The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-12
A REFUGE FOR OUTLAWS
The Hole-in-the- Wall Is to Be
Cleaned Out.
HUNTED TO THEIR DEATH
Posses Are Being Organized by the
Railroad Companies-A Price Put
oa on Every Outlaws Head-The
End of Their Reign.

Casper, Wyo.. June 1.-THE Hole-in-
the-Wali, for years the refuge of out
laws. promises to be cleansed of its des-
perate inhabitants. The daring rob-
Der band which looted the Union Pa
cific express at Rock Creek recently
and escaped to the Businesses of their
dens in the Hole-in-th e-Wall in spite of
the fact that they were closely pursued
over plain and mountain, are TO be
systematically hunted to their DEATH
To this purpose the several railway
managers with interests in this state
are organizing posses and the outlaws
will be given no rest. 1t is expected
200 men will be engaged in the big man
hunt.
The state and the express and rail-
road companies have offered an aggre-
gate of $4,000 each for the heads of the
members of the band. In addition TIC
this head money. in the event of sue
cess. the men who are arranging for
the chase will be armed and fed by the
corporations and big cattle companies
of this section during the time they are
engaged. Thus they are enabled to en-
list typical band of rough riders,
every man of them dead shot. Many
of them are cowboys, others are old
frontiersmen, who have fought Indians
in the same territory over which they
are now to pursue the bandits, still
others are detectives of big corpora
tions. This body of man-hunters will
be accompanied by Indian trailers,
bloodhounds and pack trains. The men
are all to be sworn in as deputy sher-
ifs and will be in charge of officers of
the several counties in Northwestern
Wyoming.
There are paths over the granite for
men, but not for beasts. Leading in
from Montana there are two or three
obscure routes that eventually enable
one to reach the rendezvous of the out
laws, but they are known to but few
trailers and Indian fighters. The man
hunters in this case, however. who
have been hired for an indefinite
period will avail themselves of the
known trails and the end of the outlaw
region in the Hole-in- the all country
is believed to be near
The six road agents who looted the
Union Pacific express box will not OPP
pose the small army of the allies alone.
1t is estimated that at least SO men,
on whose heads there are prices ana
who are wanted in many states, are TO
be found hiding there. Some Of them
farmers and ranchers and only seek to
hide their identity. Many of these men
are convicted criminals and some OF
them are under sentence of death. 1t
is commonly stated that Bob Taylor.
the condemned Missouri murderer. Is
living there. herding cattle for another
murderer-George Balk, VINO killed MS
wife at Cheyenne.
There is possibility that the street
railway mems strike may be settled by
arbitration. President Little, Member
owen and Secretary Bishop of the state
board of arbitration arrived in the city
this evening, coming at the request OF
President Everett of the Big Consoll-
dated company. Their arrival was a
surprise to the strikers. Early in the
evening an invitation was sent to
President Bryan and the executive
board of the Street Railwaymen's union
and they, with President Everett, are
now in conference with the board OF
the Forest City union. At midnight
they had not yet come together.