The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-29

ing into a room where several men
were planning an irrigation scheme. He
promptly held them up. Each man was
thus busy holding some person with
his siX-shooter and there was no one
left to shovel the money into the bag.
Realizing that something must be
done to change the combination, the
man who had the irrigation convention
at bay promptly shut the door on it.
The slamming of the door attracted
the attention of the gentleman at the
tellers window, and he turned to, see
what the trouble was The instant the
robber turned the teller made jump
for his window. Underneath which. on
shelf, reposed the bank six-shooter.
which he grabbed and began shooting.
Over one hundred shots were fired in
side or three minutes. Every man who
could get gun and q horse took the
TRAIL A skirmish ensued among the
rocks in the Los AnimOs canyon. Black
Jake lost his horse but got the one rid
den by the sheriff Of Pima county and
escaped into Sonora, Mexico.
Three months passed and the Arizona
people began to hope and then to think
that the Black Jake band had decided
to remain permanently in the repub-
lie of Mexico. Late one night, in Janu-
airy, 1897, when the air was little
chilly in the semi-tropic regions, five
men in masks walked in upon faro
game at Deming, n. NJ. While four Of
the masked men covered the II gam
blers and kept their hands away above
their heads, the tallest of the masked
men gave his whole attention to the
cashier of the layout. That official
reached for his pistol But he was too
slow. He was shot in the face and he
dropped forward on the green table
The robbers were gone in twinklng
Three murders were added in 1898 to
the catalogue of crime attributed to the
notorious band. One was the shooting
of a passenger on the stage from Tomb
stone to Grant Springs, in Arizona,
when that vehicle was held up and The
passengers piled their watches, purses
and other valuables in a heap for the
use of the bandits. Another murder
was that of swtchman for the At
lantic and Pacific Railroad company
at Navajo, because probably, he was
suspected of having recognized the
gang and of having plans for telling
his suspicious to the sheriff.
The Santa Ne west-bound overland
was held up by the gang west of Gallup
last June. The express messenger was
shot, the safe was dynamited, and
sack of gold and currency was secured.
Sheriff Lawrence and 20 carefully
picked men chased the gang for two
weeks. Heavy rains fell and not the
faintest clue remained for trailing the
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sunbaked soil in an uninhabited region.
The general merchandise store of the
Phelps Mining Company at Hueneme,
in YaVapai county, A. t, was robbed
one day last November while two en-
ployes there were at dinner, and the
two other men in the store were bound
and gagged, but only few dollars were
had.
This gang is well acquainted with
large section of the country to the
southwest of here, and there are few
men in that section that will openly
and sngle-handed do anything against
them. In a posse it is different. A num-
Der of the men are their friends and
help them with food, horses and infor-
nation. While Others are living on
exposed ranches, where the robbers can
come in if they are revengeful, and Kill
the man who has helped an officer, or
they can kill stock and run off horses.
The gang is often seen by cowboys and
men living on ranches and to them
the robbers have told their versions Of
their experiences.
The last congress oVerhauled the law
regarding the emoluments of United
States marshals, and now if a marshal
sends out man TO make an arrest,
and the deputy does not get the man
he goes after, the government will not
pay him anything. Under these pro-
visions of this law 1t was impossible
for United States Marshal Hall to get
men to take the trail Even deputy
marshal wants to know that he will be
paid for his time from when he starts
on a trail until he is killed. He objects
more to working for nothing than he
does to getting killed.