Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-03-09
THINKS THEY SHOULD co SLOW.
Denver Man Favors Careful Investigation Be-
fore Turning The Dog Of War Loose"

In Colorado as in Utah and Wyoming
the border bandits and their lawless
deeds are live topic of discussion.
Public spirit and feeling have reached
n high pitch. All sentiment has been
against the desperodoes. Only one
man, so far as known, has gone on
record in their favor. In Monday even
ing's Denver Post he comes to their de-
Tense in lengthy communication
In which he says among other things:
war on outlaws
colorado, Wyoming and Utah Co.
operate Against Bandits"
determination Is All that Will Sat
isfy the Executives"
mo Passive Action. Revenge for the
Killing of Valentine S. Hoy of Routt
County is Practically Assured"
"These explosive, inilaming lines APP
peared in the daily tRocky Mountain
News of Saturday. The article claims
that n party of desperadoes. known as
"The Hole in the Wall Gang" is oper-
ating near Powder Springs, where one
Hoy was killed by Johnson, one of the
gang. Their camp 1t appears Is stu
ated about six miles from the line IN
wyoming, and about twenty miles
from the intersection of the Wyoming,
Colorado and Utah lines, which calls
for the concentrated action of the threc
governors, as above outlined. state
AuditorJohnW Lowell. owner Of large
herds of CATTLE" about 100 miles
from Powder Springs, TIE scene of
depredat ions, makes a statement to the
effect that in his opinion the Hole in
the Wall Gang should be extermin-
ated at once, and in that conclusion the
gentlemen of the Daily News ana ne
agree that the Spanish Weyler policy
should be carried out in Powder
| Springs. Mr.Lowell says as a conse-
| quence of the presence of the gang a
| large number of cattle men in Bruwn's
park a strip of country in the ex-
| IRENE corner Of the state, sold their
cattle interests and moved away He
| further states there are several set
| tiers there who have been aiding the
! gang secretly and II Is well known
| fact that there are certain parties who
| own ranches In Routt county. who moi
| only winked at depredatlons of the out
| laws, but even aided the outfit Wheth'
er this has been done Che says through
fear or for the purpose of sharing
spells / know not"
Now Mr. Editor ] want to draw at
tention to some facts connected witt
those statements. In the first plac'
there is no specific charge mad'
against these men, or desperadoes, al
! they are termed, except the klli!nB o
Hoy by Johnson. No alluslon is mad
as to the reason of the homicide or a
to how il occurred, eeneralities onl!
are INDUCED in. which. at best. ar
vague and unsatisfactory. The or,
stop thief often shields the real THE
the man who cries It..
wyoming has had its later unpro
voked Indian massacre, as has had Col
orado. under notorious Game Wardel
Wilcox. II Is not intended TO impeac>
or impugn the motives of Governo
Adams, but the writer thinks the gov
ernor should carefully investigate tn
reported outrages at Powder Spring
before turning the dogs of war loose
on neighborhood. If murder has bee
committed, or outlawry reigns there
let the law be rlgidly enforced, no
violated by indiscrmnate butchery
Large land holders are a standin
menace to the Republic. Their repre-
sensations of local conditions are nc
trustworthy In this case, and neve
; were where their own interests were q
stake In behalf of the under dog
appeal to The Peoples Forum f.
: ventilation of my subject and its pull
licity."