-
| fully it was decided that drastic means
must be employed. Rewards have been
repeatedly offered for Butch Cassidy
dead or alive, and after each fresh out
break these rewards have invariably
been increased If all the offers which
have been made from time to time
hold good, the slayer Of Butch"
should he ever live to claim his reward.
would be entitled to upward Of $4,000
in blood money.
But the rewards have proven as fu-
tile as have the efforts of the militia
and the deputy sheriffs. And that is
wby Gov Wells Of Utah. Gov. Adams
or Colorado. Gov. Richards Of wyom-
ine and Gov Steunenberg of Idaho got
their heads together to see what could
he done inst what the result of their
| confaranca was has not been diyuIged.
Tho governors believe in still hunt
| methods and II is Thought that a large
n,mber Of experienced mountaineers
ard hand;t hunters will, he placed in
tha Geld each state 70 furnish its quota
ana mai tba handits will he rounded
IN in n,,,ch the same fashion that cat
flo arc Anv atten,ut to exterminate
+his desnarate hand ts certain TO he at
tandad b,, hloodshad
.Rutcl" and his band are the out
| growth of the rnstlers of six wears ago.
since then thew have broadened their
| fold and Increased thei,. numbers. 1t
| ia M idle boast to saw that the leader
of this notorious hand has 800 men at
HE bec,, ana call Their denredations
ave- MO-, /, scala naye,. before reached
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